Resources & Recommendations #27
Monday, 1 December 2025. Newsletter 27.
to listen
British Art Matters: “Dr Esther Chadwick, 2025 Berger Prize Shortlist”
In the third episode of series two of British Art Matters, Dr Christina Faraday meets Dr Esther Chadwick to discuss the radical possibilities of printmaking in response to the political upheaval of eighteenth century Britain. Chadwick was nominated for the prize’s shortlist alongside Cynthia E. Roman and Cristina S. Martinez, Rosemary Hill, Dr Bryony Coombs, Nicholas Olsberg, and the eventual winner, Eleonora Pistis.
to watch
The Morgan Library & Museum: “Through Lines: Approaching Early German Drawings”, Stephanie Buck
In the 2024 Thaw Lecture, Stephanie Buck, Director of the Kupferstich-Kabinett at the Dresden State Art Collections, and the Drawing Institute’s 2024 Thaw Senior Fellow, explored the interstices of some of the Morgan’s finest early German drawings, among them Dürer’s enigmatic Abduction on Horseback and the Head of an Elderly Man attributed to Sebald Beham. Buck argued, the scarcity of written sources from the period requires us to focus on the process of making through close looking, including technical examination. She considered the relationship between drawing and printmaking, noting how this leads to a more nuanced understanding of the intrinsic artistic meaning and function of drawings, which may change over time. More broadly, the lecture considered questions of how drawings were used in Northern artists’ workshops during the fifteenth- and sixteenth centuries.
to read
In an article penned for the Metropolitan Museum’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, Nicole Myers explores the late-nineteenth-century Symbolist movement—the misunderstood middle child that flourished in the years between its siblings, Impressionism and Cubism. This international avant-garde movement, which embraced spiritual values, mythological subjects, sexuality, and fantastical, often monstrous, creatures, spread from France across Europe and North America during the last two decades of the century, yet it has beguiled viewers and defied definition.
