News & Recent Discoveries

The WPI is preparing the next two volumes of the catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Paul Gauguin to be released as digital publications at the end of 2020. The […]

Join acclaimed author Roberta Bernstein for an evening at the Philadelphia Museum of Art while she discusses her definitive monograph on Jasper Johns, as well as her experiences working with […]

The WPI is pleased to announce the launch of the Tom Wesselmann Catalogue Raisonné. Working in close collaboration with the Estate of the artist, the WPI will author a dynamic […]

Roberta Bernstein will examine selected works from The Condition of Being Here: Drawings by Jasper Johns at the Menil Drawing Institute and discuss how they engage with related paintings. Bernstein […]

The WPI is pleased to host an introductory panel on the Court of Arbitration for Art. The evening’s event will feature presentations on the legal considerations of fine art authentication […]

Information on approximately 3000 works to be included in the WPI’s Vlaminck Digital Database will be available upon request by late Spring 2019; no further submissions to database will be […]

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 […]

Royal Academy of Art, London (September 23-December 10,  2017) The Broad, Los Angeles (February 10-May 13, 2018) As part of The Broad’s Un-Private Collection series, co-curator Roberta Bernstein spoke with […]

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 […]

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 […]

The WPI is working in collaboration with Theodore Reff to publish his long-awaited compilation of Edgar Degas’s letters. This three-volume publication includes a transcription of more than 1,200 letters Degas wrote over fifty years, accompanied by […]

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 […]