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 >>
The Norman Rockwell Museum's Distinguished Illustrator Series opened the winter season with Istvan Banyai: Stranger in a Strange Land, running through May 5, 2013, in Stockbridge, Mass. This weekend Istvan will give a talk about his life and work. To mark the exhibition's opening, Steve Heller wrote, Istvan Banyai is mad. Not angry or despondent, but mad in the transcendent sense—in a perpetual state of creative lunacy … Read the full Story >>
This weekend the MoCCA Arts Festival takes over Metropolitan West for two days of art, entertainment and enriching talks with artists and publishers of comics, graphic novels and more. Guests of Honor for the 2018 edition are:Roz Chast, who needs no introduction, will participate in panels both days and be on hand to sign books as well. Liniers, the Argentine comic … Read the full Story >>
Everyone found it completely pointless, grotesque—practically immoral—to try coupling a cold, inhuman machine with something so profoundly human, which we call ‘art.—Vera Molnar Born in Hungary in 1924, Vera Molnar is one of the first artists to use computers in her practice. Classically trained, she studied art history and aesthetics at the Budapest College of Fine Arts and moved to Paris in 1947, … Read the full Story >>
On Tuesday night MoMA hosted a panel discussion, Charlie Hebdo, Zero Tolerance, and Freedom of Speech. The panelists were journalist, author, and former editor of the Sunday Times Sir Harold Evans as moderator; artist Kader Attia; artist Sharon Hayes; actor and Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi; VICE News editor-in-chief Jason Mojica; author and historian Simon Schama; and commentator, satirist, and architect Karl Sharro. … Read the full Story >>
