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 >>
In 2011 Mayor Bloomberg proclaimed the first week of November to be Illustration Week in NYC, sponsored by AI-AP, the Society of Illustrators, and Parsons the New School for Design. Programs today and tomorrow have been cancelled due to the storm; Illustration Week events begin on Monday, culminating with AI-AP’s 2012 launch on Friday, The Party, at the Angel Orensantz Foundation. Note: All events are subject … Read the full Story >>
February 12-May 8, 2021: Border Cantos | Sonic Border Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Border Cantos | Sonic Borders is a collaboration between photographer Richard Misrach (born in Los Angeles, 1949) and sculptor and composer Guillermo Galindo (born in Mexico City, 1960) that addresses the humanitarian situation at the wall between the US and Mexico. Above: Richard Misrach. Wall, Jacumba, California (El muro, Jacumba, California), … Read the full Story >>
Special Events May 13-May 17 Columbia University Film Festival, various times. Film Society of Lincoln Center, 116th Street and Broadway, NY, NY. Info May 14-June 25 2016 7th Annual Bay Ridge Storefront Art Walk. Fifth Avenue, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY. Info Artist bus tour, Saturday, May 14, 9:30am-1 pm. Info Talk / Discussion / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, May 10 Shimon Attie | Facts on the … Read the full Story >>
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 >>
