
THE NEWS CORNER #5 - NOVEMBER 2017
On long urban walks, why not listen to podcasts to make your promenade more fun? I started with Neil MacGregor's "A History of the World in 100 objects" (available on the BBC website) and found out that no. 75, 85, 93 and 97 are about prints! An insider revealed me that MacGregor likes to register some of his podcasts in the Print Room of the British Museum. Special acoustic? Maybe. For sure it's a great place to be. November 23, 2017 Born today: El Lissitzky, Russian artist

Leiden
Monday 13 November, AG DUTCH & FLEMISH travelled to the city of Leiden to visit two collections of printed materials. First, we took a guided tour at the Bibliotheca Thysiana. Founded by testament by the jurist Johannes Thysius (1622-1653), this is the only seventeenth-century library in the Netherlands that is preserved at its original purpose-built location. The library holdings consist of about 2500 books from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. After an introducti

THE NEWS CORNER #4 - NOVEMBER 2017
"What I tell students is that prints represent a different means of expressing original ideas, just the way Shakespeare wrote plays and sonnets and Mozart composed operas and symphonies—all are masterpieces in different forms". This is what David Tunick, the newly-appointed President of the IFPDA (International Fine Prints Dealers Association) said at the annual Fine Art Print Fair in NYC. The fair has just closed its doors with 10,000 visitors between 26-29 October. What's h