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Creating The Bowes Museum: private collecting, public philanthropy and the art market in the public art museum in Britain and France 1830-1900 The School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds and The Bowes Museum are pleased to announce a funded studentship for doctoral research, awarded under the...
The Antique Dealers Project Website www.antiquetrade.leeds.ac.uk The research project is seeking to draw attention to the changing nature of the antique trade over 100 years and once we have sufficient data, you will be able to investigate and, crucially, to visualise the trading the changes in the antique trade over time. The website will...
Thank you to everyone that came along to the Centre 'lunch-launch' yesterday - it was great to see some many people interested in the art & antiques market, and thank you all for the feedback, ideas, and observations on the future of the Centre and proposed activities. Thank you too to our student helpers on...
The commercial art gallery and auction house, arguably the most visible component of the modern art market, developed ostensibly as a means of facilitating fiscal transactions, bringing together sellers, buyers, and objects. But it is impossible, this session argues, to regard these spaces as purely transactional because they also functioned as spaces of social-cultural formation...
The recent auction sale of British Decorative Art from the Metropolitan Museum, New York at Christie's (27th October 2015) again draws attention to the relationships between the art market and the museum - see The Conversation
The first of what we hope are many antique dealer archives arrives in Leeds in early August - the Phillips of Hitchin archives will first be conserved and cleaned before they are catalogued and made available to researchers.
Originally posted on the Leeds University website A groundbreaking history of the modern British antiques trade led by the University of Leeds today unveils an online resource that will map out a century of activity in this economically important sector. Antique Dealers: the British Antiques Trade in the 20th Century, a Cultural Geography, is a...