February 2026
Trois Crayons Magazine, February 2026
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‘Every time you put a mark on a painting and you can’t take it off, you are running the risk of destroying the painting,’ says artist Glenn Brown. ‘But that’s what makes it exciting to paint.’ In the sixth episode of the Frieze Masters Podcast 2025, British artist Glenn Brown – who has pioneered the use of visual appropriation in his work – and curator Arturo Galansino discuss the jeopardy and excitement of mark-making, and what it means to collect, display and distort the work of old masters.
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What can Turner's sketchbooks tell us? | New discoveries from the Turner cataloguing project
‘250 years since the birth of J.M.W. Turner, this film marks the end of decades-long cataloguing project that has transformed how we see one of Britain’s greatest artists. Commissioned by the PMC in collaboration with Tate, the film documents the final phase of cataloguing Turner’s 37,000 drawings, sketchbooks, and watercolours.
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In March 2021, the Women of the Rijksmuseum Project was launched with the aims to redress the gender balance in the collection and recognise the role of women in art and history. The project has supported exhibitions, publications and acquisitions, organised symposia, and enriched object labels with new perspectives. On the project’s fifth anniversary, Hanna Klarenbeek, curator at Het Loo Palace, interviewed Jenny Reynaerts, chair of the project until her retirement in March 2025, together with Marion Anker and Laurien van der Werff – who succeeded her as co-chairs.
