![]() ![]() Are these developments linked, and if so, how? What is at stake in contests over connoisseurship, its value and future? My paper will reflect on these questions, and what they might expose about shifting relationships between public and private value, the state and the market, and academic scholarship, the museum and the marketplace. Over the same period, declarations about the decline of connoisseurship, or even a ‘crisis’ in the practice of art history, have become more frequent and more vociferous. The radical decline in government funding for the arts in the UK has been widely reported over the last few years. Lead Curator, British Art to 1800, Tate Britain, London Connoisseurship in the Shade of Neoliberalism by Martin Myrone ![]()
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