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THE NEWS CORNER #97

Thursday, 31 October 2024

Dear reader,

Our favourite month spooktober has almost come to an end; it was filled with leafy walks, sniffs of brisk air, and fully sweatered up reading (or working) sessions on the rainy days. Luckily there were also many museum visits and conferences to attend, and applications to write! Enjoy this News Corner with a warm chai tea or in front of the fireplace with a lovely glass of red. Let's commence!

EXHIBITIONS

#TheHague From 8 November until 16 February 2025 the exhibit on Julie de Graag will be shown at the Museum Escher in het Paleis in The Hague. Julie de Graag was a talented contemporary of M.C. Escher. The two artists shared a great love of nature, closely observing the world around them, and depicting it in their own unique way. 2024 is the centenary of the death of Julie de Graag. In this exhibition, Escher in The Palace will present her rich oeuvre alongside that of Escher.

#Amsterdam At the Museum van Loon the exhibition Versatile virtuoso - Wallerant Vaillant in Amsterdam is on show. The Lille-born artist came to Amsterdam in 1643 after his training in Antwerp. He quickly made a name as a portraitist but also explored the latest graphic techniques and became one of the forerunners of mezzotint.

#Dordrecht In the Dordrechts Museum you can go see Zwart op wit. Prentkunst rond 1900, focusing on the work of the Dutch Etching Club (Nederlandse Etsclub). On view until 12 January!

#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.

#Hamburg On view from 7 November: Nudes, Antiquity, Anatomy - Exploring the world through drawing. Drawing as a technique for discovering the world is the focus of a cross-institutional project being developed by the Hamburger Kunsthalle in cooperation with the University of Hamburg and the Hamburg State and University Library.

#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. 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 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.

#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 print makers of the period, including Paulus Pontius and Lucas Vorsterman the Elder. On show until 1 December.

#ChapelHillNC The Ackland Art Museum shows Dürer to Matisse: 400 Years of European Prints. Until 5 January 2025.

#Cambridge In the print room 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 tea house 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.

#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.

#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, re-contextualize, and personalize familiar imagery to elicit new and critical thinking. Until 14 December 2024.

#SanFrancisco The exhibition Mary Cassatt at Work at Legion of Honor is exploring the artist’s activity across media, revealing the daring, iterative methods she used to give form to her ideas. Until 26 January 2025.

OPPORTUNITIES

#fellowship Applications for the Michael Bromberg Fellowship at the British Museum are being accepted. DL: 15 December 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.

#job New York University (NYU) Division of Libraries is seeking a Librarian for Printed Books. This position will be responsible for overseeing and managing continued growth, development and engagement with the print holdings of the Special Collections. More info here! DL: 11 November 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 catalogs 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 As part of Apprentice-Master II, Museum Brugge is organizing the two-day conference '(Re)searching connections Artists’ international social networks, 1750-191' that will take place on 30 September and 1 October 2025 at the Academia Belgica in Rome. This conference provides a platform for researchers to share ideas and insights about the international networks of artists active between 1750 and 1914. Cities like Paris and Rome attracted not only Bruges citizens: artists from all over the world established valuable connections abroad. During the conference, we will examine this phenomenon and exchange thoughts with other experts. Find more information here. Deadline 15: February 2025.

#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: 1 November 2024

EVENTS

#Leiden #fair This Saturday 2 November 2025, the Handboekbinden foundation organizes the BoekAmbachtBeurs (book craft fair) in the Pieterskerk in Leiden. A day full of inspiration, tools, materials, demonstrations and workshops. For everyone with a love for books and prints! Open between 10:00 and 17:00. In the meantime, take a look on the event's website here.

#Events #calendar The Plantin-Moretus Museum collects all activities in a handy calendar on the website. How to make tonal prints? Ad Stijnman will teach you about printing on the day of Science on November 24; or have a cocktail on 6 December with the curator of the Ensor exhibit, Willemijn Stammis! Find the calendar with all the events and how to sign up here.

OTHER

#Congrats Congratulations to Richard de Beer and Saskia Quené for winning the Karel van Mander and Jan van Gelder Prizes for publications with their books!