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 >>
White House Redux, a competition launched by Storefront for Art and Architecture and Control Group last January, posed a simple question: What would the residence of the most powerful individual in the world, the White House in Washington, D.C., look like if it were designed today? With almost 500 submissions from 42 countries around the world, this resulted in a global conversation about executive … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, November 30, 6-8pm: Zain Alam | Sounding a Sacred Space at 8th Floor As part of the second season of the gallery’s Sight/Geist series, this sound performance by Zain Alam features recitations of the azaan (Islamic call to prayer) distilled into pure tone. With the participation of vocalists Nadine Murshid and Tanaïs, from varying traditions of melody (and ma'qam) inacross the Islamic world, the artist asks … Read the full Story >>
The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), as described on its website, is s a research organization interested in understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the earth's surface. It recently published some of its findings in Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America, which offers clues as to how to approach a subject as enormous as the North American continent. … Read the full Story >>
While China's transformation into a global superpower has been tarnished by shoddy goods, corruption, and pollution, its modernization offers filmmakers plenty of grit and grist to work with. Films such as Jia Zhangke's Still Life, which played in New York last summer along with Li Yu's Lost in Beijing, which was banned in China - more for its portrayal of corruption than … Read the full Story >>
Nick Cave’s Soundsuits—those larger-than-life kinetic wearable sculptures—are so furred, feathered and tinseled that viewers want to get up and dance. Colorful and festive to look at, they have been translated into a 360-plus-foot-long mural in glass mosaic plus video. Now the largest mosaic in the NYC transit system, commissioned by MTA Arts & Design, they occupy the long tunnel that joins the Bryant Park and the … Read the full Story >>
Most of the images in Greg Halpern's installation, I'm Afraid I Love You, now on view at SF Camerawork, were made in Buffalo, New York, though, at times, it seemed appropriate to Halpern to use other settings to describe his hometown. The focus of his work, he says, "is less about a city with a declining population and more about a sense of … Read the full Story >>
Amid the commotion surrounding the exhibition Talk To Me, at MoMA, there’s a quiet corner on the same floor with a selection of 23 digital typefaces from the museum’s design collection, on view for the first time - and it's a must for anyone engaged in communications today. The name of the show is Standard Deviations: Types and Families in Contemporary Design … Read the full Story >>
W.M. Hunt, known to most in the photo world as Bill, is a collector with a penchant for the eccentric, the funny, the mordant—which is readily seen in his Dancing Bear Collection. More than 500 of those images were published in The Unseen Eye (Aperture 2011), the exhibition of which was presented at Eastman House Today, an exhibition of photographs from another of Bill’s collections opens … Read the full Story >>
You can't go to school for illustration in Argentina, but you can go to Universidad de Palermo (UP) in Buenos Aires this month and check out the American Illustration 25th Anniversary Timeline Exhibition. I'm from Argentina, and I'm all too aware of how little access people there have to the world of illustrated magazines, ad campaigns, graphic design that exists here in North … Read the full Story >>
The American Manifest is Charles Gaines’s first public art project, unfolding in three parts over the course of two years across three sites — Times Square, Governors Island, and the banks of the Ohio river in Cincinnati. Presented by Creative Time, Governors Island, and Times Square Arts and staged in three chapters, The American Manifest begins with a performance-based installation and sculptural series … Read the full Story >>
Award-winning graphic novelist Peter Kuper combines his appreciation of classic architecture with a lifelong fascination with insects in the new exhibition INterSECTS: Where Arthropods and Homo Sapiens Meet, opening January 14, 2022 in the third-floor Stokes Gallery of The New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Kuper, a longtime DART subscriber and collaborator, met me by … Read the full Story >>
In Jean-Philippe Delhomme's illustrated world, captions speak as loudly as his expressive paintings of people on the verge of crisis. He being French, perhaps these crises are an existential thing. But this is a new brand of existentialism for sure, custom-made for our consumer society. Delhomme's droll satire exposes the aspirations of highly mobile people looking for just a little something more: To be … Read the full Story >>
On my way to see the Good Design show at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) today, I was stopped in my tracks by another show whose space is defined by whorehouse pink walls. Stepping off the elevators onto the third floor, I came face to face with a quartet of famously aggressive posters by graphic designer James Victore; videos of work by … Read the full Story >>
Above: Slide from Walking Piece, 1966. Slide projection, dimensions variable. Courtesy Victoria Miro Gallery, London; Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo; and Yayoi Kusama Studio. © Yayoi Kusama. 24 Photos by Eikoh Hosoe. © Eikoh Hosoe. From Yayoi Kusama, opening Thursday at theWhitney Museum of American Art. Tuesday, July 10 Summer Block Party, 6-9 pm with participating galleries: Anton Kern Gallery, Bortolami Gallery, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden, JackShainman Gallery, Zieher Smith Gallery. With music, food trucks and refreshments. … Read the full Story >>
Special Events June 5-9 Magnum Square Print Sale. Signed or estate-stamped, museum-quality, 6x6 inch prints for $100 from over 70 photographers. Online. Info June 7-August 6 Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Ai Weiwei | Hansel and Gretel/Public Space in the Era of Surveillance. Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, NY, NY Info June 7-August 12 16th Annual Celebrate Brooklyn! Opening night: Lake Street Drive, … Read the full Story >>
Looking ahead: In October, The Morgan Library & Museum will open the exhibition, David Hockney: Drawing from Life. The show will focus on his portraits on paper as well as an exploration of his drawing practice. Featuring about 100 drawings, the exhibition will trace a trajectory from Hockney’s early works as a student, to his Ingres-like portraits of the 1970s, and his return to … Read the full Story >>
