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THE NEWS CORNER #103

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Thursday, 1 May 2025

Born on this day: Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942)

Dear reader,

May has arrived, bringing with it fresh opportunities, creativity, and, of course, plenty of exciting events and exhibitions to explore! In this month’s News Corner, we’re bringing you the latest happenings from around the world. Whether you’re looking for inspiring art exhibitions or new opportunities to get involved, we’ve got plenty to spark your imagination.

Let’s dive into what May has in store!

EXHIBITIONS

#Bremen Just opened in the Kunsthalle Bremen, and on show until 27 July: Corot to Watteau? On the Trail of French Drawings. This exhibition focuses on the complex histories of 38 selected drawings and two sketchbooks by French artists which were examined over the course of many years as part of a research project into their provenance. Critical attention was paid especially to those drawings that entered the Kunsthalle’s collection during and shortly after the Third Reich as a result of confiscation by the Nazis, particularly of Jewish property.

#Verona On view until 30 June, the exhibition Capolavori su carta. Disegni del Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo tra Rinascimento e Barocco held at the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo in Verona, presents the results of a research project on the museum’s graphic holdings. Assembled in the seventeenth century by Ludovico Moscardo, the collection features works primarily by artists from Verona and Venice. Supported by the Getty Paper Project, the exhibition is accompanied by an extensive catalogue and an online database to support future research on these drawings.

#Prague At the Schwarzenberg Palace of the National Gallery in Prague, the exhibition Hieronymus Cock – A Revolution in Printmaking highlights the remarkable contributions of Flemish Renaissance printmaker Hieronymus Cock (1517/18–1570). Together with his wife, Volcxken Diericx (1514/25–1600), he founded the Antwerp-based publishing house Aux Quatre Vents, which became the most influential and prolific printmaking enterprise north of the Alps. The exhibition is on view until 26 June.

#Paris In the exhibition Jewellery Designs. Secrets of the creation, the Petit Palais reveals the diversity and breadth of its collection of drawings of jewellery designs, spanning over a century of creation, from the second half of the 19th to the mid-20th century. Om view until 20 July.

#Chicago The first exhibition ever to focus on the multiple connections between drawing and printmaking, Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking in the Art Institute of Chicago brings together around 90 works on paper by some of the greatest artists in the Western tradition to uncover the inner workings of their creative process and offer new ways to think about the links between the two mediums. On show until 1 June.

#Birmingham Rembrandt: Masterpieces in Black and White is on show in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery until 1 June. The exhibition brings together exquisite etchings on tour from Rembrandt House Museum in the Netherlands, highlighting the full range of Rembrandt’s output along with those he influenced across the centuries.

#Williamstown #MA The Clark Institute presents seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European books, drawings, and prints of idealized landscapes in the exhibition Pastoral on Paper. Looking particularly at such familiar figures as Claude Lorrain and Thomas Gainsborough, as well as at Dutch Italianate artists like Nicolaes Berchem, Pastoral on Paper situates cows, mules, maidens, shepherds, ruins, and overgrown landscapes within the rise of pastoral imagery in the early modern imagination. On show until 15 June.

#Amsterdam Until 18 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.

#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.

#Cambridge #MA At the Harvard Art Museums, the exhibition Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking 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. On view until 27 July.

#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.

#Amsterdam On view in the Rijksmuseum until 9 June: 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.

#NewYork #Met The New Art: American Photography, 1839–1910 in the Met presents a bold new history of American photography from the medium’s birth in 1839 to the first decade of the 20th century. On view from 11 April until 20 July.

OPPORTUNITIES

#Job The Baltimore Museum of Art seeks a full-time Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs to play an important role in helping to research, care for, and present over 68,000 works on paper housed within the Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the Baltimore Museum of Art. DL: Position will be posted until filled.

#Fellowship The Medici Archive Project is offering twelve short-term fellowships for graduate, pre-doctoral students, and postdoctoral candidates, working on fields related to early modern Italy (preferably with a specific emphasis on Tuscany or Medici history). DL: 15 June 2025.

#Prize Simiolus is now accepting submissions for the annual Haboldt-Mutters Prize for young art historians. Scholars who wish to compete for this award for the best original contribution on European art prior to 1950 should be younger than 35 at the time of submission and their paper should be limited to a maximum of 20,000 words (including notes, excluding possible appendices). DL: 31 December 2025.

#Grant The Association of Print Scholars invites submissions for the 2025 APS Publication Grant, supported by C.G. Boerner and Harris Schrank. The APS Publication Grant supports the publication of innovative scholarly research about printmaking across all time periods and geographic regions. The grant carries a maximum award of $2,000. DL: 31 August 2025.

EVENTS

#Lecture On Friday 16 May, the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, in collaboration with Teylers Museum, will organise a public lecture on watermark analysis using digital tools. The afternoon event will take place at Teylers Museum, is free of charge and can also be followed online.