CAA Conference 2020, The Society For The History Of Collecting’s Abstracts

Society for the History of Collecting College Art Association, Chicago, February 2020   Thursday, February 13: 4:00-5:30pm The Institution as Collector Both the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrate their 150th anniversaries in 2020. Yet these two institutions began in very different ways. While the Boston museum was an … Continue reading CAA Conference 2020, The Society For The History Of Collecting’s Abstracts

SEM: Collecting and Display: Pioneering New York Art Dealers and the Genesis of the American Auction Style (10 February 2020, London)

COLLECTING AND DISPLAY SEMINAR INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH 6.00pm in Room 304 Monday, 10th February, 2020 Alycen Mitchell, Queen Mary, University of London Pioneering New York Art Dealers and the Genesis of the American Auction Style This paper focuses on the 19th century genesis of the American art and antiques auction to examine the origin … Continue reading SEM: Collecting and Display: Pioneering New York Art Dealers and the Genesis of the American Auction Style (10 February 2020, London)

SEM: Collecting and Display: Collecting and Provenance: A Multidisciplinary Approach (9 March 2020, London)

COLLECTING AND DISPLAY SEMINARS INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH 6.00pm in Room 304 Monday, 9th March Jane Milosch Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC and Nick Pearce, University of Glasgow Collecting and Provenance: A Multidisciplinary Approach Provenance - tracking the origin, ownership, transfer, and movement of objects - has become somewhat more visible in recent years, spurred on … Continue reading SEM: Collecting and Display: Collecting and Provenance: A Multidisciplinary Approach (9 March 2020, London)

CFP: Museum Networks and Museum History (London, 16-17 July 2020)

Subject: CFP: Museum Networks and Museum History (London, 16-17 Jul 20) Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, July 16 - 17, 2020 Deadline: Mar 6, 2020 Networks have become an increasingly important part of the analytical toolkit used by historians of museums and collections. As scholars have moved away from narrative institutional histories, they have embraced … Continue reading CFP: Museum Networks and Museum History (London, 16-17 July 2020)

CONF: From Creation to Collection (Cleveland, 14 March 2020)

Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Morley Lecture Hall, 11150 East Blvd, March 14, 2020 From Creation to Collection: Making and Marketing Drawings in Nineteenth-Century France Free; ticket required PROGRAM Opening Remarks [10:00 – 10:30 AM] Heather Lemonedes Brown, Virginia N. and Randall J. Barbato Deputy Director and Chief Curator Britany Salsbury, Associate Curator … Continue reading CONF: From Creation to Collection (Cleveland, 14 March 2020)