Called by historian and photo critic A.D. Coleman, "a true photographer's photographer, and one of the most seriously under-recognized senior figures in U.S. photography," the 82 year old master photographer and legendary teacher of photography, Harold Feinstein, is finally celebrating the publication of his first black and white monograph, Harold Feinstein: A Retrospective (Nazraeli 2012). To mark the occasion, Feinstein will share … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, March 14, 6-8 pm: Realism Today | Looking Forward and Back at IS-G This inaugural exhibition for the gallery’s new location, featuring recent works by Neil Jenney, Joseph Santore, Elisa Jensen, Victor Leger, Mercer Tullis, and Frank Webster, seeks to explore the ways in which contemporary realist artists borrow from illustrious examples from the past by such artists as Gustave Courbet, Jean-Francois Millet, … Read the full Story >>
The road trip—in literature, in cinema, in photography—is one of the great formal devices for telling a story. Against an ever-shifting background, complex narratives that often explore the darker side of human nature unfold. In photography, Robert Frank’s America; Paul Graham’s A1; Joel Sternfeld’s American Prospects; and more recently, Alec Soth’s Niagara come to mind. But with Dolce Via, Charles H.Traub has done something … Read the full Story >>
How do you describe the photographic universe today—without defining what is a photograph, and what is a camera? Perhaps this seems more difficult than its, for after all, the universe is limitless, and photography is not quite…for now. The Photographic Universe II, taking place on Wednesday and Thursday this week in New York, takes a stab at answering these questions by bringing together a range … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs & Special Events April 27-May 1 Art Market San Francisco. Fort Mason Center, Festival Pavilion, San Francisco, CA. Info Talk / Discussion / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, April 26 MPS Digital Photography presents: Deborah Willis, Live, 7 pm. School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21st Street, Room 418F, NY, NY. Info Richard Misrach & Guillermo Galindo | Border Cantos: Photography & Music from the US-Mexico … Read the full Story >>
Artist Talks / Panels / Screenings / and Beyond For the week Know Wave Radio at Picture Room. 23 Mulberry Street, NY, NY. Info Tuesday, March 15 The Dynamic Library | Organizing Knowledge, 7 pm. Swiss Institute | CONTEMPORARY ART, 18 Wooster Street, NY, NY. RSVP The Invention of Chic: Thérèse Bonney and Paris Moderne, with Lisa Schlankser Kolosek, 6 pm. The New School, University Center, UL 105,63 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY. … Read the full Story >>
Urban Sketchers is a global network of artists who seek to discover the world, one drawing at a time. Among the ideas that inspire diverse groups to band together are opportunities to travel for the sake of drawing and to record a time and a place of special meaning. Brigitte Monnier, a graphic designer based in Paris joined, a workshop organized by an … Read the full Story >>
Somewhere in middle of the last century, house paint and the color charts used to market them were embraced by artists who had begun to reject long-held theories about painting, including the artistic process of mixing pigments by hand. Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, opening Sunday at New York's Museum of Modern Art, explores this seismic shift in the art world … Read the full Story >>
Q: What you like about your bookcases? A: I like the bookshelves at Conveyor Arts’ studio because we built them ourselves; we made sketches, went to the local lumberyard and found a beautiful tone of oak. We used a saw, hammer, nails, and some friends (coaxed by some beer and pizza) to put them together. Q: Are they everything you every wanted or is … Read the full Story >>
A couple of mornings ago I was fixing breakfast for my daughter, Emily, when the entire kitchen began to shake as if a freight train was racing past the back door. It lasted all of ten seconds, punctuated by a shout from my wife asking if I'd felt the earthquake. Hitting 6.4 on the Richter scale, it immediately made news around the world. I … Read the full Story >>
Rob Saunders has been in publishing most of his life, and over the past 35 years has amassed an outstanding collection of historically significant design books and periodicals, graphic arts ephemera, and specimens of 20th-century metal typefaces. He founded Picture Book Studio in 1981 which published dozens of award-winning children’s books from authors like Eric Carle and Jane Goodall. He ran Alphabet Press, producing titles … Read the full Story >>
Art Fair Confidential:Thursday, April 11-Sunday April 14: Dallas Art FairLocated at the Fashion Industry Gallery – adjacent to the Dallas Museum of Art in the revitalized downtown Arts District – the 2013 Dallas Art Fair will feature over 80 prominent national and international art dealers and galleries exhibiting painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, video, and installation by modern and contemporary artists. … Read the full Story >>
I love books. I love all kinds of books, even [especially?] books about stuff that has nothing to do with what I do. So when this book about the legendary skateboarder, Mark Gonzales, landed on my threshold, it immediately got my attention. Here’s why: The hardcover is wrapped in gorgeous linen in a shade of blue that makes you think of a perfect … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Nebraska, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in L.A.? A: The variety. There is so much to experience here that it can be completely debilitating—mostly in a good way. But, for instance, I had to give up on checking Yelp for a good waffle house because all of the beautiful options overwhelmed me to the point where … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the pen or the brush? Jonathan Twingley: Probably the pencil. An Ebony pencil, in fact, because my Dad seemed to stock those in his studio. My Dad was a high school art instructor and kept a studio in the basement of every house our family ever lived in. Me and my Dad were drawing together on the floor of … Read the full Story >>
APPLE'S FIFTH AVENUE FLAGSHIP attracts a diverse public drawn to what has become something of a legend since its mid-May opening. The prime location, with Tiffany, Louis Vuitton, Bergdorf Goodman, and Chanel all within a 2-block radius, guarantees an international crowd. Tourists, students, creative pros, and gawkers converge 24/7, served by a staff of 300 speaking 20 or so languages. Arriving at the 32-foot … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Africa , what are your favorite things about living and working in Montreuil, France? A: I grew up in Cameroon, then my family moved to Valence in the South of France when I was six. Now I live in Montreuil. It is a city located in the outskirts of Paris. Montreuil is an artistic hub; here we have numerous artists and … Read the full Story >>
A new exhibition that poses the question: What is the fate of ink on paper in the digital age has just opened at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design. For all who have been involved in the accelerating shift from traditional offset printing to digital, in all of its levels and iterations, this show is a must. … Read the full Story >>
Using her mastery of technology and careful study of BPCA’s commitment to environmental sustainability, Shuli Sadé created an innovative, temporal installation that hopes to bridge the potential of technology and bring viewers close to nature in a new, site-specific augmented reality (AR) installation created for Battery Park City Authority (BPCA).. “Behind the origin of this project is the wish to share the discovery of … Read the full Story >>
As the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's destructive effect on New Orleans approaches, photography continues to be a defining force in the understanding of what's wrong with disaster response and relief. In Dave Anderson's documentation, it also defines what's right - in the case of a tightly knit neighborhood that resembles a small southern town nested in the outskirts of the big … Read the full Story >>
