UPDATE FRIDAY NOVEMBER 22, 9:40 PMA jury has awarded photographer Daniel Morel $1.22 million in damages after deciding that Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Getty Images willfully violated his copyright. The award is the maximum statutory damages the court allowed for infringement on eight photographs. "[It's] one thousand times what the defendants told the jury it should award as actual damages for their wrongful acts … Read the full Story >>
While it remains closed for a major rebuilding program, SFMOMA is maintaining an adventurous series of off-site exhibitions and events. Opening this weekend at the Asian Art Museum, a new show asks, “what does ‘gorgeous’ mean to you?” A selection of 72 artworks drawn from the collections of the Asian Art Museum and SFMOMA, Gorgeous invites visitors to confront the extremes and the ambiguities of … Read the full Story >>
Armed with hundreds of blank maps she had painstakingly printed by hand, Becky Cooper walked Manhattan from end to end, asking strangers to map their own Manhattan and mail in the results. Soon her P.O. box was filled with an atlas of intimate narratives: past loves, childhood memories, and surprising confessions. The result is Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps … Read the full Story >>
A new exhibition opening Wednesday at the SVA Gallery brings together photography by students and recent graduates of the American University Dubai (AUD) and the School of Visual Arts (SVA). The exhibition was jointly curated by Stephen Frailey, Chair of the MFA Photography and Related Media Department at SVA and Roberto Lopardo, chair of the Visual Communication Department at AUD. The subject … Read the full Story >>
CALIFORNIAAbove: Joan Mitchell, South, 1989; Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris; © Estate of Joan MitchellBLACK AMERICAN PORTRAITS These 150 works center Black subjects on the 45th anniversary of David Driskell’s groundbreaking exhibition, “Two Centuries of Black American Art.” (Nov. 7-April 17, 2022; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, lacma.org) MIXPANTLI A pair of historical, artistic and cartographic deep dives — “Space, Time, and the … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Special Events / and Beyond Wednesday, October 17- Sunday, October 21 2018 L.E.S. Art Week | 20+ galleries featuring female artists including Coady Brown, Joyce J. Scott, Grace Weaver, Jessee Edelman, Genesis Belanger and Despina Stokou and more. Map and Info here Wednesday, October 17- Kind of Blue: Meghann Riepenhoff, 6:30 pm. New York Public … Read the full Story >>
As common as it is to see naked people, even if only ourselves in the shower, there is something unique and curious about the work of illustrator/artist Fernanda Cohen. I could say it's because of her simple bold, bright, color palettes or perhaps the absence of gravity that leaves her subjects suspended in mid air. But, honestly I don't like it for any of … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, April 11: Haas Brothers | Uncanny Valley at MAD Museum This wildly imaginative mid-career survey will plunge visitors into the exuberant, uncanny worlds of twin artists Nikolai and Simon Haas. Spanning more than fifteen years of collaborative practice, the show brings together approximately 85 works, featuring the surreal hybrid creatures, imaginative environments, and exuberant material experimentation across art, design, craft, and technology the brothers are known for. … Read the full Story >>
On election day, November 2018, millions of New York City voters showed up at the polls only to be confronted with an almost-three-foot-long, two-sided ballot with print so small it strained the eyes. To cast their vote, they had to fill it out front and back, tear it in half along a perforated line, and then carefully feed both pages into a scanner. The … Read the full Story >>
Allen Frame, known for gritty black and white photography inspired by film-noir and Italian Neorealism, was approached by New Directions for cover images for novels by the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño. The house began publishing Bolaño’s fiction and poetry in translation in 2003, and the work caught on like wildfire, according to publisher Barbara Epler in a New Yorker online interview. She was familiar with Frame’s book “Detour,” … Read the full Story >>
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 >>
