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Symposium «Herstellungs- und Verfallsprozesse in der zeitgenössischen Kunst», at Schaulager, Basel. 08. September 2017 With: Christian Scheidemann, Senior Conservator, Contemporary Conservation Ltd., New…

A Taste for the Exotic: Artistic Innovation in the Swiss Indiennes Manufactories, Chonja Lee presenting at the Conference “Produire du nouveau? Arts –…

The annual meeting of the Pacific Art Association – which gathers anthropologists, curators, art historians, and historians – took place this year at…

Image – Object – Text. Visuality, Materiality, and Knowledge Production since the 18th Century An Interdisciplinary Workshop. Organisation: Noémie Étienne, Claire Brizon, Sara…

Circulating Crafts: Art, Agency, and the Making of Identities (1600-2000) January 24th 2018: Workshop at La Colonie, Paris February 21st 2018 : CAA 2-parts…

Issue Editor: Kristina Kleutghen, Washington University in St. Louis An Architecture of Ephemerality between South and West Asia Holly Shaffer http://www.journal18.org/issue4/an-architecture-of-ephemerality-between-south-and-west-asia/ Mediated Realism…

Sara Petrella and Claire Brizon went to Toronto (Canada) for the annual conference of the CSECS / SCEDHS & NEASECS, entitled: “From Cosmopolitans…

“Unfolding the Specimen: Display and Diorama in New York, 1900”: paper in the Conference “Collections, Display, and the Agency of Objects”, University of Cambridge,…

This Gymnotus is a specimen collected around 1750 in Surinam, a former Dutch Colony. It was the possession of Ami Butini, a plantation and…