EXH: Vom Wert der Kunst / About the Value of Art (Bündner Kunstmuseum – Chur, Switzerland; 14 Jan – 10 April 2023)
Record sums are paid for the icons of Modernism, young artists move up in no time to being high-income earners, while formerly celebrated artists are forgotten and their works lie dormant in depots…
CFP: L’exposition à l’ouvrage. Histoire, formes et enjeux du catalogue d’exposition (Paris, INHA / Centre Pompidou, 12-13 May 2023)
History, forms and challenges of the exhibition catalogue. Deadline: 7 Jan 2023 While art historians have long taken hold of the exhibition catalog as a tool or as a source, there are only…
ANN: 30 years of ZADIK – Highlights and Insights (Art Cologne, 16-20 Nov 2022)
11/16 – 20.11.2022 | ART COLOGNE, Hall 11.3, Stand A-028 Let’s zoom in: Spot on ZADIK : In the exhibition, (art) stories about exhibits from the ZADIK archives become visible: From Picasso’s “La Vie”, which is traded via…
EXH: Passé, présent, avenir d’oeuvres récupérées en Allemagne en 1945. Les MNR des Musées de Strasbourg (22 Oct 2022-15 May 2023; Galerie Heitz, Palais Rohan, Strasbourg)
Au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, 61 000 oeuvres et objets d’art furent récupérés en Allemagne par les forces alliées et rapportés en France. Nombre d’entre eux avaient appartenu à des familles juives…
ANN: The Americas Chapter of SHC: MAD WOMEN: Kornblee, Jackson, Saidenberg, and Ward, Art Dealers on Madison Avenue in the 1960s (21 Oct 2022)
The Americas Chapter of The Society for the History of Collecting invites members to a special curatorial tour of the exhibition: MAD WOMEN: Kornblee, Jackson, Saidenberg, and Ward, Art Dealers on Madison Avenue…
EXH: When Artworks Speak. Provenance research on the collection of the Liebermann Villa (Liebermann Villa Berlin, 2 Oct 2022-13 Mar 2023)
The collection of the Liebermann Villa has been assembled since the 1990s and today includes over 200 objects, most of them from the hand of Max Liebermann. But where do the works come from?…
EXH: Castaway Modernism: Basel’s Acquisitions of “Degenerate“ Art (Kunstmuseum Basel, 22 Oct 2022 – 19 Feb 2023)
The Kunstmuseum Basel’s department of classic modernism houses one of the most prestigious collections of its kind. It was in fact assembled at a comparatively late date. In the summer of 1939 — shortly before 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: Benin. Looted History (MARKK, Hamburg, until Dec 2022)
The colonial occupation of the Kingdom of Benin by British troops in February 1897 marked the end of one of the most powerful West African kingdoms. In consequence thousands of works of art…