I met photographer Xing Danwen in the late 90s when I was curating China: 50 Years Inside the People's Republic at Aperture. The project - a view of a changing society as seen through photographs made by Chinese and Western photographers - was on a tight schedule, with an opening day at Asia Society fixed in stone. While it wasn't so difficult finding great … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, March 20 Jessica Dickinson | On Her Work, 6:30 pm. New York Studio School, 8 West 8th Street, NY, NY Info The Public Art Fund presents: Amanda Ross-Ho on Public Works, lecture, 6 pm. Vera List Center, The New School 12th Street Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, NY, NY Info Reading: John Yau … Read the full Story >>
If you're among the many wailing over the loss of Domino, which was folded by Conde Nast Publications as of the March issue, take heart. Even though the shelter magazine that spoke to unabashedly girlish 20-something women is unlikely to be replaced anytime soon, there are still options for homebodies beyond House Beautiful and Architectural Digest. In Handmade Nation (Princeton Architectural Press 2008) … Read the full Story >>
One of the prominent features of the political struggles that have taken place here in Oaxaca, Mexico has been street art. Sometimes it takes the form of beautifully designed posters announcing an event; sometimes artists combine bold stenciled graphics with political slogans like The revolution will not be televised; and sometimes they're more like an open canvas that becomes an expanding dialogue between … Read the full Story >>
If you’ve been following Ted McGrath’s illustration art on the Op Ed page of the New York Times, or any other of a dozen or so places where editorial issues get a workout, you will want to know that you can meet him [yep, in person] on Friday. There’s an opening reception for his show, Weird Weather, at The Yard, in Brooklyn. … Read the full Story >>
At 8:32 am on May 18, 1980, a magnitude 5.1 earthquake blew off the north side of Mount St. Helens, a 8,365-foor-high-peak in the Cascade Range of Washington State. As people headed out for work, school, and other activities throughout the region, the furious explosion swept away forests for miles in all directions. Within minutes, a column of volcanic ash soared to 15 miles … Read the full Story >>
Brian Cronin came to New York from Dublin in 1985 to test the waters. He landed an internship with Milton Glaser; when he went on his own as a freelance illustrator, assignments from top magazines soon came his way; he’s still here. You live in Brooklyn NY, originally from Dublin Ireland. As an artist, what are some of your favorite things about living and … Read the full Story >>
This is the fourth in a series of reports on great places to buy books on the visual arts. Another gloomy day in New York made me hunger for some flash and glam in my book shopping life. So I hopped the F train for - that's right - D.U.M.B.O., and the powerHouse Arena. This self-described "laboratory for creative thought" is home to photography … Read the full Story >>
The first major American museum to collect art by living artists within a year of its making; the first to regularly include video and performance-based art on its calendar; and known for its risk-taking selections of new art for the Whitney Biennial, the Whitney Museum of American Art pulled out all the stops at the groundbreaking ceremony for its new building in the Meatpacking … Read the full Story >>
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 >>
