Call for Papers | Many Lives: Picture Frames in Context
From the AGO:
Many Lives: Picture Frames in Context
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2–3 May 2024
Proposals due by 15 December 2023
Frame with Four Labours of Hercules: Hercules and the Nemean Lion, the Cerberus, the Cretan Bull, and the Ceryneian Hind, ca. 1700–25, boxwood, 21.5 × 18 × 2.5 cm (Toronto: AGO, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 29347).
The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) invites submissions from conservators, curators, graduate students, and independent researchers for a two-day conference on the history and conservation of picture frames. The conference will take place at the AGO on Thursday, 2 May, and Friday, 3 May 2024.
This conference is co-organized by the museum’s curatorial and conservation departments to promote inter- and multi-disciplinary dialogue. The AGO is home to an important collection of historic frames, and a project is currently underway at AGO to catalogue and conserve this collection to make the collection more accessible for study and use. In light of this project, the symposium aims to present current research that contextualizes frames in their many incarnations, including research on frame makers, framing traditions, frames’ afterlives, frame collections, pairings of frames to paintings, artists’ frames, the commercial history of framing, and related topics. Keynote lectures will be delivered by Lynn Roberts, acclaimed frame historian and publisher of The Frame Blog, and Hubert Baija, recently-retired longtime conservator of frames at the Rijksmuseum.
Applicants are requested to send a current CV and a 300-word abstract outlining the topic of a 20-minute paper to Julia.campbell-such@ago.ca by 15 December 2023.
Conference registration, accommodation in Toronto, and some meals will be covered for speakers. Further funding is available for travel for students and unaffiliated researchers. Special funding for one early-career scholar has been generously provided by the Decorative Arts Trust. Please indicate in your email with CV and abstract if you would like to apply for this funding.
London Art Week to Include Symposium on Conservation
12-paneled Kangxi lacquer screen with a Dutch hunting scene, Kangxi period (1662–1722), carved, incised, and lacquered wood, painted, with brass fittings, 119 × 266 cm (Amir Mohtashemi). This is one of a rare group of about nine known lacquered screens of the period depicting Dutchmen; related examples are in the National Museum of Denmark, the Rijksmuseum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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From the press release for the Winter 2023 edition of LAW:
London Art Week, Winter 2023
1–8 December 2023
A busy eight days in early December will see the capital’s leading auction houses and fine art galleries from around the UK and Europe taking part in the Winter 2023 edition of London Art Week from Friday, 1 to Friday, 8 December. Exhibitions and sales will take place online and in galleries across central London, revealing important and exciting works. From Renaissance and Old Master rarities to Modern and Contemporary paintings, drawings, and sculpture, and encompassing exceptional works of art and craftsmanship, including, rare furniture, books, and manuscripts, this year’s Winter edition of London Art Week offers the best selection of the finest art on the market.
LAW Symposium | The Art of Conservation: Preservation, Restoration, and Framing
National Portrait Gallery, London, 5 December 2023
The 2023 LAW Symposium The Art of Conservation: Preservation, Restoration, and Framing takes place on Tuesday, 5 December at the recently reopened National Portrait Gallery. In partnership with The Burlington Magazine, there will be three panels of talks with leading curators, conservators, and LAW experts. These will investigate such topics as: how study informs conservation treatment; exciting moments from the history of conservation, including important contributions from women, based on the panellists’ articles in The Burlington Magazine’s new publication The Art of Conservation co-published with Paul Holberton (pre-launch on the day); and historic picture frames and their changing fashions, 27 years after the UK’s first exhibition devoted to picture frames was held at the National Portrait Gallery.
Lynn Roberts and Paul Mitchell, authors of Frameworks, Form, Function & Ornament and A History of European Picture Frames, who were closely involved with that exhibition, will be joined by conservators from the National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery. Tickets for the symposium are £20.
More information about London Art Week, its exhibitions, and other programming can be found in the full press release and at the LAW website.
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