Wildenstein Plattner Institute

Past Events

  • “Jasper Johns: A Life’s Work” at The Brooklyn Public Library

    “Jasper Johns: A Life’s Work” at The Brooklyn Public Library

    “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

    Digital Provenance Symposium at CMOA

    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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  • The Un-Private Collection: Roberta Bernstein, Joanne Heyler, and Ed Schad

    The Un-Private Collection: Roberta Bernstein, Joanne Heyler, and Ed Schad

    The Un-Private Collection: Roberta Bernstein, Joanne Heyler, and Ed Schad September 23, 2017 As part of The Broad’s Un-Private Collection series, co-curator Roberta Bernstein spoke with host curators Joanne Heyler (Founding Director, The Broad) and Ed Schad (Associate Curator, The Broad) about her experience working on the catalogue raisonné and more broadly about Jasper Johns’s art.

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