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 >>
“I’m not so interested in the expression of something. I’m more interested in what the material can do. So that’s why I keep exploring,” said artist, educator, and civic leader Ruth Asawa, reflecting on a six-decade-long career. Featuring some 300 artworks, Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective, which opens Sunday, October 19 at the Museum of Modern Art, charts the artist’s … Read the full Story >>
Print on Demand photo books have finally made their way into the museum world, with an exceptional presentation at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Until now, limited edition artist books have been the mainstay of art book fairs, photo festivals, book arts centers, and holiday gift fairs. The museum’s curator of photography, Barbara Tannenbaum, has tapped into a subject that not only engages photographers … Read the full Story >>
As a lead-up to the 2013 Hasselblad Prize, to be announced on March 7, and claimed last year by Paul Graham, I’ll be posting a series of features on Hasselblad Magazine. Yesterday I stumbled on a handful of issues from the 1970s, which understandably feature the camera’s importance in the NASA space program. But first, a little background, verbatim from the 25th anniversary issue … Read the full Story >>
Toward the end of her life, Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976)) was asked what her favorite photograph was. Without hesitation she replied, “The one I will take tomorrow.” This statement now seems emblematic of the photographer’s life and work, as it is now being celebrated in a major publication organized by Paul Martineau, an associate curator of photography at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los … Read the full Story >>
Every two years NYC’s January chill melts a bit when the Outsider Art Fair opens its doors. Since its first incarnation 28 years ago, in the Puck Building under the guidance of Sandford Smith, the event has furthered the dialog on what Outsider Art is. Back in the day it was pretty much restricted to European ideas bent on celebrating Art Brut, tamed a … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Bedford, NY, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Brooklyn? A: Having such a large network of friends and peers here still blows my mind. Granted, the other part of being a New Yorker is never having time to see them. Our community here can feel so fragmented sometimes, so I am working on bringing it … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, May 8, 6-8 pm: Stanley Whitney | By the Love of Those Unloved at Gagosian By the Love of Those Unloved, the gallery’s first exhibition of work by Stanley Whitney in New York, features new paintings and works on paper. A master colorist, Whitney takes an exploratory and lyrical approach to painting in his canvases, which are structured as loose grids of rectilinear … Read the full Story >>
IN A CAREER THAT SPANNED LITTLE MORE THAN A DECADE, the American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) redefined sculpture in ways that still resonate today. The expansive retrospect of his work at the Whitney Museum of American Art,which closes this weekend, reveals the life, the times and the actions of this charismatic rebel whose major works no longer exist. Matta-Clark, who began his career … Read the full Story >>
