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: Rodin in the United States. Confronting the Modern (The Clark, 18 Jun-18 Sep 2022)
This exhibition explores how American collectors embraced Rodin’s art over time, assembling collections of his sculptures and drawings and often giving them to public institutions. Rodin’s reputation is firmly established in the United States…
PUBL: Elisabeth Eggimann Gerber, Jüdische Kunsthändler und Galeristen, Eine Kulturgeschichte des Schweizer Kunsthandels mit einem Porträt der Galerie Aktuaryus in Zürich, 1924-46, Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2021 (available for free download)
Book presentation: 10.2.22 19h, Tödistr. 48, 8002 Zurich, an event by Omanut in collaboration with Galerie Alex Schlesinger, Zurich, registration required (omanut@omanut.ch). Summary: The study contributes to the cultural history of the modern art trade in…
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…
CONF: Da Parigi a New York. Dialoghi sull’arte contemporanea (Venice, Università Ca’ Foscari / online, 16 Dec 2021)
convegno “Da Parigi a New York. Dialoghi sull’arte contemporanea, con un oceano“ a cura di Stefania Portinari e Sergio Marinelli giovedì 16 dicembre 2021
PUBL: Foreign Currency Volatility and the Market for French Modernist Art
This publication is the latest in the Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets seriesPublished by Brill Author: David Challis Foreign Currency Volatility and the Market for French Modernist Art examines…
ANN: Infrastructures of Collecting (online / Amsterdam, 22 Jun 2021)
The webinar “Infrastructures of Collecting in Transnational Perspective,” featuring keynote lectures by John Clark and Partha Mitter, marks the start of the long-term research project “(Un)mapping Infrastructures: Transnational Perspectives on Modern Art, 1900-1970.”
From Private to Public / Du privé au public (Online / Université Grenoble-Alpes, 13 Apr 2021)
From private to public. Issues and strategies in the presentation of private collections of modern and contemporary art in public institutionsTuesday, 13 April 2021Via Zoom Organized within the framework of the exhibition Giorgio Morandi….
WWW: Website-Relaunch of European-art.net – Archive and Centre for Documents on Modern and Contemporary Art (Vienna)
Website-Relaunch of European-art.net – Archive and Centre for Documents on Modern and Contemporary Art (Vienna) The European-art.net (EAN) has relaunched its new website, with extensive information on and the background to all partner…