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 >>
Friday, October 16, 6-9 pm: Vessels | Bodies, Tales & Machines at Westbeth We exist inside a continuous architecture of containment—geographical, corporeal, mental, societal—beginning fundamentally with the body, the very first place that holds us. In the upcoming group exhibition Vessels: Bodies, Tales & Machines, opening at the Westbeth Gallery artists Jeanne Verdoux, Fanny Allié, and the collaborative team of Nicolas Touron and Amy Lemaire disassemble this … 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 >>
Special Events January 20-24 ArtPalmBeach, 650 Okeechobee Blvd., Balm Beach County Convention Center, Palm Beach, FL. Info London Art Fair, Business Design Center, 52 Upper Street, London, UK. Info January 21-24 Outsider Art Fair | New York, Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, NY, NY. Info January 21-24 PhotoLA, various locations. Docent Tour with Weston Naef, Thursday January 21, 4:30 pm. Tickets Fair Info January … Read the full Story >>
Joan Miró (1893-1983), the Catalan artist of biomorphic paintings, prints and sculptures, and Alexander Calder, the American maker of kinetic sculptures, stabiles, and jewelry, met in Paris in 1928 when Calder visited Miró’s studio. They saw in each other’s work influences drawn from the subconscious, from symbolism and a thematic interest in astrology. They immediately forged a transatlantic friendship that saw both artists through … Read the full Story >>
Tim Burton was born in Burbank, California on August 25, 1958 and raised in a sunny middle-class neighborhood of the city. He never felt at home there and so - self-reliant and possessed of a restless imagination - he consoled himself with the pleasures of drawing and humor and an interest in visual media that he indulged by feeding on the most accessible and … Read the full Story >>
DART Picks from performance art and media installations around town: Christian Marclay: The Clock. 24-hour weekend screenings of this groundbreaking video work, as well as weekday screenings, continue at Paula Cooper Gallery. In her New York Times review, Roberta Smith wrote, The sense of [Marclay’s] mind at work, piecing everything together — thinking endlessly of time and timing, of sight and sound — … Read the full Story >>
Founded by curator Helen Toomer, co-founder of Marbletown’s Stoneleaf Retreat artist residency, the Upstate Art Weekend launched in 2020 with a roster of 23 venues organizing mainly outdoor exhibits and installations. Back for its third edition, this year’s three-day, self-guided event will include 145 museums, art institutions, galleries, local businesses, and artists. Running from Friday, July 22 to Sunday, July 24, there will be over 100 … Read the full Story >>
You might think that the recent demise of stand-alone book review sections in big city papers would be bad news for illustrators. In Ward Sutton's case, however, it led to what he calls "a dream job." How so? Barnes & Noble recently created its own online book review as a way of introducing readers to the best new publications in store for them … Read the full Story >>
