Last Chance, June 14: Martha Cooper | Streetwise at BDC Annex Long before the art world sanitized New York’s streets into destination gallery districts, photographer Martha Cooper was out there, capturing the precise moment the Hip Hop subculture was born. For decades, her lens has been trained on the raw, kinetic energy of New York City. With Streetwise, at the Bronx Documentary Center … Read the full Story >>
Friday, April 5 Opening day, 11am – 6pm pm: John Singer Sargent Watercolors. The Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY. Directions. Last Chance It’s not too late to plan a trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to see Double Portrait, the first joint exhibition of the work of Pentagram’s Paula Scher and Push Pin’s Seymour Chwast. The show includes more than … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday March 6, 6-8 pm: Joan Jonas | Animal, Vegetable, Mineral at Drawing Center Ahead of the full-on retrospective at MoMA, this retrospective of works on paper by Joan Jonas offers a denitive look at the integral place of drawing in the career of this pioneering artist. One of the most signicant experimental voices in American art over the past five decades, Jonas used the medium of drawing as … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Boisie, Idaho, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in your hometown? A: I was born, raised, and still reside there. It's a fun, small city surrounded by nature. Everyone here is friendly and supportive and the community itself is filled with creatives. Living in a smaller city can be fun because your impact can really be … Read the full Story >>
Anna Atkins (1799–1871) came of age in Victorian England, a fertile environment for learning and discovery. Guided by her father, a prominent scientist, Atkins was inspired to take up photography, and in 1843 began making cyanotypes—a photographic process invented just the year before—in an effort to visualize and distribute information about her collection of seaweeds. With great daring, creativity, and technical skill, she produced … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Continuing through November 8 Asian Contemporary Art week 2015. Various venues. Information. Tuesday, November 3-Sunday, November 4 Illustration Week. Information. Wednesday, November 4 - Thursday, November 5 AI-AP's The Big Talk / The Party. Information Wednesday, November 4- Sunday, November 8 IFPDA Print Fair. Park Avenue Armory, 67th & Park, NY, NY. Information. Thursday, November 5-Sunday November … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, April 11, 6-7pm: Rose B. Simpson | Seed at Madison Square park Simpson and other artists of her generation are resetting long-entrenched art historical interpretation around the soaring capacity of figuration. With Seed the artist creates sentinels in weathered steel and bronze that lead with angularity and durability; industrial bolts fasten masks forged in bronze to sections cut from ten-foot-long steel sheets. Simpson … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, January 24, 17 Book launch: Judith Bernstein | Dicks of Death; a conversation with Thomas Mitchell, 7 pm. Swiss Institute, 102 Franklin Institute, NY, NY. RSVP Orion Martin on Lianhuanhua | New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium, 7 pm. Parson School of Design, The New School 2 West 13th Street, The Bark Room, NY, … Read the full Story >>
Starting Wednesday, February 16th, through the 28th: Documentary Fortnight 2011: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media. Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, NY, NY. Free with museum admission. View related screenings. Wednesday, February 16, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for Warhol Soup. Armand Bartos Gallery, 25 East 23rd Street, NY, NY. Wednesday, February 16, 8:00-10:00 pm: Andrea Meislin presents … Read the full Story >>
Richard Learoyd's art is technology driven, but by old technology. "I was lucky enough to be in the generation before computers became the norm," he says. Learoyd uses the antiquarian camera obscura -- two rooms separated by a bellows and lens -- to shoot large-scale color prints without a negative. "The result is an entirely grainless image. The overall sense of these larger-than-life images … Read the full Story >>
The 50th anniversary of the publication of Robert Frank's seminal book The Americans has spawned thoughtful consideration of the photographer's contributions to making of images as well as exhibitions of his work, both large and small. Tonight, Robert Mann Gallery opens a gem of a show of images by Frank from a private collection. It begins with a series of pictures from The … Read the full Story >>
Q: What are some of your favorite things about living and working in Budapest? A: I was born in Transylvania but I’ve lived in Budapest since I was sixteen. It’s a very colorful city with many faces—basically it’s two cities in one, with a vibrant, dynamic and maybe sometimes too noisy Pest side, and a calm Buda side with its green hills where you … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Philadelphia, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in The Golden State, and in Dumbo? Peter: I now live outside the small town of Arcata, on the Northern California coast. It's very rural here and i like being surrounded by the outdoors. Maria: Pete is the oldest, and I’m the youngest in a family of 6 kids. I live in … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, December 1 online: AIDS Memorial Quilt Panels for David Wojnarowicz | P·P·O·W Viewing Room In recognition of Day With(out) Art, P·P·O·W is pleased to announce a special presentation of the AIDS Memorial Quilt Panels for artist David Wojnarowicz and his deceased partner Tom Rauffenbart, created and sewn by Anita Vitale, Cynthia Carr, Gracie Mansion, Jean Foos, Judy Glantzman, and Virginia Hourigan. Additional … Read the full Story >>
Tonight the newly hatched Designers as Authors/Entrepreneurs in the School of Visual Arts MFA Design Department will toast their success, their families, teachers and friends at a year-end exhibition at the Visual Arts Gallery. On April 16th, they held forth at the SVA Theater, pitching their wares as professionally and persuasively as any agency team. I was in the audience for a session … Read the full Story >>
"Expect the unexpected" might be the mantra for designers, typephiles and artists bound for the 2018 Typographics Festival and Conference at The Cooper Union. Organized by Type@Cooper and The Herb Lubalin Study Center, the 4th edition takes place from June 11 through 21, with an amazing lineup of workshops, tours, demos, interviews and experiments over the 11-day program. Info The highlight of the … Read the full Story >>
The 2017 Summer Invitational: Pimp Your Sketchbook, in which artists show their personal work and open a window onto their creative process, continues with George Bates, who lives and works in Brooklyn, and surfs whenever he has the time. I’ve always had something akin to a sketchbook but the thinking about it as a place for comprehensive research and development, and also fully realized finished … Read the full Story >>
As we cautiously move forward through this pandemic, hope is an action we can muster even with the stress of uncontrollable external forces. It is sometimes really, really difficult; but when something like the We Are Nature Rooftop Series, produced by NOoSPHERE Arts comes across my screen, my hopefulness gets a rush. Above: Kingsland Wildflowers at Broadway Stages; photo courtesy Assemblymember Joe Lentol’s … Read the full Story >>
How do you photograph something that has no physical form? This is the question that began to preoccupy Jacobia Dahm during her year of study at the International Center of Photography. As a portrait photographer whose clients were mainly families and children, Jacobia wanted to expand her horizons. After being accepted into the MFA program at ICP, however, she had doubts about pursuing photography as an art form. On … Read the full Story >>
Crafting the Ballets Russes at The Morgan Library & Museum The exhibition opens with the dramatic arrival of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes troupe in Paris in 1909 and goes on to trace its impact across the arts, highlighting the rise of women in leading creative roles. They include Bronislava Nijinska, who in 1921 became the Ballets Russes’ only female choreographer and whose groundbreaking … Read the full Story >>
