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THE NEWS CORNER #99

Thursday, 26 December 2024

Born on this day: Octave Landuyt (1922-2024)

Dear reader,

We hope you have a nice and festive December. We collected opportunities for you to start 2025 off good! Find them below.

EXHIBITIONS

#Chicago At the Newberry Library you can go see the exhibit Making an Impression: Immigrant Printing in Chicago which establishes Chicago as a vital center of multicultural printing and celebrates what makes Chicago’s immigrant printers, their work, and their communities unique. On view 12 December 2024 to 29 March 2025.

#StLouis The Saint Louis Art Museum just opened the exhibition Bolts of Color: Printed Textiles after WWII. 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.

#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 until 5 January. 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.

#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.

#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

#Internship The Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Department at the Baltimore Museum of Art is seeking interns for the Spring and Summer sessions. DL: 2nd February 2025.

#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 information and how to apply can be found here! DL: 5 January 2025.

#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.

#Award Applications are now open for the Hallett Independent Acquisitions Award, a purchase grant to enable a museum or gallery to acquire an original print or prints for their collection from the London Printfair. DL: 3 February 2025.

#Fellowship The Library Company of Philadelphia offers a William H. Helfand Fellowship for American Visual Culture. Stipend is $2500 for a 1-month fellowship, which may be fulfilled between June 1, 2025, and May 31, 2026. DL: January 15, 2025.

#ShortTermFellowship At the Chicago NewBerry Library you can apply for several fellowships: the Adele Hast Fellowship in American History, the Anne Jacobson Schutte Fellowship in Early Modern Studies, the newly-created Beer Culture Center Beer History Studies Fellowship, and many more. Researchers with short-term fellowships spend one to two months investigating specific collection items that are essential to their scholarship. DL: 3 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: 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.

#CFP CFP Philosophy of Photography is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the understanding of photography. For their next edition they ask input on ' The problems and possibilities of a photographic education today.' Deadline 15 January 2025.

EVENTS

#Seminar The UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum is inviting applications for a five-day Paper Project seminar in Los Angeles! This seminar is aimed at early- to mid-career curators from small to mid-size museums, libraries, and archives. Curators managing non-medium specific collections that include prints are also welcome to apply by 15 January 2025.

#VirtualClasses Newberry Library in Chicago offers several virtual classes in the new year, find them here.

OTHER

#trees Lisanne Wepler is creating a beautiful book with etches and essays, based on her project 'Trees - our neighbours'. Support the production here.

We wish you a safe and cheerful New Year.