Delhi-based contemporary artist Vivan Sundaram, founding member of the Sahmat Collective is one of the leading artists working in India today. His work has recently been brought to wider audiences through an exhibition that originated last year at University of Chicago’s Smart Museum, and which recently closed its run at UCLA’s Fowler Museum. Widely known for his social activism and engagement with trash as an aesthetic medium, … Read the full Story >>
AFTER EXPERIENCING MONTHS OF OAXACA CITY'S TRAVAILS, we decided to enjoy the bigger picture of Oaxaca State during the holidays. This region of Mexico boasts a greater variety of ecological environments than any other part of the country, from dusty brown mountain ranges to deep blue coastlines. An especially incredible area includes the beaches surrounding Puerto Escondido, or Hidden Port. I first visited there … Read the full Story >>
Legacy Russell on #GLITCHFEMINISM: In a society that conditions the public to find discomfort or outright fear in the errors and malfunctions of our socio-cultural mechanics—illicitly and implicitly encouraging an ethos of “Don’t rock the boat!”—a “glitch” becomes an apt metonym. Glitch Feminism, however, embraces the causality of “error”, and turns the gloomy implication of glitch on its ear by acknowledging that an error … Read the full Story >>
Diana Horowitz, a painter who speaks the language of landscape, opened a show of new works on Saturday at Lori Bookstein Projects. The festive event included a sidewalk opening reception as visitors were invited in four at a time to the townhouse gallery that has just the right ambiance for this collection, titled “Small Works.” Above: Ragusa Ibia, 2017 The artist has always … Read the full Story >>
At the last count, Thursday, September 4th brings with it more than 40 opening receptions for photography exhibitions, with another 40 or so to follow later this month. Set-up portraiture, with close collaboration between photographer and subject, continues to interest both established and emerging artists. From the realism of Alessandra Sanguinetti, at Yossi Milo, to the artifice of Polixeni Papapetrou, at Michael … Read the full Story >>
Major exhibitions on fiber arts don’t come along very often. But when the do, as with Slashed: Paper Under the Knife, at Museum of Arts and Design in 2009, they offer art lovers a fresh and often challenging way of looking at sculptural form. Fiber Futures: Japan’s Textile Pioneers, currently on view at Japan Society, offers not only a privileged view of … Read the full Story >>
The White T-shirt and Biker Jacket; the Little Black Dress; the Trench - how many style trends can you name that got their start in the movies? If this little quiz has left you clueless, a series of films starting tonight will set you straight. Four iconic films set in New York City that inspired fashion trends around the world have been … Read the full Story >>
As Summer maintained its grip on Our Fair City weatherwise, Instagram offered a peek into Tom Cocotos’s sketchbooks. Here, for the very last installment of Pimp Your Sketchbook, is what I discovered last week. Sitting on a crowded A train, a woman boards, weary, arms full of packages. The cool of winter has her in a heavy brown overcoat, hat slightly cocked, scarf pulled … Read the full Story >>
A well-researched and well-written book that tells a lively history of New York through the lives and work of its artists is something to cheer. With The Slip: The New York City Street that Changed American Art Forever by Prudence Pfeiffer (Harper 2023), we get an inside view of the lives of six artists at various stages of their careers, who settled into … Read the full Story >>
I grew up in a coastal village surrounded by fish and until recently, I had never thought of myself as a predator. That changed when I spent some time looking at a remarkable book, Ocean Fishes, on the watercolors and conservation activities of James Prosek. Prosek is a self-taught painter, an angler, a conservationist, and an activist. Ocean Fishes (Rizzoli 2012) presents his watercolor paintings … Read the full Story >>
When I first paged through Paul Fusco's RFK Funeral Train—the trade edition published by Umbrage in 2000—I felt a dreadful sense of deja vu for how wrong things had gone in 1968. The optimism of an age in which so many were committed to making the world a better place had been wiped out by the assassination of yet another charismatic … Read the full Story >>
In the Foreword to a new book of Mario Aglaze's photographs from Latin America, A Respect for Light, critic and author Vince Aletti writes, “Algaze has a marvelous sense of place. He’s not just passing through a city, he’s inhabiting, tasting, and smelling it. He records a streetscape or a café interior with a breadth, specificity and grace that’s more literary than reportorial. There are stories unfolding here: history … Read the full Story >>
Every November, The Central European House of Photography, in Bratislava, Slovakia, hosts Month of Photography [MoP]. Founded by Vaclav Macek in 1991, this is one of the longest-running exhibition and portfolio review opportunities for photography in Eastern Europe, with emerging and notable participants from around the world meeting on both sides of the table. In 2010, OFF_Festival, Bratislava was founded to share some of … 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 a quiet small town near Turin, in the northwest of Italy; in my early twenties I moved to Turin to start my career as illustrator. Now it’s 10 years since I came here and I love this city. Turin is … Read the full Story >>
Editor’s note: This feature is extracted from Urban Crude: The Oil Fields of the Los Angeles Basin, an on-line exhibition at The Center for Land Use Interpretation and the third installment in CLUI’s exploration of the American “petroscape.” The landscape of oil in the USA touches every state in one way or another. Los Angeles is unique, as in addition to being notorious as a … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, December 13, 1-7 pm Aperture presents the annual Holiday Book Bazaar, and an opening reception for Amy Elkins's Black is the Day, Black is the Night and the 2014 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Short List. Publishers represented include Abrams, A-Jump Books, A Love Token Press, bookdummypress, Conveyor Arts, D.A.P., Empty Stretch, FotoEvidence, Hassla, Kurt Boone Books, MACK, Magnum Foundation, MassArt/Houseboat Press, … Read the full Story >>
For working photographers who never experienced the world of photography as a province of walled fiefdoms labeled “magazine photography;” “photojournalism;” “advertising photography;” “industrial photography;” “art photography,” each with a “members only” sign, a new book sheds light on how the field has changed since the 1970s. A Moment: Master Photographers, Portraits by Michael Somoroff (Damiani, 2012) is an tribute to the masters Michael Somoroff met as a … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the brush or the tablet? Michael Marsicano: For me, the brush always informs what I'm doing on the tablet. PR: Where do you live and how does that place contribute to your creative work? MM: I currently live in Sarasota where I teach in the Illustration Department at Ringling College of Art + Design. Coming back as an instructor and teaching alongside my … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the pen, the brush or the tablet? [ Vivienne Flesher: I got type-cast as a pastel artist, I loved the medium for years but tired of it and all the dust. I resisted working on the computer for years, even after Adobe brought me out to the Bay Area to work for a week. The folks teaching us from Adobe kept laughing, … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs | Special Events Friday, April 24-Sunday, April 26 Artexpo New York. Pier 94, 12th Avenue at the West Side Highway, NY, NY. Information. Friday, April 24 Open Audition | Performers for new Alex Bag project, 10am-6pm. Team Gallery, 47 Wooster Street, NY, NY. Information. Lectures | Discussions | Screenings Tuesday, April 21 Martin Parr and Eric Miles | The Chinese Photobook, 6 … Read the full Story >>
