Greetings from the jungle of screaming monkeys, love struck cicadas and well-camouflaged snakes. It’s great to be back on the Osa Peninsula, working again with leafcutter ants, my vegetarian collaborators in this eat-and-be-eaten habitat. Ok, they have scissors for faces, but they don’t bite, sting, or spray formic acid like other ants do. Beware, though, if they judge you illegally parked on their superhighway, they’ll … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, July 13, 6-8 pm: Power Tools at Candace Madey Power Tools, an exhibition of artists who reference tools in their work, and by extension, explore a history of objects and their symbolic and practical importance for individual and collective agency. The exhibition further considers our dissociated relationship to tools and a consumer culture that has largely relinquished the skills required to make, repair, … Read the full Story >>
What do you do when the economic downturn downsizes your workload and your prospects? If you're creative, dedicated, and motivated, like a group of photographers in Portland, Oregon, you get together and offer services to a worthwhile non-profit organization. Here's a report by Lisa Scardina, whose husband Steve is one of the organizers of PhotoForce, which opens an exhibition of their work for the … Read the full Story >>
Every year, it seems, another woman well beyond “a certain age” emerges from the shadows as a most talked about newcomer to the art world. This year it is surely Rose Wylie, who received an OBE on Queen Elizabeth II’s annual Birthday List. Wylie received the Order of the British Empire medal in recognition of her unique artistic practice, which draws on cultural areas … Read the full Story >>
Tuesday, February 26 The Open Show New York #5, 7-9 pm: Arlene Gottfried | Bacalaitos and Fireworks. The Half King, 505 West 23rd Street, NY, NY. RSVP Artist talk, 6:30 pm: Benjamin Lowy. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, NY, NY. Donation $5 suggested/Free with student I.D. Opening reception and book signing, 6 pm: James Prosek | Ocean Fishes. National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park … Read the full Story >>
Continuing through December 20: The Center for Book Arts Celebrates 40 Years, with exhibitions that characterize the influence of an organization that promotes active explorations of both contemporary and traditional artistic practices related to the book as an art object. This weekend, founder Richard Minsky offers a Master Class that will cover imagery, text, intention, architectural, haptic, temporal, material, referential, metaphoric and other aspects … Read the full Story >>
This just in from CREATIVE TIME: A herd of horses has been unleashed in Grand Central Terminal. Grazing in Vanderbilt Hall, they move at a pace perhaps too slow for the needs of a commuter, seeming to ask us to slow down. To take a second. To look. Visitors are suddenly lured into a pasture of altered perception as they come upon this visually evocative herd of Soundsuits— … Read the full Story >>
Warm and sunny as it is today, it's still too early to plant herbs in my window box - but it's never too soon to check out the next wave of urban farming opportunities in town. While Michelle Obama's White House garden is the most visible entry in the sustainable agriculture movement, New York has firsts of its own, starting with Greenmarket. In 1976, … Read the full Story >>
Fairy Tale Fashion, an exhibition currently on view at The Museum at FIT, offers a view of the fantastical and, for the most part inaccessible, fashions inspired by those unforgettable stories that filled our childhood imaginations. Organized by associate curator Colleen Hill, the show presents a spectrum of beguiling clothing and accessories from the 18th century to the present, with many of the … Read the full Story >>
It has been over a year since the U.S. State Department lifted its travel warning against visiting Oaxaca, Mexico. This had been a death sentence to the economy, which is largely dependent on tourism. Hotels were empty, restaurants empty, tour buses empty, pockets empty. Flash forward to the end of last December. The streets are now full of vendors selling an explosion of colorful … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Monday, June 13-Thursday, June 23 Typographics, an 11-day design festival devoted to contemporary typography, with talks, workshops, and tours focusing on where typography is today and where its future may lie. It will be held at The Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square and 7 East 7th Street, NY, N. Info June 13-June 19 Look3 Festival of the Photograph. Various Locations, Charlottesville, VA … Read the full Story >>
As the title suggests, "Super Phat," the exhibition, is super cool. This collection of work by Japanese artists living in the United States and Western artists who have lived in Japan, was organized by the School of Visual Arts. Working in a variety of media, more than 40 established and emerging artists, all SVA alumni, have adopted and absorbed the beat of their host … Read the full Story >>
The 2014 season for grants and awards for photographers is underway, and the roster of programs is long. Following is a capsule version, with links to organization websites. The information below, arranged by submission deadline date, is provided by grants organizations. Note to photographers and educators: If you see that I have overlooked an important program, please contact me. A revised version … Read the full Story >>
Endless war and destruction are the themes of a major exhibition of works by Leon Golub that opened yesterday at The Met Breuer. The title, Leon Golub: Raw Nerve, is taken from a 1986 essay in which he wrote, “Artists manage extraordinary balancing acts, not merely of survival or brinkmanship but of analysis and raw nerve.” By that time, Golub (1922-2004) was well … Read the full Story >>
An exhibition of works on paper by Richard Diebenkorn, at Van Doren Waxter Gallery, presents a selective view of the intimate scale at which the artist devoted himself for roughly ten years. Between his early abstractions, made in Berkely, and the commanding Ocean Park series, which continue to be his best-known works, Diebenkorn largely concerned himself with figures, landscapes, and still lifes from 1956 … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Wednesday, November 1-Sunday, November 19 Performa 17. Diverse venues throughout NYC. Info Wednesday, November 1-Sunday, November 5 Festival Albertine, organized by Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan. The Albertine, 972 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY Info Wednesday, November 1 Poster House | An Evening with Tommy Gunn, 6:30-7:30 pm. Poster House, 119 West 23rd Street, NY, NY … Read the full Story >>
Saturday was a true New York 10—a day for roaming a favorite neighborhood [for me, the East Village]; having some delicious, forbidden foods [at Porchetta]; then total immersion in photobooks at Dashwood [33 Bond Street] before meeting friends for the evening. Miwa Susuda was at the front table, unshelving collectors’ editions for collectors to browse, including Nobuyoshi Araki’s Erotos, in a sizzling red jacket and binding. I was … Read the full Story >>
Ai Weiwei, the most visible and outspoken Chinese artist of our time, was detained by the Chinese government on April 3rd. The official reasons given are vague and Mr. Ai remains missing. The artist was to have been in New York yesterday for the unveiling of his installation of Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads at the Pulitzer Fountain on Fifth Avenue and 59th Street. Due … Read the full Story >>
September 8-10: The Armory Show at the Javits Center Founded in 1994, The Armory Show brings the world's leading international contemporary and modern art galleries to New York each year. This is one of the best art fairs going and has been for years, plus it's a good time of the year to visit NYC. The fair plays a leading role in the city's … Read the full Story >>
f you’ve ever taken a workshop, a course, attended an exhibition or a lecture, you can’t help but sense that The League, as it’s known, is different. Walking into this historic structure, which is maintained to a high degree of spit and polish, you get that it’s a place that matters to the cultural life of New York City. You also get a sense … Read the full Story >>
