CFP: Archaeological Objects in Motion: Un/Belonging, Re/Integration, Dis/Placement (EAA Annual Meeting 2026)
Recent work on the archaeology of migration has fruitfully adopted interdisciplinary and contemporary methodological approaches to the study of human movement in the ancient world. This session seeks to complement this often data-driven…
CFP :Autres objets, autres enjeux? (Université Grenoble Alpes et Musée dauphinois, Nov 6–07, 2025)
Journée d’étude : Autres objets, autres enjeux ? Les catalogues d’exposition hors du champ des arts visuels. Après plusieurs journées d’études appréhendant le catalogue d’exposition d’arts visuels comme un objet d’étude en soi…
PUBL (OA): Quelle und Kontext: Objekte, Akteure, Prozesse der Kunsthandlung Julius Böhler (ed. by C. Dollansky, C. Fuhrmeister, B. Jooss, S. Klingen, A.-L. Schneider; Munich, 2024)
This volume publishes results of a seven-year digitization and research project (2017-2024) revolving around the archive of the Julius Böhler Kunsthandlung, founded in Munich in 1882. Acquired by the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in…
ANN: museums-online.ch – a new meta search engine for museum collections in Switzerland
What is Museums-Online?Museums-Online is a search portal for finding objects in the participating collections. It provides references to publicly accessible metadata and documents in the linked online databases of the participating museums and…
PUBL: Three significant auction catalogs, a selection from the more than 100,000 publications of this type held at the Frick Library
In celebration of the centennial of the Frick Art Reference Library, peek into the past one hundred years of the library’s remarkable history through important places, people, and objects from the collections. The…
CONF: Boxerloot! – Museum collections, the ‘Boxer war’ and practices of plunder (Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich, 22-23 February 2024)
The conference “‘Boxerloot! Museum collections, the ‘Boxer war’ and practices of plunder” aims to open an international dialogue on the past and future of these objects. As we understand provenance research as going…
CFP: Owning Gothic Ivories: Buying, Giving, Circulating (25-26 October 2024 / London, British Museum and V&A)
Over the last three decades, research on Gothic ivories has seen a significant shift from studies concerned with stylistic attribution and classification towards the investigation of their materiality, iconography, function, and – last…
TIAMSA Member Discount: PUBL: – Italy for Sale. Alternative Objects – Alternative Markets (Brill, Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets Vol. 19)
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CFP: Moving Dutch Knowledge: Collections as Knowledge Repositories and Sites of Transformation and Transfiguration (ANKK sponsored session at the HNA Conference 2024 – London/Cambridge, 10-13 July 2024)
Both the Southern and Northern Netherlands were a mighty hub for art, culture, trade, and, ultimately, knowledge. Much of the latter has been preserved in objects as well as in the context in…