UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism is presenting Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers | Photographs by Stephen Shames, with an opening reception and a talk with the photographer and Bobby Seale tonight. This historic exhibition is mounted on the 50th anniversary of the Party's founding. It is an in-depth chronicle of the controversial and revolutionary organization—presented at a time … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, January 22: Jasper Johns | Between the Clock and the Bed at Gagosian Between the Clock and the Bed—an exhibition of historic works by Jasper Johns at Gagosian in partnership with Castelli Gallery—surveys the crosshatch paintings and drawings that dominated his practice from 1973 to 1983 and have reverberated across his subsequent production. Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of this body of … Read the full Story >>
Q: What are some of your favorite things about living and working in Barcelona? A: I was born and grew up in Pamplona, a small city in the north of Spain. When I was 23, after working as a musician, exhibition installer and bookseller, among other things, I felt the call of my vocation and moved to Barcelona to study graphic design. After 17 … Read the full Story >>
Toppling monuments to 20th century dictators—Stalin, Lenin, Sadam Hussein among them—has had tremendous mass appeal. But in recent years, conflicting beliefs in the meaning of Civil War Monuments has become a potent subject for discussion, especially after recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia and other cities across the nation. On Monday, October 23, a panel discussion on the subject, Monument, Myth & Meaning will take … Read the full Story >>
TWO EVENTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO ILLUSTRATORS are on in New York next week. First, the AI25 and AP22 Silver and Scarlett Gala, Thursday November 9, at the Angel Orensanz Foundation. RSVP today. Then on Saturday, November 11, Parsons The New School for Design presents Illustration Today, an all-day symposium offering spirited discussions about the state of the art. More than … Read the full Story >>
I wanted to talk about the exhibits and my stay in Arles, but that is all very subjective and I'm not a critic anyway. I'm a photographer and I come to the Rencontres each year to get inspired, upset and sometimes even bored—it’s the stimulation and response that matters. I also thought about writing a diary of my stay. But who else would be … Read the full Story >>
Last chance, Wednesday, August 13: Mary Temple + Nathan Dilworth at Half Please go by the images here since this, from the website, is not much to go on: In the 1970s. Robert Frank and his wife June Leaf began spending summers in Nova Scotia, vacating New York for more wide-open spaces. Outside their house in Mabou, they hung a clothesline both for laundry … Read the full Story >>
Among the great artists of mid-century America, Helen Frankenthaler is now receiving a share of recognition long overdue. Currently featured in MoMAs Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, and in a solo show at Gagosian, Paris, two sides of the artist’s formidable output are further explored in exhibitions opening this weekend at The Clark Institute, in Williamstown, Massachusetts. As in Nature: Helen … Read the full Story >>
In 1972, artist Faith Ringgold dedicated a painting to the women incarcerated at Rikers Island, the notorious jail complex in New York City. Titled “For the Women’s House,” the work is a message of possibility and perseverance, depicting women of different ages and ethnicities in diverse roles inspired by Ringgold’s interviews with detainees. It was conceived, in the artist’s words, to … Read the full Story >>
Live, In PersonMonday, November 17, 7 pm PhilipGefter | Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe, a conversation with Edmund White. SVA Theater, 333 West 23rd Street, NY, NY. Information. Live Screening NYCFriday, November 14, 10 am-Saturday, November 15, 5:40 pm Creative Time Summit Stockholm. Live screening, The New School, 66 West 12th Street, NY, NY. Information. Live streamanywhere. In a collaboration between the New … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs & Special EventsTonight - SOLD OUT - LIVE STREAM CREATIVE TIME CO-HOSTS FREE SPEECH TALK AT MoMA WITH MoMA PS1, THOMSON REUTERS Like many around the globe, people in the arts are contemplating the complex issues of free speech after the tragic events at Charlie Hebdo. Tonight, watch as Creative Time, MoMA PS1, and The Museum of Modern Art–in association with … Read the full Story >>
Looking at contact prints from thousands of 35mm black-and-white images by a single photographer might seem like a daunting prospect. But when I finally dove into Daido Moriyama’s Labyrinth (Akio Nagasawa Publishing/Aperture 2012), I was hooked. The book is a collection of images made by the renowned Japanese photographer from the 1950s onward and rearranged by him to create new visual dialogues. He has selected negative … 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 grew up in the Northern suburbs of Chicago, but later moved to Brooklyn to attend Pratt Institute. I lived there for about 11 years, but then moved back to Chicago to be closer to my family and to have a little … Read the full Story >>
Deadline Approaching Midnight Monday, December 3 is the deadline for the 2013 CCNY Darkroom Residency Program Call for Entries. The CCNY Darkroom Residency offers photographers living in New York City much-needed workspace in New York City as well as access to the CCNY community and programs. Open Call For Entries. Tuesday, November 27 Book signing, 6-8 pm: Henry Leutwyler | Ballet (Steidl 2012). Dashwood Books, … Read the full Story >>
Special Events January 12-February 12 Month of Photography | Los Angeles. Panels, presentations, exhibitions, , and more, at various venues. Info Wednesday, January 4 Philip Cheung | The Edge, 6-9 pm. Circuit Gallery, 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto, ON Info Thursday, January 5 Jan Dibbets, 6-8 pm. Peter Freeman, Inc., 140 Grand Street, NY, NY Info Peter Agren, Ronaldo Agular, Larry Dais, Myra … Read the full Story >>
Continuing through November 26: Phyllidia Barlow | Prank at City Hall Park Phyllida Barlow (British, 1944–2023) created PRANK, a new series of seven steel and fiberglass sculptures, for City Hall Park, all based on a familiar object that might be found at home. These recreations have been rotated, repeated, and stacked to create awkward, improbable structures. PRANK was completed before Barlow’s untimely death … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Tuesday, June 13 39th Annual Museum Mile Festival, 6-9 pm. Free admission to seven institutions between 82nd-105th Streets. Info Thursday, June 14-Sunday June 25 16th Annual River to River Festival. Various locations in Lower Manhattan. Info Kick-off party: Wednesday, June 14, Pier A Harbor House, 6-8 pm. RSVP Friday, June 16-Saturday, June 17 Typographics@Cooper Union conference. The Great Hall at … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Izmir, Turkey what are some of your favorite things about living and working in the Bay Area? A: I was born and raised in Turkey, then I lived in San Francisco for 10 years and just moved to Oakland this past year. San Francisco’s fast-pace life style became exhausting so we moved to Oakland for a more diverse, creative, and quieter … Read the full Story >>
Editor's note: This week’s “Over the Fold” feature, Object Form: Thomas Stavovy, is adapted from an exhibition review by sculptor Marco Palli. The Box | Thomas Stavovy, the current artist in residency in the Dumbo Sculpture Studio and Gallery of the New York Studio School (NYSS), recently opened his doors for The Dumbo Open Studios. This exhibition (which continues through June … Read the full Story >>
Martine Fougeron, whose work is regularly seen on the pages of the New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, and The New Yorker, among others, is a quintessential New Yorker, transplanted from France. Her exhibition, Teen Tribe, continues at the Gallery at Hermès through November 8th. Martine stopped shooting last week long enough to do this Q&A for DART:How were you first introduced to photography? I … Read the full Story >>
