For anyone who has had to ditch the idea of building their dream house, an intriguing exhibition at The Architectural League might be just the kind of fantasy that's needed for hard times. 13:100 Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos presents scale models, renderings, architectural drawings, and verbal commentary about the process of designing luxury villas for Kangbashi, a new city in Inner … Read the full Story >>
Doing hand lettering is like being a flaneur—both involve suspending judgement about place, space and time and just letting things happen. So when a new book from Princeton Architectural Press, Let’s Make Letters! Lettering for Beginners and Beyond thumped against my threshold, my curiosity peaked. Created by Kelcey Gray, a graphic designer who also teaches at the University of Texas at Austin, … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs & Special Events Thursday October 17-Saturday, October 19: Gowanus Open Studios.Directory of artists, and special events, here. Various locations, Gowanus/Park Slope. Thursday October 17-Saturday, October 19: Foley Gallery Moving Sale and Pop-Up ExhibitionThe gallery is relocating to larger accommodations just a few blocks from where we are now, beginning on November 1 (exact location to be announced later this month). In order to prepare, … Read the full Story >>
Last night streamed the film, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, set in Bhutan, because I wanted to watch something that was filmed somewhere interesting—not in dark studio-built interiors with actors acting like talking heads. In the process, I learned that Bhutan is a country which has recognized the supremacy of national happiness over national income since the early 1970s and famously adopted the … Read the full Story >>
From children's books, to erotic drawings and political propaganda posters, at 82 the Alsatian/French illustrator Tomi Ungerer is still restless, curious and eternally self-taught, with an insatiable thirst to learn and produce as much as possible as long as his hands and mind allow him. Tomi grew up in Alsace, where he experienced the Nazi occupation of World War II. He remembers that since … Read the full Story >>
As an art school student at Cooper Union during the pre-digital era, I was given a twin-lens reflex camera to play around with. It was medium format and simple to use. One crisp autumn day I spooled in a roll of 120 Tri-X and headed to Washington Square Park. The camera didn’t have a light meter—and neither did I. All I knew about picture-making … Read the full Story >>
A growing cadre of young photographers, evidently responding to the Instagrammatic notion that everyone can be a photographer, is digging into the fundamentals of the medium to visualize ideas about art. Last night a showing of works by Joseph Desler Costa opened at Foley Gallery, on the Lower East Side. Extreme Learning Machine, as the group of 25 or so images is titled, effectively reverse engineers the … Read the full Story >>
Edel Rodriguez sent email yesterday about creating drawings for Chanel News on the occasion of the house’s first runway show in Havana, Cuba, so I sent back a few questions. Here is what he wrote: Q: Your drawings are alive with the theme, “Viva Coco Libre”! Could this be one of your most enjoyable assignments in recent months? A: Thanks, it was great project to be involved with. I’ve … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Kent, UK what are some of your favorite things about living and working in nearby London? A: I love London—there is always something going on and it has a great community of illustrators and creative freelancers. I live and have a studio in South East London so don't have to deal with the hustle and bustle of the centre of town everyday, but … Read the full Story >>
June 20 & 21, 7:30-10pm: Van Gogh’s Flowers After Dark at NYBG Experience Van Gogh’s Flowers after dark. The exhibition comes aglow for outings that capture the twinkling allure of the artist’s nighttime scenery. Within and around NYBG’s iconic Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, find yourself surrounded by the botanical beauty that inspired Van Gogh. Wander through a breathtaking lawn of sculptural and real … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs Continuing through March 22: Asia Week New York. 47 international gallery shows, 19 museum exhibitions, 5 auction houses, the featured art ranges over millenniums and vast regions. One common thread this year is the fluidity between periods, with traditional works alongside contemporary ones. The focus on traditional Asian forms remains, however, and you will see plenty of ceramics, bronzes, textiles and ink. … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Thursday, February 11 - Sunday, February 14 LA Art Book Fair. The Geffen Contemporary at MOFA, 152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA. Info Thursday, February 11 - Monday, February 15 Art Wynwood. 3101 NE 1st Avenue, Miami, FL. Info Talks / Discussions / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday February 09 Wendy White | On Her Work, 6;30 pm. New York Studio School, 8 … Read the full Story >>
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 >>
