The Art Students League of New York in partnership with NYC Parks’ Art in the Parks program and the Riverside Park Conservancy will unveil two new large-scale artworks next week by League artists Marco Palli (above) and Sophie Kahn (below) as part of the 2023 Works in Public program. The sculptures will be unveiled at Riverside Park at 145th Street in a public ceremony … Read the full Story >>
Many of NYC’s downtown galleries, which generally take an extended August break, are keeping their doors open this year. Following is a lineup of shows, installations, and events to keep in mind for the coming days and weeks. Thursday, July 28, 6-8pm: Re-Mastering at Frosch & Co What does it mean to create new work in our contemporary environment? New things proliferate, yet so … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from the Sunshine State, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Our Fair City? A: I’m originally from South Florida, which is like a suburb of New York City. A lot of New Yorkers, including my parents, moved down there to raise kids. Now all the Florida kids are back in New York! I moved here in … Read the full Story >>
ICON The Illustration Conference is the definitive destination for the global illustration community, providing a rare space where commercially driven art meets academic rigor. This unique four-day gathering serves as a vital forum for, professional advocacy, continuing education and pure inspiration. Operating entirely as a non-profit endeavor, the conference migrates to a different U.S. cultural hub every two years, drawing an influential crowd of creators, … Read the full Story >>
Q: What are some of your favorite things about living and working in Oviedo? A: Oviedo, the city where I live, is the capital of Asturias, in northern Spain. It is a small region with high snowy mountains, sea cliffs and lush forests. I really love nature so living here is a privilege. Besides, in Oviedo people are cinephiles. This is the only place in … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Do you remember the first art book you ever purchased? Why did it capture your attention? Chris Sharp: I don't remember the actual first art book that I bought, but one book that really stands out and is my go to for inspiration is August Macke's Tunisian Watercolors and Drawings. I found this in a bookstore in Oslo after moving to Norway … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Mishawaka, Indiana what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Washington State? A: Seattle has had a strong comics community since the 1990s and comics here are experiencing a massive resurgence. I am surrounded by diverse creators and have been able to secure grants for my sequential art. Q: Do you keep a sketchbook? What is the … Read the full Story >>
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), the son of a Southern cook and a domestic worker who joined the Great Migration out of poverty during its early years, never visited the South until he was an adult. But as a high school student in Harlem, the stories he was told by writers he met in a local café, about the Jim Crow Laws, poverty, floods, drought, lynchings and the … Read the full Story >>
A couple of weeks ago, San Francisco-based artist and illustrator Mark Ulriksen sent a play-by-play account of a dream assignment he had over the summer. Here's an excerpt from what he wrote: Earlier this year I was asked to create the catalog cover for SFJAZZs 5th Anniversary season. Their newish building is clad floor to ceiling in windows, revealing both public and private spaces. SFJAZZ … Read the full Story >>
R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), who is most widely known today as the originator of the geodesic dome, was a visionary inventor/designer/philosopher/humanitarian and a self-described "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist." The first major exhibition on his life and work in more than 20 years opens today at the Whitney Museum of American Art. It explores the theories and inventions of a transdisciplinary thinker who devoted … Read the full Story >>
While the post-war American Dream was being broadcast as Kodak moments through monster-scale Coloramas in Grand Central Terminal, starting in the 1950s, the young William Christenberry was exploring what he knew best, using a little Brownie Box camera. As an artist making paintings and sculptures, he often took snapshots to record the subjects of his concern: tenant farmer shacks; rural churches; graves; roadside stands … Read the full Story >>
December 25 and January 1: The Jewish Museum is open: New York | 1962-1964 This exhibition explores explores a pivotal three-year period in the history of art and culture in New York City, examining how artists living and working in New York responded to their rapidly changing world. Installed across two floors, the exhibition presents more than 150 works of art—all made or seen in … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, May 15: Open House with Robert Kushner, 3:00-5:00 pm Robert Kushner | I [Heart] Matissee, at DC Moore Gallery Among the varied influences in Robert Kushner’s oeuvre, from Japanese screen painting to American modernism, Henri Matisse’s influence has often been a continual through-line as Kushner finds resonance in Matisse’s inclination toward design, love of pattern, beauty, expressive drawing, and vibrant color. Above: Suzani and … Read the full Story >>
The New Museum, now in its 40thyear, is known for presenting confrontational art by living artists—the kind of work that is not easily adopted by traditional art museums. In 1990 it produced the exhibition, Have You Attacked America Today?, Erika Rothenberg’s parody of dissent and freedom of speech, complete with flag-burning kits; in 1998 it mounted the first solo show of Colombian artist Doris … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the pen or the brush? Chemin Hsiao: The brush. In Taiwan, where I grew up, it was customary for children to learn how to use the brush to write calligraphy in elementary school. It was considered an honor back then if you could write beautiful characters. I was among the kids who had to practice diligently and followed the … Read the full Story >>
Marshall Arisman (1937-2022), longtime chair of the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department at the School of Visual Arts, and a co-founder of American Illustration, will be honored by SVA in an exhibition, Does that Make Sense?, opening tomorrow at the SVA Gramercy Gallery. Info Arisman began teaching at SVA in 1964 and founded the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay … Read the full Story >>
The Cape Farewell project, as reported in photographer Nick Cobbing's Letter from Greenland last month, brings scientists, artists and environmentalists together aboard the 100-year-old Dutch schooner Noorderlicht. The team headed to Greenland on a 17-day expedition to draw attention to the melting ice sheet and the effects that changing weather patterns will have on us. Tomorrow night in New York, Ben Jervey, a Brooklyn-based … Read the full Story >>
The Museum of Modern Art’s announcement this week of a “transformative gift” of African Contemporary Art from collector Jean Pigozzi is reason to celebrate. How Pigozzi, the Italian heir to an automotive fortune who took up photography as a student at Harvard, came to assemble one of the largest—and most comprehensive collections— of sub-Saharan art is a long one; but following is a short … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond Tuesday, October 3 The Work of Nicolas Carone, panel with Ro Lohin, David Ramm, Marticia Sawin and John Yau, 6:30 pm. New York Studio School, 8 West 8th Street, NY, NY Info Black Intimacy | Film Series, through October 16. Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, NY, NY Info Xu Bing | Art … Read the full Story >>
Morgan Library & Museum Garden For the first time in its 116-year history, the Morgan Library & Museum in Midtown Manhattan has opened its garden to the public. Part of a six-year $13-million “century renovation “, the garden was originally designed in 1912 by Beatrix Jones. Watch videos of subject experts on the renovation of the building’s exterior, including the bronze doors, night lighting, … Read the full Story >>
