CALL FOR PAPERS International workshop series TOOLS FOR THE FUTURE: RESEARCHING ART MARKET PRACTICES FROM PAST TO PRESENT Workshop 2 - The artist as an entrepreneur: Old and new business models in the art market December 17-18, 2018 HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, The Netherlands We are pleased to invite you to participate … Continue reading CFP: Tools for the Future: Researching Art Market Practices from Past to Present, Utrecht, 17-18 December 2018
CFP: Art Market and Art Collecting from 1900 to the Present in Germany and France, Berlin, Paris, 2018 and 2019.
CALLS FOR PAPERS Art Market and Art Collecting from 1900 to the Present in Germany and France German-French Research Programme Berlin, Germany, 8-10 November 2018 Paris, France, 18- 20 March 2019 Deadline for submissions: 14 September 2018 Refugee crises, trade wars, migration debates: within the context of global geopolitical, economic and cultural-political upheavals, … Continue reading CFP: Art Market and Art Collecting from 1900 to the Present in Germany and France, Berlin, Paris, 2018 and 2019.
Book review: The Shift: Art and the Rise of Power of Contemporary Collectors by Marta Gnyp, Art and Theory Publishing, Stockholm. 2018.
This discussion of the art market and the role of the collector today provides an excellent overview of the different aspects of the contemporary art market. Based on Gnyp’s PhD thesis and combined with her professional experience as a consultant in Berlin, this book connects the collector with his world: the art fairs, auctions, art … Continue reading Book review: The Shift: Art and the Rise of Power of Contemporary Collectors by Marta Gnyp, Art and Theory Publishing, Stockholm. 2018.
Book review: A Rothschild Renaissance: A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest at the British Museum, ed. Pippa Shirley and Dora Thornton, The British Museum, London, 2017.
In 2015 a conference was held at the British Museum to celebrate the re-installment of the Waddesdon Bequest. This has now appeared as a series of essays which reflect the range of the collection and its history from a private collection at Waddesdon Manor to its gift by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild to the museum. As … Continue reading Book review: A Rothschild Renaissance: A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest at the British Museum, ed. Pippa Shirley and Dora Thornton, The British Museum, London, 2017.
Book review: Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art by Darius A. Spieth, Brill, 2018.
The growth of interest in Dutch and Flemish painting in eighteenth-century Paris has been a subject of considerable interest and research by recent scholars such as de Marchi and van Miegroet, Michel, Thomas and Barbara Gaehtgens, to mention only a few. What is of exceptional interest in this study by Darius Spieth is the detailed … Continue reading Book review: Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art by Darius A. Spieth, Brill, 2018.