THE NEWS CORNER #101

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Thursday, 27 February 2025

Born on this day: Carel Fabritius (1622-1654)

Dear reader,

This edition of the News Corner is dedicated to Leen van Hulst (1982-2025), a cherished and unforgettable member of the Ars Graphica Dutch & Flemish community.

Since 2018, Leen worked as an expert in chalcography at the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels. In addition, she was a talented freelance illustrator. In 2011, she published the graphic novel Melk & Sneeuw, and in 2007, she illustrated De hoed van Vos, a children’s book by Roel Verniers. Leen was best known for her work as an illustrator for Belgian magazines and newspapers. For Knack, she created the striking Mug Shots series. She was a longtime member of the illustrator collective Poste Aérienne, where she published Nude Drawings I in 2017. At the Royal Library, Leen produced several etchings for exhibitions. Her final work was the Ensor-inspired soft-ground etching Spionkop.

Leen leaves behind a lasting impact on the world of graphic arts. In the spirit of her passionate craftsmanship, we will continue celebrating the world of works on paper through our community and this News Corner.

EXHIBITIONS

#Cambridge #MA At the Harvard Art Museums, the exhibition Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking opens March 7. The exhibition offers rare insight into the Norwegian artist’s innovative techniques and the recurring themes across his paintings, woodcuts, lithographs, etchings, and combination prints. Visitors are invited to explore Munch’s artistic process, uncovering his playful approach and fascination with materiality.

#Berlin Get to Work! The Work and Toil of Women is a special exhibition of the Kupferstichkabinett and the Gemäldegalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The small thematic exhibition presents 25 French, German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch prints from the 16th to 18th centuries preserved in the Kupferstichkabinett’s (Museum of Prints and Drawings) rich holdings. Works have been selected that show women in everyday activities, working as peasants, farmhands, teachers, maids, midwives and courtesans. On show from 18 February until 18 May.

#Amsterdam Until 25 May, the Van Gogh Museum dedicates a small-scale exhibition to The Power of Pigments. The exhibition shows a selection of colourful drawings by artists such as Van Gogh, Redon, and Gauguin. The presentation includes a selection of highlights from the museum’s collection, works that are rarely put on public display due to their fragility. Several of the works have never been exhibited before.

#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 Félix Valloton. Un Hommage in Musée Jenisch Vevey celebrates 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 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 to 29 March.

#StLouis In the Saint Louis Art Museum the exhibition Bolts of Color: Printed Textiles after WWII is on display. 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.

#NewYork #Met Just opened in the Met: Democratizing Prints: The JoAnn Edinburg Pinkowitz Gift. In 2024, the Museum received a remarkable gift from JoAnn Edinburg Pinkowitz of some three hundred prints by Mexican and other (mainly American) artists who worked in Mexico. Many of the prints on view were published by the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Workshop of Popular Graphic Art), a printmaking collective founded in 1937 in Mexico City “with the aim of stimulating graphic arts production in the interests of the Mexican people.”

OPPORTUNITIES

#Prize Master Drawings is currently seeking submissions for the Eighth Annual Ricciardi Prize. The prize includes $5,000 for the best new and unpublished article on a drawings topic (of any period) by a scholar under the age of 40. Olivia Dill was the 2025 Ricciardi Prize winner for her fascinating research that led to assigning a previously anonymous watercolor of three insects, including an iridescent Rhinoceros beetle native to Brazil, to seventeenth-century Dutch natural history artist Pieter Holsteyn II. DL: 15 November 2025.

#Job The Ferdinandeum of the Tyrolean State Museums in Innsbruck seeks a Research Associate of the Graphic Collection for a full-time position (40 hours/week) from May 2025. In a small team, you will work on the scientific and organizational inventory of the graphic collection and support the head of the collection in general administrative work and the realization of research and exhibition projects. DL: 15 March 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 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

#Lecture Echoing the presentation Is this a Delacroix? The art of copying, the Musée Delacroix invites you to the lecture From Goya to Delacroix: the Caprichos in 19th-century France given by Paula Fayos-Pérez, postdoctoral researcher in Art History, in the heart of the painter's studio. [Presentation given in French]. Date and time: 6 March 2025, 6.30 PM.