I have been awarded a grant by NWO (India-Netherlands Social Science Scholar Exchanges Programme) for the project ‘After after western hegemony. The construction of art expertise in the contemporary art market in Mumbai.’ During the winter of 2012-2013, I will be an exchange scholar at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai.
My article entitled ‘Between hope and despair. The state of the Antwerp art market, 1566-1585′ will be published in Art after Iconoclasm, a volume edited by Koenraad Jonckheere (Brepols Publishers, Fall 2012).
Am pleased to have two papers accepted at the 17th International Conference on Cultural Economics in Kyoto, Japan, in June 2012. One paper deals with the valuation of art by art experts (with Payal Arora) and another on bubbles in the contemporary art market (with Liesbeth de Strooper).
The article I prepared with Maarten van Dijck and Veerle de Laet on ‘The test of time: art encyclopedias and the formation of the canon of seventeenth-century painters in the Low Countries’ has been accepted for publication by Empirical Studies of the Arts.
The article I wrote with Payal Arora on ‘Art experts’ has been accepted for publication by Information, Communication and Society .
Will be teaching at Christie’s Education in London this week (28 February), and present a survey of the history of the European art market since the 15th century.
Koen Jonckheere (University of Gent) and I have been invited by the ‘Stichting Jacob Campo Weyerman’ in Amsterdam to give a talk on Weyerman and the questionable practices of eighteenth-century art dealers on January 14th.
The details still need to be sorted out, but I will be taking a sabbatical leave next academic year (2012-2013). This time will be spent doing research for the ongoing NWO-project on Artistic Exchanges in the Low Countries. I also plan to do work on emerging art markets. All very exciting!
