Balmy weather brought art lovers out in droves last night, with men in shirtsleeves and women in dresses and bare legs. Here's a view of the scene and picks from this week's DART List, in geographical order. Photos: Peggy Roalf. Minor Cropping May Occur: Photographs by Keizo Kitajima, JH Engstrom, Nick Wapplington, Mike Brodie, and Takashi Homma, among others. Lombard Freid Projects, new … Read the full Story >>
For two weeks this summer, the Museu Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, Spain, again plays host to Illustratour. This total-immersion experience for illustrators offers seminars, workshops, portfolio reviews, one-on-one talks with established illustrators, together with exhibitions, contests and more. The program for the first week alone includes seminars and workshops led by Serge Bloch, Alex Mather, Rotraut Susanne Berner, Max, and Katsumi Komagata. Workshops delve into professional development as much as exploring artistic concerns. … Read the full Story >>
Where in 2011 Am I? Identify two of the nine events/exhibitions pictured below, and get into the lottery to win a copy of American Illustration 30 or American Photography 27. The deadline is extended to midnight tonight, Tuesday, January 3, 2012. All you have to do is Like DART on Facebook (near top of right column on this page) and include the following … Read the full Story >>
Lockdown started almost one year ago and that we are still isolated and in a strange space is difficult. I am however, feeling positive with the vaccines coming online and the new Presidency…. This is good news! I have also felt very thankful to have been able to continue the work I do for the United Nations from home; it keeps me busy and … Read the full Story >>
Tuesday, April 16 The D-Crit Lecture Series presents, 6:30 pm: Kurt Anderson | Why Spy? MFA Design Criticism Department, School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21 Street, 2nd Floor, NY, NY. Free, registration required. Wednesday, April 17 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Sage Sohier | About Face and Donald Weber | Interrogations. Foley Gallery, 97 Allan Street, NY, NY. Artist talk, 5-6 pm: Fanny Sanin in conversation … Read the full Story >>
Soon to hit your inbox are features on Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera at the Brooklyn Museum; Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time at the Whitney, as well as information about artist talks (including Lynda Barry and Maira Kalman at the 92nd Street Y, and Publish your Photography Book with Mary Virginia Swanson and Darius Himes at the New York Public Library), not … Read the full Story >>
DART Partners with the Arts at Museum of the City of New YorkThursday, April 19 at 6:30 pm Nature and the Design of the Grid Two key factors set the stage for the Commissioners' Plan of 1811: the explosive growth of the city and the conviction that New York was destined for greatness. While the grid has performed admirably within the context of … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Connecticut, you live in Sunnyside, Queens now; what are some of your favorite things about living and working there? A: I like the access to everything, although sometimes when something's at your footsteps it can be easy to take it for granted. How and when did you first become interested in art and illustration? I always made things. I originally went to school … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from [where?] what are some of your favorite things about living and working in [your current locale]? A: I’m originally from the suburbs of Chicago, moved to New York in 2010 to study illustration at Pratt Institute, and haven’t left. Now I work out of a studio in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. My favorite thing about New York is the people. I have … Read the full Story >>
The other day I was recording general ambience for my sound library, sitting back and listening to the totality of the jungle when there was either a huge monkey fight—or else the troupe had spotted a python, puma, or another predator. I got about ten minutes of the most hellacious stuff imaginable—all set to the background polyrhythmic percussion of insects. [Listen] For primal, … Read the full Story >>
For ages Mexicans have been the butt of jokes for their purported "Manana -- I'll get to it tomorrow" attitude. Synonymous with slow service, drawn out lunches and siestas, they're said to live their lives at a snail's pace. For a Manhattanite like myself, our move to Mexico was a potential threat - might I be forced to reduce my usual comet-like speed to … Read the full Story >>
Celebrating the Bounty of Life on this Earth Happy Thanksgiving from PeggyDART: Design Arts Daily Above: Nellie Mae Rowe, “Untitled (Nellie and Judith’s Houses),” 1978–82. Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; courtesy of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta This art is featured in the current exhibitionReally Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe continuing … Read the full Story >>
Feature | Richard Learoyd: Curious The work of British photographer Richard Learoyd first became known here through a 2009 exhibition at McKee Gallery. His unique Cibachrome prints, mainly portraits, nudes and still lifes, made with a room-size camera obscura fitted with an antique landscape lens, designed to be focused on infinite distance, tested the limits of photography to describe surface detail. When used … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond Tuesday, September 19 Andrew Durgin’s MacArthur Park, book launch, 6-8pm. Petzel Gallery, 456 West 18th Street, NY, NY Info Conversations in Contemporary Poetics: Elaine Kahn and Fred Moten, 7 pm. Hauser & Wirth, 548 West 22nd Street, NY, NY Info Eugene Richards, Sam Stephenson in conversation of Art and Journalism | Past and Present, … Read the full Story >>
The oncoming new year offers—besides champagne and fireworks—a chance to reflect on the last 364 days and, if possible, consider how we might, as a human race, make the world a better place. Not that this is in our power. After all, we’re merely human. An on-air pundit recently had the effrontery to speak truth to power when he stated that politics today [unlike in earlier times, … Read the full Story >>
Preview Thursday, April 4-Sunday, April 7; Opening preview: April 3 AIPAD: The Photography Show, at Pier 94 in New York City. Celebrating its 39th edition, the Show will feature more than 90 of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries, over 30 book dealers and publishers, 12 AIPAD Talks, a special exhibition curated by Alec Soth, and more. Presented by AIPAD (the Association of … Read the full Story >>
WHERE IN NEW YORK AM I? CORRECTLY IDENTIFY my EXACT location in New York City and get into the drawing for the Holiday AI-AP DART Book Prize! HINT: The more information you include, the better your chance of landing in the hopper for the drawing! THICK HINT: This scene unfolded in Manhattan!! I wouldn't lie.... CONTEST RULES:Use this subject … Read the full Story >>
Tuesday’s DART Board introduced the next rush of art and photography fairs—with an unfortunate omission on my part. L.A. gallerist, long time subscriber and daily reader of DART, Paul Kopeikin, came to the rescue. Here is what he wrote: Dear Peggy, Since you didn't mentioned it [in this week’s DART Board] I assume you haven’t heard of Classic Photographs LA but one can’t mention Photo la … Read the full Story >>
The Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life opened today at the International Center of Photography. Curated by Okwui Enwezor with Rory Bester, the exhibition examines the aesthetic power of the documentary form—from the photo essay to reportage, social documentary to photojournalism and art—in recording, analyzing, articulating, and confronting the legacy of apartheid and its effect on everyday life in South Africa. … Read the full Story >>
Melanie Reim, New York based illustrator and DART subscriber, has been documenting the fallout of the 2016 presidential election and posting to her blog since November 9th. Covering the protests, from Washington Square, November 14th, to the Women’s March on Washington, January 22, she captures the urgency in the voices of the hundreds of thousands of people who say, “Not My President.” Monday is … Read the full Story >>
