Collecting Impressions: Six Centuries of Print Connoisseurship Join the Frick Library's Center for the History of Collecting for a four-part online lecture series exploring the history of print collecting. Each session is free with registration. Part One: The Print Collector and the Printseller Wednesday, October 7, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Antony Griffiths, Former Keeper, Department … Continue reading The Frick Collection: Center for the History of Collecting (Online 4-Part Series)
Seminar: Collecting and Display (Autumn Programme Online)
SEMINAR COLLECTING AND DISPLAY AUTUMN PROGRAMME ONLINE The seminar, organised by Susan Bracken, Andrea Galdy and Adriana Turpin, was established in 2004 and was one of the first in its field. It holds monthly meetings on Monday evenings with a range of international speakers on a wide variety of subjects. Our sessions cover diverse topics … Continue reading Seminar: Collecting and Display (Autumn Programme Online)
CFP: Photography, Women, and Global Encounters in the 20th Century (15 November 2020)
Deadline: Nov 15, 2020 A Foreign Eye: Photography, Women, and Global Encounters in the Twentieth Century Publication coedited by Jordan Troeller (University of Graz, Austria) and Hyewon Yoon (University of New Hampshire) In the decades after the First World War, shaped by changing conceptions of gender and by the institutions and discourses of interwar photography, … Continue reading CFP: Photography, Women, and Global Encounters in the 20th Century (15 November 2020)
CFP: Maintaining the Presence of the Prince (Versailles, 15-17 Sep 21)
Versailles, September 15 - 17, 2021 Deadline: Nov 23, 2020 Whereas the design and construction of court architecture and royal sites has a long and extensive historiography, the way these royal sites were maintained has rarely been a subject of study in itself. Yet, the upkeep of royal sites was of great consequence, and knew its own … Continue reading CFP: Maintaining the Presence of the Prince (Versailles, 15-17 Sep 21)
Reminder: OCS Online lecture 29 September 2020
The Oriental Ceramic Society Online Lectures 2020 A series of six informal lunchtime lectures 15 and 28 July, 11 and 25 August and 15 and 29 September. The sixth and final lecture of the series will be given by Dr Teresa Canepa. The Reception and Consumption of Chinese Porcelain in Europe and the New World: … Continue reading Reminder: OCS Online lecture 29 September 2020