The Romany horse fair at Appleby is the largest and most important in the history of travellers’ gatherings in England, dating back to 1685, when James II granted a charter granting the right to hold one there, on a site ‘near to the River Eden’. Since that time, in the month of June, travellers have converged on Appleby, not just from England, but from … Read the full Story >>
While Halloween in the USA is already a sweet memory, here in Mexico things are still warming up for Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Last year at this time, Oaxaca was exploding with a teachers strike, federal troops were swarming over the town square and journalist Brad Will was lying dead in a morgue. This year, Oaxaca has, by outward appearances … Read the full Story >>
Howard Greenberg has been an art dealer for thirty years and is considered today one of the pillars of the New York photography scene. The Howard Greenberg Gallery, in the Fuller Building on East 57th Street, has continuously presented major exhibitions, including a recent two-part retrospective on Joel Meyerowitz, with a hotly anticipated show on William Klein opening on March 1. Until recently, though, his passion for … Read the full Story >>
This photo could just as well be for a contest titled “How To Be in Paris Wherever In the World You Are—at least that’s what it was like on a recent Saturday in New York. In any case, the winner of the recent DART Book Prize contest is Beth Tondreau, a graphic designer, publishing specialist and author of Layout Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Using Grids. … Read the full Story >>
The New Museum of Contemporary Art's mission to reflect the ever-changing nature of contemporary art through open exchange was at the heart of its plans for a new building on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The institution launches its 30th year with "New Art, New Ideas" as its mantra, and an opening celebration that runs nonstop for 30 hours this weekend. At the media walkthrough … Read the full Story >>
Matthew Brandt, Mary’s Lake MT 2; C-print soaked in Marys Lake Water, 2011; featured at The AIPAD Photography Show, Yossi Milo Gallery, Booth 203. The AIPAD Photography Show at The Park Avenue Armory runs from Thursday, March 29 through Sunday, April 1. Seventy-five of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work, including contemporary, modern, and 19th-century photographs, … Read the full Story >>
David Hockney, without doubt one of the most beloved artists of our time, was joined by a throng of admirers as he previewed the major retrospective of his work yesterday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the year of his 80th birthday, the artist is being celebrated for the wit and intelligence with which he has examined and captured the perceived world of … Read the full Story >>
The impact of portraits created for, and about, Barack Obama's Presidential campaign sparked even greater interest - if that's possible - in how identity and image affect outcomes. Perhaps the first American president to keenly understand the connection between his physical presence and his public was Abraham Lincoln. Scholars estimate that he sat for 127 portraits by 33 photographers during his lifetime, … Read the full Story >>
Paper, or the idea of it, is a conundrum. At once ephemeral (much of it is discarded almost as soon as it is obtained) and elemental (what would civilization amount to without books and buildings, both of which rely on paper?) paper's ubiquity, and the fact that we take it for granted, makes it appealing as an artistic medium. To celebrate its first anniversary … Read the full Story >>
Expression is the action, Courage is contagious, Art matters This is the call for Fall for Freedom—a weekend of positive protest organized by prominent artists and organizations including open-source initiatives assembled by a collective of artists including Dread Scott, Lynn Nottage, Jenny Polak, Laura Raicovich, and Cassils. Key theater organizations like the Public Theater and Broadway Advocacy Coalition have also joined, along … Read the full Story >>
This week the international Center of Photography introduces The ICP Lab, with two programs in which visual artists take center stage and push the boundaries of augmented and immersive experiences in public forums. Night Flights is an intimate, interactive open stage where emerging visual storytellers experiment with innovative approaches to live experiences. The program launches tonight with a presentation of The Parallel State, … Read the full Story >>
As the summer lull of August fades against the snappy cool evenings ahead, the New York art world welcomes what has become known as Armory Art Week. Headed by the mammoth Armory Show at the Javitz Center, an array of satellite fairs adds to the buzz from Chelsea to the Battery and beyond. September 5-7: The Armory Show | Javits Center A cornerstone of New … Read the full Story >>
As the year comes screaming to a close—likely one of the strangest, if not the worst of the 21st Century—this is a good time to offer the last DART Book Prize Contest of 2018! In the past the Book Prize Contest has involved identifying, from a photo of mine, “Where in New York Am I?” Info But this one is different. It invites DART … Read the full Story >>
This week the DART Summer Invitational, Pimp Your Sketchbooks, resumes temporarily with a few pages of mine, while we await the next round of Q&A's. Some years ago while I was writing a 12-book series entitled Looking at Paintings (Hyperion, 1992-1996), I spent many summer afternoons perched on a hill overlooking the lake in Central Park, sketching. This was my summer studio (above). … Read the full Story >>
Paul Buckley, V.P. Executive Creative Director at Penguin Books, apart from being a giant in the field, is also an obsessive fisherman and a friend of AI-AP/DART. We recently caught up on the subject of fishing, and I learned that he has somehow found time to reboot his own career as an illustrator. Ergo, this Proust Questionnaire, hot off the wireless. Left to … Read the full Story >>
DART Partners with the Arts at Museum of the City of New York Thursday, January 27, 6:30 pm Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits The popular image of women during the depression is dominated by rural themes: mothers protecting their families from fierce dust storms and greedy bank managers, Ma Joad from The Grapes of Wrath, and Dorothea Lange’s iconic “Migrant Mother” … Read the full Story >>
The first day of March in any even-numbered year brings a lion’s share of contemporary art to New York City in the form of the Whitney Biennial. This year the museum, under the leadership of its director, Adam Weinberg (below, left), highlights its continuing emphasis on performance in art, as well as its sensitivity to a recovering economy, in the 76th edition of this … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs & Special Events Wednesday, April 15 The AIPAD Photography Show Opening Night Preview, 5-9 pm. The Preview benefits the 92nd Street Y. Tickets. Thursday, April 16-Sunday, April 19 The AIPAD Photography Show. Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue and 67th Street, NY, NY. Information. Tickets. Saturday, April 18 The AIPAD Photography Show Public Program: New York Close Up, 10 am-5:15 pm. Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue … Read the full Story >>
When we think of propaganda Soviet style, it is usually in the form of mind control through the printed word and public speeches. Pamphlets, fliers and posters, items dropped from planes or pasted onto bus shelters, are the usual vehicles employed for changing the minds of the masses. But in post-Stalin Russia—the Soviet Union—the process of Sovietization was a universal program that touched every … Read the full Story >>
This Sunday, The Alice Austen House Museum on Staten Island will host an opening reception for Tim Hetherington's photographic documentation entitled "No Condition is Permanent: Liberia 2003 - 2007," with the photographer attending. The title Hetherington gave to his exhaustive documentation of war and civil strive forces us to think about the human condition at its most basic level, even before we set eyes … Read the full Story >>
