Friday, March 7, 6-8pm: First Friday Beats and Spoken Word at The Bronx FUTURA 2000’s critically acclaimed retrospective, BREAKING OUT, is on view through Sunday, March 30th! Don’t miss your chance to view this exhibition showcasing Futura’s five-decade career spanning his origins in the graffiti scene, his practice as an abstract contemporary artist, and his collaborations. Join crowd-favorite DJ Stormin’ Norman for a … Read the full Story >>
Friday, November 30 Artist talk, reception, and film screening, 6:30 pm: Kumi Korf | Red Paper from Tosa. The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, Third Floor, NY, NY. In New Orleans Through Sunday, December 2Photonola 2012 | The 7th Annual Festival of Photography in New Orleans. Information. Today is the deadline for early registration and 10% discount: Texas Photo Roundup | Austin. The … Read the full Story >>
The long wait is finally over. This week Forecast: Nozone X hits stores just in time for the last few weeks of summer reading. How long a wait? Four years, to be precise. Said by Wired to be "a perfect palate cleanser for a night of Fox News," Nozone skewers, gaffes, garrotes and otherwise thwacks conventional thought in ways that will have Johathan Swift … Read the full Story >>
Q: A native of Brazil, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Belo Horizonte? A: Living as an artist and illustrator in Brazil is somewhat challenging. When I first started, everything was a struggle, from finding the right resources (quality materials to work with), books, education, etc. It has forced me to be creative and work with the scarce … Read the full Story >>
Many holiday shoppers turn to the time-honored gift favorite: Books! But there’s so much to choose from. So I culled the favorite childhood books from the Artist Q&A, along with recent favorite reads and offer the following ideas. To keep you headed in the right direction, here’s the link to the DART Indie Bookstore lineup. Rachel Domm Q: What was your favorite book as … Read the full Story >>
Herb Ritts (1952-2002), explores the career of one of the top photographers to emerge from the 1980s. Herb Ritts (1952–2002) formed an aesthetic that incorporated facets of life in and around Los Angeles in his distinctive photographs of fashion models, nudes, and celebrities. From the late 1970s until his untimely death from AIDS in 2002, Ritts's ability to create photographs that successfully bridged the gap between art and commerce was not … Read the full Story >>
When I saw that Pavel Zoubok is opening a new show of Christopher Tanner's work tonight - the fourth solo at this gallery - I began looking for a press release. I wasn't surprised at not finding one. A press release would be kind of "as if to say" something almost irrelevant about this fascinating artist. Instead I found a review of one … Read the full Story >>
"Polaroid instant photography is back." That's the message that came through, boldly and colorfully, at a press conference in SoHo yesterday. "We are thrilled that today marks the return of instant photography. It's bigger - and better - than ever," said Giovanni Tomaselli, Managing Director of the Summit Global Group, the exclusive worldwide licensee for Polaroid branded imaging products. Seen at the Polaroid … Read the full Story >>
Archtober, New York City’s annual Architecture and Design Month, is celebrating its fifth year with huge roster of activities, programs and exhibitions designed to raise awareness of the built environment and to build a lasting connection among its inhabitants. While the list of events and programs may seem daunting, Archtober’s website includes a calendar so well designed that everyone can zero in on something … Read the full Story >>
The new exhibition opening at Sloan Fine Art this Saturday, called +2, is a summer gift of fun and value: The title for this group show is inspired by its logistics: Alix Sloan, the gallery's owner, contacted 24 of her artists and asked each one to invite two artists of their choice to participate. Although there is no collective theme, the 70-plus pieces on … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from New York, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in New Orleans? A: New Orleans is such strange and interesting place. There’s a lot of heat and violence but also a lot of festivity and piety. It’s very old, and eccentric, and it looks like you’re in Europe, but also Haiti and Alabama at the same time. Q: … Read the full Story >>
As President Obama said in his farewell address: “The Constitution is just a piece of parchment. We the people give the constitution power, with the choices that we make.” Above: February 15, 2003, NYC Peace March; photo © Mario Tama/Getty Images #mario_tama These are the words that made me pick up and read Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility, edited by Steven … Read the full Story >>
Every year around now, since 1995, The Cooper Union School of Art presents an exhibition on Art of the Book. The course, designed by Professor Margaret Morton, allows students to immerse themselves in this thorny question: what is an “artists book”? Luckily for the artists, there’s an infinite number of answers. This year’s iteration of the show, which I’ve been following for at … Read the full Story >>
“The limits of photography cannot be determined. Everything is so new here that even the search leads to creative results... It is not the person ignorant of writing but the one ignorant of photography who will be the illiterate of the future." --László Moholy-Nagy This maxim of László Moholy-Nagy, made famous by Walter Benjamin in his writings, is rooted in the artist’s search for new art forms for … Read the full Story >>
When Jen Bekman opened her gallery on Spring Street in 2003, she had two objectives: To bring greater recognition to emerging artists, and to make collecting art accessible to everyone. When looking for space, she decided on an area that was already a popular shopping district for young urbanites -- and her small, neatly designed gallery is a place to shop for affordable art … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Texas, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in New York City? A: The energy, and the people of this city, are insanely inspiring. I grew up outside of Houston and I always dreamed of living and working in NYC as a kid. I’m guessing it was the movies, cartoons and video games that did it? Can’t … Read the full Story >>
Conversational use of the word “genius” often conveys opposite sides of the spectrum, from schoolyard taunts to recipients of the MacArthur Fellowships (referred to as the “genius grants”) and, of course, Albert Einstein. And “self-taught” usually infers a somewhat lowly status, especially where art is concerned—think clunky wood knick knacks found at craft fairs. But when the two words combine to name an exhibition … Read the full Story >>
PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN opened its new "urban quadrangle" on Fifth Avenue at 13th Street this week with fanfare that seemed modest for the scale of the space. Designed by the New York firm, Lyn Rice Architects, the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center makes a dynamic public statement about the institution and the design arts it teaches here. Fronted with glass along … Read the full Story >>
New York photographer Brian Rose contributes to the Protest Art page: Saw your piece about protest art the other day, and am happy to see artists responding to what can only be described as an emergency. I've rarely tried to address current events directly, though much of my landscape work (from the Iron Curtain to the Twin Towers) has incorporated larger social/political issues. Trump's … Read the full Story >>
John Chiara's landscape photographs put a new twist on the sublime in art. In his first solo show in New York, opening tomorrow night at the Von Lintel Gallery, these large-scale images, mostly dark and moody, create in the viewer a sense of recognition that's completely fictional and awe-inspiring - two of the hallmarks of the 19th-century Romantic style in painting. At once monumental … Read the full Story >>
