ANN: Lecture ‘Collecting practices in the Gulf’ by Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya (online / University of Edinburgh Collecting and Art Market Research Cluster, Tues 27 Apr 2021)
Sheikh Saoud bin Mohamed bin Ali Al Thani (1966-2014) was one of the most prominent art collectors of the last decades. He was very influential in the constitution of collections for Qatar Museums…
CFP: The 1873 Vienna World’s Fair (Vienna, 12-11 Nov 2021)
Call for Papers for the Conference:Expanding Islamic Art Historiography: The 1873 Vienna World’s FairUniversity of Vienna, 12–13 Nov 2021 Deadline: 18 Apr 2021 While research on Islamic art became a scholarly field in…
ANN: One Thousand and One Ways to Sell — Marketing Decorated Books and Album Paintings from Arab, Middle Eastern and South Asian Lands in Europe and America c. 1850-1950 (Online commencing 27 Oct)
One Thousand and One Ways to Sell — Marketing Decorated Books and Album Paintings from Arab, Middle Eastern and South Asian Lands in Europe and America c. 1850-1950 Over three weeks, these…
TIAMSA Member Julie Codell’s CAA 2020 Panel “The Collector and Cultural Narratives” (Abstracts ed. Julie Codell)
“The Collector and Cultural Narratives”Chair, Julie Codell, Arizona State University From the mid-19th century, a new kind of narrative about private collectors appeared in Europe and the US, e.g., Anna Jameson’s Companion to…
ANN: Lecture – Un amateurisme éclairé ? Décrire pour vendre les objets d’art islamique dans les catalogues de vente (XIXe-XXIe siècle) 21 janvier
Paris, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, October 1, 2019 – January 21, 2020 Usages (historiens) des objets Cycle de conférences organisé par Manuel Charpy (CNRS) et Noémie Étienne (Université de Berne) Automne 2019-hiver…
CFP: Heritage Revisited (Vienna, 27-28 Sep 18)
Heritage Revisited – Rediscovering Islamic Objects in Enlightenment Europe Institut für Kunstgeschichte Universität Wien / University of Vienna September 27 – 28, 2018 Deadline: Feb 1, 2018 Mattia Guidetti (Universität Wien); Isabelle Dolezalek (SFB 980…