ANN: TIAMSA Live Book Discussion: Frances Fowle and Mary Kate Cleary, The Art Market and the Museum: Institutional Collecting, Display and Patronage since Mid-Nineteenth Century (22 May 2025, 18:00 CET)
TIAMSA is pleased to announce its fifteenth book discussion: The Art Market and the Museum: Institutional Collecting, Display and Patronage since the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025). Authors Frances Fowle (University of Edinburgh)…
ANN: Summer School “AI will sort it … out? Practices of collecting, archiving and curating in the age of digital transformation” (Universität für Weiterbildung Krems, 2-4 July 2025)
Collecting plays a prominent role as a practice of selecting, recording and structuring material and immaterial objects not only in the realm of museums and archives, but also in organizations. In the context…
CFP: Seminar on Collecting and Display (held at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London)
Held at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London Organisers: Susan Bracken, Andrea M. Gáldy, Adriana Turpin The Collecting and Display Seminar Group at the Institute of Historical Research, London was founded…
CONF: Presenting Contemporary Art in Museums, ca. 1880-1930: Temporary Exhibitions, Institutional Networks and Collecting (Society for the History of Collecting at CAA New York – 15 Feb 2025)
This year’s session of the Society for the History of Collecting at CAA will be chaired by Ulrike Müller (University of Antwerp) and Anne Helmreich (Archives of American Art, Washington DC): Justine Gain,…
CONF: Die Zukunft des Sammelns. Das Museum von morgen (GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig – 29/30 Nov 2024)
Im Rahmen seines 150-jährigen Jubiläums richtet das GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig eine Tagung mit einem Festvortrag und sechs Impulsen zu den Themen Provenienzforschung, Chancen des Digitalen, Depotentwicklung, Nachhaltigkeit, Sammeln und Outreach…
CFP: Women Makers of the Global Early Modern World – Art, Patronage, Collecting, and the Courts (Edited Volume)
We seek proposals for chapters in a proposed edited volume dedicated to the topic “Women Makers of the Global Early Modern World: Art, Patronage, Collecting, and the Courts,” edited by Tanja L. Jones…
ANN: The Study of Collecting: Past, Present and Future – A Roundtable Discussion (hosted by the Journal for the History of Collecting at UC London, 10 Sept 2024, 14-16:00 BST)
Begun in 1989, the Journal of the History of Collections has played a pivotal role in the development of the study of collecting. A multidisciplinary field by nature, the study of collecting began,…
CONF: Forging a Legacy: Collecting in the Gilded Age (The Frick Pittsburgh Museums & Gardens – 6 June 2024)
This symposium will explore the legacy of the father-daughter collecting dynasty of Henry Clay Frick and Helen Clay Frick. Talks from scholars and experts will trace the development of their collecting interests, situate…
TIAMSA Member: Private Collector Attitudes to Antiquities Collecting & Repatriation
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