During a festive ceremony at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on Sunday 7 April, CODART Patrons Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo and Susan and Matthew Weatherbie received Royal decorations and were [...] Read More
Personalia
Jochen Luckhardt Retires from Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig
On 28 February, long-time CODART member, Prof. Dr. Jochen Luckhardt retired from the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig. Luckhardt has been the director of the museum for almost 30 years. He [...] Read More
Dr. Alfred Bader, 1924-2018
Dr. Alfred Bader, a preeminent collector and supporter of the study of Dutch art, and particularly Rembrandt and his circle, passed away on December 23, 2018. He was 94 years old. He was a [...] Read More
Eric Jan Sluijter will be joining the Department of History of Art and Architecture of Harvard University as visiting professor for Spring 2019
Sluijter will join as the Erasmus Lectureship on History and Civilizations of the Netherlands and Flanders; consisting of a lecture course and three public lectures. Title of lecture course: “Making [...] Read More
Yao-Fen You Joins Cooper Hewitt Curatorial Staff
Yao-Fen You will serve as senior curator and head of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department, beginning January 2019. As senior curator and head of the Product Design and Decorative Arts [...] Read More
Walter S. Gibson (1932-2018)
Walter Samuel Gibson, formerly of Williamstown, MA and Pownal, VT, died peacefully in Saratoga Springs, NY on November 18th. Born in Columbus, Ohio in 1932, Professor Gibson served in the army [...] Read More
Professor Ethan Matt Kavaler Receives a ‘Doctor honoris causa’ from the University of Liège
On March 24, 2018 Professor Ethan Matt Kavaler was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Liège, one of Belgium’s oldest institutions. Professor Kavaler is Director of the Centre for [...] Read More
Maryan Ainsworth Appointed Kress-Beinecke Professor at CASVA
Maryan Ainsworth, Curator of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been appointed the Kress-Beinecke Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the [...] Read More
Sam Segal (1933-2018)
On 11 June 2018, Dr. Sam Segal passed away at his home in Norwich (Norfolk). Segal was an academic biologist and art historian, who specialized in flower still-lifes. Sam Segal majored in Biology [...] Read More
Arthur K. Wheelock Retires from the National Gallery of Art
Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., Curator of Northern Baroque Painting at the National Gallery of Art has announced his retirement. Wheelock came to the National Gallery of Art in 1973 as the David E. Finley [...] Read More
Anke Van Wagenberg’s Book Presentation
Painting for Princes: Dutch Art by Jan Baptist Weenix & Jan Weenix Presented by: Anke Van Wagenberg, Ph.D Academy Art Museum 106 South Street, Easton, MD Friday, May 18, 6 p.m Anke Van [...] Read More
Willibald Sauerländer (1924-2018)
On April 18th, Willibald Sauerländer passed away. Although primarily an art historian of late-medieval France, he also made significant contributions to the field of Flemish art history with Der [...] Read More
Invitation to the Opening of ‘Master Class: Northern European Art 1500-1700 from the Permanent Collection’
Master Class: Northern European Art 1500–1700 from the Permanent Collection, will be on view April 27–September 2, 2018 at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College For more [...] Read More
Festschrift Published in Honor of Susan Donahue Kuretsky
Table of Contents Introduction, Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. Essays Wrestling with the Devil in the Details: Illuminating the Life of Saint Margaret in a Fourteenth-Century Book of Hours, Maeve [...] Read More
Austėja Mackelaitė named Assistant Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Morgan Library & Museum
On April 2, Austėja Mackelaitė will join the Morgan as Assistant Curator of Drawings and Prints responsible for the Northern European drawings and prints from 1400-1900. Along with her colleagues in [...] Read More