Q: Originally from the South, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Wisconsin? A: I’m originally from Kingsport, Tennessee, but I have lived in Savannah, Georgia and New York City. I’m living in Milwaukee now. I love New York, and I miss it, but it was harder to live there once I had a family. Milwaukee is a great … Read the full Story >>
This Saturday, the Jonathan LeVine Gallery opens exhibitions of art by three California artists showing their work in New York for the first time. Left to right: The Last Judgement, by Alex Gross; We Are In This Together, by The Date Farmers; Glamour Panel 2, by Erik Mark Sandberg. Courtesy of Jonathan LeVine Gallery. Mysteries and Manners presents the dreamlike art of Alex Gross … Read the full Story >>
What if we were to examine, as historian Katherine Mintie does in her insightful essay in Mining Photography: The Ecological Footprint of Image Production, “the material networks and the production of photographic goods . . . to recognize the labor of those who are often marginalized in photographic histories—women, the enslaved, the working class, and even animals”? The outsized appreciation given to individual … Read the full Story >>
As a young man, Daniel Bauer would ride a dirt bike through the hills near Modi'in, a new city mid-way between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Passersby walking along paths would shout at Daniel and his friends to be careful, to avoid falling into wells in an ancient Palestinian village that lay hidden beneath the grasses. During the installation of his first solo exhibition in … 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 Los Angeles and raised in the SF Bay area. I now live in Seattle, which retains a lot of its natural beauty, with many lush public park systems designed by Olmsted scattered throughout the city. In addition there … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday June 7: Sylvia Palacios Whitman | To Draw a Line with the Body at Americas Society Americas Society presents Sylvia Palacios Whitman: To Draw a Line with the Body, the first solo exhibition and career survey of the Chilean artist in the United States. Whitman (b. Osorno, Chile, 1941) is a visual and performance artist, who has been experimenting with movement and contemporary … Read the full Story >>
Performing for the camera has become integral to social media self-marketing, having arrived at the smart phone/Facebook/Instagram nexus. But dramatic portraits go back as far as the arrival of photography itself in the 19th century. With her costume box and props closet, Julia Margaret Cameron is perhaps the best known of Victorian-era photographers for costuming and directing her subjects, who include relatives and the … Read the full Story >>
So, how many of you hung a few yards of Marimekko fabric on the wall of your first post-dorm dwelling to proclaim a free-spirited modernist point of view? Back in the day, when it was cool to be an intellectual, and even cooler to go to places like Guatemala on travel (not "vacation"), Ben Thompson, a Cambridge-based architect in practice with Walter Gropius' TAC … Read the full Story >>
An exhibition of ink paintings and calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin, which opens today at Japan Society, presents an overview of a major figure in Japanese art who is virtually unknown to American audiences today. It also shows that Zen teachings can not only be approachable but also humorous and memorable. The title of the exhibition, The Sound of One Hand, derives … Read the full Story >>
Roger Ballen is a photographer so identified with a black-and-white aesthetic of despair that similar work is referred to as “Ballenesque.” His in-your-face portraits of people living on the margins of society, in economic deprivation and psychological anguish, became the motifs and mythology of his lens. These images are staged—set up with the collaboration of his subjects, in chaotic settings with clutter and debris … Read the full Story >>
At a crossroads in mid-career, Jasper Johns (1930) found his way forward in part by looking to the work of Edvard Munch (1863–1944). Now a ground-breaking exhibition entitled Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch: Love, Loss, and the Cycle of Life examines how Johns, one of America’s preeminent artists, mined the work of the Norwegian Expressionist in the late 1970s and early 1980s as he moved away from a … Read the full Story >>
One bright day in the dark of night you look at your reflection in a window and see the back of your head. You try on a hat that floats in the air and leads you to a place where anything is possible and everything is impossible. This is not the “real” world. You have entered a “surreal” world of visual surprises. These are … Read the full Story >>
Continuing: Gillian Wearing | Wearing Masks at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Featuring more than a hundred pieces, the first retrospective of Wearing’s work in North America traces the development of the British conceptual artist’s practice. Over her three-decade career, Wearing has focused equally on her own self-portraiture and on the depictions of others, testing the boundaries between the private and public, questioning … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, February 1, 6:30-8:00pm: Public Art Fund Talk at Cooper Union Join artists Layqa Nuna Yawar and Karyn Olivier for an artist talk with Nicholas Baume, Artistic & Executive Director of Public Art Fund. The discussion will center on Layqa Nuna Yawar’s Between the Future Past (2021-22) and Karyn Olivier’s Approach (2022), two monumental, site-specific works recently created for the new Terminal … Read the full Story >>
Trance, time travel, new wave fantasy and futurism are just some of the escape mechanisms offered visitors to KRAZY! The Delerious World of Anime + Manga + Video Games, now on view at Japan Society. Displayed in a series of spaces designed to evoke the clamorous cityscape of Tokyo by the Japanese architectural firm, Atelier Bow-Wow, the 200 works presented illustrate the interconnected … Read the full Story >>
The AIPAD Photography Show New York, presented by The Association of International Photography Art Dealers each spring at the Park Avenue Armory, celebrates the medium’s irresistible alchemy, from its 19th-century origins to its practice by artists around the globe today. Every year I go as a collector with an invisible [actually, non-existent] budget. But that wouldn't deter me from my intention, which is to … Read the full Story >>
These are dangerous pictures, and they were meant to change the world, said artist Sam Durant, who organized the exhibition of the graphic art of Emory Douglas now on view at the New Museum. Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party for 20 years starting in 1967, Douglas created symbolic images designed to mobilize black communities and to skewer oppressive … Read the full Story >>
Friday, March 15-Saturday, March 23 Asia Week New York, exhibitions, auctions, lectures, and educational programs. Information. Saturday-Sunday, March 16-17: Open House Weekend.Information. Tuesday, March 12 SVA DCrit presents, 6:30 pm: Vince Aletti | Face of Fashion: Fashion Photography, Art Direction, and Magazine Design. MFA Design Criticism Department, School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21 Street, 2nd Floor, NY, NY. Free/Registration required. Artist Talk, 6:30 pm: … Read the full Story >>
In the day when poets are opting out of chap books for blogs, and prize-winning authors earn their livings more through teaching the creative process than engaging in it, here comes a new literary magazine. Canteen, the brainchild of a poet (editor-in-chief Sean Finney), a professional poker player (publisher Stephen Pierson), an editor (Mia Lipman) and a corporate lawyer turned designer (Sai Sriskandarajah), … Read the full Story >>
Anxiety and alienation were the existential problem of early 20th-century Europe, informing the shift from realism to Surrealism, and from representation to abstraction. The sculptor Alberto Giacometti saw himself somewhat apart from current trends: a realist attempting the “impossible task” [his words] of representing the appearance of things as he saw them. Impossible, as for him the foundational quest was to capture the ungraspable essence … Read the full Story >>
