Authenticity Litigation: Challenges, Pitfalls, and New Alternatives
February 7, 2019
The Wildenstein Plattner Institute hosted an introductory panel on the Court of Arbitration for Art. The evening’s event featured presentations on the legal considerations of fine art authentication and the options available for those involved in this practice.
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Roberta Bernstein, Jasper Johns’s Painting and Drawing: A Dialogue
January 23, 2019
Roberta Bernstein examined selected works from The Condition of Being Here: Drawings by Jasper Johns at the Menil Drawing Institute and discussed how they engage with related paintings. Bernstein also illustrated how Johns’s art blurs the boundaries between painting and drawing and presents factors important to decisions about where certain works reside vis-à-vis recently published Jasper Johns catalogue raisonné.
A Labour of Love: Creating the Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonné
November 11, 2018
Jasper Johns scholars Roberta Bernstein and Kate Ganz spoke in a dynamic conversation, co-hosted by Sotheby’s International Realty and the Wildenstein Plattner Institute. Bernstein is the author and director of the Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonné of Painting and Sculpture and co-curator of the Royal Academy’s current exhibition Jasper Johns: ‘Something Resembling Truth,’ and Ganz is the senior editor and primary object examiner for the catalogue raisonné of the artist’s drawings (seven of which from the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Collection will be offered at Sotheby’s on 16 November. As catalogue raisonné writers, Bernstein and Ganz are “unsung heroes of art history,” said Sotheby’s Chairman Lisa Dennison, who moderated the conversation and also discussed Johns’s unique process, innovation with materials and non-hierarchal approach to employing a variety of mediums.
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Gauguin and Laval in Martinique at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
October 5, 2018–January 13, 2019
The Van Gogh Museum hosted an exhibition on Paul Gauguin and Charles Laval’s crucial sojourn in Martinique. The WPI has contributed research to the exhibition in the form of an inventory of the drawings and reconstruction of the sketchbooks Gauguin used in Martinique.
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“Jasper Johns: A Life’s Work” at The Brooklyn Public Library
April 26, 2018
How does the work of a significant living artist enter the canon and the archive? And how must the field of art become more inclusive when it comes to representing artistic legacies?
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Digital Provenance Symposium at CMOA
November 6, 2017
At the 2017 Digital Provenance Symposium, hosted by the Carnegie Museum of Art, Elizabeth Gorayeb and Caitlin Sweeney shared the WPI’s vision to build an integrated digital archival and cataloguing platform and to publish dynamic online catalogues raisonnés. The WPI tech platform is supported by HANA, the relational database management system developed by one of our founders, Hasso Plattner, and the German company SAP. This tool will enable us to store large amounts of data, access digitized material at high speed, and in turn, make meaningful connections between objects and the plethora of resources that inform their history and significance. In sum, our investment in innovative technology, and the technological support that makes up part of our endowment, puts the WPI in a unique position to support art historical scholarship, in particular object-based studies and provenance research.
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