TIAMSA Member News: Art Journal Special Issue “The Contemporary Art Market”
Studies of the contemporary art market have accelerated considerably in the 20th century, and this Special Issue seeks to collect recent developments in the field of Art Market Studies, seeking interdisciplinary approaches to…
PUBL: “Behind the Supposed ‘Billion-Dollar’ Illicit Antiquities Market“; by Maria Goretti Tai (Art and Cultural Heritage Law Newsletter)
The trade of art and antiquities has been called the laundromat for illicit money. Thus, a United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations’ report proposed an amendment to the Bank Secrecy Act: it…
CFP: transfer – Journal for Provenance Research and the History of Collection (2022)
The online journal transfer is an academic publication platform in the area of provenance research and the history of collection as well as adjacent fields of investigation, like art market studies, reception history,…
PUBL: Eric Jan Sluijter, Jan van Goyen: Virtuoso, Innovator, and Market Leader (Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, vol. 13.2, 2021)
This augmented translation of an influential essay from the catalogue for the 1996 exhibition Jan van Goyen, now translated by Nicolette Sluijter-Seijffert, examines the strategies and innovations – in style, subject matter, technique, and price level – that…
PUBL: Representing the Art Market – Journal for Art Market Studies, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2021)
(From the contribution by Paul Melton:) “Portrayals of the art market have so far received scant scholarly inquiry from either cultural studies or art market studies. Within popular culture, perhaps, the art market has been…
PUBL: Toby Barnard – Trading in art: Antonio Cesare di Poggi (1744–1836) (Burlington Magazine, vol. 163, June 2021)
With the help of his English wife, Hester, the Italian artist A.C. Poggi forged a career in London as a portrait painter, a retailer of fans, a dealer principally in drawings and a publisher of…
CFP: Imperial Material – Napoleon’s legacy in culture, art and heritage 1821-2021 (online, 3 Aug 2021)
We invite researchers of all disciplines, and museum and heritage professionals, to reflect on the enduring material and visual legacy of Napoleon, what our interpretation and use of it means for the future…
PUBL: “Pierre Le Tessier de Montarsis and a network of picture dealers in early 18th century Paris“, article by François Marandet, The Burlington Magazine, May 2021, pp. 428-436
Before auction catalogues became common in the 1730s, the workings of the art market in Paris are difficult to reconstruct. A series of transactions recorded in previously unexplored documents reveals new information about the activities of…
PUBL: ‘Rembrandt’s insolvency: The artist as legal actor’ by Dave De ruysscher & Cornelis M. in ’t Veld (in: Oud Holland 134-1, 2021, pp.9-24)
Article Abstract: The life of Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) has received considerable attention and, moreover, his filing for ‘bankruptcy’ in July 1656 has been re-examined. Especially Paul Crenshaw distilled – from a detailed…