''Art in Print'' is an international bimonthly art magazine and website devoted to the history and culture of the printed image. Its founding motto, purloined from
Leo Steinberg
Leo Steinberg (July 9, 1920 – March 13, 2011) was a Russian-born American art critic and art historian.
Life
Steinberg was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, the son of Isaac Nachman Steinberg, a Jewish lawyer and Socialist Revolutionary Party poli ...
, is “without prints you don’t understand the culture of the world,”
Magazine and website
The ''Art in Print'' journal is published six times a year and covers the full range of printed art, historically and geographically, through articles, reviews and news reporting. It is distributed in both ink-on-paper and electronic formats; up to one-third of the content can be accessed on the website without a subscription. The website also includes an open-access calendar to print exhibitions, auctions, fairs, and competitions around the world; a comprehensive listing of research resources for artists, scholars and collectors; and a global directory of printshops, publishers and dealers. Art in Print also publishes a biweekly newsletter of new publications, exhibitions, competitions and other events.
The ''Art in Print'' Prix de Print is a competition run in every issue, in which an outside juror selects one of the entered works as the subject of a brief essay. While some winners have had substantial international reputations, others have been artists without any gallery representation. Jurors are drawn from an international pool of artists, curators and critics, and past winners have included Annu Vertanen,
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Isca Greenfield-Sanders (born 1978) is an American landscape painter based in New York City.
Early life
Greenfield-Sanders was born in New York City to lawyer, Karin and photographer, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. She grew up in New York City's E ...
and Victoria Burge.
In January 2015 the journal published the first work in a new commissioning program, Art in ''Art in Print'', which invites an artist to design a work specifically for inclusion in the magazine. ''Scherenschnitt'' by
Richard Tuttle
Richard Dean Tuttle (born July 12, 1941) is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, casual, subtle, intimate works. His art makes use of scale and line. His works span a range of formats, from sculpture, painting, drawing, printma ...
is a two-sided print meant to be cut out from the page and considered as an extension of the artist's earlier etching installation ''Deep in the Snow'' (2015).
Since 2013, the website has also hosted Sarah Kirk Hanley's INK Blog, formerly part of
Art:21.
Content
The journal publishes substantial articles; interviews with artists, curators and printers; and reviews of exhibitions, books and recent artists' editions. Subjects covered range from 17th century lift-the-flap anatomy engravings (Suzanne Karr Schmidt) to the impact of the Xerox machine on the aesthetics of punk (David Ensminger). Publications have included substantial monographs on the print work of contemporary artists such as
Enrique Chagoya
Enrique Chagoya (born 1953) is a Mexican-born American painter, printmaker, and educator. The subject of his artwork is the changing nature of culture. Chagoya teaches at Stanford University, in the department of Art and Art History. He lives i ...
and
Tauba Auerbach
Tauba Auerbach (born 1981 in San Francisco, California) is a visual artist working in many disciplines including painting, artists' books, sculpture and weaving. They live and work in New York.
Early life and education
Auerbach grew up in San Fra ...
; interviews with
Christiane Baumgartner
Christiane Baumgartner (born 1967 in Leipzig) is a German artist best known for her woodcut printmaking.
Life and work
Baumgartner studied at the Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, from 1988 to 1994 before completing her Masters in Pri ...
and
Wangechi Mutu
Wangechi Mutu (born 1972) is a Kenyan-born American visual artist, known primarily for her painting, sculpture, film, and performance work.[Stanley William Hayter
Stanley William Hayter (27 December 1901 – 4 May 1988) was an English painter and printmaker associated in the 1930s with surrealism and from 1940 onward with abstract expressionism. Regarded as one of the most significant printmakers of th ...](_ ...<br></span></div>; and the first English language publications on a group of mysterious French boxes lined with woodcuts (coffrets à estampe). Some issues contain a number of articles clustered around a single topic: September–October 2012 focused on the legacy of <div class=)
; July–August 2014 examined
screenprint
Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil. A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen to fill the open mesh a ...
and the tension between art and design; January–February 2015 was billed as a topographic tour of Arcadia, from the 15th to the 21st century. Regular contributors to the journal include Catherine Bindman,
Paul Coldwell, Faye Hirsch, Laurie Hurwitz,
Andrew Raftery
Andrew Stein Raftery (born May 22, 1962, in Goldsboro, North Carolina) is an American artist and educator, known for his paintings, burin engravings, and drawings on fictional and autobiographical narratives of contemporary American life.
Biog ...
,
Gill (Gillian) Saunders, and
Amelia Ishmael.
History
''Art in Print'' was established following the 2009 closure of the previous American journal focused on prints,
Art on Paper. Initially PDF-only, ''Art in Print'' added a printed magazine in early 2012.
A not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, ''Art in Print'' has received funding from the
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federa ...
, the Dedalus Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Malka Fund, and many others.
About Art in Print
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Bimonthly magazines published in the United States
Contemporary art magazines
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Magazines established in 2011
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Visual arts magazines published in the United States