Wednesday, January 17, 6-8pm: Jennifer Guidi | Rituals at Gagosian This new series of paintings that explore the sublime beauty of mountainscapes and the color spectrum, inspired by the artist’s deep connection to nature and her personal and artistic rituals. Developed through repetitive actions and processes, each painting emerges as if from a meditative journey, manifested through Guidi’s investigations of color, form, texture, and … Read the full Story >>
With A Boy Named Isamu: A Story of Isamu Noguchi, author and illustrator James Yang has created a window on to what it is to be an artist. In minimalistically rendered spreads that capture the essence of place, with equally minimalistic text, he introduces children to experiences we all share, such as walking on a beach, navigating a crowded outdoor market, exploring a … Read the full Story >>
Richard Avedon (1923-2004) came to photography following World War II and built a 60-year career in fashion, reportage, portraiture and advertising that seemed to melt perceived barriers between photography’s many genres. When the Richard Avedon Foundation announced earlier this year that the Gagosian Gallery would take over representation of the photographer’s work, it was only a matter of time that a major exhibition would go … Read the full Story >>
Last week, Viktor Koen invited me to a walkthrough of an exhibition of his students' work at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) Gramercy Gallery. A member of the faculty in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program, Viktor teaches the first semester of the first year of this two-year program. Each student receives the same assignment: to illustrate a short story by creating a body … Read the full Story >>
Beginning in the mid-1950s, the School of Visual Arts [SVA] was in the vanguard of academic institutions in the U.S. to recognize the need for alternative marketing strategies to attract new students. SVA took to the platforms of New York City’s subway with advertising posters that were both thought-provoking and eye-catching, featuring the work of legendary artists like Ivan Chermayeff, Milton Glaser and George … Read the full Story >>
Miami’s new modern and contemporary art museum, renamed the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), opens today with exhibitions that reflect its growing strengths as a collecting institution. Contemporary art, in the form of a 20-year survey of works by Ai Wei Wei and new monumental sculptures by Jedd Novatt, are surrounded by smaller shows of art, video, sculpture and installations by Yael Bartana, Bouchra Kahlil, Hew Locke, and Monika Sosnowska. The modernist … Read the full Story >>
Graphic Design: Now in Production, a traveling exhibition on contemporary graphic design organized by Andrew Blauvelt of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and Ellen Lupton of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, continues through August 3 at RISD, in Providence, RI. This week, a series of lectures and presentations will introduce students and the public to some of the most vibrant graphic design work produced … Read the full Story >>
The look of love in the eyes of two lovers is unmistakable. The emotion most written about, most filmed, easily most talked about writes its own story over time. As a subject for photography, however, not so much. Until this winter, when a new book, Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s-1950s, arrived from 5 Continents Publishing. A collection of hundreds … Read the full Story >>
Jones Family Tenant House 1, 2010 by Beate Sass, from the Tall Timbers Plantation Project, at the Southeast Museum of Photography, Deltona, FL. Artist talk this Saturday. Information. Wednesday, April 25 Book Launch, 7-9 pm: Seamus Mullen’s Hero Food | How Cooking with Delicious Things Can Make Us Feel Better featuring the author in conversation with Alan Sytsma of Grub Street. powerhouse Arena, 37 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, … Read the full Story >>
The 2013 Beijing International Photography Week opens today at the China Millennium Monument in Beijing's Xicheng District. With the theme "Photography: World in Focus," the photo week will present a series of exhibitions, lectures, forums and themed activities at the main venue, as well as at the 798 Art Zone, Caochangdi Art Zone, Wangfujing Pedestrian Street and Cable 8 Creative Culture Zone. The centerpiece of the program is the First … Read the full Story >>
Left: Dirty Hands: The Art & Crimes of David Choe. USA. 2008. Directed by Harry Kim. Pictured: David Choe. Courtesy of Filmmaker. Right: Bloodbath. USA. 2011. Directed by Cecil B. Feeder. Pictured: Elizabeth McGrath. Courtesy of Filmmaker. From All the Wrong Art: Juxtapose Magazine on Film, running February 7-14 at the Museum of Modern Art.Tuesday, February 1, 6:00-8:00 pm. Opening … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs / Special Events Friday, May 8-Tuesday, May 19 NYCxDESIGN. Hundreds of events, talks and hangs at venues throughout NYC. Events. Talks. Saturday, May 9-Sunday, May 10 Hacking Feminism, 10:30 am-10 pm. The New School, Johnson/Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, NY, NY. Information. Saturday, May 9-Tuesday, May 12 BFA Film and Video and BFA Animation present the Dusty Film & … Read the full Story >>
Following presentations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris and New York, Sotheby's will offer a collection of 77 of the 83 photographs from Robert Frank's The Americans tonight. Published in 1959, after Frank made several cross-country road trips funded by his first Guggenheim Fellowship, The Americans changed the approach to picture-making by documentary photographers in the second half of the 20th century. Frank's unorthodox shooting-from-the-hip style, … Read the full Story >>
For people who love alternative comics and cartoons, this weekend offers the pop rocks of eye candy: MoCCA Art Festival 2007 is on at the Puck Building. The fair is sponsored by the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, a not-for-profit established to help get children interested in reading, to bring greater visibility to the graphic novel as a literary form, and in general, … Read the full Story >>
The planning for the ICON8 stage set and mural began last summer during our full board meeting in Portland. Brian Rea was slated to teach a tape mural workshop and we asked him to extend the workshop into an actual mural to be created and displayed on site. Jason Holley started dreaming and planning the elaborate stage set during our extensive site check at the … Read the full Story >>
Simon Norfolk's landscape photographs combine historic attributes of view photography and landscape art with a highly charged political view that takes no prisoners. At first glance, his photograph, King Amanullah's Victory Arch, Paghman, Afghanistan, appears to be a pastoral landscape inspired by those done by Claude Lorraine in the 1650s. It's steeply raked golden light shines on the monument, ravaged by war, while … Read the full Story >>
The 6th Annual Upstate Art Weekend is Here If you’re ready for an early summer escape, the sixth annual Upstate Art Weekend is here for you. Founded by curator Helen Toomer as a celebration of local and regional creativity hubs, this massive, self-guided art experience breaks down gallery walls entirely. It transforms the pastoral landscape of the Hudson Valley and Catskills into an open-air … Read the full Story >>
Editor’s Note: Tomorrow night, The Drawing Center opens the first American museum retrospective exhibition of Tomi Ungerer's drawings, All in One, with a reception from 6 to 8 pm. Information. 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 … Read the full Story >>
Without doubt Paul Rand heads the pantheon of branding designers, having proved, a century ago, that “good design is good business” [his words]. If one looks only at his seminal work for IBM—that logo is still in use—you get the idea. But stop to consider a bit more about his process, then his contributions become more evident. In his definitive monograph on the designer, … Read the full Story >>
Editor's note: Margaret Morton's haunting photographs of Kyrgyz Muslim cemeteries are currently on view at the Wolk Gallery, at M.I.T.'s School of Architecture and Planning. Intrigued by these images, which I first saw back in 2007, I asked Margaret to contribute her expedition notes for a feature in DART. Here is what she wrote: A Kyrgyz Muslim cemetery seen from a distance is … Read the full Story >>
