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.
ANN: Spoliation and Recovery of Art and Antiquities from Italy (The Society for the History of Collecting/Online, 22 Mar 2022, 3pm GMT)
As Italy’s artistic heritage, both antiquities and fine art, has been hardest hit by the illicit art trade, these papers will focus on the country’s historic spoliation during the Renaissance, Napoleonic and Grand…
ANN: Collecting Neoclassical Tuscan Sculptures in the Early 19th Century America (Society for the History of Collecting/Online, 21 Feb, 2022, 5.30pm GMT)
The Society for the History of Collecting invites you to its online lecture, organised by the Italian Chapter Collecting Neoclassical Tuscan Sculptures in the Early 19th Century AmericaMichele Amedei, Università di Firenze Monday,…
ANN: Collecting Antiquities in France in the 19th Century – Lecture by Cécile Colonna (Soc. for the History of Collecting / online, 14 Dec 2021, 19:30 CET)
The collector of works of art, original in his path, peculiar in his tastes, unique for his collection, is most often studied as a singular individual through a biography, precisely retraced. The act of collecting is nevertheless a social…