STOCKHOLM.- A new edition of the Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum Stockholm is now available. This time, it is a special double issue with scientific articles and information about the museum’s acquisitions over the course of 2017 and 2018. The publication is published in digital format, and is made available free of charge – both to read online and for downloading.

The contents of the new double issue of the Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum Stockholm reflects primarily the extensive acquisition activities at the museum during the years 2017 and 2018. The first part contains a number of in-depth reports on the most significant acquisitions, in the form of scholarly articles. The subjects provide a clear picture of where the emphasis has been on the acquisitions: old masters of the 17th century, realism and other nineteenth century art, and contemporary design. Even though the articles are written primarily by the museum’s art historians, texts by international colleagues and specialists have also been included. Caterina Volpi from Sapienza University of Rome has thoroughly considered two newly found drawings on wood by Salvator Rosa in the museum’s collections, and the 2018 Tessin Lecture by Gail Feigenbaum of the Getty Research Institute is also reproduced in an article. The second part of the bulletin consists of an account of all over one thousand purchases and gifts received in 2017 and 2018, often with brief comments, plus some other interesting titbits.

Article authors: Micael Ernstell, Fredrik Eriksson, Gail Feigenbaum, Carina Fryklund, Linda Hinners, Eva-Lena Karlsson, Helena Kåberg, Wolfgang Nittnaus, Magnus Olausson, Martin Olin, Carl-Johan Olsson, Daniel Prytz, Eva Qviberg, Cilla Robach, Anders Svensson and Caterina Volpi.

The Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum Stockholm is a digital publication published annual in English, which highlighting significant new acquisitions and presents articles on the history and theory of art related to Nationalmuseum's collections. The authors work primarily at Nationalmuseum. As contribution to the efforts to promote Open Access and free dissemination of scholarly and scientific information, it has been published in a digital format since 2014 and made available free of charge to read online and for downloading, either in its entirety or as individual articles.

The Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum Stockholm uses the DiVA portal (Digital Scientific Archive) at Uppsala University as a publication platform