Andrea Modica, a photographer who works in the long-term documentary tradition, is known for her portrayals of people who comprise groups. First with Treadwelll for which she chronicled the daily life of a girl named Barbara and her family in the eponymous Upstate New York farming town between 1986 and 2001; later with Minor League, for which she photographed the New York Yankees' bush … Read the full Story >>
In 1936 a group of young, idealistic photographers, formed an organization in Manhattan called the Photo League. Their solidarity centered on a belief in the expressive power of the documentary photograph and on a progressive alliance in the 1930s of socialist ideas and art. Many of the original members of the League were first-generation Americans in their early teens and twenties, the children of … Read the full Story >>
The Herb Lubalin Study Center at The Cooper Union is a comprehensive yet tiny museum of graphic design, one of the few in the world dedicated to communication arts, and available to designers, writers and researchers by appointment. The current exhibition highlights the Center’s unparalleled collection of more than 50,000 pieces of design ephemera to tell the story of its exhibitions, publications, talks and most importantly, its … Read the full Story >>
Yesterday BMW Guggenheim Lab launched a new round of public programs in its hi-tech pavilion on Houston Street that address the theme, Confronting Comfort. A series of films, workshops, talks and tours explore how urban environments can be made more responsive to people’s needs, how a balance can be found between notions of individual versus collective comfort, and how the urgent need for … Read the full Story >>
The nude body, one of the subjects photographers have celebrated since the camera was invented, is presented in its many guises at an exhibition that opened last week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While the body has been a central feature in art through the ages, the realism of photography could not help but capitalize on its erotic possibilities—and the show gracefully presents … Read the full Story >>
Books, by their physical nature, tend to be collaborations in terms of their design and production. Tomorrow evening, The Center for Book Arts opens a new exhibition called Artist as Publisher. It examines independent art publications produced by contemporary artists and collaboratives and includes work by more than 60 artists. The show's raw energy comes from the artists' guerilla approach of using publications … Read the full Story >>
Opening Thursday at Boston University’s Photographic Resource Center is Exposure 2012, the annual juried exhibition, selected this year by Alison Nordstrom, Director of Exhibitions at George Eastman House. Nordstrom writes, “We need look no further [than these selections] to affirm that photography is alive and well, more diverse than ever in medium, approach….The overall quality of the work is high and the artists understand how … Read the full Story >>
The 2015 Summer Invitational: Pimp Your Sketchbooks, continues with Ken Carbone, who lives and works in New York City. While working on the signage for the I.M Pei expansion at the Louvre in the late 1980’s, I was shown some of Paul Gauguin’s sketchbooks, in the museum’s collection. They contained drawings, personal letters, collages, paintings and were visually spectacular. From that experience, I was inspired to … Read the full Story >>
Luc Tuymans, Me, 2011; talk at The Morgan Library & Museum Thursday Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Wednesday, January 22 Xiao Quan | In China When It all Began; moderator: Michael Halsband, 6:30 pm. China Institute in America, 40 Rector Street, NY, NY Info January Town Hall | Photograph, with Arian Allensworth and Jehan Jillani, 6:30 pm. Asian American … Read the full Story >>
DART’s “Pimp Your Bookcases” continues with Michael Lorenzini, a photo archivist / curator / author / photographer / educator who has been surrounded by photo books his entire professional life. Peggy Roalf: When did you realize that books were a drug of choice? Michael Lorenzini: Not sure, I was always collecting things, and I had an aunt who worked in publishing in New … Read the full Story >>
Photo L.A.: January 16-19. The 23rd Annual International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition. L.A. Mar, 1933 Broadway, Los Angeles, CA. Information. L.A. Art Show January 15-19. Historic, Modern and Contemporary Art. L.A. Convention Center/South Hall J and K. 1201 S Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA. Information. Directions. London Art Fair January 15-19. Modern British and Contemporary Art. Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, London, UK.Information. Tuesday, … Read the full Story >>
Thomas Woodruff - a fine artist, an illustrator and the chairman of the undergraduate illustration department at the School of Visual Arts - is one of those men you don't forget. Not only because of his tattooed arms and colorful attire, but mostly because of his words, which still echo in my head from my student days at SVA. Tom's new solo exhibition, The … Read the full Story >>
Culture wars have become a part of thoughtful discourse today, unlike the bloody battlefields that characterized the 1970s in America, when this form of argument first arose. At that time, artists and academics were re-defining the production and meaning of art on parallel with the redefinition of identity in terms of race, ethnicity and gender. Ethnic groups shaped separate combat zones that promoted the … Read the full Story >>
In two weeks, August 15, 2018 will mark the 49thanniversary of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair—advertised as “three days of peace and music.” For $18, and hours spent in epic traffic jams on roads leading to Bethel, New York, 400,000 and more people gathered on the fields of Max Yasgur’s farm to listen to the best rock music of the era. Jimi … Read the full Story >>
Duane Michels | Empty New York continues through May 31 at DC Moore Gallery. 535 West 22nd Street, NY, NY. It was a fortuitous event for me [to discover the work of Eugene Atget in a book]. I became so enchanted by the intimacy of the rooms and streets and people he photographed that I found myself looking at twentieth –century New York in the early morning through his … Read the full Story >>
According to the wall text in the exhibition R. Crumb: Lines Drawn on Paper, at Society of Illustrators, Robert Crumb’s mother told him that reading comic books would addle his brain, or words to that effect. He might have taken this as a metaphor for life; after drawing his way through and out of childhood, through and beyond a job creating cute cards … Read the full Story >>
A rare art book produced in 1927 by Italian Futurist Fortunato Depero, which many scholars regard as a key work in the field of artist books is expected to be reprinted as a nearly exact facsimile. Depero Futurista (Depero the Futurist), a key work in the history of books as art objects, is a monograph of the artist's works in painting, graphic … Read the full Story >>
The 25th Anniversary issue of Hasselblad House Magazine, Volume 3, 1974, features an article by Ostend B. Wejerfelt (below) about bringing the Hasselblad to market in New York City. The official product launch took place on October 6, 1948, with Victor Hasselblad and the head of Willoughby’s presenting the model 500C to members of the press at the New York Athletic Club. After the introduction of … Read the full Story >>
The seemingly casual views of ordinary structures and almost featureless landscapes that comprise the photographic work of William Christenberry are anything but offhand. Paging through two books published by Aperture almost 25 years apart (Southern Photographs 1983) and William Christenberry (2006) offers an almost clairvoyant view of how this artist has approached his life-long subject: the landscape and the vernacular structures and signs … Read the full Story >>
The legacy of Keith Haring, one of the most celebrated New York artists of the 1970s and ‘80s, is being marked by a major art event to honor the 50th anniversary of his birth. Art dealer Jeffrey Deitch, who represents the artist's estate, together with the Keith Haring Foundation, hired a team of artists to recreate a mural that briefly flagged the … Read the full Story >>
