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…
CFP: La matiere mise a prix. Materialite et marche de l’art / Valuing Materials. Materiality and the Art Market (36th CIHA World Congress, Lyon 23-28 Jun 2024)
La matiere mise a prix. Materialite et marche de l’art / Valuing Materials. Materiality and the Art Market 36e Congrès du Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art – CIHA Camille Mestdagh 1,*, Lea Saint-Raymond…
CFP: Transnational Collecting: Objects Crossing Borders, Objects Transformed (Online Session at 112th CAA Annual Conference, 14-17 Feb 2024 Chicago)
What happens to objects when they cross borders and enter collections located beyond the cultures or nations in which they were produced? Objects don’t have fixed meanings, and collectors are a vital source of…
CFP: Matter in Motion – Transcultural Material and Symbolic Transformations (Session at the CIHA Conference, Lyon, 23-28 Jun 2024)
Paper proposals are invited for the session “Matter in Motion: Transcultural Material and Symbolic Transformations” at the conference of the International Congress of the History of Art (CIHA), June 23 – 28, 2024,…
CONF: The Mutability of Collections – Transformation, Contextualisation and Re-Interpretation (Collecting & Display, London, 7 July 2023)
This one-day conference concentrates on the ways in which objects in collections are added, exchanged or disposed of, translated and transformed. Items can be moved to new surroundings and different decorative settings, resulting…