ANN: Book Launch – Chinese Art Objects, Collecting and Interior Design in Twentieth Century Britain by Helen Glaister (Online, 8 Dec 2022)
The Society for the History of Collecting will present the online book launch of ‘Chinese Art Objects, Collecting and Interior Design in Twentieth-Century Britain’ by Helen Glaister. Thursday 8 December: 6pm GMT / 7pm…
ANN: Lecture – Louise Arizzoli – James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959), the Four Continents and the Interwar Art Market (Online, 2 Dec 2022, 6.30pm CET)
James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959) was a collector, Harvard alumnus, and expatriate in Paris between the two World Wars. He assembled an unusual collection, one focusing on iconography, with artworks spanning from Antiquity to…
ANN: Giancarla Cilmi ‘Collecting and art market between Florence and Rome at the end of the 19th century: the Jacquemart-André Collection’ (Online, 3 Nov 2022)
The Society for the History of Collecting presents an online lecture (via Zoom) organised by the Italian Chapter on Thursday 3rd November at 7pm (CET); 6pm (GMT). Giancarla Cilmi will deliver a lecture entitled ‘Collecting and art market between…
ANN: Collections and Impermanence: Transfer, Exchange and Disposal (Online/Society for the History of Collecting, 10 & 17 Nov 2022)
The Society for the History of Collecting is pleased to invite you to its PhD and Early Career Researcher Workshop – open to all. Online, Thursday 10th November (5.30-7.45pm GMT; 6.30-8.45pm CET; 12:45-2:45pm EDT;…
ANN: The Americas Chapter of SHC: MAD WOMEN: Kornblee, Jackson, Saidenberg, and Ward, Art Dealers on Madison Avenue in the 1960s (21 Oct 2022)
The Americas Chapter of The Society for the History of Collecting invites members to a special curatorial tour of the exhibition: MAD WOMEN: Kornblee, Jackson, Saidenberg, and Ward, Art Dealers on Madison Avenue…
CONF: Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli, between Milan and Europe – Travels, connections and patterns of taste of a mid-19th century collector (online / Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, 11 Oct 2022)
The international study day organised by the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in collaboration with the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and the Society for the History of Collecting, aims to celebrate the bicentenary of the…
CFP: Collections and Impermanence: Transfer, Exchange and Disposal, Society for the History of Collecting (London/Online 17 Nov 2022)
The history of collecting is the history of objects on the move. Objects collected travel through space – sold, transferred, exchanged, loaned, gifted and stolen throughout the world. They also travel through time…
CFP: Interpreting/ Re-interpreting Collections (Society for the History of Collecting – Session at CAA, New York, 15-18 Feb 2023)
This panel seeks to open a discussion on interpreting/ re-interpreting collections building up on a number of prominent recent changes observed (for example at the Frick Madison, at MoMA with the redisplay of…
CONF: Tools for the Future – International Workshop #7 Markets for applied arts, artistic crafts, and design (Erasmus University Rotterdam, 9-11 June 2022)
International Workshop #7Markets for applied arts, artistic crafts, and design The event will be live streamed for those who cannot attend in person and wish to follow the presentations remotely.