While sex in cinema [Hollywood-made anyway] has been nearly absent for more than a decade, it thankfully still maintains a home in the world of fashion. On a tip from a Paris cohort I am delighted to present a new book from Kahl Editions, Alice Rosati’s I am a Mermaid, prints from which are on display at Galerie Charraudeau, rue Bonaparte, … Read the full Story >>
In 1964 a young female artist from Louisiana arrived in New York and began creating a body of work that subsequently turned the macho art world on its ear. This was Lynda Benglis, who was inspired by Jackson Pollock’s action painting and Helen Frankenthaler’s gestural art, among other things. Taking a physical approach to art-making, she also made self-presentation and performance part of her … Read the full Story >>
Tauba Auerbach, whose work was recently seen in the exhibition Feverish Library at Petzel Gallery in Chelsea, also in last year’s Whitney Biennale, is an artist who turns commonplace items inside out through her mathematical analyses. On receiving Harper Levine’s announcement this week about one in Auerbach’s series of objects as books, Marble, I looked around for more information on her work and process. The following, … Read the full Story >>
For two days this week, The Times Center in New York became home to a creative conference with a difference. Scott Belsky, CEO and Founder of Behance and Josh Rubin, Editor of Cool Hunting, the organizers of the 99% Conference, chose to focus on the execution of inspirational ideas rather than on simply having them. They dared the audience of nearly 400 … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond Monday, September 11-Sunday, September 17 & September 21-24 Photoville 2017. Exhibitions, Workshops, Talks, Screenings, Beer Garden/Food Trucks, Dog Run, and more! Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY Info [Dumbo] Monday, September 11-Suday, September 17 After School Special | Film and Animation Festival featuring Bill Plympton, Mark Ulano, and more. SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd … Read the full Story >>
The Future Was Then | The Changing Face of Facist Italy at Poster House In a fascist movement inspired by art, how does the fascist government influence the artists living in its grasp? This exhibition explores how Benito Mussolini’s government created a broad-reaching culture that grew with and into the Futurist movement to claw into advertising, propaganda, and the very heart of … Read the full Story >>
Gender fluidity, the subject of a new book by Mariette Pathy Allen, is being celebrated at a pop-up exhibition and book launch at ClampArt next Thursday, December 14th. The event coincides with Aperture magazine's release of "Future Gender," a landmark issue dedicated to the representation of transgender lives, communities, and histories in photography guest-edited by Zackary Drucker, an artist, activist, and … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Saturday, November 21-Sunday November 22 American Fine Craft Show at the Brooklyn Museum. 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY. Info Designer Con 2015 | Collectible toys, designer goods, urban, underground and pop art. Pasadena Convention Center Exhibit Hll, 300 East Green Street, Pasadena, CA. Info Talks / Screenings / Beyond Tuesday, November 17 SPD presents: Richard Baker on Barak Obama | … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, April 17 New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium presents: Cento Lodigiani, 7 pm. The New School, 66 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY Info Mike Cloud, painting today, 7 pm. The Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, NY, NY Info Marticia Sawin | Playing with Fire: Direct Metal Sculpture in the 1950s, 7:30 … Read the full Story >>
As an artist, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Brooklyn? Brooklyn is, for better or worse, a very "culturally relevant" place in design culture right now. Being "a creative" has come to encapsulate and signify more than simply what one does or how one makes money. But the fact remains that Brooklyn and New York City still attract some extremely … Read the full Story >>
Opening day, 10:30 am-8 pm: XL | 19 New Acquisitions in Photography Featuring a selection of recent acquisitions by an international, cross-generational group of artists, XL: 19 New Acquisitions in Photography addresses photography's influential role in contemporary art. These primarily multi-part and serial works, which are being shown at MoMA for the first time, range from postwar experiments with darkroom processes (such as photograms and photomontages), … Read the full Story >>
Steven Heller and Lita Talarico, co-founders of the MFA Designer as Author Program at School of Visual Arts, cast a net across the globe to gather almost 200 type designers, illustrators, and identity designers on the subject of typography sketchbooks. Last night at the New York Pubic Library they presented their findings in the form of the door-stopper-size Typography Sketchbooks (Princeton Architectural Press 2011), … Read the full Story >>
Art as Infrastructure: Alamo [“The Astor Place Cube”] Tony Rosenthal (1914-2009) created "Alamo" in 1967 as a temporary installation commissioned by the city's Department of Cultural Affairs, but its stay became permanent after local residents petitioned the city. It is made of six eight-by-eight-foot panels of Cor-Ten steel and weighs about 1,800 pounds. Its surface features geometric indentations and grooves, and it turns … Read the full Story >>
Madison Square Park opened its 40th public art installation yesterday with a work by Bronx native, Abigale DeVille (American, b. 1981). The Light of Freedom, an assemblage consisting of found objects, refers to both Lady Liberty’s torch, which was on view in the park from 1876 to 1882, and to the legacy of enslaved peoples in America. Photo above: Andy Romer Photography for Madison … Read the full Story >>
For young artists and designers seeking advice and inspiration, the Distinguished Alumnus Lecture Series at the School of Visual Arts offers plenty of both. Last night at the SVA Theater, Julia Hoffman, creative director of advertising and graphic design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, discusses her life and career. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Hoffmann earned her BFA in Graphic Design … Read the full Story >>
The NYCxDesign festival gives space to artisans, manufacturers and students showing off their latest inventions in architecture, landscape design, interior design, product design and more. This annual, citywide celebration highlights hundreds of events - from exhibits and trade shows to talks and tours - drawing design enthusiasts from around the globe. As the city's most influential design event, the festival provides a dynamic … Read the full Story >>
FOR DEVOTEES OF COMICS - OR COMIX, THE UNDERGROUND KIND - a lollapaloozer of an exhibit is now on view in the New York area. Not just one, but two - and up to four, if you pay close attention. "Masters of American Comics," a two-part exhibition that traces the evolution of this most American of art forms, runs concurrently at The Jewish Museum … Read the full Story >>
In August of 1953, Look magazine sent Tony Vaccaro on assignment to East Hampton to photograph Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner for a feature article. The piece was killed, but Vaccaro filed away the black and white images. Out of sight for six decades, the negatives and contact sheets were recently uncovered during a move. Among the people he captured at work and … Read the full Story >>
Q: What are some of your favorite things about living and working in your hometown? A: I work and live in a small city in the northwest of Spain, A Coruña. It is a very nice city on the coast. I love the sea, and living at the seashore is a privilege. I like to go to the beach in summer, but also in winter. The light … Read the full Story >>
Q: What are some of your favorite things about living and working in New York? A: I'm from North Carolina. In New York, there's very little that I could want that isn't immediately available. But also, my friends are here. So even when I don't see them, I have this feeling of being architecturally not-alone. Does that make sense? Q: Do you keep a sketchbook? What is … Read the full Story >>
