THE NEWS CORNER #100

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Thursday, 30 January 2025

Born on this day: Bernardo Bellotto (1720-1780)

Dear reader,

With this 100th News Corner, Marte Sophie and Iris will pass the torch to a wonderful member of our Ars Graphica community who will take on the role of international communication coordinator (which includes writing this News Corner). Reflecting on the past five years, we want to take a moment to thank you, dear reader. We represent an ever-growing community consisting of people from all over the world (from Australia to Austria, and Brazil to Belgium) sharing a passion for art on paper. Thanks a lot for reaching out to us with fantastic opportunities, events and exhibits - please keep doing that! With that, we bid adieu and introduce Esmé!

Hello everyone! My name is Esmé van der Krieke and I am the new AG communication coordinator. I hold a Research Master’s degree in Art History from the University of Amsterdam. My love for works on paper was sparked during my time at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, where I worked for over three years as a researcher and junior curator on the collection of Italian Renaissance drawings and as a cataloguer of European prints. I am currently working as a freelance cataloguer and researcher and am always open to new opportunities. I look forward to updating you each month on exciting projects in the world of prints and drawings!

EXHIBITIONS

#Austin #Texas In the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, you can visit the exhibition A Family Affair: Artistic Dynasties in Europe (Part I, 1500–1700) until June 15. The exhibition tells the stories of 16 printmaking families active in European cities from Antwerp to Prague in the 16th and 17th centuries. The second part of this exhibition, A Family Affair: Artistic Dynasties in Europe (Part II, 1700–1900), opens June 28, 2025.

#Vevey #Switzerland Just opened: Félix Valloton. Un Hommage in Musée Jenisch Vevey. In order to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Félix Vallotton’s death, the museum has invited living artists and students from the ECAL (University of Art and Design Lausanne) to pay tribute to this emblematic Swiss artist. This exhibition is part of the Vallotton Year | 2025, and is open until 25 May.

#Rotterdam What secrets are hidden in the drawings made during the Italian Renaissance? What stories can they tell us? What do we know about them, and what may we never know? In the exhibition Secrets of Italian Drawings in the Depot of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen the curators take you on a voyage of discovery through the world of Italian Renaissance drawings. Come and find out more about the secrets and mysteries that still need to be unravelled. On show until 23 March.

#Amsterdam On view from 7 February in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: American Photography. The more than 200 works on display in American Photography reflect the rich and multifaceted history of photography in the United States. The exhibition presents the country as seen through the eyes of American photographers, and shows how the medium has permeated every aspect of our lives: in art, news, advertising and everyday life.

#Chicago At the Newberry Library you can go see the exhibition 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.

#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 #lastchance 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.

#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. Until 23 February.

#Brussels #lastchance 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.

#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.

#Edinburgh On view in the National Galleries of Scotland, until 23 February: Dürer to Van Dyck | Drawings from Chatsworth House. A spectacular group of some 50 Flemish, Dutch, Early Netherlandish, and German drawings and watercolors, spanning from about 1500 to 1700, will be exhibited in Scotland for the first time.

OPPORTUNITIES

#Curator The British Library is looking for a curator, as they are looking for a permanent Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts to join the team, working with our internationally renowned collection of illuminated manuscripts made in Britain and Europe before 1600. DL: 9 February 2025.

#Fellowship The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco is offering a Curatorial Cataloguing Fellowship with the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts (AFGA), the Museums' works on paper department. The two-year paid Fellowship program, onsite in San Francisco from September 2025-August 2027, is designed to provide an important professional development opportunity for eight emerging art museum professionals. DL: 14 February 2025.

#Fellowship The Art Institute of Chicago is offering the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Curatorial Fellowship in Photography and Media, focused on Korean photography and media arts. The three-year fellowship invites candidates with a strong background in Korean art and photography to advance research, develop collections, and collaborate on exhibitions, publications, and translations of significant Korean-language texts. The position offers a unique opportunity to engage with leading institutions in South Korea and the U.S., with a flexible start date between May and September 2025. DL: 21 March 2025.

#Prize The Burlington Magazine announced a new annual prize of 1,000 GBP for innovative research on Southern Netherlandish art from 1400 to 1800. The prize, which is awarded in partnership with the University of Cambridge, includes publication in the magazine’s annual issue on Northern European Art, as well as a subscription to The Burlington Magazine. Early-career scholars are invited to submit previously unpublished essays of 1000–1500 words. Preference will be given to object-related scholarship, such as is published in The Burlington Magazine. DL: 1 September 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, 1750-1914' 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. DL: 15 February 2025.

#CFP The Royal Society of Asian Art in the Netherlands (Koninklijke Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, KVVAK) is pleased to announce the Young Scholars’ Symposium in Asian Art: Asian Art and Material Culture: New Ways of Seeing. The symposium is now open for abstract submissions from BA and MA students, PhD candidates, and early career researchers in the fields of art history, material culture history, archaeology, environmental art history, architecture, anthropology, contemporary art and design. The symposium will be held at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, the home of the KVVAK’s collection. DL: 16 March 2025.

EVENTS

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

OTHER

#Photography Are you a photographer and do you have a proposal for a photo series about a subject in/around/about Amsterdam that you think is important to capture? Photographers are invited to submit a proposal for a photographic project about Amsterdam to the Amsterdam Archives, before February 14, 2025.