Martin Puryear, a distinctly iconoclastic sculptor whose immersion in the craft ethic is entwined in his work, has brought a major work to Madison Square Park and the neighborhood. With Big Bling, a wood and chain link fencing piece that towers 40 feet over the green space, the artist offers a gift of zen-like precision combined with wit and whimsy. The tall, slender piece, vaguely … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: My first impression of your current exhibition, Cloud Architecture, seen from the entrance of Planthouse Gallery, was: This is so much like what you did at Wave Hill, back in 2012. You had done drawings of dead bumble bees, all on small sheets of paper, pinned to the wall in a grid. I remember asking why dead bees interested you as … Read the full Story >>
Last Thursday I reported on proceedings at the opening day in the Daniel Morel vs. Agence France Presse (AFP)/Getty Images trial, which continues in the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse at Foley Square. This is the penalty phase in the copyright infringement case brought against the two media giants by Danial Morel, a photojournalist who was on the ground during the Haiti earthquake of 2010, and who was one of … Read the full Story >>
Giant Robot, which has become something of a Japanese-pop-culture-art-reading-shopping-and-eating empire since the first issue of the magazine came out in 1994, celebrates its 50th issue this month. And an exhibition of art by regular contributors opens at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo, this weekend. The show features art by Adrian Tomine, Souther Salazar, Saelee Oh, Sashie Masakatsu, … Read the full Story >>
Hip Hop was born in the Bronx fifty years ago, when two teens threw a back-to-school party in an apartment on Sedgwick Avenue. Everybody danced to the music of James Brown, Aretha Franklin, and The Meters, but something was new: Behind two turntables, the brother Clive, better known as DJ Kool Herc, played two copies of the same record, a technique known as … Read the full Story >>
Peter Hujar was a leading figure of the downtown New York scene of the 1970s and ’80s. He is most well-known for his portraits of New York City’s artists, musicians, writers, and performers, featuring personalities such as Susan Sontag, William S. Burroughs, Fran Lebowitz, David Wojnarowicz, Andy Warhol, Candy Darling, and Ethyl Eachelberger who populated the large gay-disco-drag performance-cruising underground life that has since … Read the full Story >>
Detail from a version of Sebastian Münster’s sea monster chart (1544 and after), composed from copies of the vignettes found in Olaus Magnus’s Carta Marina from 5 years earlier [below]. Everyone occasionally runs out of ideas, needs inspiration, or simply gets bogged down. Perhaps this is why we surf? One of the most intriguing newsletters that regularly hits my inbox is the Public Domain Review. Launched in 2011 by founders Jonathan Gray … Read the full Story >>
Books / Talks / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, September 27 Fran Lebovitz in conversation with Martin Scorsese, 7 pm. New Museum, 235 Bowery, NY, NY Info Gail Albert Halaban, 7 pm. SVA, 136 West 21st Street, NY, NY Info Andrea Bowers on Martha Rosler, 6:30 pm. Dia: Chelsea, 535 West 22nd Street, NY, NY Info Artist talk: Joseph Sywenkyi, 6:30 pm. Aperture Foundation, … Read the full Story >>
New from Daylight is Permanent Drift, a collection of black-and-white photographs by John Waller based on random explorations of his Philadelphia neighborhood when he was new to the city. Luminously caught in black and white, seemingly at the magic hours of late afternoon to evening, the images, as a sequence, convey the photographer’s experience of discovery and meaning in a rapidly changing … Read the full Story >>
Q: What are some of your favorite things about living and working in the Golden State? A: Originally from Texas, I now live in Northern California. Our horses graze below my deck while I drink my morning coffee. I'm not sure how I ended up with horses, but a few of them have ended up in my paintings. Q: Do you keep a … Read the full Story >>
“The Soul of Nature,” the Met’s retrospective of nearly 40 of Friedrich’s paintings and more than 30 of his drawings and watercolors, marks the 250th year since the artist’s birth in 1774. While only five paintings among Friedrich’s enormous output has made their way into US museums, his influence has been huge—in fact, his work was the inspiration for Disney’s Fantasia, as … Read the full Story >>
January 12, 6-8pm: CUT at Foley Gallery’s grand reopening CUT, an exhibition featuring new work by Bradley Castellanos, Keith Maddy, and Billy Renkl, continues to explore and deepen the gallery's interest in cut, painted, and manipulated paper, which began with a window installation of work by Mia Perlman back in 2015. Bradley Castellanos' work captures the feeling of coming upon the mysterious and … Read the full Story >>
From woodcut handbills to Xeroxed ‘zines to Risographed comics art to Espresso POD books, DIY multiples are a constant in the ebb and flow of art trends—and usually carry the desirable stain of subversion. Currently on view at the Whitney, Experiments in Electrostatics: Photocopy Art explores the use of the photocopier as a creative tool, from its public emergence in the 1960s to the … Read the full Story >>
Geoff Hargadon, Cash for Your Warhol, installed last week on Boston’s Fan Pier in honor of the would-be 84th birthday of Andy Warhol. Read Adam Reed Rozan’s interview with Hargadon. Photo: courtesy Gallery Kayafas. Tuesday, August 14, 2012 Debate, 7-9 pm: Planning for Olympic Cities | with Noah Chasin, Ellen Dunham-Jones, Gary Hustwit, Jon Pack and Grace Tang. Storefront for Art & Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Colleen Blackard | Shifting … Read the full Story >>
WHEN AMY ARBUS RELUCTANTLY PICKED UP A CAMERA and went "into the family business," she knew that she was meant to be a photographer. And that she would inevitably be compared to her mother, the legendary Diane Arbus. She nevertheless forged ahead, took a job assisting New York photographer Jean Pagliuso, and got her first break when the Village Voice began publishing her monthly … Read the full Story >>
Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s, opening today at the Whitney Museum of American Art, features works by nearly forty artists, including Carlos Alfonzo, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ross Bleckner, Peter Cain, Louisa Chase, Robert Colescott, Moira Dryer, Eric Fischl, Leon Golub, Keith Haring, Sherrie Levine, Joyce Pensato, Susan Rothenberg, David Salle, Kenny Scharf, Julian Schnabel, Julia Wachtel, Terry Winters, Martin Wong, among others. Often through … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, July 31, 18 ISCP Open House, 6-9 pm. Performances: 6pm and 7:30 pm. Open studios: 7-9pm, with 35 artists and curators from 24 countries in residence. International Studio & Curatorial Program [ISCP], 1040 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Info [Williamsburg/Bushwick] Wednesday, August 1 Panorama Punjab, screenings 11am-6:30 pm. Panel, 7 pm. WhiteBox, 329 Broome Street, … Read the full Story >>
The Met’s exhibition, Van Gogh Cypresses, which closes on Sunday, offers a wanted correction to the pop-culture furor generated by the various light and magic shows about Vincent that emerged during the COVID miasma. The artist’s cult status was already in place, given his outsider status, tormented soul, and death by suicide at 37. And for many, the one painting that most fully … Read the full Story >>
Lynda Barry, known and loved for her zany irreverence and imagination, brought the graphic literature genre onto new terrain with her invention, the graphic memoir. In the first iteration, Picture This: The Nearsighted Monkey Book (Drawn & Quarterly), she brings back Marlys and Arna, characters from her previous book, What It Is, and introduces the Near-Sighted Monkey, a cigarette-smoking alter ego from Hell. … Read the full Story >>
For professional shoppers, the New York International Gift Fair (NYIGF), which ran last week, is one of the most amazing places to visit. It hosts nearly 3,000 exhibitors from across the globe, with thousands of products that are vetted for quality and style. While the sheer volume of objects may seem formidable, it is organized into categories that make cruising the aisles a delight … Read the full Story >>
