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Due to the partnership between G. Oprescu Institute of Art History and the National Institute of Heritage, several old issues of the journal Studii și cercetări de istoria artei, series Artă plastică and Teatru, Muzică, Cinematografie (link), as well as issues of Revue Roumaine d'Histoire de l'Art (link), were digitised and made available online. The journal issues are hosted on the "Digital Library of Cultural Publications" (link).

On Thursday, 27 February 2025, the Tyler Gallery of the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia, hosted the opening of the exhibition 4 Women / 4 Pathways, curated by our colleague, art historian Dr. Eduard Andrei, researcher at the G. Oprescu Institute of Art History, and artist and writer Alina Gherasim, as winners of the Tyler Visiting Fellowship.
The exhibition completed the two fellows’ project, started in 2024, The woman artist in the communist regime in Romania, represented in the Tyler Collection, bringing together works created by four artists: Geta Brătescu (1926-2018), Sultana Maitec (1928-2016), Georgeta Năpăruș (1930-1997), and Silvia Radu (b. 1935).
In addition to their works – paintings, sculptures, ceramics and graphic art – posters and catalogs of personal exhibitions, monographs, correspondence pages, photographs with portraits of the artists were exhibited, for contextualization and documentary purposes, as well as objects intended to highlight certain sources of inspiration in their work: an old Romanian scarf made of borangic (kind of silk), for the influence of folk art, and a skyphos (drinking cup) dating from the 5th century BC – a masterpiece from the John Elliott Classics Museum collection, loaned especially for the exhibition –, for the influence of ancient Greek art.
Also, within the exhibition, the filmed interview that Eduard Andrei and Alina Gherasim conducted in 2024 with Silvia Radu, the only one alive among the four women artists, is presented on a monitor.
The exhibition is accompanied by an elegant brochure containing some of the images of the exhibited works and the introductory text signed by the two curators.
This exhibition will run until 24 October 2025.

Cristina Cojocaru and Elisabeta Negrău, members of the Department for Medieval Art and Architecture at the G. Oprescu Institute of Art History, participated in the International Conference Art Readings – Old Art Module, which took place from 3 to 5 April 2025, at the Institute of Art History of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia. This conference represents the most important annual international event in the Balkan region dedicated to medieval to early modern art.
The theme of this year’s conference was Art and Archives and the presentations have addressed, in particular but not exclusively, the following topics: recent research on art based on archival data or broader studies and theoretical issues stemming from archival information; exploration of the history of collections—institutional and private—that preserve art objects or documents related to various artifacts; studies concerning the development of the history of visual arts as an academic discipline—institutions, individuals, politics, normative frameworks, and regional specificities; and scientific issues related to the digitization of artifacts.
During the conference, dr. Cristina Cojocaru presented a paper titled Reconstructing the Iconographic Program of the Văcărești Monastery through Photographic Archives, while dr. Elisabeta Negrău delivered a presentation titled A Source for Post-Byzantine Art History: Letters to the Patriarch and Tsar of Russia Regarding Church Paintings (1628–1655).

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