The Museum Computer Network
November 12, 2019
Caitlin Sweeney, Director of Digital Publications, attended the 2019 conference in San Diego in early November to investigate where the conference’s conversation may overlap with the goals of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute.
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‘Reviving the Archive’ Symposium
September 19, 2019
The Wildenstein Plattner Institute—in partnership with the Freie Universität Berlin, the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), and the Museum Barberini in Potsdam—sponsored a symposium on the current state of art historical archives in Europe. Reviving the Archive: Material Records in the Digital Age brought together a diverse group of art historians, scholars, archivists, and curators for a day of panels and talks to address the demand for greater accessibility to archival materials. The surfeit of historically-valuable archival material which remains isolated and under restricted access is striking. The impetus for change is even more urgent in light of the increasing scrutiny on the provenance of individual works of art; facilitating access to information needs to be prioritized amongst the stewards of archival materials.
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As part of the WPI’s digitization initiative, the Maurice de Vlaminck archives have been processed and digitized. Information concerning more than 3,000 artworks is now available upon request through our website. The Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc., is the sole owner of approximately seven thousand research dossiers concerning the work of Maurice de Vlaminck. Nearly three thousand works of
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UPDATE: On December 14, 2022, the WPI announced the creation of a new Maurice de Vlaminck committee to examine requests for inclusion in the artist’s catalogue raisonné. For more details, click here. Information on approximately 3000 works to be included in the WPI’s Vlaminck Digital Database will be available upon request by late
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