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THE NEWS CORNER #102

ehkrieke
Mar 27
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Thursday, 27 March 2025

Born on this day: Edward Steichen (1879-1973)

Dear reader,

Spring has finally arrived! As trees burst into bloom and lambs leap across the fields, new exhibitions on prints and drawings are also opening their doors, full of exciting discoveries. This month also brings a variety of opportunities and calls for papers, so there is plenty to explore and engage with.

Let’s go!

EXHIBITIONS

#Chicago The first exhibition ever to focus on the multiple connections between drawing and printmaking, Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking in the Art Institute of Chicago brings together around 90 works on paper by some of the greatest artists in the Western tradition to uncover the inner workings of their creative process and offer new ways to think about the links between the two mediums. On show until 1 June.

#Birmingham Rembrandt: Masterpieces in Black and White is on show in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery until 1 June. The exhibition brings together exquisite etchings on tour from Rembrandt House Museum in the Netherlands, highlighting the full range of Rembrandt’s output along with those he influenced across the centuries.

#Williamstown #MA The Clark Institute presents seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European books, drawings, and prints of idealized landscapes in the exhibition Pastoral on Paper. Looking particularly at such familiar figures as Claude Lorrain and Thomas Gainsborough, as well as at Dutch Italianate artists like Nicolaes Berchem, Pastoral on Paper situates cows, mules, maidens, shepherds, ruins, and overgrown landscapes within the rise of pastoral imagery in the early modern imagination. On show until 15 June.

#Amsterdam Until 25 May, the Van Gogh Museum dedicates a small-scale exhibition to The Power of Pigments. The exhibition shows a selection of colourful drawings by artists such as Van Gogh, Redon, and Gauguin. The presentation includes a selection of highlights from the museum’s collection, works that are rarely put on public display due to their fragility. Several of the works have never been exhibited before.

#Berlin Get to Work! The Work and Toil of Women is a special exhibition of the Kupferstichkabinett and the Gemäldegalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The small thematic exhibition presents 25 French, German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch prints from the 16th to 18th centuries preserved in the Kupferstichkabinett’s (Museum of Prints and Drawings) rich holdings. Works have been selected that show women in everyday activities, working as peasants, farmhands, teachers, maids, midwives and courtesans. On show from 18 February until 18 May.

#Cambridge #MA At the Harvard Art Museums, the exhibition Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking offers rare insight into the Norwegian artist’s innovative techniques and the recurring themes across his paintings, woodcuts, lithographs, etchings, and combination prints. Visitors are invited to explore Munch’s artistic process, uncovering his playful approach and fascination with materiality. On view until 27 July.

#Austin #Texas In the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, you can visit the exhibition A Family Affair: Artistic Dynasties in Europe (Part I, 1500–1700) until June 15. The exhibition tells the stories of 16 printmaking families active in European cities from Antwerp to Prague in the 16th and 17th centuries. The second part of this exhibition, A Family Affair: Artistic Dynasties in Europe (Part II, 1700–1900), opens June 28, 2025.

#Vevey #Switzerland Félix Valloton. Un Hommage in Musée Jenisch Vevey celebrates the hundredth anniversary of Félix Vallotton’s death. The museum has invited living artists and students from the ECAL (University of Art and Design Lausanne) to pay tribute to this emblematic Swiss artist. This exhibition is part of the Vallotton Year | 2025, and is open until 25 May.

#Amsterdam On view in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: American Photography. The more than 200 works on display in American Photography reflect the rich and multifaceted history of photography in the United States. The exhibition presents the country as seen through the eyes of American photographers, and shows how the medium has permeated every aspect of our lives: in art, news, advertising and everyday life.

#StLouis In the Saint Louis Art Museum the exhibition Bolts of Color: Printed Textiles after WWII is on display. This exhibition highlights the Museum’s recent acquisitions of post-WWII textiles, all made during the height of the experimental screenprinting era of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

#NewYork #Met Upcoming exhibition at the Met: The New Art: American Photography, 1839–1910. This exhibition presents a bold new history of American photography from the medium’s birth in 1839 to the first decade of the 20th century. On view from 11 April until 20 July.

OPPORTUNITIES

#Course In May 2025, the RKD will be organizing a short course on watermark analysis using digital tools. The four-day course will be offered twice and will be led by Prof. Rick Johnson, pioneer in computational art history and professor emeritus at Cornell University. The short course is suitable for both art history students (MA/PhD), curators and other art historians who work with art on paper. DL: 31 March 2025.

#Grant The Association of Print Scholars invites submissions for the 2025 APS Publication Grant, supported by C.G. Boerner and Harris Schrank. The APS Publication Grant supports the publication of innovative scholarly research about printmaking across all time periods and geographic regions. The grant carries a maximum award of $2,000. DL: 31 August 2025.

#Prize The Burlington Magazine announced a new annual prize of 1,000 GBP for innovative research on Southern Netherlandish art from 1400 to 1800. The prize, which is awarded in partnership with the University of Cambridge, includes publication in the magazine’s annual issue on Northern European Art, as well as a subscription to The Burlington Magazine. Early-career scholars are invited to submit previously unpublished essays of 1000–1500 words. Preference will be given to object-related scholarship, such as is published in The Burlington Magazine. DL: 1 September 2025.

#Prize Master Drawings is currently seeking submissions for the Eighth Annual Ricciardi Prize. The prize includes $5,000 for the best new and unpublished article on a drawings topic (of any period) by a scholar under the age of 40. Olivia Dill was the 2025 Ricciardi Prize winner for her fascinating research that led to assigning a previously anonymous watercolor of three insects, including an iridescent Rhinoceros beetle native to Brazil, to seventeenth-century Dutch natural history artist Pieter Holsteyn II. DL: 15 November 2025.

CALL FOR PAPERS

#CFP The Krannert Art Museum is accepting proposals for 20-minute papers on themes of gender and sexuality for a symposium to be held on 17 October 2025 in conjunction with the exhibition Imagination, Faith, and Desire: Art and Agency in European Prints, 1475–1800. DL: 1 April 2025.

EVENTS

#Conference #Leicester Registration is now open for the annual PHRC (Photographic History Research Center) conference at De Montfort University. In this year's conference, speakers shall use the ambiguity of the term “value” as a starting point to reflect on the intertwined political, social, economic, scientific and historical factors that have shaped the value(s) of photography.

When and where: 16 and 17 June. Hybrid event, online and at De Montfort University, Leicester.