General Assemblies

2004, June 24-26:  Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte (Centre allemand d'histoire de l'art), Paris

2005,  September 20-25: International Cultural Centre, Crakow (ICCC), and Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Instytut Sztuki Polskiej – Akademii Nauk, ISPAN), Warsaw

2006, November 16-19: Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut, Florence

2007, October 18-20: Visual Arts Research Institute Edinburgh (VARIE)

2008, November 6-9: Joint meeting with ARIAH at the American Academy in Rome

2009, November 6-7: Umetnostnozgodovinski inštitut Franceta Steleta, Znanstvenoraziskovalni center Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti (France Stele Institute of Art History, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts), Ljubljana

2010, November 5-6: Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique – Koninlijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium (IRPA-KIK), Bruxelles/Brussel

2011, November 11-12: Institute of Art History (Ústav dějin umění), Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Akademie věd České rebubliky), Prague

Copyright Issues

That the reproduction of works of art is fundamental to art historical scholarship should be obvious, but that the cost of reproduction rights is seriously inhibiting scholarship needs to be emphasised as a matter of urgency.

At the General Assembly, Rome, 8 November 2008, RIHA agreed on a Resolution on Copyright (posted 1 December 2008). Please consult http://www.riha-institutes.org/resolutioncopyright.html for details.

Please confer the study funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation and conducted by the Institute of Fine Arts and Columbia University (Hilary Ballon and Mariet Westermann) on “Art History and its publications in the electronic age” (http://cnx.org/content/col10376/latest/), the British Academy report on copyright and research in the humanities (http://www.britac.ac.uk/reports/copyright/), and Susan Bielstein, Permissions: A Survival Guide (Chicago University Press, 2006).

Library Issues

The library holdings of some of the RIHA institutes have recently been integrated into a sophisticated meta search interface: artlibraries.net – Virtual Catalogue for Art History  http://www.artlibraries.net/

artlibraries.net is a European specialized meta catalogue allowing the integrated retrieval of bibliographic records and, should the occasion arise, other objects of distinctive art historical databases.
Currently, artlibraries.net gives access to about 8 million records (as of July 2008), including a high percentage of records for articles in periodicals, conference papers, festschriften, exhibition catalogues and exhibition books, etc.