ANN: Provenance at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Provenance Research: ResultsOn 17 March 2022 the final results of Pilot project Provenance Research on Objects of the Colonial Era (PPROCE) were presented to state secretary of Culture and Media Gunay Uslu. Researchers from the Netherlands, Sri Lanka and…
ANN: Asian Art and the Third Reich: A Provenance Discussion (Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art / online; 31 March 2022, 9:30-11:30 AM EDT, 15:30-17:30 CET)
During World War II, the Nazi regime and its collaborators orchestrated on an unprecedented scale a system of confiscation, coercive transfer, looting, and destruction of cultural objects in Europe. This webinar explores World War…
CFP: Gothic Ivories between Luxury and Crisis (University of Bern, 27-28 Oct 2022)
Despite military and pandemic crises, ivory carvings as luxury goods experienced a boom in the 13th and especially 14th centuries. This apparent contradiction raises questions about the value and significance of these objects…
CFP: Combating the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects – Interdisciplinary Challenges and New Perspectives of EU Law and Policy (University of Opole, 13 May 2022)
The Institute of Law Studies of the University of Opole, the Institute of Art History of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich), and the International Society for Research on Art and…
CFP: Opere in viaggio / Artworks on the move (Mantova, Istituti Santa Paola, 18-19 May 2022)
Scholars, at any stage of their career, are invited to submit their proposals for the conference “Opere in viaggio. Reimpieghi, collezionismo e nuove committenze a Mantova tra XVIII e XIX secolo” (Mantua, Istituti…
STIP: PhD Fellowship, REPATRIATES Project (Central European University, Vienna; from 1 Sep 2022)
Call for Applications: Fully Funded PhD Fellowship at Central European University, Vienna in the REPATRIATES project and History in the Thematic Area of: Artistic Research in Museums and Communities engaged in the process…
ANN: Parcours d’objets. Études de provenances des collections d’art “Extra-occidental”. Les collections d’Amérique du Nord en France (INHA Paris, 16 Dec 2021, 18:30 CET)
Le musée du quai Branly – Jacques-Chirac dispose d’une importante collection d’objets collectés entre 1650 et 1850, dans les régions du Sud-Est, des Plaines et des Grands Lacs, situées dans les territoires actuels…
EXH: Retracing Provenances / Retracer la Provenance (Musée cantonal d’archéologie et d’histoire, Lausanne, 12 Oct 2021-3 April 2022)
Depuis 2016, le MCAH étudie les conditions d’acquisition de ses objets ethnographiques. Grâce aux exemples de quelques pièces originaires d’Amérique, d’Afrique et d’Asie, cette exposition invite les visiteurs à découvrir la chaîne de documentation…
ANN: Panel Discussion: Restitution & Book Discount (Lund Humphries & Sotheby’s Institute of Art / online, 22 Nov 2021, 5:30pm GMT)
Lund Humphries (art book publishers) cordially invites you to a forthcoming event on the topic of the restitution of cultural artefacts. This online panel discussion marks the launch of Alexander Herman’s new book (Restitution: The Return…