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Reflections on Aging, Identity, and Social Justice in Potent Prints
The dynamic curator Judith K. Brodsky makes a compelling case for the historical importance and profound expressions of printmaking.
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A Three-Day Event Wants to Make Printmaking More Accessible
Self Help Graphics & Art is hosting its second Printmaking Summit featuring workshops, talks, and demonstrations. Celebrated artist Alison Saar will be giving the keynote address.
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The Print Legacy of Louise Bourgeois Unfolds at MoMA
A new exhibition gathers some 300 works, including 265 prints, to show the increasingly central role printmaking played in Bourgeois's practice through the decades.
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The Mysterious Experiments of Hercules Segers, a 17th-Century Art Radical
The Mysterious Landscapes of Hercules Segers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the first major retrospective on the radically experimental 17th-century Dutch artist.
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A Printmaker’s Nonsensical Designs for an Absurd World
Ryan Standfest’s diagrams are sometimes fraught with Dadaist logic. They are instructions for unstructured outcomes, answers to questions no one has asked.
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The Whimsical Work of an Animal-Loving 19th-Century Printmaker
From portraits of his dog to Japanese motifs, these fine-lined images attest to the originality of Henri-Charles Guérard, who was one of the most respected printmakers of his time.
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Smeary Smeary Edgar Degas
The first picture that caught me up short was “Factory Smoke” (1877–79), hanging alone on a freestanding wall in the middle of the gallery.
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16th-Century Visions of the Ruins of Religious Wars
As the 16th-century religious wars raged around Europe, Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck collaborated with printmaker Philip Galle on a series of 22 engravings featuring Old Testament destruction.
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A Subversive 19th-Century Political Print Destroyed by the French Government
Not far from today's Centre Pompidou in Paris, women, children, and the elderly were massacred on April 14, 1834, when French troops under the July Monarchy stormed a worker's building on the Rue Transnonain searching for a sniper.
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The Enveloping Darkness of John Singer Sargent’s Prints and Drawings
Rare examples of John Singer Sargent's printmaking are on temporary view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, demonstrating his interest in the expressive shapes of the human body and lithography's potential to show these figures in darkness and light.
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Remembering Forgotten Female Printmakers from the 16th to 19th Centuries
In the 19th century, Henrietta Louisa Koenen, wife the Rijksmuseum Print Room's first director, took a prescient interest in acquiring prints by women artists.
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Restoring 16th-Century European Martial Arts Manuals
For researchers or practitioners interested in the history of European martial arts, many of the resources are in private hands, and online images from key texts on fencing or other sword fighting are of middling quality.