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THE NEWS CORNER #70



 

Saturday 5 March 2022 Born on this day: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)


Hello readers,

With a little delay due to issues with the website, please find this month's Ars Graphica news below!


EXHIBITIONS


#London In the Dulwich Picture Gallery you can go see the exhibition 'Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011): Radical Beauty', until 18 April 2022. This is the first major UK exhibition of woodcuts by the leading Abstract Expressionist.


#NY Whitney Museum of American Art, opened the exhibition: Labyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction, 1930–1950. Women were key figures in modernist avant-garde art groups, often taking on leadership roles. They also wrote and lectured on abstraction and advanced methods of making, particularly in print media. On show until 13 March 2022.


#NY At the Met, New York: Cruel Radiance, Photography, 1940s-1960s. The show explores the flourishing of photography as a medium between World War II and the Vietnam War and focuses on recent gifts. On view until 1 May 2022.


#Chichester The Pallant House Gallery now shows the exhibit: Hockney to Himid: 60 Years of British Printmaking. Open until 24 April 2022.


#Otterlo Still on view in the Kröller-Müller Museum until 8 May: Aged well. Three centuries of drawings from the Kröller-Müller collection. It is not widely known that Helene Kröller-Müller also collected many drawings. A selection of the hundred finest and most exceptional old drawings has been made, from the 16th to the early 19th century.


#Champaign The Krannert Art Museum (KAM) at the campus of the University of Illinois opened the exhibition: Sacred/Supernatural: Religion, Myth, and Magic in Early Modern European Prints. It is on show until 15 May.


#Amsterdam #photography From 28 January until 6 June in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: Vincent Mentzel. Vincent Mentzel (1945) has long been one of the Netherlands most iconic photographers. As a photojournalist at NRC Handelsblad he helped define the news image.


#Zurich #lastchance Exhibition 'Baroque Brilliance: Drawings and Prints by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione' is currently on show at Kunsthaus Zürich. The exhibition includes examples of the unprecedented monotype technique.

#Berlin The Gemäldegalerie Berlin just opened the exhibit: Fantastic Beasts in Graphic Art from the 15th to the 18th Century.