Silvia Massa

THE NEWS CORNER #29

2018 CHRISTMAS EDITION

Jan Muller, Anbetung der Könige, 1598 (detail)

©Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett/ Dietmar Katz

ANNOUNCEMENTS!

LONDON ART FAIR 2019

Complimentary tickets are available for London Art Fair 2019, Building Design Centre, Islington N1 0QH from The Drawing Works.

Please contact davina(at)thedrawingworks.com if you would like a ticket for LAF19 on any day through Wed 16 - Sun 20 Jan 2019. Each ticket admits two people but opening hours vary - please consult the fair website londonartfair.co.uk for details.

SALA DEL COLLEZIONISTA IN PAVIA

The Musei Civici in Pavia have just opened a new permanent section dedicated to Marquis Malaspina di Sannazzaro (1754-1835), which includes his collection of prints that will be put on rotating display.

'THE PAPER PROJECT' WORKSHOP

The Potential of Technical Studies and Conservation for Prints and Drawings Curatorship is an intensive three-day international workshop to support early and mid-career curators in the fields of prints and drawings. The program is scheduled to take place July 9-11, 2019 at the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The workshop is funded by the Getty Foundation through The Paper Project: Prints and Drawings Curatorship in the 21st Century.

Apply by January 27, full details available here.

PHOTOGRAPHY CORNER

Save the date for this IGIIC (Italian group international institute for conservation) conference on conservation practices: Il restauro della fotografia in Italia dagli anni '50 al contemporaneo (Bologna, Accademia di Belle Arti, 1 February 2019). Call for posters will end on January 20. Programme and details available here.

The journal Dagerotyp. Studia z historii i teorii fotografii (Daguerreotype. Studies in the history and theory of photography) launched a CFP (No. 2 (26) / 2019): Photography and power (deadline 28 February). Among the topics listed are: Photography and archiving/museum strategies; Photography through the prism of feminist discourse. All details here.

NEWS FROM OUR SATELLITES

AG ROMA has just published a new interview on the AG blog: Ilaria Sferrazza spoke to nSimona De Crescenzo (Vatican Apostolic Library) about the new book commissioned by the Library to the artist Francesco Parisi, Bibliotheca Sixtina Litterarvm Cvltoribvs restitvta.