In conjunction with its 70th anniversary celebrations, Aperture’s Board of Trustees announced today that it will make a historic building on the Upper West Side it’s permanent home next summer. Located at 380 Columbus Avenue, the building places the photography organization in a bustling residential and cultural hub, across from the American Museum of Natural History and just a few blocks from the New-York Historical Society … Read the full Story >>
You can now submit entries for American Photography 37. The deadline is February 5, 2021. As always, the juried competition brings together the best photography of the year, and winners receive exposure and promotion through exclusive online showcases as well as the AP book -- a classic resource for top industry professionals. (Entrants get a big discount on the book.) All entries are seen … Read the full Story >>
From Roe Etheridge: Le Luxe, through July 2 at Andrew Kreps Gallery, 525 West 22nd Street, NY, NY. Left to right: Tokyo 2, 2007-2008; I Love NY Bag, 2011; Sand Pit 3, 2001-2008. Copyright the artist, courtesy the gallery. Wednesday, June 22 Film screening, 6:30-8:30 pm, for Pulp Fiction Art: Cheap Thrills & Painted Nightmares, produced and directed by … Read the full Story >>
If you’re a fan of TV superseries Parks & Recreation, Silver Linings Playbook or Boardwalk Empire—and one with a discerning eye for period detail—you probably have an appreciation for set property. Elements like old newspapers, books, a lottery ticket from Havana, and even a wallet or passport case can create an aura of authenticity that makes you a believer in the characters and … Read the full Story >>
Protest art—straight from the streets and backyards of the angry, the oppressed and their supporters—is everywhere today, from museum exhibitions to talks, demonstrations and workshops. Over time, protest art has taken shape in many different formats, materials, and methods, with woodcuts often rising to the forefront. In its most basic form, a woodcut can be made today by anyone who can find a discarded … Read the full Story >>
Art Fair ConfidentialSeptember 5-November 9: The 2013 Texas Biennial. Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, and other locations in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and Marfa, TX. Information. Wednesday, September 4 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Eric Starosielski | Social Engagement. Judith Charles Gallery, 196 Bowery, at Spring Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Kasper Bonne and Kadar Brock. The Hole, 312 Bowery, NY, … Read the full Story >>
We launch the new year today with a list of must-see photography shows that continue, close, and open soon. The DART Board will resume next week. Above: Woman holding Mao poster, September 21, 1971; continuing at NYC Municipal Archives Continuing Unlikely Historians: Materials Collected by NYPD Surveillance Teams, 1960-1975, continues through February 28. NYC Municipal Archives, 31 Chambers Street, NY, NY Info Documenting … Read the full Story >>
Art Fair Confidential Wednesday, May 8-Saturday, May 11 Collective.1 Design Fair. Pier 57, NY. Information. Tickets $15-$30. Friday, May 10-Monday, May 13 Frieze, New York, Randall’s Island Park, NY, NY. Information. Tickets must be purchased in advance. Friday, May 10-Sunday, May 12 New Art Dealers’ Association/NADA Fair, Pier 36, 299 South Street, NY, NY. Free. Information. Thursday, May 9-Sunday, May 12: Pulse … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Cambodia and China, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Barcelona? A: Both my parents are refugees from Cambodia and China. I was born in Barcelona, the city where I live now. It’s a comfortable city, a place where you have everything you could possibly need. But I like to travel to other places from time … Read the full Story >>
When Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) wrote Life imitates art far more than art imitates life, he set of a chain reaction that has reverberated ever since. Adding, “the self-conscious aim of life is to find expression, and art offers it certain beautiful forms through which it may release that energy,” he might well have been speaking of the interesting times in which we now … 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'm originally from the middle of Long Island, I then moved to Baltimore for art school [MICA], and I've been living in Brooklyn since 2013. I love that there's somehow an endless supply of activities here and you can get ice cream … Read the full Story >>
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 >>
