Events

A Pop Places webinar
September 20, 2022

Melissa Rachleff’s presentation explores Pop Art’s origins in assemblage and figuration. In “Pop Art’s Roots: Three Experimental Places,” Rachleff discusses these short-lived galleries where the “Pop” sensibility emerged: Hansa Gallery (1952–1959), Reuben Gallery (1959–1961) and Green Gallery (1960–1965).

Pop Places 1958–1966
Weekly Webinar Series
September 20 to October 11, 2022

Pop Places 1958–1966 was a series of mid-day talks, dedicated to a different key New York exhibition space of the era. The series’ overarching thesis is that what became known as Pop emerged from an array of sites, where artists, gallerists and critics collectively worked through and developed the forms, ideas and challenges that would later become identified with the movement. Pop did not simply burst forth simultaneously from the individual minds of a few artists (e.g. Wesselmann, Oldenburg, Lichtenstein, Warhol), and cannot be understood outside of the exhibition spaces that made it possible. These talks will focus on the downtown New York scene, while making connections to other important early Pop sites around the country and the world.

Connoisseurship and Methodology webinar at the Appraisers Association of America
May 25, 2022

Elizabeth Gorayeb, Executive Director of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, joined The Appraisers Association of America for a virtual webinar to speak on the WPI’s mission, history and the fundamental components of our research and publication initiatives, including digital cataloguing and archive platform. 

Preserving Photographic Glass Plates: 
Conservation and Access in the Digital Age
Panel at ARLIS/NA
April 6, 2022

“Preserving Photographic Glass Plates: Conservation and Access in the Digital Age” brought together an interdisciplinary panel of conservators, historians, and archivists who presented their own preservation and public access strategies and discuss the relevance of these materials to their distinct fields of study.

The Uses and Limitations of Provenance Research
Virtual event co-sponsored with the Kallir Research Institute
January 11, 2022

Provenance research has become a hot topic for museums, collectors, dealers and others who are keen to identify works that were looted by the Nazis. But definite answers can be elusive after the passage of so much time.