Portrait or still-life? Seventeenth-century Dutch master or twenty-first-century photographer? Reality or artifice? These are some of the thoughts that drift through my mind as I contemplate the latest group of photographs by Richard Learoyd that will go on view in New York tomorrow. Learoyd’s unique life-size photographs were first seen here in 2010 at a solo show at McKee Gallery, and also represented by a single portrait at the … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, June 8, 6-8 pm: Geles Cabrera | Museo Escultórico at Americas Society The first solo exhibition in the United States dedicated to Mexican artist Geles Cabrera, one of the most prominent female sculptors of her country, will feature artwork created over 40 years of her career and will be on view through July 30, 2022.Above: Geles Cabrera in the museum of her … Read the full Story >>
Bill Cunningham, the photographer loved for his long-running coverage and commentary on street fashions for the New York Times, is also a cultural anthropologist and an architectural historian. All of his interests combined in an eight-year project called Facades, now on view at the New-York Historical Society. In the late 1960s, when Cunningham began work on Facades, New York was in … Read the full Story >>
And what is the use of a book, without pictures, or conversation? Before slipping down the rabbit hole and into a world of fantastical transformations, so the most famous reader of all time posed one of the greatest questions of all time. In the 150th anniversary year of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, exhibitions here and abroad, from Kansas to Kobe, Japan, are … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, June 29 Opening reception, 7-9 pm: Uphill Both Ways | Pose and Revok. Jonathan LeVine Gallery, 529 West 25th Street, NY, NY. In conjunction with their first show in New York, the artists will also collaborate on a large-scale mural on the famed Goldman Properties wall located on Houston and Bowery streets, in lower Manhattan.Although style, medium and techniques vary between the two artists, their work is … Read the full Story >>
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being fashionable or successful.In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.My favorite smell is the first smell of spring in New York. Soon after graduating from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), Andy Warhol (1928–1987) moved to New York City and immediately found assignments for the fashion magazines. His work debuted in Glamour … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Ticino, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Zürich? A: I was born and grew up in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland and for a long time I lived in Milan. I moved to Zurich about ten years ago. Here I can enjoy an excellent quality of life. Zurich is not a big city, so you can … Read the full Story >>
Talk / Screening / and Beyond Tuesday, April 5 Anselm Berrigan and Bob Holman, 7 pm. 192 Books, 192 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY. Info The Artist Lecture Series Presents: Sharon Harper, 7 pm. Penumbra Foundation, 38 East 30th Street, NY, NY. Info Dai Sato and Justin Leach | The State of Japanese Animation in a Post-Miyazaki World, 6:30 pm. Japan Society, 333 West 47thStreet, NY, NY. Info Nadav Kander | … Read the full Story >>
The title of Elizabeth Peyton's retrospective, which opens today at the New Museum, offers much to think about - and suggests a number of ways in which to view this show of 104 paintings, drawings and prints. On the surface, "Live Forever" alludes to the celebrity of many of her subjects, from Kurt Cobain and Sid Vicious to David Hockney and Susan Sontag. When … Read the full Story >>
The Studio Museum in Harlem After seven years of construction, the Studio Museum of Harlem opened its new doors on Sunday, with an all-day celebration of artists who created this center for Black culture and the community that grew around it. Speaking at a press opening, Director and Curator Thelma Golden said, “We chose to build this completely new home on the same … Read the full Story >>
This week marks the first anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. This week last year marked the last public art events that I attended, including a performance of “Contract and Release,” by Brendan Fernandes, at the Noguchi Museum and the West Chelsea Arts Building Open Studios, where subscriber Tom Cocotos works. Today the New York Times ran a feature titled, … Read the full Story >>
“There are two things . . . the eye for the vision of nature and the brain for the logic of organized sensations.” —Paul Cezanne, quoted by Emile Bernard, a friend of the artist Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) is widely credited for opening the door on to Modern Art. Looking at his finished oil paintings of subjects that range from portraits to still-life to landscape, … Read the full Story >>
January 30-February 2 Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair. The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA.Information. Free. January 30-February 2 Art Los Angeles Contemporary. The Barker Hangar, 3021 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, CA. Information. Tickets. February 1-2: Paramount Ranch presents 31 galleries including: Artists Space, Art Metropole, Francois Ghebaly Glalery, Mandrake, Neue AlteBrucke, Off Vendome, Ooga Booga, What Pipeline, and more.. 2903 Cornell … Read the full Story >>
Special Events 10th Annual Asian Contemporary Art Week. Various locations. Information. Looking Ahead Wednesday, November 3-Thursday, November 4 A Two-Day celebration of American Photography 31; American Illustration 34; Latin America Fotogtafia & Illustration; International Motion Arts: Big Talk, November 4, 1-5 pm. SVA Theater, 333 East 23rd Street, NY, NY. Doors: 12:30 Register Monday, November 2-Sunday, November 7 Illustration Week. Various locations. Information. … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Sydney, Australia, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in your current locale? A: Some of my favorite things in Sydney includes the architecture and culture. It does not have a particular style, rather being a mix of old and new. As such, this makes it very interesting as you explore the city. In regards to my … Read the full Story >>
Special Events March 12-15 Asia Art Fair NY, opening day, 11am – 7 pm. Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, NY, NY. Info March 12-April 24 Fotofest 2016 Biennial | Changing Circumstances: Looking at the Future of the Planet, Opening Night Party, 7-11 pm. Silver Street Studios, 2000 Edwards Street, Houston, TX. Info March 9-12 Women of the World Poetry Slam, Opening: 3-5 pm. … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Long Island, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Nyack, NY? A: I've always lived in a town on the water. I love being part of a small, groovy, friendly village that's close to the big, groovy, crazy city. I feel like I figured out a way to have it all ... or a lot at … Read the full Story >>
In the 1995 movie Smoke (dir. Wayne Wang and Paul Auster), Auggie, the proprietor of the Brooklyn cigar store where the story unfolds, is played by Harvey Keitel. For the past 14 years, Auggie has been taking a photo every day from his front door. One of his customers (played by William Hurt), a dispirited novelist whose wife has been killed in a bank robbery, doesn't … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, February 23, 5:30-7:00pm: Genevieve DeLeon | To Order the Days at Hartford During her tenure as the 2022-23 Koopman Chair in the Painting Department of the Hartford Art School, Genevieve de Leon has produced solo and collaborative artwork focused on the knowledge–intellectual and embodied–that she has received as part of her study of the Maya calendrical cycles. Maya cosmology, mathematics, and mythology are … Read the full Story >>
Continuing through December 14: Howardena Pindell at Garth Greenan Howardena Pindell’s decades-long career seems to be an effort to map and capture this secret order of the universe. Her enigmatic works revolve around what remains unseen and unexplained, blending abstract intuition with the rigor of scientific observation. Moving fluidly across media, her practice combines elements of mystery with a precision that recalls the … Read the full Story >>
