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THE NEWS CORNER #98

Thursday, 28 November 2024

Born on this day: William Blake (1757-1827)

Dear reader,

This November we have collected some noteworthy opportunities and exhibits for you all! So buckle up and let's go through it together...

EXHIBITIONS

#TheHague 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. 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 in Hamburg: 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.

#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.

#Chicago On show in The Newberry Library in Chicago from 12 December: Making an Impression: Immigrant Printing in Chicago.

#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. 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. 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.

#Chester 'The Romance of Ruins: The Etchings of George Cuitt' at the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, shows etchings of the city’s medieval architecture and the ruined abbeys of Yorkshire. Until 12 January 2025.

OPPORTUNITIES

#fellowship Applications for the Michael Bromberg Fellowship at the British Museum are being accepted. DL: 15 December 2024.

#fellowship The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, calls for applications for their Fellowship Programme. The Programme gives successful candidates the exceptional opportunity to conduct part of their research at the museum. They offer a maximum of six fellowships for the 2025-2026 academic year, across four fields of research. More info and applying here! DL: 5 January 2025.

#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.

#workshop The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, organizes a three-day Getty workshop on different types of markings—inscriptions, numbers, symbols, collectors’ marks, and the like—commonly found on Dutch drawings and accompanying mounts. The Many Lives of Drawings takes place on 21-23 May 2025. DL for applying: 2 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 The Università di Macerata calls for papers for the congress Beyond Frontiers. Images of otherness in graphic and ephemeral culture from the invention of printing to the present day. The congress will be held on 3-4 April 2025 in Macerata, Italy. DL for abstracts: 10 January 2025.

#CFP #drawings Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek calls for papers on the subject of Drawing Matters: The Lives of Netherlandish Works on Paper. More info here. DL for abstracts: 20 January 2025.

#CFP As part of Apprentice-Master II, Museum Brugge is organizing the two-day conference '(Re)searching connections Artists’ international social networks, 1750-1914' 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. Find more information here. Deadline 15: February 2025.

EVENTS

#Drawing #BellaManiera The Bella Maniera Forum will take place on Saturday, December 14 , from 2:30 p.m. at the INHA Vasari room. Find more information here.

#Meet You can meet the Curator Dominique Marechal of the Draft exhibition in Brussels (see above) on 6 December. Get your ticket here!

OTHER #Dedication The Simiolus Journal has dedicated an issue (Vol. 45 nr. 1/2) to Ger Luijten (1956-2022). Huigen Leeflang and Marjolein Leesberg have written a wonderful article on the New Hollstein series, Ilja Veldman wrote about Games in the Northern Countries, Gregor Weber on Leisure in Rome- and there are many more superb articles. Go check it out!

#collection Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy, houses an impressive collection of works on paper. Emma C. de Jong introduces us to the Dutch and Flemish prints in the museum's Firmian Collection. Acquired by the eighteenth century Austrian diplomat Carlo Firmian, it contains over 1,500 prints from the Low Countries, which have thus far received little scholarly attention. They are now being extensively researched for a digitization project, which will make the entire collection accessible online.

#acquisition The Art Institute of Chicago has just acquired over 200 Italian prints from the collection of Jonathan Bober. It includes sheets by Annibale Carracci and Stefano della Bella; rare prints by the Procaccini; and a significant group of Veronese 16th-century etchings in rich impressions.

#book Susan Dackerman's newest book 'Dürer’s Knots: Early European Print and the Islamic East' provides new readings of three of the artist’s most enigmatic print projects, situating them within contexts that reflect collaborations between Christendom and Islam.