Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the pen or the pencil? Luis Mendo: Definitely the pen. Ink has always been my preferred tool. Nowadays I draw a lot on the iPad Pro, but before that I was mostly using a Pilot Parallel Pen to draw. It’s meant to be a calligraphy pen but the immediacy and speed with which you can change from thin to … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from New England, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Brooklyn? A: I tend to say that I am from Philadelphia but in reality I was born in Connecticut, then lived almost equally in Texas, Philly, and now Brooklyn. There is a great art scene, galleries, and museums and all that, but meh… talking to friends in their … Read the full Story >>
Hunters in the Snow; Pieter Breugel the Elder (1565); Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Whenever I think of Breugel, an image of Hunters in the Snow, his 1565 masterpiece, materializes in my mind’s eye. Perhaps it’s the ice skaters gliding in ones and twos over frozen ponds in the middle distance—doppelgangers from the view that unfolded nearly every winter day after … Read the full Story >>
Artists Wendy MacNaughton [San Francisco] and Julia Rothman [New York], whose widely published works graces the pages of The New York Times, New York magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and other media outlets—as well as their own book and art projects—recently took a stand to bring the work of talented female artists to the attention of assigning editors and creative directors. The result is … Read the full Story >>
There's hardly anything more stately than a fabulous residence photographed by a great architectural photographer. Think of Julius Schulman's photographs of the Kaufmann Desert House designed by Richard Neutra in Palm Springs; or Todd Eberle's shots of Mitch Glazer & Kelly Lynch's equally grand house in the Hollywood Hills, designed by John Lautner. Anyone who enviously pours over the "Home" section of the … Read the full Story >>
Facts on the Ground, the title of an exhibition of photographs by Sasha Bezzubov and Jessica Sucher of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories, is also the name of a policy that has resulted in construction of the villages and cities that appear in these images. The controversial practice of building on occupied lands is deemed illegal by the Geneva Convention but disputed by … Read the full Story >>
Tonight at 6 pm: Creative Time, MTA Arts for Transit, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art present a conversation between artist Nick Cave; Nato Thompson, Chief Curator of Creative Time; and Alisa LaGamma, Curator, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, MMA. They will discuss the role of masquerade, performance, and dreaming in public as they relate to the artist's project in Grand … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Maryland what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Brooklyn? A: All of my neighbors are cartoonists and it’s easy to do a lot of walking in Brooklyn. Q: Do you keep a sketchbook? What is the balance between the art you create on paper versus in the computer? A: I keep a sketchbook but it’s mostly just … Read the full Story >>
"I AM BECAUSE I DRAW," MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE MANTRA OF SAUL STEINBERG (1914-1999), judging from the way he explored central issues of human existence. Identity, isolation, connection to our fellow humans, and the world at large - these are just some of the subjects that flowed as visual investigations from his pen. And it was linework that mainly defines his work, although he … Read the full Story >>
Editor’s note: With ICON9 The Illustration Conference on the horizon—a weekend of art, discussion, performance, and plenty of talk in Austin, TX—the current roster for the Q&A is peopled with many of the exceptional artists making presentations during this biannual artfest. Richard Borge will be leading an AfterEffects Images in Motion workshop on July 7. Q: Originally from Madagascar, what are some of your favorite … Read the full Story >>
Every five years MoMA PS 1 goes native and puts up a monster show of art by mostly emerging artists who live and work in the metropolitan New York area. By definition a hodgepodge, this year's iteration has been condensed to a more concentrated view of art being produced during the last half decade. The opening celebration is this Sunday, May 23, from noon … Read the full Story >>
Silence, solitude, vast expanses of forbidding terrain, with no evident human scale. This is the quality of glacial masses, frozen landscapes at Earth’s poles and in between. Caleb Cain Marcus, a photographer living in New York City, became enchanted by the Perito Moreno glacier of Patagonia, in 2010. He spent the next two years traveling the globe to make the images that comprise A Portrait of Ice … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from [where?] what are some of your favorite things about living and working in [your current locale]? A: I’m from a small city in the Colombian Caribbean, and currently live in Bogotá. Here, I enjoy the cultural scene as well as getting inspired by the lively street life and being able to share this with my family and friends. Q: … Read the full Story >>
The Cooper Union End of Year Show opening last Thursday night rocked. That's just about the only word that captures the energy level - as well as the noise level - in the historic Foundation Building on Astor Place. The entire structure was taken over by exhibitions of work by students in all disciplines, and in each year of the programs of the art … Read the full Story >>
Frank Stella, whose work is currently the subject of a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, hit the New York Art world running, in 1959, with a series known as the Black Paintings. In these 24 pieces, which he diagrammed in advance of picking up a brush, he studied the effects of black house paint on raw canvas, applied in symmetrical … Read the full Story >>
Last Saturday marked the opening of Les Rencontres D'Arles, the premiere European photography festival that has rolled out every summer in this historic French town for 41 years. The 2010 theme is "Du Lourdes et du Picant," or "Heavy Duty and Razor Sharp," in English. There are more than 34 exhibitions organized as "Trails," such as The Film Photography Trail, The Argentina Trail, and … Read the full Story >>
Philip-LorcadiCorcia, New York, 1997, 1997, chromogenic print, cthe artist and David Zwirner, New York. I Spy: Photography and the Theater of the Street, 1938-2010, on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. closes this weekend. Curated by Sarah Greenough, the exhibition covers more than 70 years of street photography, from Walker Evans's 1938 "Subway Portraits" series to Philip Lorca diCorcia’s large-format, highly structured 1990s images of ordinary … Read the full Story >>
The fourth weekend of May took me by bicycle to Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City. Located next to Hallet's Cove, and opposite Roosevelt Island, the 4.5-acre site has a special allure for urbanites. Beyond its panoramic riverfront views and, of course the sculpture on display, it's peripheral plantings, with their built-in watering system, are almost a live catalog of native plants. With … Read the full Story >>
If you're an artist who's gotten him/herself into a rut, and live in the New York area, a cure is now available. But only through August 12th, the last day for Dime Bag 3 at Giant Robot New York. The show is the brainchild of Jordin Isip and Rodger Stevens, art school buddies who came up with the idea when they realized what a … Read the full Story >>
How did the young, talented, unruly Spanish artist known to his friends as Pablo arrive at the place in his life and work that entitled him to be known as Picasso? The story of this transformation unfolds in Pablo, the graphic novel-style bio written by Julie Birmant, drawn by Clément Oubrerie, colored by Sandra Desmazières, published in France by Dargaud and released here by Abrams. It’s a story … Read the full Story >>
