ANN: Russian forces stole more than 2000 valuable objects from museums in Melitopol and Mariupol
A report by the Art Newspaper cites a range of evidence for the looting of Scythian Gold and other objects from the Melitopol Museum of Local History by Russian forces. The report also…
CFP: Collecting Latin America: Actors, Networks, and Approaches in the 20th century (Leiden University, 28-29 Jun 2022)
Museums across Europe and the United States hold innumerable Latin American objects in their collections. A small percentage of these were collected in the Early Modern Era, most, however, were brought together in…
ANN: Still Life with Flowers – A Case Study in the Need for an Improved Canadian Museum Restitution Procedure, Lecture by Sara Angel (Collecting and Display, 9 May 2022, 6pm BST)
This talk will address the restitution of the painting “Still Life with Flowers” (1660) attributed to Jan van Kessel II. In late 2020, the painting, which had been in the collection of the…
ANN: Non-dits et mouvements des collections (Munich, Institut français / LMU, 26 Apr-12 Jul 2022)
Kaulbachstr. 13, 80539 München, 26.04.–12.07.2022 Veranstaltungsreihe:Was hinter der Kunst steht? Non-dits et mouvements des collections. Alors que les questions liées à l’origine et la provenance des objets incitent à penser les collections et…
CFP: “COLLECTIONS” – 13th triennial NORDIK Conference of Art History in the Nordic Countries (Online, 24-28 Oct 2022)
The NORDIK Association for Art Historians is hereby announcing a call for papers for the upcoming conference taking place 24.-28.10. 2022 under the heading “Collections”. Confirmed keynote speakers: Steven ten Thije, Head of collections,…
CFP: Ein kritischer Blick zurück: Provenienzforschung in Sammlungen und Museen. Workshop für Promovierende (Junges Forum für Sammlungs- und Objektforschung, Univ. Gießen, 13-15 Oct 2022)
Promovierende aller Disziplinen sind eingeladen, ihre aktuellen Forschungsvorhaben vorzustellen und in einem interdisziplinären Forum zu diskutieren. Die Tagungsbeiträge werden im Open-Access-Format publiziert (edoc.hu-berlin.de/junges_forum). Wir bitten um Abstracts im Umfang von maximal 3.000 Zeichen…
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: Expressionism Revisited. New Approaches and Research Questions (Brücke-Museum, Berlin, 25-28 Aug 2022)
(for German, see below) Which research questions arise from today’s public and scholarly discourses on German Expressionism? How can museums take these into account and include the changing perspectives and revised narratives in…
ANN: Summer School: Was ist der Wert der Dinge? Konzepte einer Sammlungsoekonomie (Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, 18–29 Jul 2022)
International Summer School des Forschungsverbunds Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Das Zusammentragen, Aufheben, und mitunter das Entsorgen von Dingen sind grundlegende Momente der Konstitution jeder Sammlung. Die Sammlung wird damit zum Resultat einer Kette von…