CUTTING PLATES,CUTTING EDGE: A CALL FORAMUSEUM OF WORKSON PAPER

IN MARCH THIS YEAR MANHATTAN’S PIER 36 HOSTED the third iteration of the Art on Paper art fair. It has become one of New York’s most anticipated art events, attracting galleries and viewers from around the globe. At the same time the city’s New Museum hosted a massive survey of the works of Raymond Pettibon, whose oeuvre is dominated by a proliferation of drawings and lithographs.

Lithographs, etchings and silkscreens have a remarkable history in the arts. It is believed that the first silkscreens hark back to China’s Song Dynasty (960-1279AD). Andy Warhol essentially built his empire on the back of a squeegee