Jimi Billingsley, a Brooklyn-based photographer who also directs the contemporary art gallery in Lower Manhattan called Pablo's Birthday, wrote to let me know that he had curated an exhibition opening this weekend in Woodstock, N.Y. called “The Medium and The Message.” The announcement included a statement that reads, “Marshall McLuhan observed, ‘It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just … Read the full Story >>
When the New York Times Magazine serialized George Sprott: 1894-1975 in its now defunct "Funny Pages" section, it brought to a wide audience the work of Seth, a Canadian comics artist, author and book designer whose own printed output arrives with long stretches between titles. Last year, Drawn & Quarterly released the story in book form, with additional narrative that brought the epic an … Read the full Story >>
If you missed watching the Marcel Duchamp birthday chess playoff at MoMA last month (above, with Chess Master Susan Polgar), you can get your own game on this summer, starting with an evening of chess at the Noguchi Museum and Garden tomorrow night. Scroll down for info. Readymade inventor Marcel Duchamp encoded the ultimate Dada strategy when he stated, in 1923, that he … Read the full Story >>
In his 88th year, Alex Katz is having a year to celebrate. With exhibitions at The High Museum, Atlanta; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York; and the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, Katz has been drawing deserved attention. On Wednesday night at the New York Public Library, he discussed his new book, Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s (Prestel 2015), which is … Read the full Story >>
The New York gallery scene often heats up with a flurry of summer group shows before taking its customary August nap. This year is no exception and one of the most intriguing of these will open tonight at Yancey Richardson Gallery. Left to right: Simen Johan, Untitled #162, from the series Until the Kingdom Comes; Kahn & Selesnick, King of the Birds … Read the full Story >>
Lynn Saville continues her exploration of the city at night in her third book, Dark City: Urban America at Night. The urban landscape of dusk and dawn offers a world of transitional spaces largely overlooked in daylight. In the spaces between buildings and rivers, behind billboards and highways, alongside warehouses and empty storefronts, Saville captures a strange palette of artificial light whose colors define a mysterious and … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Britain's North Country, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Cambridge? A: I am from Yorkshire and left to go to University in London to study painting at Chelsea School of Art at the tender age of 19. I now live in Cambridge where I also have a studio. I love Cambridge for its cultural richness, … Read the full Story >>
Desiccated goat, rat, and turkey; steel, rope, carpet, peach basket, wood, tire scraps, plastic toys, shoes, motor-oil bottle, wire fencing, chains, ironing board, farm and construction tools, wire, paintbrushes, enamel, spray paint, and Splash Zone compound. While this list could understandably be mistaken for items encountered by John McPhee on one of his epic road trips, they are, in fact, the materials (along … Read the full Story >>
Opening Friday, July 8: Sensory Poetics | Collecting Abstraction at the Guggenheim Sensory Poetics: Collecting Abstraction brings together highlights from the Guggenheim’s growing collection of contemporary art. Acquired over the past ten years, and shown at the museum for the first time, this selection of artworks reflects developments in painting, sculpture, and video from the 1960s to today that demonstrate an expression of gesture … Read the full Story >>
What is street photography? What makes a street photographer? What is a street? These questions and more invaded my consciousness as I poured over images in the Keizo Kitajima mini-retrospective at Amador Gallery this morning. Little known in the U.S., Kitajima was a student at Daido Moriyama's Tokyo Workshop Photography School in the 1970s. His first exhibitions, raw images of Tokyo's seamy night life, … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, May 16-Sunday, May 17, 11am-6pm: Open Studios by Upstate Art Weekend There is a visceral magic that emanates from an artist’s workspace. The Raw smell of turpentine, the chaotic piles of raw materials, and the quiet weight of ideas still evolving on the easel , the plinth, the monitor often combine with workplace energy to cast a spell. Above: Jim Holl and … 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 Matt Rota, who lives and works in Brooklyn, and enjoys drawing in the city parks. I usually have a number of sketchbooks I’m working in at any given moment. I have one or two that are for anything, working … Read the full Story >>
The exhibition of Walker Evans photographs at the UBS Gallery offers an intriguing opportunity to appreciate the evolution of photographic printmaking, using the work of a great master as the testing ground.Curated by John T. Hill and Sven Martson for the Yale University School of Art, the show explores a definitive two-year period in Walker Evan's career and a significant moment in American history. … Read the full Story >>
Books / Talks / Screenings Continuing through September 10 2nd Annual Women’s Film Series, 8 pm. Bronx Documentary Center, Bronx, NY Info Wednesday, September 7 The Public Art Fund Talks presents: David Shrigley, 6:30 pm. The New School, 12th street Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, NY, NY InfoRoundtable discussion: Sheherzade's Gift, 6:30 pm. The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, … Read the full Story >>
It is no exaggeration—and worth repeating—that Mike Kelley (1954-2012) was one of the most influential artists of the past half century. Scan his CV and you will find that he has had a solo exhibition ever year since 1981—most recently the major retrospective that originated at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum in 2012; morphed larger to MoMA PS1 in 2013; then went to both locations of … Read the full Story >>
FAIR WARNING: This weekend is your last chance to see an exhibition that celebrates the photographers who are the rock stars of their genre. If the music marked significant moments in your life, chances are there are photographs from those days that have also become part of your personal mythology - and chances are that you'll find some of them in Who Shot Rock … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond Upcoming Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts | Business; Music; Immigration, various dates. Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, 1 East 53rd Street, NY, NY Info Tuesday, September 26 Tell Me Something Good: Artist Interviews from the Brooklyn Rail, 7 pm. 192 Books, 192 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY Info On Assignment | photographers Ryan Koopmans and … Read the full Story >>
If you’ve wanted to paint a mural and haven’t had the chance, this one’s for you. Join Arantxa X. Rodriguez (who goes by AXR) at Marcus Garvey Park to paint a mural that will be installed this June in East Harlem. The mural project was awarded AXR by the NYC Mural Arts Project, which partners with a mental health nonprofit every year to create … Read the full Story >>
Is it time for you to take up astrophotography? Today we feature a pair of tutorials, one that will help get you photography the Milky Way, our home galaxy, in just five easy steps, and another that will take your photography of the Moon to another level. While we're on the subject of the night sky, we'll also inspire you with stunning images capturing … Read the full Story >>
Milton Glaser might well be a designer's designer - but for many outside the field, he is the personification of the design arts. Widely known for his Bob Dylan poster, the I [heart] NY logo, and as a co-founder of New York magazine, Glaser has also created an enduring legacy as a teacher at the School of Visual Arts and as a designer of … Read the full Story >>
