CONF: The Julius Boehler Art Gallery: A Source and its Context (ZIKG Muenchen/online, 27 Apr 2022; in German, Round Table in English)
Die 1880 gegründete Münchner Kunsthandlung Julius Böhler war in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts eine der größten Kunsthandlungen des deutschsprachigen Raums mit internationaler Ausstrahlung. Seit 2015 befindet sich das Karteiensystem der Galerie im…
CFP: Art archives in Latin America: critical approaches (Anuario TAREA, Número 9, 2022)
[Spanish version below] Deadline: 15 Jun 2022 In the last decades of the 20th century, a radical transformation took place in the Latin American artistic field in terms of the role and value…
ANN: Anne Helmreich: Charting our Future. Art Market Studies and Provenance Research in the Digital Age (The Hugo Helbing Lecture 2022, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich / online, 27 Apr 2022, 18:15-20:00 CET)
‘Here be dragons’, a trope used by western early modern map makers to signify uncharted or dangerous territories may also describe attitudes to digital approaches in art history within certain circles. But if we…
ANN: Duchamp Research Portal
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is pleased to announce that the Duchamp Research Portal (duchamparchives.org/) is now live! It provides free access to more than 18,000 documents and artworks, comprising nearly 50,000 digitized…
ANN: Memoirs of avant-garde gallery owner, Berthe Weill, now online
After more than ten years of research, Dr Marianne Le Morvan has published in open source in French the memoirs of the avant-garde gallery owner Berthe Weill, with a critical text and a…
ANN: The German Lost Art Foundation redesigned the website of the most extensive database worldwide for Nazi-looted art for a more up-to-date appearance and increased user-friendliness
Lost Art has a fresh face: The website of the most extensive database worldwide for the search for Nazi-looted art and so-called trophy art on www.lostart.de/en has been redesigned in a more contemporary style and…
ANN: Kunstmuseum Bern has launched the Gurlitt Estate Database
The database gives access to the Cornelius Gurlitt Estate, from any location and at any time. In this inventory, the front and back of every artwork is pictured, with basic data and current…
ANN: The “Lexicon of Austrian Provenance Research” has been re-designed (also in English)
The basic idea of the “Lexikon der österreichischen Provenienzforschung” is to bring together the findings which the members of the Commission for Provenance Research and further provenance researchers have been gathering since 1998 on…
ANN: New archival collections available online at the Wildenstein Plattner Institute (wpi.art)
The WPI is pleased to announce the release of two important archival collections documenting the history of art dealing and collecting in the late 19th and early 20th centuries France. Galerie Félix Gérard…