Wednesday, June 5: Cannupa Hanska Luger | Attrition at City Hall Park Cannupa Hanska Luger, an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold from the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota cultures, is a descendant of buffalo people. The form of Attrition, a larger-than-life skeletal sculpture made from steel with an ash black patina, emerges from the soil beneath, visible through grasses … Read the full Story >>
The art of design - that is, a hands-on approach to creating useful objects - is the subject of an exhibition now on view at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery on West 14th Street. Aptly titled My World: New Subjectivity in Design, the show presents work by seven British designers in their 20s and 30s that playfully comments on the standardization and sameness of … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, May 1-Sunday, May 3: Pictoplasma Berlin 2025 Online This just in from the organizers: Live broadcast of all conference talks, including theentire animation selection here: home.pictoplasma.com! Simply sign up, lean back and tune in LIVE May 1 – 3, daily from 12:45 – 20:30 (CEST) for all of 2025's greatness to be delivered to you in real-time – and subsequent as 24h VoD offering, in … Read the full Story >>
Denver’s Month of Photography, approximately, kicked off this year on March 8 and runs into April and beyond. For this installment of the biennial photo fest, which started in 2005, more than 80 venues in Denver—and as far away as Boulder, Ft. Collins and Aspen—are celebrating lens-based art in its many forms. From The Museum of Contemporary Art to the Bardo Coffee Shop (which is … 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 in Germany, in a small town in the south, and I am currently living and working in Toronto, Canada. Living in Toronto gives me the benefit to be close to New York but at the same time I can … Read the full Story >>
Figure drawing has become something of a mania in New York City, with dozens of Drink & Draw opportunities across the boroughs. The urge to draw the human figure has reached critical mass to the point that the NYC Parks Department now offers—and this is no lie—Figure Al Fresco: free open drawing sessions in several of the city’s parks (above). Following is a list … Read the full Story >>
On Tuesday, I had email from subscriber Viktor Koen, designer, illustrator, and Faculty, School of Visual Arts, MFA Illustration as Visual Essay, who wrote, A couple of months ago, I was invited to speak at TEDx Athens (one of the biggest internationally, with over 1500 in attendance) and the talk, in English, became available on line a couple of weeks ago. The title is, Inspiration is for … Read the full Story >>
Milton Glaser (1929-2020), grandee of them all in art and design, is the subject of a new volume in Moleskin Books’ Inspiration and Process in Design series. In his introduction to Milton Glaser | Inspiration and Process in Design, Steven Heller recounts the designer’s reply to the question of being an enormous, and longtime influence, on other designers. Glaser replied, “I’ve always seen … Read the full Story >>
The next couple of weeks brings a deluge of photography book events covering terrain that ranges from sequencing and laying out a book on a Mac to starting a library, with advice from publishers, photographers, and booksellers. A batch of new spring books is also flowing in, with photographers on hand to talk about how they came to light. Please check links for more … Read the full Story >>
W.M. Hunt, known to most in the photo world as Bill, is a collector with a penchant for the eccentric, the funny, the mordant. Today, as Les Rencontres d’Arles is set in motion, his collection of American group photographs will open there, at Palais de l'Archevêché. Bill says that to be a collector, one must be a fool. Looking for the double meaning, he gave the exhibition the title Foule: Hunt’s Three-Ring … Read the full Story >>
May 10-20: 10th Anniversary NYCxDESIGN Festival | Live and Online The lineup for NYCxDESIGN’s 10th Anniversary Festival is now live! New York City’s official celebration of design showcases the best of New York City design in person and virtually through open studio tours, workshops, public installations, talks, tours, and more. Highlights: May 10-20, Craft in Transition: An exhibition merging the dynamic artwork of 12 established and … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Continuing River to River Festival 2017, various locations, Lower Manhattan. Info Typographics 2017, The Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square, NY, NY Info Tuesday, June 20 Practice Lecture Series presents Martha Rosler, 12:30 pm. School of Visual Arts, 335 West 16th Street, NY, NY Info Live from the NYPL | Lee Friedlander with Giancarlo T. Roma: … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Performance / and Beyond Tuesday, November 13 Dismantling the Gaze | The Spiritual Hunt, curator and Art+Feminism co-founder Jacueline Mabey 6:30 pm. ICP Museum, 150 Bowery, NY, NY Info Neil Winokur | Dogs, Portraits and Objects book launch, 7:30 pm. The Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway, NY, NY Tickets Mary Gabriel | Ninth Street Women, book signing, 5-6 pm. … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, January 11, 6-8pm: Mika Tajima | Energetics at Pace Through her multidisciplinary practice spanning performance, sculpture, painting, and installation, Mika Tajima takes up questions of identity and agency in a world increasingly influenced and mitigated by technology. Drawing on various points of reference—from physics, philosophical writings and biology—the artist imbues her work across mediums with scientific and philosoculturalphical import. The exhibition takes its title … Read the full Story >>
While working as a reporter for New York Korea Daily in 2012, photographer Yeong-Ung Yang was invited to several media tours presented by the Asian marketing divisions of casinos in the Northeast. “While it has been reported that casino operators have targeted Asian high rollers for years, creating pan-Asian restaurants and entertainment as part of the draw,” Yeong-Ung said in a recent email exchange, “the predatory practice … Read the full Story >>
The good news for book lovers is that indie booksellers, publishers, institutions and makers continue to team up with events and unusual offerings designed to satisfy the visual treats we all yearn for. Following is just a snack for the coming weeks. More to follow as the DART Board continues to keep you posted. Monday, January 12, 6pm: Sergio Ruzzier and … Read the full Story >>
The subject of the German/Egyptian artist Susan Hefuna is people, and all the ways they live, together and apart. This multi-disciplinary, global artist has created drawings composed of the lines and dots produced by dancers moving through crossroads—literally, intersections in London, Stein am Rhein, Switzerland and Istanbul. Video In an exhibition in Manchester, UK last year, her intensely experienced drawing practice resulted in … Read the full Story >>
On the first Thursday of September, Chelsea art galleries spring back to life after a quiet August - for gallery hoppers, at least. Last night, Bruce Silverstein Gallery opened a solo exhibition of recent work by Todd Hido to a big crowd that filled the generous space to overflowing. For those who mainly know his portraits of young women, photographed in anonymous hotel rooms, … Read the full Story >>
The interest in Polaroid is gaining momentum this spring, with the hotly anticipated new production of the beloved instant imaging film almost within reach. One of the most beautiful installations at AIPAD The Photography Show this March was the all-Polaroid presentation at Photology of Milan. The gallery-style installation included gorgeous, sexy images by Helmut Newton, Andy Warhol, Luigi Gherri, and Christopher Makos, … Read the full Story >>
“Photography books have never commanded greater interest than they do today.” Those were the opening words to the first edition of Publish Your Photography Book (Princeton Architectural Press March 2014) and are as appropriate now as they were in 2011. Next Wednesday, May 7, New York Public Library’s Career Development lecture series presents the book’s authors, Darius Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson. They will show … Read the full Story >>
