Thursday, April 25-Sunday, April 28: New York Art Book Fair at 548 West Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair (NYABF) is the leading international event for the distribution of artists’ books, celebrating contemporary artists’ publishing and the medium’s rich history. Initiated in 2006, NYABF is an important gathering for artists’ book publishers to distribute their work, connect with broad audiences, and nurture new … Read the full Story >>
On a visit to the New York Public Library yesterday, I became enchanted with the Penguin Classics kiosk installation adjacent to the gift shop. Among the titles with cover art by Ruben Toledo were a few by Jane Austen. Back at my computer, this is what I discovered: Sunday, December 8, is Jane Austen’s birthday. If you are a fan of the writer … Read the full Story >>
Suspending disbelief is second nature to film buffs but when it comes to still photography, it's almost a split decision: to capitalize on photography's fictional capabilities or to document reality. When it comes to the natural sciences, questions about realism get even more interesting. And when you add art and photography to that equation, you've got a fascinating platform for inquiry. This Thursday, Brian … Read the full Story >>
T The New York Times Style Magazine is running its second annual online art issue this week, with features related to several main themes: The effect the Corona Pandemic is having on artists; why art is essential; the ways in which some artists have taken on heroic tasks because they must; overlooked woman artists now getting their due, and more. In the Introduuction … Read the full Story >>
DART Picks from shows opening this week. Ali Banisadr: It Happened and It Never Did. Left: Telluric Current, 2010; Right: Nowhere, 2010. On view March 3-April 23, 2011 at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, 535 West 22nd Street, NY, NY. The gallery is represented at ADAA: The Art Show, at the Park Avenue Armory, March 2-6. The New York … Read the full Story >>
In Galleries Philip Guston | Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975, an exhibition devoted to the late artist’s satirical caricatures of the 37th President of the United States: Richard Nixon. Hauser & Wirth, 548 West 22nd Street, NY, NY. Info Introduced by a mutual acquaintance a couple of years earlier, [Philip Roth and Philip Guston] shared a love of books and … Read the full Story >>
Thornton Dial Paintings 1990-1998 | Closing Friday, July 16 The work of Thornton Dial (1928–2016) delivers a deeply personal historical account of life in the United States. Born and raised in rural Alabama on a sharecropping farm, from a young age Dial would collect discarded and recycled materials to be worked into new objects, and meanwhile observed deep physical and philosophical lessons from his … Read the full Story >>
In the days surrounding AI-AP’s special events next week, Big Talk and The Party, New York opens its doors to artists and creative from all over with a number of talks and presentations designed to throw some fun on the work of being an artist. For Illustration Week 2016, here’s a sampling of what’s up: On Saturday, October 29, from noon to 7 … 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'm originally from St. Petersburg, Russia. Now I share my time between New York City and the Catskills upstate, which is a perfect combination. I tend to work on my art projects Upstate, where I have a studio, and when I’m in … Read the full Story >>
I am an artist. I am here to live out loud. - Emile Zola If ever there was a situation in which the admonition of the Roman poet Ovid, “Be careful what you wish for” might be taken seriously, it was on January 13, 1898. The French author Émile Zola wrote an editorial on that day which exposed a cover-up that led to what … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs March 13-May 17 Format 15 Festival, Various venues, QUAD, Market Place, Cathedral Quarter, Derby, UK. Information. March 13-April 11 Asia Week New York 2015, in collaboration with 42 specially-curated showa; 25 auction sales and numerous museum exhibitions in New York. Information. Asia Week Guide PDF. Asia Week at Asia Society Asia Week at the Rubin Museum of Art Asia Week at the … Read the full Story >>
Neither Here Nor There, currently on view at RadiatorArts, in Long Island City, presents work by eight artists born in France who have made a home in New York City. Through mixed media, sculpture, photography and painting, the artists of Neither Here Nor There examine a state of being slightly “out of tune” and how their experience may have impacted their work over … Read the full Story >>
That's how Society of Illustrator's annual juried show of children's book art got its name, "The Original Art." Its founder, artist's rep Dilys Evans, felt that the originals for those magical narratives should be appreciated by more than an audience of three - the editor, the art director, and the artist, who were usually the only people beyond the artists' circle to see the … Read the full Story >>
For a country the size of South Africa, whose recent history is not easily understood beyond newspaper headlines, making sense of its social geography through photographs would be a feat. This is what South African photographer David Goldblatt has accomplished with Intersections Intersected, the first major exhibition of his work in the U.S., which just opened at the New Museum. Born in … Read the full Story >>
One of the fun workshops being offered at Photoville this weekend is How to Make a Camera out of Anything, presented by Liz Sales, an instructor at the International Center of Photography. But if this Brooklyn destination is not on your calendar, you can still get in on this DIY craze with Pinhole Cameras, a Do-It-Yourself Guide (Princeton Architectural Press), by Chris Keeney. … Read the full Story >>
At the height of the Cold War, and the dawn of the Civil Rights movement, the celebrated Modernist painter, Jacob Lawrence completed his research for the telling of an American History. This was the culmination of five years combing the archives for letters, newspapers, maps and other documents, at the 135th Street branch of the New York Public Library (now the Schomberg Center for Research in … Read the full Story >>
Analyze Lovers by Les Levine at Ulrik People have been complaining about how the art market [fueled by wealth and power] is ruining art since the Renaissance—when Vasari noted that there were beginning to be too many portraits of patrons in paintings meant to persuede the converted. Today it’s mostly about how art fairs and AI are ruining things every which way. Above: … Read the full Story >>
Of all forms of narrative art, which gains momentum as social media becomes ever more numbing in post-pandemic times, portraiture has remained somewhat on the sidelines. Not surprising as the taint of celebrity seeps onto even the best efforts of artists who, like anyone else, must pay the rent. So one must look hard and often to fined heads that represent the artist’s … Read the full Story >>
When photography becomes an interest that reaches beyond smartphone pix, a rabbithole of unimaginable proportions awaits. For anyone who has never shot film, the journey can be extreme. And for those who venture into the early methods and processes of photography, the terrain expands exponentially. As I’m nothing if not a curious nerd, last week I visited the Penumbra Foundation/Center for Alternative Photography at the invitation 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’m a Canadian, born in Waterloo, Ontario. I live in Toronto, having moved here soon after I graduated from college in 1998. I love this city. Neighbourhood areas are like a bunch of small towns, but with amazing food from every background. You … Read the full Story >>
