THE NEWS CORNER #105

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Thursday, 26 June 2025

Born on this day: Joseph Ducreux (1735-1802)

Dear reader,

Summer’s here, and so is your fresh dose of printmaking news! This News Corner brings you sunny-season exhibitions, exciting opportunities, and upcoming events worth marking on your calendar.

EXHIBITIONS

#Chantilly The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry is the most famous manuscript in the world. To celebrate the restoration of this masterpiece, which has only been shown to the public twice since the end of the 19th century, an international exhibition has been set up in the Chateau de Chantilly. Featuring almost 150 exhibits from all over the world, the exhibition provides visitors with an insight into each stage of the creation of the Très Riches Heures. On show until 5 October.

#Austin #Texas On June 28, the exhibition A Family Affair: Artistic Dynasties in Europe (Part II, 1670–1900) opens in)the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. This exhibition tells the stories of eighteen artistic families active in France, Italy, England, Scotland, and India from the late-seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.

#Mettingen Now on show in the study room of the Draiflessen Collection: A Garden of Flowers. Lilla Tabasso & Crispijn de Passe. The Milanese artist Lilla Tabasso (*1973) was invited to approach the important botanical work Hortus Floridus by the Dutch engraver Crispijn de Passe the Younger (1594-1670). Based on his detailed depictions of plants, she translates the black and white copperplate engravings into sensual, three-dimensional and hyper-realistic sculptures made of Murano glass.

#Glensfalls The exhibition Prosperity and Exclusion: European Prints from 1500–1850 at The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York, features works by artists such as Rembrandt, Hogarth, Dürer, and Goya. The exhibition explores themes of prosperity and exclusion through satire, romance, revolution, and inquisition. On view until 21 September.

#Amsterdam This year, Amsterdam celebrates its 750 anniversary. The city has much to offer, for residents and visitors alike. That was also the case in the old days. In the exhibition Rembrandt & Amsterdam in the Rembrandt House Museum, containing 60 prints and drawings, you can look through Rembrandt’s eyes and discover what had already made the city unique 400 years ago. On view until 7 September.

#Washington At the National Gallery of Art, the exhibition Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World (on view through November 2, 2025) traces the rich interplay between early modern artists and naturalists in the depiction of insects and animals. Featuring around 75 paintings, prints and drawings, from the intricate studies of Joris Hoefnagel and Jan van Kessel to contemporary reflections by Dario Robleto, the exhibition situates art at the heart of scientific discovery. Juxtaposed with specimens from the Smithsonian, it reveals how artistic observation shaped and still shapes our understanding of the natural world.

#Bremen On show show until 27 July in the Kunsthalle Bremen: 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 #lastchance 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.

#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. On view until 20 July.

#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.

#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 until 20 July.

OPPORTUNITIES

#Job Hessen Kassel Heritage is looking for a paid research trainee for the Collections Department for a period of two years, initially in the Prints and Drawings department, and then the 19th to 21st century art department (Neue Galerie). DL: 29 June 2025.

#Colloquium From 18 to 20 November 2025, the National Gallery of Art in Washington organizes the Thaw Colloquium on Connoisseurship, a biennial program designed to encourage the close examination and evaluation of the visual and material aspects of works of art on paper. The seminar is intended for early-to-mid career curators, curatorial research fellows, and paper conservators. DL: 1 July 2025.

#CFP The workshop Resources of Printmaking – Printmaking as Resource will take place March 18–20, 2026, at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich and online, in preparation for a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal. It invites contributions on early modern printmaking, with a focus on material processes, environmental impact, and methodological approaches such as ecocriticism and New Materialism. DL: 7 July 2025 (abstracts + short CV).