René Carcan International Grand Prix
This prize, worth 5 000 €, will be awarded to the artist who has successfully passed the selection process and is chosen by the Jury after they have examined 4 works created during the last 3 years using one of the accepted techniques : etching, lithography, linocut, xylography, silkscreen and monotype.

First mention
This prize, worth 3 000 €, will be presented to the second best artist chosen by the Jury.

Second mention
This prize, worth 2 000 €, will be presented to the third best artist chosen by the Jury.

René Carcan Public Prize
The works of the artists who have successfully passed the selection process will be put to the vote of the website users. The artist whose works receive the most votes will receive the René Carcan Public Prize, which is an honorific prize.

Altered States: The Etchings of Richard Pousette-Dart marks the first in-depth presentation of the artist’s work in the medium of etching. Organized in cooperation with the estate of the artist, the exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue which includes an essay by Charles H. Duncan, Executive Director of the Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation.

This major retrospective exhibition of approximately 250 Andy Warhol prints and ephemera from the collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer is the largest of its kind ever to be presented. It spans two floors of the Museum and includes instantly recognizable images such as Warhol’s iconic Campbell’s Soup Can (Tomato) and Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn).

Nkame is the first solo museum exhibition in the United States dedicated to the work of Belkis Ayón (1967–1999)—the late Cuban visual artist who mined the founding myth of the Afro-Cuban fraternal society Abakuá to create an independent and powerful visual iconography. Ayón was known for her signature technique of collography, a printing process in which a variety of materials of various textures and absorbencies are collaged onto a cardboard matrix and then run through the press with paper.

For a black Cuban woman, both her ascendency in the contemporary printmaking world and her investigation of a powerful all-male brotherhood were notable and bold. The exhibition covers a wide range of her graphic production from 1984 until her untimely passing.

This exhibition brings fresh attention to Pablo Picasso’s brilliantly inventive career as a printmaker. More than 70 works from Dusseldorf’s Museum Kunstpalast reveal Picasso’s remarkable ability to explore different media and creative techniques, offering a glimpse into the artist’s intimate and passionate domestic relationships.

The opening of the newly renovated Manton Research Center is less than three weeks away! You can reserve seats now for the following events:

SATURDAY, NOV.12
- Architect's Talk (12:45 pm)
Annabelle Selldorf, the architect for the building's redesign, talks about her practice and her work. A conversation follows the talk with Clark curators Kathleen Morris and Jay A. Clarke, Clark librarian Susan Roeper, and Research and Academic Program Director Emeritus Michael Ann Holly. A book signing follows the talk.

- Open House (1-5 pm)
Curators, Research and Academic Program Fellows, librarians, and graduate students welcome visitors to explore the Manton Research Center, including talks in the new reading room; in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper; and in the Eugene V. Thaw Gallery on the inaugural exhibition, Photography and Discovery.

- Opening Party and Concert featuring Arturo Sandoval (ticket required) at 6:30 pm.

SUNDAY, NOV. 13
- Bennies & Bellinis (ticket required; 10:30 am)
Join us in the Clark Center for a special eggs benedict breakfast.

- Manton Collection Gallery Talk (11:30 am)
Jay A. Clarke, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs discusses the extraordinary works in the Manton Collection of British Art and the development of new facilities for their display and study.

- Director's Talk (1 pm)
Olivier Meslay, Felda and Dena Hardymon Director, gives his first public talk since assuming his role earlier this year. Meslay, the fifth director of the Clark, discusses the Institute and his plans for its future.

- Family Activities (1-4 pm)

A full slate of free events is planned for the weekend. Visit online for more details.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has recently completed a year-long project to conserve, stabilize, and digitize 60 works on paper from the Ludwig and Rosy Fischer Collection of German Expressionist Art. The conservation efforts were made possible by a grant from the Bank of America Art Conservation Project.

Works by key German Expressionists—Max Beckmann, Peter August Böckstiegel, Otto Dix, Conrad Felixmüller, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Emil Nolde—have received complete restoration as part of the project. The first selection of newly restored pieces—seven works on paper by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner—have recently opened in the museum’s European Modernism Galleries.

This exhibition brings together the work of Charles Meryon and John Taylor Arms, printmakers who revered the art and architecture of medieval Europe. Meryon, a champion of the Etching Revival in France, became renowned for "Etchings of Paris (Eaux-fortes sur Paris)" (1850-54), a series depicting the city’s medieval buildings and streets during a period of grand-scale urban renovation. In the early 20th century, American printmaker John Taylor Arms praised Meryon’s series as “a monument unique in its sensitive, imaginative, and deeply spiritual expression of architectural form and meaning”—his 1923 etching "The Thinker (Le Penseur)" reinterprets Meryon’s iconic grotesque subject.

By the end of the Second World War, Pablo Picasso had reached what he called “the moment... when the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.” This new interest in “movement”—the successive permutations of an artistic statement—found its most remarkable expression in Picasso’s practice as a printmaker. Whereas oil paintings inevitably covered their tracks, concealing the process of their making under layers of opaque color, prints—especially lithographs—promised to record their own development through sequential stages, charting the movement of their maker’s thoughts from state to state. Picasso could work up a design, print it (in a first state), rework it, and print it again (in a second state), repeating the process two or ten or twenty times to chart the metamorphoses of a particular compositional idea. Drawing on the Norton Simon Museum’s holdings of over 700 Picasso prints—among the deepest collections of its kind anywhere in the world—States of Mind traces the evolution of individual compositions from the 1940s and 1950s through multiple states, subtle adjustments, and radical revisions.

This year’s Fair will gather over 40 exhibitors from around the US, Europe, and South Africa showing their latest publications at The Tunnel in New York’s Chelsea. The Fair will take place November 3 – 6 during New York’s Print Week, to coincide with IFPDA’s Print Fair, and dozens of special exhibitions, talks, and workshops throughout the city.

Editions / Artists’ Book Fair (E/AB Fair) has been New York’s premier showcase for the discovery of new and contemporary prints, multiples, and artists’ books. Renowned for its cultivation of an international community of publishers, E/AB Fair provides a platform for their growth in the art market. Each year the Fair presents a thoughtfully curated exhibition of works by hundreds of emerging and established artists and an informative program of artist talks.

Founded in 1998 by Susan Inglett of I.C. Editions, in partnership with Brooke Alexander Editions and Printed Matter, the Fair is now presented by the Lower East Side Printshop, a non-profit organization. E/AB Fair provides free admission in order to introduce broader public to contemporary prints, multiples and artists books.