ANN: Reflections on Hew Locke: What have we here? (Online, 20 Nov 2025 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (GMT))
The Society for the History of Collecting is delighted to announce its forthcoming online lecture on Thursday, 20 November 2025 at 18.00 (GMT); 19.00 (CET); 1.00 (EST); 10.00 (PST) Isabel Seligman and Billie…
CONF: Digital Turn. Collections – Provenances – Markets (Nov 27-28, 2025)
Venue: Auditorium im Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 1, 10117 Berlin Conference organised by the Centre for Art Market Studies in cooperation with the Department of Digital Provenance at TU Berlin and…
CONF: Ports et territoires méditerranéens : circulation des biens culturels, constitution des collections extra-européennes, XVIIe-XXIe siècle (Aix Marseille Université – 22-24 Oct 2025)
TELEMMe – Temps, espaces, langages, Europe méridionale, Méditerranée – est une unité mixte de recherche de l’Université d’Aix-Marseille et du CNRS, composée d’historiens (du Moyen Âge à l’époque contemporaine en passant par l’époque…
CONF: Digital Turn. Collections – Provenances – Markets (SODa / Forum Kunst & Markt, Berlin – 27-28 Nov 2025)
How is the digital transformation – from big data to AI – reshaping collection, provenance and art market research today and in the future? What are the key characteristics, methods, challenges and potentials…
ANN: Evening lecture: “Victor Wallerstein’s life in Italy and the fate of his art collection – a case study of an Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painting” (25 June 2025, 6:45 pm CEST, online, ENG)
Evening lecture series organized by the working group Italy of the Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V. This year‘s online lecture series will focus on three case studies about Nazi-fascist provenance research and beyond in the…
CFP: transfer – Journal for Provenance Research and the History of Collection
transfer is a scientific publication organ for contributions to provenance research and collection history as well as to related research areas such as art market research, reception history, cultural sociology or legal history. The…
CFP: transfer – Zeitschrift für Provenienzforschung und Sammlungsgeschichte / Journal for Provenance Research and the History of Collection
The online journal transfer is an academic publication platform in the area of provenance research and the history of collection as well as adjacent fields of investigation, like art market studies, reception history,…
ANN: Michael Franz, “Die venezianischen Fälle – Eine Sammlung fiktiver Fälle zu NS-Raubgut, Recht und Ethik”, Universitätsclub Bonn (10. April 2025, 18 Uhr)
Heute dürfen wir Sie auf die oben genannte Veranstaltung des Deutschen Zentrum Kulturgutverluste am 10. April 2025 im Universitätsclub Bonn, Konviktstraße 9, D – 53113 Bonn, 18 Uhr, aufmerksam machen, an der auch…
PUB: Surya Bower, Shreya Gupta, Liberty Paterson & Niti Acharya, ‘State of the (Future) Field: The History of Collecting and Its Institutions’, History: The Journal of the Historical Association, November 2024
Abstract This article considers the state of the field of the history of collecting and its institutions. Following on from a 2021 ‘state of the field’ article, also published in this journal, the…