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THE NEWS CORNER #96

Thursday, 26 September 2024

Born on this day: Théodore Géricault (1791-1824)

Dear reader,

We are back and hopefully you are ready for the September News Corner too! As usual, we have selected exhibitions, opportunities and events for you. Enjoy!

EXHIBITIONS

#Bremen The exhibition Beyond the Centre – Sketches in the Margins at the Kunsthalle in Bremen examines -for the first time- the fascinating phenomenon of “remarques”, or sketches on the margins, in 100 printed works from the Baroque era to modern art. It focuses on major works from the collection of Prints and Drawings by artists such as Stefano della Bella, Eugène Delacroix, Édouard Manet, Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz and Georges Braque. On show until 5 January 2025.

#Antwerp The Museum Plantin-Moretus presents the exhibition Ensor's States of Imagination about Ensor's remarkable graphic adventure. For several years, the young Ensor experimented lavishly with etching techniques, which is presented to you in this show. From 28 September until 19 January.

#Brussels How is a work of art created ? This is the question that the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium seek to answer with an exhibition devoted to sketching: Drafts from Rubens to Khnopff. Discover a fascinating journey through a hundred artworks, immersing visitors in the intimacy of artistic creation. On show from 11 October until 16 February.

#Dublin At the National Gallery of Ireland, the exhibit 'In Real Life' celebrates the beauty and fragility of nature through drawings and paintings from the Gallery’s permanent collection. Spanning the seventeenth century to the twenty-first century, works on paper by artists as diverse as Aelbert Cuyp, Barbara Rae, Michael Wann and Emil Nolde include closely observed studies, topographical views and poetic interpretations, as well as the topic of nature at risk. Until 24 November 2024.

#Berlin At the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin you can go see the exhibition 'A Different Impressionism - International Printmaking from Manet to Whistler'. On show until 12 January 2025.

#Haarlem #Alkmaar The Frans Hals Museum, Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar and Teylers Museum are organizing the first major retrospective exhibition on Maarten van Heemskerck. With 50 paintings, 16 drawings and 68 prints by Heemskerck, the museums offer a representative impression of Van Heemskerck’s large body of work, in this exhibition at three locations. The prints can be seen at the Teylers Museum. From 28 September.

#AthensGA The Georgia Museum shows a selection of more than 50 prints from Van Dyck’s famous Iconographie series in the exhibition A Perfect Model: Prints after Anthony van Dyck’s Portraits. The series depicts more than 100 scholars, military leaders, politicians and nobles. To tackle this ambitious project, Van Dyck employed some of the best printmakers of the period, including Paulus Pontius and Lucas Vorsterman the Elder. On show until 1 December.

#Cambridge In the printroom of the Fitzwilliam Museum you can go see the exhibit 'Women in Japanese Prints'. It explores changing depictions of women under the watchful eye of government censors. In response to strict new rules around excess, indulgence and debauchery, artists sought alternatives to their lavish pictures of fashionable beauties like teahouse waitresses and courtesans. Instead, they placed women in wholesome, everyday scenes – working or visiting places and people, looking after children or playing music. Until 17 November 2024.

#London At the British Museum you can go see 'New Life. Rembrandt and Children' proudly presenting a newly acquired drawing. On display until 6 October 2024.

#Venice At the Musei Bassano you can go see the exhibition on prints and print culture in the 15th century. Until 5 October 2024.

#Venice The Stanze della Fotografia on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice hosts a hundred photos by Julian Lennon, son of the former Beatle, John. The exhibition 'Whispers – A Julian Lennon Retrospective' at the Stanze della Fotografia, retraces his human and artistic path, ranging from music to philanthropy. Until 24 November.

#London Dulwich Picture Gallery shows a wonderful exhibition Yoshida: Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking. This show on the Yoshida dynasty of artists features over 75 exquisite prints. It journeys from the rich, nostalgic landscapes of the prolific artist and patriarch of the family, Hiroshi to the abstract work of the family’s later and current generations. Until 3 November.

#Nashville #lastchance The Frist Art Museum presents ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now, an exhibition that explores how Chicano activist artists forged a remarkable and enduring legacy of politically engaged printmaking rooted in cultural expression and social justice movements. Organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the exhibition will be on view in the Frist’s Upper-Level Galleries until 29 September.

#NewYork #Met At the Metropolitan Museum of Art you can see the 'P. S. Art 2024: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of New York City Kids'. This juried exhibition of 126 works of art by talented young artists showcases the creativity of prekindergarten through grade 12 students from all five boroughs, including students from District 75, a citywide district serving students with disabilities. The exhibition consists of collages, drawings, mixed-media works, paintings, photographs, prints, and sculpture. Until 20 October 2024.

#NewYork #Met The Met's exhibition 'Ink and Ivory' presents a selection of drawings from the courts and centers of India and Pakistan (with a few related Persian works) dating from the late sixteenth to the twentieth century. These works are mainly selected from The Met collection in partnership with film director James Ivory, whose recent gift to the Museum of nineteenth-century photograph albums will also be featured in the exhibition. On show until May 4th 2025.

#NewYork #Met The rich tradition of printmaking in Mexico—from the eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century—is explored in the Met's exhibition: Mexican Prints at the Vanguard. Featuring over 130 works, including woodcuts, lithographs, and screen prints, the exhibition explores how prints were central to the artistic identity and practice in Mexico and highlights their effectiveness in addressing social and political issues. Until 5 January 2025.

#NY The Print Center New York exhibit (Re)Print centers on projects by five contemporary artists (Mark Bradford, Cecily Brown, Glenn Brown, Enrique Chagoya, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye). They were brought together for their strategic engagement with printmaking, printed material culture, and the past. Framed as a dialogue between contemporary prints and the specific source material referenced, (Re)Print will examine how artists revise, recontextualize, and personalize familiar imagery to elicit new and critical thinking. Until 14 December 2024.

#Vevey The exhibition in Musée Jenish in Vevey will show the work of the painter-graveur Ferdinand Springer (1907–1998) in the exhibit titled 'Ferdinand Springer le Geste et 'l Esprit'. Until 12 January 2025.

#Amsterdam It's your last opportunity to go see 'Rembrandt & the World' at the Rembrandthuis (open until 13 October 2024).

OPPORTUNITIES

#PhD Check out this PHD position at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen on 'Reading the Female Body in the Early Modern Low Countries (1500-1800). DL: 1 October 2024.

#summerworkshop With support from Getty through its Paper Project initiative, Tamarind Institute invites applications from early-career curators and print scholars to participate in an immersive, hands-on workshop on fine art lithography. Ten participants will be selected for the workshop, which takes place at Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 19-23, 2025. DL for applying: 1 November 2024.

#assistantcurator #photography The Morgan Library & Museum invites applications for the position of Jane P. Watkins Assistant Curator in the Department of Photography. The primary responsibility of this position is the care, development, display, interpretation, presentation, and publication of photographs at the Morgan. DL: 1 November 2024.

#travelgrant The Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut offers Visiting Fellowships and Travel Grants for work at the to support research in the library’s rich collections of materials from the British world of the long eighteenth-century. The deadline for submitting applications is November 1, 2024.

#prize #drawings Master Drawings is now accepting submissions for the 7th annual Ricciardi prize of $5,000! The award is given for the best new and unpublished article on a drawing topic (of any period) by a scholar under the age of 40. The winning submission will be published in a 2025 issue of Master Drawings. Submit your article here. DL: 15 November 2024.

#award The American Historical Print Collectors Society Announces 2024 Publication Awards: For more than thirty years, the AHPCS has recognized significant scholarship in the field of American historical prints with its Ewell L. Newman Book Award. In 2023 the AHPCS added two new awards to recognize shorter works published in journals and edited volumes, including exhibition catalogues and digital formats. Find more info here. DL for submission: 1 December 2024.

#fellowship The Library Company of Philadelphia is calling for applications for the William H. Helfand Fellowship for American Visual Culture. The one-month fellowship is designed to promote scholarship in visual culture through the study of textual and graphic sources from the 16th through early 20th centuries held in the Library Company’s collections. DL: 15 January 2025.

#grant The APS Collaboration Grant funds public programs and projects that foster collaboration between members of the print community and/or encourage dialogue between the print community and the general public. The grant carries a maximum award of $1,000. Projects should provide new insights into printmaking and introduce prints to new audiences. DL: 31 January 2025.

CALL FOR PAPERS

#CFP Look at this CFP for the Association for Art History Annual (AAH) Conference at York St John University, UK, taking place 9 to 11 April 2025. A selection of the sessions you could contribute to: Women Reading Letters in Paintings; How was it made? How interdisciplinary collaborations in Material Culture Studies and Art History can unlock new avenues of knowledge; Art, Esotericism and the Ecological Imagination. DL: Nov 1, 2024

#CFP The Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome is looking for proposals on the topic of 'Centers and Peripheries. Photography’s Geography Lessons' for the conference taking place between 17-21 March 2025. DL: 27 October 2024.

EVENTS

#new #collective #photography By/For: Photography & Democracy is a new collaborative partnership between three photographic historians: Dr. Tom Allbeson, Dr. Colleen O’Reilly, and Helen Trompeteler. The aim of the collective is to investigate photography’s assumed democratic credentials as an artform and a medium of mass communication. For their inaugural 2024/25 program, they launch a six-part series of virtual lectures and accompanying readings, starting from 4 October. More info and all dates here!

#symposium #papercutting The Dutch Association for Paper Cutting is organizing a symposium on historic paper cutting art in public and private collections and the state of (art) historical research thereof in the Netherlands. The program is mostly in Dutch and it takes place 17 October in the RKD, The Hague. More info and registering here!

#conference This year's Dürer lectures at the Albrecht-Dürer-Haus, Nürnberg, are dedicated to object biographies and collection stories, and are titled 'Aus Dürers Werkstatt in die ganze Welt. Die verschlungenen Wege seiner Werke'. It takes place on 12 October 2024.

OTHER

#ResearchProject The new research project “Bremen Hand Drawings” will research and publish around 1,500 researched and published in the Kunsthalle Bremen. The motifs of the drawings from 1600 to the present day range from portraits and interiors to numerous landscapes, architectures and cityscapes.

#NewberryLibrary #Chicago Check out the virtual classes by the Newberry Library here.