Q: What are some of your favorite things about living and working in Los Angeles? I am originally from Texas. Living in LA is great because there is a wonderful community of diverse artists. There is a positive vibe here and I feel encouraged to follow where my creativity leads. Also, I can eat out of my garden and jog year round! How and … 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 was born and raised in the eastern part of Los Angeles. I haven’t moved far from where I was born—my studio is literally only about a 15 minute drive from the hospital. I don’t know if it’s cliché to say this … Read the full Story >>
Tuesday, February 18 The Vera List Center for Politics and Art presents, a conversation, 6:30 pm: Jill Magid on intellectual property, local culture, and internationalcommerce.The New School, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Building66 West 12th Street, Room 510, NY, NY. Information. Wednesday, February 19 Reception, 6 pm and art talk, 7:30 pm: A Brief History of Japanese Art, 1600-present. Tally Beck Contemporary, 42 Rivington Street, NY, NY.RSVP. … Read the full Story >>
Since 1969, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts has been the leading provider of educational and legal services, advocacy and mediation to the arts community. Some of the artists/groups who have benefited from early VLA programs are Twyla Tharp, Tony Kushner, Wooster Group and Mark Morris, to name a few. VLA serves artists and arts organizations in every discipline, including: acting, animation, architecture, book … Read the full Story >>
An exhibition of photographs by Ryuji Miyamoto, currently on view at Amador Gallery, is haunting in its detached yet emotionally charged view of the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995. According to the Japan Policy Research Institute, the 7.2 magnitude quake "hit the Kobe area at 5:46 a.m. on January 17, leaving in its wake more than 5,200 deaths, 30,000 injured, … Read the full Story >>
Andrew Borowiec is perhaps best known for his black-and-white photo essay, Along the Ohio. Shot between 1985 and 1998, it was most recently shown at Sasha Wolf Gallery, Chelsea, in 2011. In a new series, Along the Lincoln Highway, Borowiec puts color to the task of surveying hamlets and towns left behind when the Interstate Highway System began speeding up transcontinental travel in the mid-1950s. And … Read the full Story >>
Several years ago, Riccardo Vecchio, whose studio practice combines multiple disciplines, from illustration and painting to sculpture and photography, began a series of paintings on location in the mountains near his family home east of Milan. A selection of these works were first shown at the Institute of Fine Arts in 2016. Photos above and below: courtesy Riccardo Vecchio Studio The sites Riccardo visited … Read the full Story >>
Remaining positive, hopeful and productive in times far more interesting than anyone could have predicted five years ago is the new task. The stunning lack of leadership at the highest levels makes this increasingly difficult as we face a Constitutional crisis in addition to nation-wide police brutality, racism and the ongoing pandemic. Above: Protesters on West 39th Street yesterday evening; video: Paula Alyce … Read the full Story >>
Talks, Walks, Books, and Beyond Thursday, June 6, 19 Alissa Bennett | Pretend You’re Actually Alive; Alison M. Gingeras | Totally My Ass, book launch, 6 pm. Printed Matter/St. Marks, 38 St. Marks/Swiss Institute, NY, NY Info Ken Rosenthal and Lynn Silverman | Works in Black & White, curator’s talk, 7 pm. Klompching Gallery, 89 Water Street, Brookyn, NY Info Dumbo First Thursday Gallery … Read the full Story >>
The summer has finally showed itself here in New York, just in time for a rare treat in the world of photography. Thirteen of the city's top galleries have combined forces to present views of the city, made since the days when photography first landed on our shores up to the present. I contacted Bill Hunt, of Hasted Hunt, to get the … Read the full Story >>
R. Crumb: Mr. Natural and Drawings from the 1960s "I lived out my youth on paper, basically. I am a bookmaker. I see blank books, I want to fill them—notebooks, sketchbooks, blank pages.... I had ideas for comic strips that I had sketched down."— R. Crumb in conversation with Ted Widmer in The Paris Review, 2010 A search for the source of R. Crumb’s most … Read the full Story >>
If you’ve ever though of using solar power to recharge your devices, this is now within reach. On Sunday, Flux Factory is offering an afternoon workshop in which participants will learn the basics of off the grid empowerment. The workshop will be led by Alex Nathanson, an artist, curator, organizer, and educator whose work spans video, sound, performance, and interaction design. Info According to the announcement, the … Read the full Story >>
If the hectic pace of city life is taking a toll on your summer, a half-day trip to Long Island City might be all that you need to reset your compass. The Noguchi Museum and garden, a half hour from midtown Manhattan, is an island of calm. It was the first museum in the country to be founded by a notable artist, Isamu Noguchi, … Read the full Story >>
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 >>
