In 1884, Claude Monet was painting along the Mediterranean shore, far from his home in the North, near LeHavre. So much of what he saw—the quality of the sunlight, the character of the vegetation, the changeability of the sky—was new to him, and so unlike what he was accustomed to. He described the challenges of this new visual world in his many letters to … Read the full Story >>
Editor’s note: Thanks a thousand times over to Richard Johnson for sharing his reports from Kandahar with DART, giving a human dimension to the daily workings in a war zone. Leaving Afghanistan turned out to be almost as hard as getting in. I arrived three hours early for my flight out of Kabul back to Dubai, only to find that it had flown out … Read the full Story >>
I heard that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World,And to define America, her athletic Democracy,Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted.—Walt Whitman, from Leaves of Grass. In his epic poem Leaves of Grass, written before the Civil War, Walt Whitman celebrated the vastness and vitality of the young nation … Read the full Story >>
Phyllis Galembo sent an alert yesterday urging photographers to show support for Daniel Morel in his landmark case against media giants AFP and Getty Images. On the Daniel Morel vs. Agence France Presse and Getty Images Facebook page, ASMP states: “Daniel Morel, the well-known photojournalist, took dramatic, award-winning photographs in Haiti during the first moments following the January 12, 2010 earthquake that devastated his native country. An AFP editor … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Continuing Mel Chin | All Over the Place. Co-produced by the Queens Museum and No Longer Empty. Info/Map Tuesday, May 8 Con Artist Collective x Studio 7 presents: How To Do Your Thing, discussion panel on operating within alternative art spaces, 7 pm. Con Artist Collective & Gallery, 119 Ludlow Street, NY, … Read the full Story >>
This weekend marks the beginning of a series of events featuring design at its best: Product Design; Type Design; Graphic Design; Architectural Design; Landscape Design. Conferences, a film series, a marketplace, and more, all combine to inspire the way we think about the world we live in today. Saturday, June 11, 11am-6 pm School of Visual Arts Alumni Makers Market. The inaugural market features over 50 vendors … Read the full Story >>
Editor’s note: With ICON9 The Illustration Conference just three weeks away—four days 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. Work by Brooklyn-based artist/illustrator Lauren Simkin Berke will be included in the one-night pop-up Roadshow marketplace on Thursday, July 7th. Info Q: Originally from Manhattan what … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: When did you get the idea that art and design would be your life’s work? Lucy Jones: I’ve been interested in art and design from a young age; it's always felt like the natural path for me to follow. When I left university I worked as a technician in a college in the print department. It was great to have unlimited access to … Read the full Story >>
Left to right: Roni Horn, You are the Weather, 1994-95 (detail); copyright the artist, courtesy The Whitney Museum of American Art. Tim Burton, Untitled (Blue Girl with Skull), Polaroid, copyright the artist, courtesy The Museum of Modern Art. Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2000 by Mike Sinclair; copyright the artist, courtesy Jen Bekman Gallery. Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 7:00 pm: Talk with Luc SanteAperture … Read the full Story >>
Horst P. Horst, Coco Chanel, 1937Horst P. Horst (1906-99) created images that transcend fashion and time. He was a master of light, composition and atmospheric illusion who conjured a world of sensual sophistication. In an extraordinary sixty-year career, his photographs graced the pages of Vogue and House and Garden under the one-word photographic byline ‘Horst’. He ranks alongside Irving Penn and Richard Avedon … Read the full Story >>
Left: Cindy Crawford, Ferre 3, Malibu, 1993. Right: Greg Louganis, Hollywood, 1985. Copyright © Herb Ritts Foundation Herb Ritts: L.A. Style has been extended to September 2nd at the J. Paul Getty Museum, in Los Angeles, after which it will open at the Cincinnati Art Museum in October. Ritts, whose career bridged the gap between art and commerce, made Los Angeles the site, and the inspiration, for his photography. He often … Read the full Story >>
If you were one of those kids who began nearly every sentence with “why,” a new book called The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science is just what you’ve been waiting for. This self-described "science book like no other," The Where, the Why, and the How attempts to answer 75 "unanswered" questions like "What existed before the big … Read the full Story >>
When I first paged through Paul Fusco's RFK Funeral Train - the trade edition published by Umbrage in 2000 - I felt a dreadful sense of deja vu for how wrong things had gone in 1968. The optimism of an age in which so many were committed to making the world a better place had been wiped out by the assassination of yet another … Read the full Story >>
Lectures / Discussions / Screenings Upcoming classes | Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts: Nonprofit Incorporation; Legal Issues in TV; Forming your For-Profit Arts Business. Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, 1 East 53rd Street, 6th Floor, NY, NY. Information. Friday, June 26 Linda Carreiro | Inside Out of Words, 6:30 pm. The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor, NY, NY. Information. An Evening with Kevin Beasly, 8 pm. Solomon … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Wednesday, May 30 Barbara Hammer on Multiply, Identify, Her, 6:30 pm. ICP Museum, 250 Bowery, NY, NY Info Al Held | Paris to New York, panel, 6 pm. Cheim & Read, 547 West 25thStreet, NY, NY Info 5 Questions 5 Minutes with Queenie artists, 6 pm. Hunter East Harlem Gallery, 2180 3rdAvenue, NY, NY RSVP … Read the full Story >>
A Site to Behold On Sunday, Socrates Sculpture Park opens it’s 2013 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition. Fifteen new commissions on view respond specifically to the park’s unique waterfront and urban environment with conceptual and formal artworks that are visually compelling, subtly mysterious and, at times, provocative. This exhibition features the collective works of the park’s 2013 Emerging Artists Fellows, each chosen through a rigorous application process; they … Read the full Story >>
SPECIAL INVITATION FROM THE PHOTOVILLE TEAM Hi Everyone, I hope you are all having a lovely few days and gearing up for the final 4 days of PHOTOVILLE! As many of you know we are going to try and have the PDN / Curator Party – which was rained out last week - this Thursday from 7pm - 10pm To receive a VIP wristband … Read the full Story >>
The 2017 Summer Invitational: Pimp Your Sketchbook, in which artists show their personal work and open a window onto their creative process, continues with Keith Henry Brown, who works in NYC, and lives for music. I keep sketchbooks mostly to figure out stuff and solve problems. I think they’re not as beautiful as a lot of my colleagues, because I don’t take them as … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, June 19, 6-9pm: Layers of Identity at PS109 Layers of Identity, a site-responsive exhibition in the former school building's lower level, celebrates the idea that human beings are layered, the complexity of our personalities, and individual histories is what makes us interesting. The exhibition explores the layers of societal structures and personal experiences that form how we see ourselves. Above, l-r: Hollie … Read the full Story >>
New York’s independent booksellers offer shelter from the storm of holiday shopping and plenty of eye candy in the form of photo books, illustrated books, prints and objects. DART’s list of NYC’s best follows, in geographic order [south to north, then east], with a few new entries this year, including two distinctly photo-centric spots. Downtown Tenement Museum Shop, 97 Orchard Street, NY, NY. Well chosen array of … Read the full Story >>
