CFP: Edited Volume: Collecting and the Value of Provenance
Contributions are being sought for a peer-reviewed, English-language edited volume on the value of provenance in collecting and art market practices. This book, to be edited by Christian Huemer and Johannes Nathan, and…
ANN: Appraisers Association of America: 2022 Art Law Day (Online/New York, 11 Nov 2022)
Art Law Day will take place on Friday, November 11 at the New York Athletic Club, 180 Central Park South (at 7th Avenue). This year, Art Law Day will also be live streamed. The program…
ANN: Erased Memories: Italian colonialism and its material legacies; Lecture (Istituto Svizzero, Rome / online; 28 Jan 2022, 18:00 CET; in Italian)
Memorie cancellate: il colonialismo italiano e le sue eredità materiali Sebbene gli studiosi abbiano a lungo denunciato il silenzio che ha caratterizzato lo studio del passato coloniale dell’Italia, il revisionismo storico fatica a…
CFP: Expressionism Revisited. New Approaches and Research Questions (Brücke-Museum, Berlin, 25-28 Aug 2022)
(for German, see below) Which research questions arise from today’s public and scholarly discourses on German Expressionism? How can museums take these into account and include the changing perspectives and revised narratives in…
CFP: Things on the Move – Materiality of Objects in Global and Imperial Trajectories, 1700–1900 (London, German Historical Institute, 8-10 Sept 2022)
An International Conference organized by the German Historical Institute London in Collaboration with the Prize Papers Project The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were defined by increased globalization, the growth of empires outside Europe, the emergence…
CFP: Rethinking Contemporary Latin American Art (Arts Special Issue)
Guest Editors: Lesley A. Wolff (Texas Tech University); Gabriela Germana (University of South Florida) As today’s fleeting spectacles of art fairs, biennials, and NFTs increasingly shape a global consensus of contemporary Latin American…
ANN: Parcours d’objets : La mise en place d’un marché des arts africains en contexte colonial (video of a seminar at the INHA Paris, 23 Sept 2021; in French)
Session d’ouverture de la seconde année du séminaire de parcours d’objets sur les études de provenances des collections d’art « extra-occidental ». Nous attachant tout d’abord au contexte colonial d’acquisition des objets africains…
CFP: Confronting Colonialism in Dutch Art, Session at RSA Dublin (Dublin, 31 Mar-2 Apr 2022)
In recent years, the study of early modern European visual and material culture has focused increasingly on colonial expansion and its consequences. This session aims to address the impact of this trend on the study…
CONF: Provenance Research on Collections from Colonial Contexts. Principles, Approaches, Challenges (online / Landesmuseum & University Hannover, 21 – 23 June 2021)
The last decade has witnessed a growing debate about the handling and restitution of collections from colonial contexts in European museums. Numerous research projects and publications have outlined the dynamic field of postcolonial provenance…