THE NEWS CORNER #8
Welcome 2018! We are very happy to publish this first issue of The News Corner in the new year, after the official launch of the Ars Graphica Association. What else will this 2018 bring us? What is the graphic art world looking forward to?
January 11th, 2018
born today: Girolamo Francesco M. Mazzola,
detto Parmigianino (1503)
HERE IS OUR SELECTION OF EXHIBITIONS FOR THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR:
Florence, Uffizi: Ejzenštejn - La rivoluzione delle immagini (until January 28)
Paris, Petit Palais: Degas Danse Dessin. Hommage à Degas avec Paul Valéry (until February 25)
Vimercate (MB), MUST: Il segno del '900 (until March 11)
Paris, Petit Palais: L'art du pastel du Degas à Redon (until April 8)
London, The Courtauld Gallery: Antoine Caron: Drawing for Catherine de’ Medici (opening January 18 until April 15)
Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett: Willi Baumeister. The Draftsman. Figure and Abstraction in the Works on Paper (until April 4)
RECENTLY POSTED OPPORTUNITIES
JOBS
Cataloguer (prints, drawings and graphic design) - Cooper Hewitt Museum, NYC
Curatorial assistant (drawings and prints) - MOMA, NYC
GRANTS
Frederick Bearman research grant - for conservation of books, paper and archival materials (closing February 9)
COURSES
The selection for the 2018 Arezzo-Florence summer course on printmaking and print collecting is now open! Register until March 30 (some grants available).
Masterclass in London on the history of the printing press for the "Gutemberg Year 2018" - hurry up! deadline is January 12.
EVENTS AND REMINDERS
For the "Gutenberg Year 2018" a number of events will take place organised by the IES in London, check them out!
You have time until January 15 to submit your proposal for the conference Multiplied and modified: reception of the Printed Image in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Warsaw, 28-29 June)
Alan May (r) and Martin Andrews (l) at the Gutenberg Press.
Photo courtesy of University of Glasgow Library (from ies.sas.ac.uk)
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