Current and Upcoming Exhibitions and other Events

• 1 - Verhalenhuis Belvédère Rotterdam (including Depot Museum Boijmans-Van Beuningen) - “Daar zit Muziek in! Luister(erfgoed) Expositie of Rotterdam; oral history research exhibition about 400 years Jewish cultural heritage in the current city” (image; curators: Kèrèn Na’ama Vromen and Áron Lendvai); the exhibition includes archival materials on the Hakkert Music and String Companies (Bert's maternal grandfather). Wednesday, June 26, 2024 - extended into 2025, daily 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, but check website.
• 2 - Het Gele Huis, Breda, The Netherlands - “Etsnaald, Potlood & Penseel; Bert Menco” (Dutch; image, invited by Lidy Meier). Saturday, May 3 - Sunday, June 1, 2025, Fridays and Sundays, 2:00 - 5:00 PM, Saturdays, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Reception with talks by TU Eindhoven Prof. Dr. Patricia Dankers and author Ir. Erik van der Hoeven, Saturday, May 3, 2024, from 3:00 PM on; talk on his works by the artist “Achter- en Voorgronden van en in Bert Menco’s Werk", Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 7:30 PM.
• 3 - Het Weefhuis, Zaandijk, The Netherlands - “Zaans Grafisch Collectief - 20 Years" (image under name on page), Saturday, June 28 -Sunday, June 29, 2025, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM.
• 4 - Kruisruimte, Eindhoven, The Netherlands - “IPMAP 2025 - Verbinden (Connecting) (Grafein)" (image), Thursday, July 17 - Sunday, July 20 & Thursday, July 24 - Sunday, July 27, 2025, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM; opening Saturday, July 19, 2025, 3:00 PM.
• 5 - “Absence and Presence: A Printmaking Response to the Bombing of al-Mutanabbi Street” (invited by Denise Brady &, Paula Wallace after an initiative by Beau Beausoleil (video), my iimage; one set inccluded in the Baghdad Public Library, Baghdad, Iraq).

Virtual “Left-Over” Exhibitions

• 1 - Chicago Printmakers' Collaborative (CPC) - “30 artists/30 years show” (invited by Deborah Mares-Lader, image).
• 2 - Cluj Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca, Romania - “Holocaust” (curated by Ovidiu Petca, 20 artists, my works in catalogue and article/video).
• 3 - Stichting Grafein, Purmerend, The Netherlands - “See Things in Perspective” (also here), International Print Mail Art Project. Online exhibition: image, also here.
• 4 - Pentacrest Museums - “Shadow and Light: Honoring Iraqi Academics” in my case Dr. Raad Shlash, Old Capitol Museum's Hanson Gallery, Iowa City, IA (curated by poet Beau Beausoleil, image and podcast).
• 5 - China Printmaking Museum - “Vision of Interaction:  International Contemporary Printmaking Ecosystem” and 1, my work (also image) curator Zhao Jiachun, sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism), Guanlan, Shenzhen, China.

Representation

• Rosenthal Fine Art - representing Michael Greany Fine Art, Chicago, IL, e..g. 1.

Interviews, Blogs and Self-Written Articles

• Art of Chicago - by Stephanie Hayden, with links to many favorite artists.
• Uturn - by Julie Reichert-Marton.
• Happy Faces Chicago-1 - studio visit by Amy Rudberg
• Happy Faces Chicago-2 - CPC, 2009, small print show (Amy Rudberg).
• “Print Art Abroad - Bert Menco, A Small Jewish Friend”, illustrated 2015 article (Chinese) by Zhao Jiachun of the China Guanlan Original Printmaking Base (Shenzhen) (Bert also gave a seminar at the Base).
• Neotericart and New Art Examiner - an extensive review (2015) by Diane Thodos.
• Contemporay Impressions (the Journal of the American Print Alliance) - “A Self Potrait “Inside Out”,  written by invitation, Volume 6, #2   (1998).
• The Boston Printmakers e-newsletter, Summer 2021 - “A Lifes' Journey Through Images”, written by invitation.      

Available Books, Magazines, and Objects

• “Visions and Voices” - 36 images (cover, poster), text: Bernd Lindemann, foreword: Audrey Niffenegger; invoco-verlag, Homburg, Germany, ISBN 978-938165-03-4: $29.97; in German & English, ISBN 978-3-938165-09-6, 2006, € 28.00.
• “Dragon Killer”- 14 illustrations on a text by Bernd Lindemann, invoco-verlag, Homburg, Germany, ISBN 978-3-938165-06-5, $12.77; in German, English & French with two additional illustrators, ISBN 978-3-938165-05-8, 2006, € 16.20.
• “Art Scene Chicago, 2000” - Crow Woods Publishing, Evanston, IL, ISBN 0-9665871-7-0, 2000, $15.00.
• “The Best of Printmaking”, Rockport Publishers, Gloucester, MA, ISBN 12: 9781564963710/ISBN 10: 1564863713, 1997, antiquarian availability, about $10 - $200.

Websites Featuring Bert's Artwork and Art Involvement

• Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3 | Link 4 | Link 5 - Anatomically Correct
• Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3 | Link 4 | Link 5 (exercise 1) | Link 6| Link 7a and 7b  | Link 8 | Link 9 | Link 10 | Link 11 | Link 12 | Link 13 | Link 14 | Link 15 | Link 16 | Link 17a and 17b | Link 18
• Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3 | Link 4 | Link 5 | Link 6 | Link 7 | Link 8 - Chicago Printmakers' Collaborative (CPC
• Pinterest
• Grafein, also 1 and overview 
• Earlier versions of this site
• Northwestern University Web Archives
• Netherlands Institute for Art History
• China Guanlan Original Printmaking Base
• Bienal Douro (Portugal) - featured artist, artist pages and 1 (Global Print), also 2 (under my name)
• Woman Made Gallery (also 1,  2 and 3)
• Printworks Gallery - important former Chicago Gallery (also here)
• Morpho Gallery - Chicago, IL
• Splitgraphic: International Graphic Art Biennial Split (Croatia) - click for high resolution images
• Bert's Facebook Page - also 1,  2 and 3
• Saatchi Gallery
• FineArtAmerica
• Zaans Grafisch Collectief
• Culture Inside - crawled on WaybackMachine
• Exto
• absolutearts
• Columbus Library
• Artworldchicago - Bert's page (also 1)
• Evanston Art Center
• Oxalá Fine Art  
• Heartland Foundation - Art Against AIDS/Art of Human Rights benefits      
• Gravatar logo
• Block Museum, Evanston, IL - “Exquisite Snake”
• The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
• Chicago Artist Archives
• On Exhibit: Bert Menco's Second-Generation Nightmares - Chicago Reader
• Artdaily
• Museum Rotterdam
• Ryerson & Burnham Libraries Art Institute of Chicago
• AJAC
• Jewish Art Now and 1
• Autour de l'Art Juif - pages 175 & 176
• Other Voices - covers issues 31 and 37
• Lowlands - Peter Thompson: film about Johannes Vermeer and his family

Favorite Artists and Galleries Additional to Those Listed in the Stephanie Hayden Interview

• Heather Accurso - delicate surreal drawings
• Montserrat Alsina - spiritual works, also Colibri Studio & Gallery
• Arnhem aan Zee - art(ist)s in and around Arnhem
• Corrado Balest - Venetian arcadian artist
• Susan Barron - visual poetry
• Bohemian art - exhaustive selection
• Michelle Browne - organic prints using fiber
• Deborah Bryan - etchings of birds and more
• Pamela Callahan & John Walté - two fine Wisconsin artists
• Eddie Campbell -  comics and more great comics
• Kass Copeland - imaginative collages
• Jeanine Coupe-Ryding - a wonderful printmaker
• Mieke Cosemans - a Zaan area artist/printmaker
• Sean Culver - intricate cosntructions, Daguerreotypes, etc.
• Greta Cune - Dutch, and beyond
• Susan Curry - very fine porcelain teapots, etc.
• Andrea Deszö - artist books, one of a kind, etc.
• David Driesbach - whimsical intaglio
• Emil Ferris, Michael Ferris, and Eleanor Spiess-Ferris - a family of very talented artists
• Curt Frankenstein - a very special artist and person
• Bill Frederick - masterful drawings; see also 1
• Indira Freitas-Johnson - contemplative meditation
• Galerie Art - fine Czech prints
• Esperanza Gama - Mezo-American
• David Gista - bookish
• Leslie Golomb - the complex technique of photogravure
• Michael Goro - masterful etchings
• Andries Gouws - uncomfortable realism
• Dan Grzeka - cool prints and printmaker links
• Susan Hall - dreams and dreaming
• Richard Halstead - Richard, the “best” for portraits
• Allison Hill - selfs and friends
• Joseph Hirsch - an incredible set of maps
• Tom Huck - wood- and linocuts, rural US
• Yumiko Irei - refined intaglios, nature
• Japanese Ukiyo-e prints - exhaustive
• Akiyama Kanako - great narrative art
• Hashimoto Kansetsu - art and garden
• Karena Karras - surrealism, Mexican tradition

• William Kentridge - more: 1 | 2
• Sohee Kim - very playful and complex prints
• Juul Kraijer - dreams of selfs and alter-ego
• Lyubomir Krastev - uneasy realism, etchings
• Gesina Liedmeier - beautiful woodcarvings, period string instruments, strings and 2-D works
• Misha Livshultz - and his father Chaim
• Guerrino Lovato - amazing masks, Venice
• Amy Madden - drawings
• Danny Mansmith - very creative fiber art
• Craig McPherson - see especially his mezzotints
• Ann Meade - Neill Sanders' (2nd cousin) wife 
• Daniel Menco - Menco's Mix, Bert's nephew
• Emma Menco - Bert's niece: winning photograph
• Ido Menco - Bert's brother's photography
• Joshua Menco - Bert's prize winning film editor nephew
• Barbara (paintings) and Ben Mittman (photographs) - 20th century icons and Paris, among others
• Sonya Montenegro - tender, whimsical
• Jackie Moses - surreal houses and landscapes
• Anne Muller - suspended emotions
• Miriam Nerlove - wonderful watercolor illustrations
• Peter Olson - birds, birds, birds
• Teresa Pankratz - printed bookhouses, also 1
• Karen Perl - Chicago painted in silence
• Sandra Perlow -abstracted biology and landscape
• Chaja Polak - personal and sober narratives
• Marilyn Propp/David Jones - great artist couple
• Paula Rego - surreal fantasies
• Hella Rottenberg - investigative journalist/essayist, Eastern Europe specialty (e.g.,Window on Russia)
• Jay Ryan - silkscreen master
• Lique Schoot - intimate self-portraits
• Don Seiden - animal sculptures
• Peter Sis - picture books full of mystery
• David Small -author/illustrator, e.g., of Stitches
• Diana Solís - inventive, playful
• Sue Sommers - Nature, foremost
• Michelle Stone - sculptural and sculptures
• Jan Svankmajer - the ultimate surrealist
• Blair Thomas - a very inventive puppeteer
• Bruce Thorn - nearly abstract
• Lika Tov - Bible-inspired collagraphs
• Jirí Trnka, “The Hand” - ultimate animation
• Amos van Gelder - painted Hebrew texts and other works
• Mariko Ventura - ascetic ceramics
• Marlaine Verhelst - dolls, puppets...or sculptures?
• Kees Versteeg - a very fine Zaan area artist
• Chris Ware - Chicago's amazing graphic novel author/artist

Other Art Affinities

• Europeana - digitized European art collections
• Codart and Codart Masterpieces - Dutch and Flemish art, worldwide + their 100 master pieces 
• Lukas - art in Flanders
• DBNL - Dutch cultural history and literature
• Dutch Culture, Kunst en Kunstenaar - good Dutch art news
• Kunstschrift, Museumtijdschrift, Vind Magazine - some very good Dutch art magazines, Kunstschrift being the oldest and always covering a single topic
• Dutch Royal Library - exhaustive
• Vereniging Rembrandt -Dutch art collections' fund
• Tefaf, Pan, Art Rotterdam, KunstRai, Affordable Art Fair - important art fairs in The Netherlands
• Museum Depot Shop and Onterfgoed - Dutch deaccessioned art works for sale
• Gary Schwartz - art news from The Netherlands
• Lambiek and Griffioen Grafiek - great Dutch comic-book sites
• Ars Grafiica - European graphic arts organization
• Nederlandse Vereniging voor Grafiek, Grafein, Drukkunst (Dag van de Drukkunst) - three Dutch organizations for the Graphic Arts 
• Zaans Grafisch Collectief - the studio Bert uses in The Netherlands
• Zaans Groen - cool Zaanstad gallery
• Aga Lab - major printmaking studio Amsterdam
• Nobilis Foundation - an important print depository in The Netherlands
• US Galleries, Art Fairs, etc.
• Chicago - see Cultural Center and its Exhibitions
• The Visualist - a comprehensive Chicago visual arts calendar
• Chicago Alliance for Visual Arists (CAVA) - opportunities for Chicago area artists over 50
• Chicago Art District
• Art-Design-Chicago 
• Chicago Gallery News
• Artists of Chicago
• Chicago Artists' Coalition
• New Art Examiner and alternate - Chicago-based art magazinse
• Clef Notes journal - Chicago art magazine
• Gapers Block - Chicago on line art magazine
• Ragdale - a great Chicago,-area artist' residency
• Print Center New York
• Etching - process
• Evanston Print & Paper, Evanston Art Center, North Shore Art League, Lill Street, Spudnik Press, Hoofprint Workshop - Chicagoland printmaking facilities not listed elsewhere on this site
• Artists Book House - book-, paper- and printmaking venue
• Chicago Printer's Guild - a Chicago Printmaker's resource 
• The Drawing Center, New York
• Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Mazza Museum & Rosenbach Library - children books; the third one contains works of  Maurice Sendak
• Arts Action Fund, Arts Alliance Illinois and Lawyers for the Creative Arts- arts' advocacies
• Morgan Library and Museum, New York - among others The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
• Arion Press - very fine hand-made books
• China Printmaking Museum and Printmaking Base - graphic arts village and museum uniquely devoted to the printmaking arts
• Edward Lyons, Charbonnel, Graphic Chemical, Takach, Polymetaal - major printmaking materials' suppliers
• Cave Paper, Paper Connection, Awagami  - printmaking papers
• Triennial Cracow - listing international print shows
• Call for Entry, Art Deadlines List - submission opportunities
• Journal of the Print World, Printmaking Today, Art in Print - magazines specialized in works on paper
• Google Art Project - museums worlwide, high resolution images
• Artdaily, Art Newspaper, Apollo Magazine
• Wikigallery
• E-Art Now, One Arty Minute - more art news
• Artcritical - insightful art reviews (e.g., by Diane Thodos)
• Art schools - a resource
• Culture Crime News (large database), and Art Loss
• Resartis, Alliance of Artists Communities, Rate my Artist Resicdency - artist residency resources
• Holocaust Stolen Art List & Lost/stolen art Germany and The Netherlands
• Art scams and about stopping these
• YIVO Archives - Jewish life and culture
• Jewish Art Salon - international Jewish artists
• Art Conservation Issues
• Saving Antiquities for Everyone (SAFE)
• Icoonic House & Artists Studios, Dezeen - architecture, etc.
• Oriental Architecture 
• Brut Museum - Lausanne, Switzerland
• Museum of the Jewish People
• Savitsky Collection - Karakalpak Museum, Nukus, Uzbekistan
• Doll and Puppet Art, Puppet Theaters
• Poses -helpful drawing/painting site
• The Rembrandt tutorials - learning from the master in his (simulated) voice
• Philobiblon, Colossal - quaint arts sites
• Nobody Here - site as art; fun to explore