ANN: Collectionneurs, collecteurs et marchands d’art asiatique en France 1700-1939: une nouvelle base de données (Round Table, 12 Oct 2022, 18:00; INHA, Paris)
L’Institut national d’histoire de l’art a mené depuis 2017 un travail d’enquête pour repérer et mettre en valeur les fonds d’art asiatique sur le territoire. Cela a, entre autres, permis la constitution d’une…
CONF: Collections (The NORDIK Association for Art Historians; online, 25-27 Oct 2022)
Collections are the basis for art history as we know it. Whether in museums or on the pages of treatises, we bring objects and artworks together and ascribe meaning to them. Throughout history,…
CONF: Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli, between Milan and Europe – Travels, connections and patterns of taste of a mid-19th century collector (online / Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, 11 Oct 2022)
The international study day organised by the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in collaboration with the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and the Society for the History of Collecting, aims to celebrate the bicentenary of the…
EXH: The Collector Curt Glaser. From Champion of Modernism to Refugee (Kunstmuseum Basel, 22 Oct 2022 – 12 Feb 2023)
The art historian, curator, and art critic Curt Glaser (1879–1943) was a central figure in Berlin’s art scene in the 1910s and 1920s, yet he has been nearly forgotten in the years since his death….
EXH: Rodin in the United States. Confronting the Modern (The Clark, 18 Jun-18 Sep 2022)
This exhibition explores how American collectors embraced Rodin’s art over time, assembling collections of his sculptures and drawings and often giving them to public institutions. Rodin’s reputation is firmly established in the United States…
ANN: German Lost Art Foundation to hold a series of talks with descendants of Jewish art collectors (11 July: Alfred Fass; 25 July: Rafael Cardoso; 1 Sept: Johannes Nathan)
The German Lost Art Foundation will present a three-part series of discussions with descendants of Jewish art collectors over this summer. The format continues from its introduction in 2021 during the festival year “#2021JLID…
CONF: Collections in Early Modern Era (Olomouc, 13-17 Jun 2022)
Palacký University Olomouc in cooperation with Leiden University, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and University of Trnava cordially invites you to an international workshop held in Olomouc, 13 – 17 June 2022, Auditorium Maximum, Department…
CFP: Collecting Latin America: Actors, Networks, and Approaches in the 20th century (Leiden University, 28-29 Jun 2022)
Museums across Europe and the United States hold innumerable Latin American objects in their collections. A small percentage of these were collected in the Early Modern Era, most, however, were brought together in…
ANN: Tricks of the Trade: Duveen Brothers and the Market for the Decorative Arts, 1880–1940 – Lecture by Charlotte Vignon (Getty Center / online, 5 May 2022, 12-1pm PST)
Drawing from her publication, Duveen Brothers and the Market for Decorative Arts, 1880–1940 (2019), curator and professor Charlotte Vignon discusses the commercial strategies and the relationships with preeminent collectors, including J. P. Morgan, that led this…