In late September I, along with a group of 25 other filmmakers and critics from Beijing, was invited to Xining, the capital of Qinghai Province, for the World Mountain Documentary Film Festival and the Sanjiangyuan International Photography Festival. Qinghai is located in China's mid-west, between Gansu Province and the Tibetan Autonomous Zone. It is home to several minorities including, at over 20% of the … Read the full Story >>
Bye Bye Kitty!, which closes June 12th, brings together work by 16 contemporary Japanese artists who have taken anxiety as their muse. The show, which opened just a week after Japan’s recent earthquake and tsunami disasters, explores important social issues from a personal perspective. Dark, and often subversive ideas abound here, which is in sharp contrast to the obsession with cuteness that has been … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Upstate New York what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Brooklyn? A: Originally from a small town called Sterling, North of Syracuse, the town overlooks eastern Lake Ontario, I live now and work in Bushwick, Brooklyn. There is a great community of artists in my neighborhood and a lot of stuff to do in the few … Read the full Story >>
The American Museum of Natural History just completed a thorough rejuvenation of its North American mammals hall, which was initially opened more than a half century ago. Although the dioramas had been created with great skill by some of the most accomplished wildlife artists and craftsman then at work, they had aged, in some cases not well. At a recent press conference, Ross D.E. MacPhee, the hall's … Read the full Story >>
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism at The Met Through some 160 works, the exhibition will explore the comprehensive and far-reaching ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday modern life in the new Black cities that took shape in the 1920s–40s in New York City’s Harlem and Chicago’s South Side and nationwide in the early decades of the Great Migration when millions of African … Read the full Story >>
February 14, 6-8pm: Printers Picks | A Look at Priorities and Processes Why an artist makes and should make prints, how prints are made, and the business of print publishing have been the main topics of conversation over the last fifteen years of working with David Krut in New York City, Johannesburg and London. As printers and publishers, the company has a unique perspective … Read the full Story >>
Fairs & Special Events Tuesday, June 9 Museum Mile Festival, 6-8 pm. Upper East Side, NY, NY. Information. Who? | A One Night Art Show & Gigs, 8pm-Midnight. Palisades, 906 Broadway, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY. Information. Wednesday, June 10- Saturday, June 13 Look3 Festival of the Photograph. Various venues, Charlottesville, VA. Information. Saturday, June 13 Drawing the Guggenheim, 10 am-1 pm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth … Read the full Story >>
Talk / Screening / Performance / and Beyond Tuesday, April 19 Aperture and Parsons presents: Dru Donovan, 6:30 pm. Aperture Foundation, 547 West 27th Street, NY, NY. Info Design Research, Writing and Criticism presents: Mark Wasiuta | The Making of “Environmental Communications: Contact High,” 6:30 pm. School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21st Street, NY, NY. Info The Stoop Series presents: Welcome to … Read the full Story >>
The worlds of Latino/Latinx culture, both high and low, are gaining overdue recognition in museums and art galleries in the US. From no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria, curated by Marcela Guerrero, at the Whitney; to the steady flow of exhibitions and events at Americas Society; to Lives of the Gods: … Read the full Story >>
Flying Couch, Amy Kurzweil’s debut graphic memoir, tells the stories of three unforgettable women. Amy weaves her own coming-of-age as a young Jewish artist into the narrative of her mother, a therapist, and Bubbe, her grandmother, a World War II survivor who escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto by disguising herself as a gentile. Captivated by Bubbe’s story, Amy turns to her sketchbooks, teaching … Read the full Story >>
On entering Japan Society's serene Modernist lobby, visitors will now be greeted by an installation in the atrium pond that seems destined to be there. From a grassy platform in the water set among the resident bamboo plants rises a controlled tangle of cured bamboo. Its writhing forms are reined in by a series of green bamboo stalks that look much as they would … 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 was born and grew up in the South of Germany, where I also went to art school. Afterwards I lived in New York City for 15 years, starting my professional life there, so that would still be the place I think … Read the full Story >>
In The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, written during a period of social and political unrest following the French Revolution, William Blake states, "You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.” Blake regarded Hell as a place of opportunity for unrepressed, Dionysian energy. He explained,“Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, … Read the full Story >>
The Edo period in Japan, between 1603 and 1868, is the time of shoguns and daimyo, warriors and aristocrats who ruled the country and brought stability and economic growth after a long period of military conflict. Under their strict and isolationist policies, a tightly organized society enjoyed prosperity; tourism blossomed along newly built highways that linked 300 regional districts with the capital of … Read the full Story >>
WAR IS HELL! screams the 72-point headline of a magazine photo-essay by Robert Capa in the late 1930s. The photographer who famously said, "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough," changed the way the public came to expect information from the front lines to be delivered by embedding himself with the troops. He began doing this during the Spanish Civil War, … Read the full Story >>
Spur, the design and illustration studio of Dave Plunkert and Joyce Hesselberth, is re-launching its gallery this weekend with a show of 100 heads by a stellar roster of artists who are participating by invitation. The idea for the show came about after the January earthquake as a way to raise money for the relief effort. "At a recent production meeting," said Joyce, "Dave … Read the full Story >>
While New Yorkers were standing in line for tickets to the thrilling new “Macbeth” that has, according to the New York Times, transformed the Park Avenue Armory into a war zone, pro-Russian separatists wearing masks and armed with Kalashnikovs invaded Izolyatsia Foundation, an innovative arts center in Donetsk, Ukraine, and set up a makeshift armory. In a tale of betrayal and ambition that Shakespeare might … Read the full Story >>
Since 2005, photographer and photography lecturer Robert Burley has been documenting the demise of film photography through film photographs. He has traveled around the world with his 4×5 field camera, capturing the demolition of buildings, the equipment that once powered a giant industry, and the desolation of factories that were once teeming with workers. In his book, The Disappearance of Darkness: Photography at the … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, June 26, 6-8 pm: John Ahern and Rigoberto Torres at Salon94 Walton Ave & Friends unites nearly three decades of sculpture made both independently and in collaboration between sculptors John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres. In 1979, Ahearn was artist-in-residence at the South Bronx alternative art space Fashion Moda and quickly drew attention for his public life-casting workshop, resulting in The South Bronx … Read the full Story >>
Tomorrow, The Met re-opens its David C. Rockefeller wing following a complete re-envisioning of its collections of the Arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania. Featuring over 1,800 works spanning five continents and hundreds of cultures, these three major world traditions stand as independent entities in a wing that is in dialogue with neighboring gallery spaces. The galleries have been closed to the public and under … Read the full Story >>
