“Let’s look at the 50’s....That’s where you’ll see a clear polarization of society...to be an artist was to be an outlaw. It wasn’t a pose or a style. You really were one. Society considered you one. They were ready to put you in jail.” Michael McClure So Beat poet, historian and charter member of the Rat Bastard Protective Association Michael McClure succinctly characterized the … Read the full Story >>
If you feel the need for an honest reassessment of current affairs, head for Hell's Kitchen. At Exit Art, on 10th Avenue at 36th Street, NYC, artists are creating works on site for The Labyrinth Wall: From Mythology to Reality. Papo Colo, curator and co-founder, frames the impulse for the exhibition in terms of today's geo-political climate. "Chance is the payback...for arrogance. Glory … Read the full Story >>
Sierra at Edison, 2012, from "Los Angeles Project," © John Chiara, courtesy The J. Paul Getty Museum. Museums, So-Cal Light, Paper, Process | Reinventing Photography, through September 6. Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA. Emerging | Selected works from PDN’s 30, continuing through September 20. Annenberg Space For Photography, 2000 Avenue of the Stars Inside Century Park, Los Angeles, CA. Kahlil … Read the full Story >>
Q: What are some of your favorite things about living and working in the Brooklyn neighborhood, Vinegar HIll? A: Vinegar Hill is the most visually inspiring neighborhood in New York. In my 20’s I spend almost five years living in Europe, and upon my return to NY, I discovered Vinegar Hill; it reminded me of the old country, with its cobblestone streets and 19th-century townhouses. However, within the radius of … Read the full Story >>
This Week in LA First Annual LA Art Book Fair, February 1-3The companion to the NY Art Book Fair in October, the LA Art Book Fair is a unique event for artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines presented by 220 international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, artists, and independent publishers from twenty-one countries. The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. This Week in NYOutsider Art Fair … Read the full Story >>
Mulholland Drive: Is it a place? A myth? A state of mind? All of the above and more, depending on when you began looking at art and going to arthouse movies. The name alone conjures up still and moving images, populated by mythic events such as the film “Chinatown” (1974, dir. Roman Polanski); the film “Mulholland Drive” (2001, dir. David Lynch); the Tate/LoBianco murders; … Read the full Story >>
The Center for Land Use Interpretation [CLUI] looks down as it looks into the center, the very source of life and death, the main thing that drives every society on Earth: Land. Its ownership, stewardship, use, and destruction is questioned through CLUI's physical, historical, and data examinations, which are conducted in places you previously might not have even thought about. The Winter 2015 online exhibition is United … Read the full Story >>
Paul Klee | Other Possible Worlds at The Jewish Museum Paul Klee, who was not Jewish, was one of the first artists the Nazis declared “degenerate,” a descriptor applied to the abstract artists, who often were Jewish, that the regime sought to smear as sick, immoral and corrupting to the idea of German culture that Hitler promoted, As noted in the Forward, 17 of … Read the full Story >>
“My mother shaped my view of the world and inspired me to embrace spontaneity and capture the unforced. To show with her is such an honor for me and validates my journey as a photographer.” —Mary McCartney Exhibited together for the first time, the photographs of the late Linda McCartney and her daughter Mary explore the connective tissue of family, common experience, and a love … Read the full Story >>
With bitter chill and record-breaking snowfall, coast to coast photography exhibitions in museums and galleries offer glimpses onto worlds as different as New York’s Lower East Side in the 1970s; Paris in the 60s; Bamako, Mali in the 50s; the remains of the Manzanar internment camp of the 40s. Kevin Cooleys 2006 view of Longyearbyen, Svalbard, in Norway, is more than enough to make … Read the full Story >>
Q: As an artist, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Manhattan. A: My parents moved us 11 times as I was growing up so it's hard to say where I'm from but I suppose I identify myself more with New York. One of my favorite things about living and working here is the diversity of people and the ready access to … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, June 4, 1-10 pm: Opening day / Photoville 2022 at Brooklyn Bridge Park/Pier 1 For the first time in 10 years Photoville is celebrating visual storytelling during the summer!• Over 30+ Exhibitions throughout Brooklyn Bridge Park and DUMBO• @leicacamerausa will once again be with us leading photowalks• @penumbratintypestudio tintype portrait booth• F amily activity with Creatively Wild @cwasdumbo• In-person photography and … Read the full Story >>
American Couture, a term used to identify expertly rendered made-to-measure garments that underwent numerous fittings, was a movement led by Sophie Gimbel, who headed the Salon Moderne, at Saks Fifth Avenue, from the 1930s until its closing in 1969. An exhibition that explores the career of this seminal, yet little known today, 20th century designer, opened this week at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. Noteworthy Salon Moderne clients … Read the full Story >>
The artistry of Milton Glaser is surely key to the mark he has left on our ways of looking at, and thinking about, the world we live in. In his seven decades behind a pencil, Milton looked and thought twice about more subjects than there is space here to mention. Milton’s legacy will be celebrated by a panel of designers who will gather online … Read the full Story >>
“Elaborate Japanese tattoos can resemble colorful garments,” Sarah Thompson writes in the book, Tattoos in Japanese Prints, “covering the body from the neck to the elbows and knees, sometimes with a bare strip down the center of the chest so that the tattoos can be concealed with clothing or partially or fully revealed, as desired.” She points out that, when it comes to … Read the full Story >>
Last week I received an email from L.A. based artist Lou Beach letting me know that he was having a exhibition at La Luz de Jesus along with his two kids, Alpha Lubicz and Sam Lubicz. The title of the show is Gene Pool, the opening is Friday, August 5th, from 8 to 11 pm, and here’s the Q&A that ensued: Left to … Read the full Story >>
Noguchi’s New York at the Noguchi Garden and Museum In 1922, Isamu Noguchi first moved to New York—a city that would remain his on-again, off-again home for the remainder of his life. Though he was an avid traveler who built meaningful connections and temporary homes around the world, Noguchi always returned to New York. It was here that he created some of his … Read the full Story >>
Q: What do you like about your art and photobookcases; Are they what you have always wanted or is there room for improvement? A: The reason I like my bookcases is the same as why I hate them a bit too. I have had several bookcases, of various types and designs, over the years. They are located in several places in my house, and that doesn’t make … Read the full Story >>
Antonin Baudry, Cultural Counselor for the French Embassy, welcomed a full house to Festival Albertine last night. In his opening remarks he noted that the roster of Nobel Prize winners this year was peopled with both French and American writers, and the recent New York Film Festival with both French and American filmmakers. Saying, “We have a lot to talk about,” he introduced French cinéaste Olivier Assayas, American … Read the full Story >>
When a copy of Graphic Design: The New Basics landed on my desk, it was like having a visit from the vivacious daughters of an old friend. The book, by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips, who are colleagues at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), presents the study and practice of graphic design today. In the introduction, the authors have outlined a history … Read the full Story >>
