We're starting November a couple of days early so you won't miss a couple of notable book events. The real November launches with the 10th annual Editions/Artists' Book Fair. Held this year at The Tunnel, the legendary Chelsea hotspot of the 1990s, the fair showcases the latest trends in artists books and printmaking. Art on Paper magazine is sponsoring ad hoc chats with … Read the full Story >>
Alexander Liberman (1912-1999), longtime editorial director of Condé Nast Publications, was given a Kodak pocket camera by his father shortly before being sent to an England boarding school to avoid the perils the Russian Revolution. His parents, Marxist Jews, subsequently fled to Paris, where he joined them and began his education as a designer and architect. As the Nazi occupation of France made life … Read the full Story >>
"For most people, the Meadowlands is a place to pass through and forget on their way to someplace else. Not unlike a neglected child, the Meadowlands has grown up without guidance, constantly unsure of what the future holds. It is this loneliness and solitude that continues to bring me back year after year." Joshua Lutz, whose words form the epilogue in his book, Meadowlands … Read the full Story >>
The latest generation to be misunderstood by their elders, according to author Steve Appleford, is the largest in the history of the United States. Numbering twice as many as GenX, the iGeneration, who are now aged 18 to 24, are often characterized, says Appleford, as "spoiled cry-babies and fashionable zombies, plugged into the virtual unreality of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, BlackBerry, Blu-Ray, Bluetooth, … Read the full Story >>
A major exhibition that explores the connections made by Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) with Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is currently on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art, which holds the largest collection of works by the French Modernist in America. Diebenkorn, known today more for the large abstractions through which he sought to convey the emotive qualities of California light and space, began to study … Read the full Story >>
My Neighbors’ Garden | Lunchtime Tours at Madison Square Park Bring your lunch on any Wednesday at noon for a tour of the Park’s summer installation Info Created by Sheila Pepe, this art piece in Madison Square Park brings colorful and unexpected materials that she croched into the green of the park. Sheila’s canopies and webs of string and cable ties, shoelaces, outsize sustainable … Read the full Story >>
Tuesday, June 10 Closing reception and gallery talk, 4-6 pm: Jade Doskow | Lost Utopias with the artist and Salmaan, Khan, co-founder of People for the Pavilion. Onishi Project, 521 West 26th Street, NY, NY. Wednesday, June 11 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Yumiko Kayukawa | Year of the Firehouse. Foley Gallery, 97 Allen Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Piers Bourke | The Philatelist. Rebecca Hossack Gallery, … Read the full Story >>
Q: What are some of your favorite things about living and working in your current locale? A: At the moment I'm working from home, in Exeter, England, so the best thing about that is not having to commute. Those late night dashes across town (to where I used to have my studio) for any last minute changes are a thing of the past. I … Read the full Story >>
Finding just the right little holiday gift for someone you might not know very well—a favorite teacher, a special librarian, or something for a Secret Santa Christmas party—can become a nagging problem, especially if you’re running out of time. This is where creative paper gift products can come to the rescue. You know, all those irresistibly arty little items you find at the front … Read the full Story >>
Saturday June 1-Sunday, 16: Photoville This year Photoville presents 85+ exhibitions in all 5 boroughs of NYC starting with an opening night jam packed with visual storytelling presentations at the Emily Warren Roebling Plaza area. On the Mainstage, We Are Happy To Inspire You presents ceative collaborations, curated explorations of emerging talent, and new and exciting projects from around the world including work from … Read the full Story >>
How artists use the news media as a springboard for exploration and execution is the premise of an exhibition that opened yesterday at the New Museum. Don't pay too much attention to the title, though: The Last Newspaper, as the show is called, is somewhat misleading in its implication that the decline of print media is the message here. That idea is … Read the full Story >>
Note: Arts organizations and galleries affected by Hurricane Sandy are still juggling their schedules. Please check websites before heading out this week. Deadline extended to midnight Saturday, November 10Call for submissions: NurtureArt Videorover | Season 5. Information. All week long: 2012 New York Illustration Week. Information. Tuesday, November 6: Election Night Events Live Election Coverage, 7-9:30 pm: Fifth Annual Political Satire … Read the full Story >>
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 >>
