CFP: Gold in Renaissance Western Europe. Interdisciplinary Approaches (Paris, 9-10 Jun 2022)
In his influential book on painting and visual culture in fifteenth-century Italy (Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy, 1972), Michael Baxandall described the abandonment of gold in painting practices as a sensitive phenomenon…
CFP: Thinking About the Archive & Provenance Research (DCNtR Blog)
In the debate about the colonial past of ethnological museums in Western Europe, provenance research has emerged in recent years as the main method for researching colonial legacies and addressing museums’ need for decolonisation….
CFP: Art Exhibitions as intersections in Post War Europe (Stockholm, 11-12 May 2022)
Scholars of art history and exhibition studies are increasingly investigating the role of art institutions in the circulation of art, in post war Europe. The movement of art between East and West Europe,…
CFP: Beyond Friendships: International conference on Regional Cultural Transfer in the Art of the 70s (Artpool Art Research Center / Central European Research Institute for Art History; Budapest, 11-12 May 2022)
Artpool Art Research Center and the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) are organizing a conference in May 2022 to investigate the possibility of applying the concept of cultural transfer to the…
CFP: Research Seminar on the History of Furniture and Interiors in Britain, Europe and the United States (Furniture History Society / online, 27 Nov 2021)
The Furniture History Society invites submissions from PhD students, post-doctorates and early career museum scholars for a symposium dedicated to the history of furniture and interiors in Britain, Europe and the United States….
CONF: Early Modern Cultures of Copying (online / Rijksuniversiteit Groningen & Columbia University, 10–11 Jun 2021
This conference aims to shed new light on practices of graphic copying. Specifically, it aims to go beyond the classic framework of emulation and imitation and the connoisseurial topos of replica and forgery…
ANN: Provenance Practices in Museums | A Roundtable Discussion (Online, 10 May 2021; 2pm BST)
Join us for the final session ‘Provenance Practices in Museums | A Roundtable Discussion’ in the ‘Thinking Provenance Thinking Restitution’ workshop series 2020-2021, convened by Dr Mary-Ann Middelkoop and Dr Lucy Wasensteiner. This…
TIAMSA News: Online presentation “Just and Fair Solutions? – Fundamentals of a Restitution Culture for Artworks Confiscated During Nazi Persecution” by Matthias Weller (Bonn). Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 6p.m. (CEST)
The Nazi regime was obsessed with art. Hitler, Göring and others built up their own “collections” and looted works of art they were interested in from everyone and everywhere, very often from persecuted…
TIAMSA Member Announcement: CFP: The Fate of Antiquities in the Nazi Era (College Art Association, Annual (virtual) Conference, 10–13 Feb 2021)
Deadline: September 16, 2020 Despite the important role antiquity and archaeology played in the ideology of the Third Reich, until recently there has been little attempt to develop a holistic picture of the…