The University of Glasgow are Hiring!
May 2 2024
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The University of Glasgow are hiring a Lecturer in History of Art.
According to the job description:
The University of Glasgow is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in History Art (LTS track) within the School of School of Culture & Creative Arts. The successful candidate will contribute to the delivery of an excellent student experience by contributing to teaching, assessment and administration processes associated with undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and to undertake scholarship to enhance learning and teaching in the School of Culture & Creative Arts – History of Art.
The job comes with an annual salary of £39,347 to £44,263 and applications must be in by 3rd May 2024 (tomorrow!).
Good luck if you're applying!
Michelangelo at The British Museum
May 2 2024
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The British Museum's latest drawings exhibition Michelangelo: The Last Decades opens today. Here's a new video by curator Sarah Vowles explaining why the artist's final years are amongst the most interesting of his career.
Lavinia Fontana acquired by the Legion of Honor Museum
May 1 2024
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
News has broken that the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco has acquired Lavinia Fontana's Portrait of Bianca degli Utili Maselli and Her Children. Regular auction watchers will remember that this painting sold at Sotheby's New York back in 2012 for $602,500. It would be fair to suggest that the value of works by female artists on this scale, and with this much swagger, has skyrocketed since 2012.
According to the article linked above:
For the first time four centuries, the work will be on public view, according to Legion of Honor director and CEO Thomas P. Campbell. The work will hang “alongside masterpieces by El Greco, Titian, Moroni, and Bronzino,” he noted over email, and “significantly expand the narrative that visitors encounter in our Renaissance galleries.” The portrait is now the museum’s oldest work by a female artist, second only to Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s famed painting Psyche Bidding Her Family Farewell (1791).
The museum has sought to add exceptional paintings by women to their collection for some time now. “When you bring works of art attributed to women into a collection where the level of quality is already very high,” curator Emily Beeny mused over the phone, “it’s important that those works be of commensurate quality so that you don’t invite invidious comparison.”
The Holburne Museum are Hiring!
May 1 2024
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Holburne Museum in Bath are hiring an Assistant Curator.
According to the job description:
We are looking for an Assistant Curator to join our small curatorial team to help develop and deliver our busy programme of exhibitions encompassing historic, modern and contemporary fine and decorative arts, to care for and develop our expanding collection, and to contribute to all other aspects of the Holburne’s life. With our programme, collection and site expanding into new areas, this is an exciting time to join Holburne.
The job comes with a salary of £24,750 per annum and applications must be in by 27th May 2024.
Good luck if you're applying!
Paul Signac Swimming Shorts for €260
May 1 2024
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
As AHN likes to keep its readers up to date with the latest art history paraphernalia, here's an article from Women's Wear Daily regarding a new collaboration between the luxury brand Vilebrequin and Charlotte Hellman Cachin, the great-granddaughter of French Neo-Impressionist painter Paul Signac. The article concerns the release of a new set of swimming shorts featuring Signac paintings of Saint-Tropez from the Signac Archives.
According to the article:
Signac was a keen sailor, arriving in Saint-Tropez on his boat Olympia. “It made total sense to have a swimwear line for a man who was as sporty as he was, because he loved sailing as much as he loved painting,” Cachin said.
Roland Herlory, chief executive officer of Vilebrequin, said the brand’s printers in Como, Italy, took great pains to match the colors used by Signac, whose technique consists of breaking down single hues into multicolored dots. The print runs along the front and back of the trunks, which are meticulously matched to ensure continuity, while tonal stitching further contributes to the seamless effect.
“When you work with a painter, an artist, you have such a responsibility toward the work that you always push your know-how and your standards a step further,” Herlory said. “You see in the eyes of the printers the excitement of the challenge.”
The shorts are on sale for €260 per pair.
The Burlington Magazine - May 2024
May 1 2024
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
May's edition of The Burlington Magazine focuses on the Art of France, alongside the usual interesting selection of articles and reviews.
Here's a list of the main articles included within this month's edition:
A medal of the Sun King by Claude I Ballin - BY LUDOVIC JOUVET
‘The swing’ by Jean-Honoré Fragonard: new hypotheses - BY YURIKO JACKALL
The provenance of ‘The death of Sardanapalus’: new insights from unpublished correspondence - BY ANDREW M. WATSON
Dāvūd Gürcü, Ottoman refugee and Girodet’s first Mamluk model - BY THADEUS DOWAD
Jacob Rothschild (1936–2024) - BY MICHAEL HALL
Adopt a Fresco at the Abbey of San Michele Arcangelo a Passignano
May 1 2024
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Abbey of San Michele Arcangelo a Passignano, also known as the Badia di Passignano, are running an 'Adopt a Fresco' scheme to help raise money to conserve their set of 30 wall paintings. Undertaken by Filippo di Antonio Filippelli (1460-1506), a pupil of Domenico Ghirlandaio, the vast scheme of paintings are in need of consolidation and restoration. Donors will have the opportunity to have their names engraved onto a plaque.
Turner in Monaco
May 1 2024
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Grimaldi Forum in Monaco will be opening an exhibition entitled Turner: The Sublime Legacy in July. The show, in collaboration with Tate, will feature 38 paintings and 40 works on paper 'illustrating his innovative style and his qualities of abstraction.' 30 works by modern and contemporary artists will also be placed in dialogue with Turner's works.
The show will run from 6th July 2024 until 1st September 2024.
Louvre Unveils Conserved Delacroix
April 30 2024
Picture: Delacroix, La Liberté guidant le peuple APRES restauration© GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre) / Adrien Didierjean / Mathieu Rabeau-jpg
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Louvre in Paris have revealed Eugène Delacroix's freshly conserved and iconic La Liberté guidant le peuple. The conservation project, the first since 1949, was undertaken by Bénédicte Trémolières and Laurence Mugniot and consisted mostly of removed old yellowed varnish. Apparently, this has led to many new perspectives on the work, including the fact that Liberty's tunic is mostly grey and not uniformly yellow.
The work will be on display again to the public in the Mollien Room from 2nd May 2024.
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As mentioned previously, it is very impressive that the Louvre, a museum which has famously resisted restoring many of its works of art, is apparently looking afresh at this tradition. The benefits, if undertaken in a restrained and considered way, can be outstanding. However, the cleaning of a picture can also make you look at it in an entirely different way - I cannot see Fragonard's The Swing in the same light after its cleaning back in 2021, for example. I know that there was a conference on the subject of conservation in the museum a few weeks ago but I missed it, alas.
Recent Release: Radiography and Painting
April 30 2024
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Here's an interesting recent publication which I missed from the end of last year. Radiography and Painting is a two-volume book by Elisabeth Ravaud, a doctor of medicine and a PhD in art history, and examines the history and application of x-rays in the world of paintings.
According to the book's blurb:
Radiography is a technique that has been employed in the study of paintings for more than a century. The history of this method of analysis indicates that its development has been modest since the 1960s, as its use has been limited to reductive approaches that take into account no more than the immediately intelligible signs. By systematically considering the physical mechanisms involved in the creation of an image, this volume seeks to demonstrate that we can access new fields of radiological analysis by identifying two categories of 'signs': those that may be obvious but whose meaning is misleading, and those which are not immediately comprehensible.
This study has been primarily based on a thorough and essential reviewing of current literature concerning the materials and processes used for the making of paintings. The semiological analysis is based on the understanding of the physical phenomena occurring in the formation of the image, and on correlations between the radiographic images of a painting and the information stemming from its observation, other scientific results, and the restoration reports. Furthermore, a number of experiments were conducted to consolidate certain assumptions regarding image-formation mechanisms. Ultimately, this book hopes to show how data resulting from radiographic analysis can be seen and set in a broader context of information on a specific work or a group of works, in order to enrich our knowledge of art history, history of technology, and conservation as well as restoration.
The Rubenshuis Partially Reopening in August 2024
April 30 2024
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Rubenshuis in Antwerp will be partially reopening on 30th August 2024. This includes areas such as the Garden, the 'Rubens Experience' (a new multimedia exhibition, it seems) and the Library. The artist's residence, the main portion of the house, is due to reopen in six years time, at some point in 2030 (!)
Manchester Art Gallery Taking Stock with 'Open Store'
April 30 2024
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Manchester Art Gallery are opening free tours of its reserve collection, which is currently being hung temporarily in one of its galleries. The initiative is part of its 'Taking Stock' project, which encourages visitors to 'join the discussion as we explore ideas of what the city’s art collection looks like now and how it can best meet the needs of the future.'
The Bath Preservation Trust are hiring!
April 30 2024
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Bath Preservation Trust are hiring a Curator (maternity cover).
According to the job description:
We are recruiting an experienced curator to work together with the Senior Curator on caring for BPT’s accredited collections and loans at No. 1 Royal Crescent, The Herschel Museum of Astronomy, Beckford’s Tower and the Museum of Bath Architecture, as well as the archive and the library held by BPT.
This role will involve both collections management and documentation as well as researching and curating exhibitions across the museums, maintain our accredited status and reinstate and maintain GIS at BPT museums in line with our forward plans.
The job comes with a salary of £27,281 and applications must be in by 20th May 2024.
Good luck if you're applying!
Christie's New York 20th Century Sale
April 29 2024
Picture: Christie's
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Christie's New York upcoming 20th Century Evening Sale (which also includes Impressionist works) has been uploaded online today. The auction will take place on 16th May 2024.
Highlights include this exquisite Van Gogh garden at $28m - $35m, a David Hockney view of water sprinklers at $25m - $35m, a large Warhol picture of flowers at $20m - $30m, a very fine Venetian view by Monet at $12m - $18m, and a painting of a lady in a hat by Picasso at $20m - $30m.
Close Encounters : Cross-Cultural Exchange between the Low Countries and Britain 1600-1830
April 29 2024
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The RKD in the Netherlands have published papers from a 2022 conference on the subject of Close Encounters : Cross-Cultural Exchange between the Low Countries and Britain 1600-1830. The texts, all accessible for free online, were edited by Karen Hearn, Angela Jager, Sander Karst, Rieke van Leeuwen, David Taylor and Joanna Woodall.
Here's a list of the interesting research which is now available for free!:
1. REFUGEES AND FORTUNE SEEKERS - Rieke van Leeuwen
2. NICHOLAS STONE THE ELDER (C. 1587-1647) AND HIS CIRCLE - Adam White
3. BETWEEN TWO COURTS: GERARD VAN HONTHORST AND STUART PATRONS IN LONDON AND THE HAGUE - Michele L. Frederick
4. FIRE AND PLAGUE: SAMUEL VAN HOOGSTRATEN’S CAREER IN ENGLAND - John Loughman
5. THE VAN DE VELDE STUDIO AT THE QUEEN’S HOUSE - Allison Goudie and Imogen Tedbury
6. DUTCH TERMINOLOGY IN ARTISTS’ WORKSHOPS IN LONDON - Ulrike Kern
7. LEATHERWORK AND KWAB FRAMES - Gerry Alabone
8. COPYING THE CARTOUCHE: ANGLO-DUTCH ENCOUNTERS IN CARTOGRAPHY AND SLAVERY - Eleanor Stephenson
9. JOHN VAN COLLEMA: A DUTCH INDIA GOODS MERCHANT IN LONDON - Amy Lim
10. THE PRINT COLLECTION OF WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT (1606-1686): A RECONSTRUCTION - Ellinoor Bergvelt
11. THOMAS WORLIDGE'S CLAIM TO FAME - Rebecca Welkens
12. THE GRIFFIER FAMILY OF PAINTERS AND THE YOUNG THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH - Rica Jones
13. WILLEM VAN DE VELDE'S FAME IN 18TH-CENTURY ENGLAND - Remmelt Daalder
14. IN THE WAKE OF THE OLD MASTERS - Quirine van der Meer Mohr
Masterpieces from the oeuvre of Jan Davidsz. de Heem
April 29 2024
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Snijders&Rockoxhuis in Antwerp opened a new exhibition over the weekend entitled Masterpieces from the oeuvre of Jan Davidsz. de Heem. The show was organised to coincide with curator Fred G. Meijer's recently published catalogue raisonné.
The display will continue until 1st October 2024.
17th-century Dress Study Day at Gawthorpe Hall
April 29 2024
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Understanding British Portraits network are hosting an interesting study day dedicated to 17th-century Dress, Textiles and Portraiture. The day will be hosted at Gawthorpe Hall in Lancashire on 14th May 2024. It appears that this event is mostly aimed at academic professionals, however, registration seems to be open to a much wider audience (no costs / fees are published).
UK Museum Entry Fee Debate
April 29 2024
Picture: The Times
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Times published an article over the weekend about the growing calls to reinstate museum entry fees (behind a paywall, alas). This comes as the government is increasingly squeezing the purse strings more than ever. Bendor has provided a short commentary on 'X' (formerly Twitter), which calls for governments to see national collections as an entire entity, rather than often leaving out regional museums of the picture whose financial futures are increasingly more uncertain.
Sotheby's New York Modern Sale
April 29 2024
Picture: Sotheby's
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Sotheby's New York have published their upcoming Modern Evening Auction. The auction will take place on 15th May 2024.
Among the top lots are an 'estimate on request' Monet haystack, a Magritte sunset at $15m - $20m, a $12m - $18m Leonora Carrington, a $10m - $15m Rothko, a $7m - $10m Manet still life (pictured), and a $8m - $12m Picasso.
Curate Early Netherlandish and German paintings at The National Gallery!
April 26 2024
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The National Gallery in London are hiring a Curator of Early Netherlandish and German Paintings.
According to the job description:
This role oversees, with other relevant Collection Curators, the care and growth of the Gallery’s Renaissance collection. They are responsible specifically for the care and display of the Gallery’s early Netherlandish and German pictures, and in charge of overseeing the conception and production of associated scholarly research, publications, and interpretation.
The postholder takes the lead for seeking and recommending relevant new acquisitions and loans, and for in-house exhibitions, collection displays and gallery refurbishment projects. They will be heavily involved in the Gallery’s ‘NG200’ programme for its bicentenary in 2024, including the major redisplay of the collection ‘The Main Event’.
The job comes with a salary of £66,837 and applications must be in by 12th May 2024.
Good luck if you're applying!
