The DART Board: 10.16.2024
October 18-20: Open House New York
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Open House New York 2024 is an annual weekend-long, free event during which historic buildings, architectural masterpieces, landmarks and top New York attractions welcome the public to expl0re more deeply. This weekend, OHNY celebrates 22 years of "unlocking" the city. Above: EverGreene Architectural Arts, the largest specialty contractor in the nation specializing in historic restoration and conservation and decorative interior finishes, opens its doors. Peek inside everything from single rooms and studios to factories and public spaces to entire buildings, blocks, bike corridors and parks. Curious New Yorkers and those who want to connect to the city on a new level will love Open House New York. With this annual event, hundreds of normally off-limits sites and attractions in all five boroughs invite the public to get a closer look. All listed sites and events can be found on the Open House New York website Find out more at Hyperallergic Friday-Sunday, October 19-20: Sunset Park Open Studios |
October 17, 6-8pm, book launch: Lucinda Rogers | New York Winter at Dashwood
New York Winter 1988 by Lucinda Rogers is part of an ongoing series of books on drawing and photography published by Dashwood in the form of paperback novellas. New York Winter reproduces page-by-page the sketchbook of her first inspiring trip to New York in 1988. “I took my first plane to the USA as an art student in Edinburgh, landing in New York on a dark November evening,” Rogers said. “Everything looked familiar, yet this was a foreign country. The sky was bright blue above the brownstones, the taxis were yellow, it was freezing and I was ecstatic. I was compelled to start drawing: it was the start of a long-running obsession with drawing New York from life and I’ll always look back fondly at this little sketchbook as a kind of blueprint for the work I went on to do.”
Rogers works from life in the tradition of the artist as reporter, with a focus on cities including London, where she lives. She immerses herself in a place and records straight from eye to paper, which gives her drawings a particular spontaneity. Alongside her own work she has had a prolific illustration career working for press and publishing clients, including The New York Times and the Financial Times, often being sent out to draw on location.
Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, New York, NY Info
October 19, 4-5 pm: Closing reception, Ruth Marten | All About Eve at Argosy
Join noted illustrator and longtime DART subscriber Ruth Marten for the closing reception of her exhibition, All About Eve, at the Argosy Bookstore Gallery. Marten first came to attention back in the early seventies, as one of only a few female tattoo artists and as a pioneer of underground art. More about Ruth in this New Yorker feature. The evening will also feature a reading by poet Max Blagg.
Argosy Bookstore, 116 East 59th Street, FL 2, New York, NY Info
Sunday, October 20, 2-3pm: Stephanie Beck | Bough, artist talk at Wave Hill
Exhibiting artist Stephanie Beck and Curator of Visual Arts Rachel Raphaela Gugelberger discuss Beck’s site-specific installation Bough and art’s role in shifting our relationship to the non-human world. Bough opens Oct 19, featuring a series of abstract sculptural “drawings” and the songs of regional migratory birds. Stephanie Beck is a Queens-based artist who creates minimalist sculptures in wood and in paper that explore architecture and the figure, the geometric and the organic.
Wave Hill, 4900 Independence Avenue, Bronx, NY Info
Tuesday, October 22, 6-7pm: Jane Rosenberg, Courtroom artist at the League
League artist Jane Rosenberg will be interviewed by New Yorker cartoonist Guy Richards Smit on the occasion of her recent publication, Drawn Testimony (Harper Collins 2024). She will share an in-depth look at her career as a courtroom sketch artist documenting some of America’s most famous faces before the bench, including John Gotti, Woody Allen, Martha Stewart, and most recently, Donald Trump. Above: Ghislaine Maxwell, seated second from right, was convicted of sex trafficking in 2021 after a monthlong trial in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Free with Registration
Art Students League, 215 West 57th Street, New York, NY Info
Tuesday, October 22, 6-8 pm: Artists talk | Seeing Sound at Pratt Manhattan
In conjunction with the exhibition Seeing Sound, currently on view at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, this program features a conversation with exhibition curator Barbara London and internationally-acclaimed artists Marina Rosenfeld and Blake Marques Carrington. They will discuss the opportunities and challenges afforded by sound-based art, how new tools and working methods have impacted both artistic and curatorial practice, and what it means to work with art that is in a perpetual state of flux.
Sound, says London, is in a perpetual state of flux and resists classification, making it an apt medium for a contemporary culture interested in confronting the status quo and addressing the world beyond binary structures. The artists in Seeing Sound use the medium’s qualities to address climate change, the death of analog technology, power structures within music, and feminism. RSVP for the conversation here
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 144 West 14th Street, New York, NY Info