Job Opportunity: Professor in Art History, Specialized in the Study of Exhibitions and Display at Ghent University Ghent University has a vacancy for a professor in art history who specializes [...] Read More
HNA News
Conference: Art as Commodities/Commodities as Art, June 14th
University of York Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building June 14, 2019, 9:30am-7:00pm When art makes the headlines, it is usually about money. In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi sold for over [...] Read More
In Memoriam: Joop van Coevorden
Joop van Coevorden passed away on Monday, April 15th, 2019 after a battle lost to lung cancer. He was 82 years old. For nearly forty years Joop’s publishing company, Davaco (named after his [...] Read More
Caravaggio’s Medusa to join exhibit of Utrecht Caravaggisti in Munich
Last week—quite literally at the eleventh hour—the Bavarian State Painting Collections received news that the Italian Ministry of the Interior and the authorities for cultural-heritage protection in [...] Read More
Lecture and Panel Discussion: “Slavery and Freedom in New Netherland”
On April 27, the Senate House State Historic Site (Kingston, NY) hosts the talk "To Serve in a Free Country: Slavery and Freedom in New Netherland" by Sam Huntington, educator at Crailo State Historic [...] Read More
New Netherland Research Center Grant for Scholar in Residence
The New Netherland Research Center (NNRC), a joint endeavor of the New Netherland Institute (NNI) and the Office of Cultural Education, New York State Education Department (NYSED/OCE), with financial [...] Read More
Conference: The Contribution of Artistic Genres to the Construction of the Dutch Golden Age
The second project conference of the Université de Genève's project, Un siècle d'Or? Repenser la peinture hollandaise du XVIIe siècle will take place June 6-7, 2019 at the Frans Halsmuseum in [...] Read More
Wim Klooster to present at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the New Netherland Institute
The board and staff of the New Netherland Institute invite you to our 32nd Annual Meeting on May 10th at the University Club of Albany. The meeting is free to NNI members and $10 for non-members. [...] Read More
“Magnificence in the 17th Century” Conference held March 2019 in Madrid
The Instituto Moll Center for Research in Flemish Painting in Spain, along with Leiden University and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, organized an international conference “Magnificence in the 17th [...] Read More
BBC4 Premiers Looking for Rembrandt Documentary
In celebration of the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt's death, a new documentary titled Looking for Rembrandt examines his life and career across three one-hour episodes. The documentary was produced [...] Read More
Call for Papers: 42nd Annual Conference of the New Netherland Institute, due May
The New Netherland Institute (NNI) is now accepting presentation proposals for our 42nd Annual Conference, which will be hosted by the Hudson River Valley Institute at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, [...] Read More
Italian Police Reveals That Stolen Brueghel Painting Was a Copy
On the morning of 13 March thieves entered the church of Santa Maria Maddalena in the village of Castelnuovo Magra, a small commune located about 90 kilometers southeast of Genoa. They smashed the [...] Read More
Oud Holland publishes Winter 2018/19 issue
The lastest issue of Oud Holland, Quarterly for Dutch Art History, is now available. 2018, vol. 131, no. 3/4 TABLE OF CONTENTS DAAN VAN HEESCH Out of Bosch’s shadow: A rediscovered altarpiece [...] Read More
HNA Announces Conference Venues for 2021 and 2024
HNA is pleased to announce our next two conference venues. We will be in Amsterdam and The Hague in 2021, and London in 2024. Frans Grijzenhout of the University of Amsterdam and Chris Stolwijk of [...] Read More
President’s Letter, March 2019
14 March 2019 Dear Colleagues, It was a pleasure to see many familiar faces at the College Art Association Conference in New York, and to meet several younger members of the organization just [...] Read More