The 2017 Summer Invitational: Pimp Your Sketchbook, in which artists show their personal work and open a window onto their creative process, continues with Joy Hecht, who travels the world for her work. She doesn’t exactly keep a sketchbook, but puts her experiences onto paper using scissors and glue instead. I wouldn't say that I regularly use sketchbooks as part of my art … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, Sept 28, 6-8pm: Book signing for Rodney Smith at Staley-Wise Join curator/editor Paul Martineau and Leslie Smolan for a book signing in conjunction with the exhibition, Rodney Smith: A Leap of Faith. Above: Self-portrait with Leslie Smolan, 1990 This exhibition reflects a marriage of precise order and geometry with surrealism and eccentricity within Rodney Smith’s images. Paul Martineau, Curator of Photographs … Read the full Story >>
When Paul Buckley, Creative Director for Penguin Classics, sent me a copy of his new book, Classic Penguin/Cover to Cover, I jumped at the chance to slack off for a good read. It’s no lie that I’m a big fan of Paul’s work over the years [more]. It’s also true that I ran away from home at age 4.5 years to … Read the full Story >>
Seth, a cartoonist known for creating a deep sense of longing for times and places that have never existed, has done it again-this time with a book that celebrates all things cartooning, with a distinctively Canadian flavor. Pages from The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists, by Seth. Copyright the artist, courtesy Adam Baumgold Gallery. In the mythical city of … Read the full Story >>
Smart phones and social media make it possible for anyone to become a celebrity—if only in their own minds and in those of their best “friends.” But while the book on celebrity culture is yet to be written, the photos have already been made. Annie Leibovitz, the photographer whose work for Rolling Stone (1970 to 1983) elevated the genre to an art form, will … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Thursday, July 28-Saturday, August 13 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! continues at the Prospect Park Bandshell with free performances and screenings. Info Talks / Discussions / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, July 26, 16 Patricia Cronin & Maura Reilly in conversation, 6 pm. FLAG Art Foundation, 545 West 25th Street, NY, NY Info A-I-R Talk with WNYC, 7 pm. Jordan Casteel, … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Burgundy, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Paris? A: I grew up among the cows, the changing seasons and good wine. I came to Paris to study graphic arts and it was love at first sight because I love the rain in Paris, the Magritte sky, café terraces, walks along the Seine and so … Read the full Story >>
The drawing practice of Daniel Clarke, a Paris-based artist from Southampton, New York, is brought to life in a new book from Steidl. Comprised of 66 color images of his mostly large-scale works in a mix of charcoal, watercolor and pastel, at times incorporating found paper and collage—together with an interview by photographer and filmmaker, Diana Michener—the book offers an intimate view of … Read the full Story >>
Horace Poolaw, of the Kiowa tribe, took thousands of photos of his multitribal community around Anadarko, Oklahoma, between the 1920s and 1950s. A selection of his images appears in a new volume, For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw (Yale 2014), which accompanies the National Museum of the American Indian’s exhibition of the same name, which opens next week. Info Spanning … Read the full Story >>
Save the date: June 29-July 2 | ICON11 in Kansas City ICON: The Illustration Conference is a 4-day eventfeaturing paper presentations by top educators, workshops led by and for illustrators, a marketplace, an exhibition showing original works, a juried animation screening, 2-full days of mainstage presentations, opportunities to meet your heroes, reconnect with friends, and rub elbows with that special … Read the full Story >>
When the first pie chart appeared, in England, in the 1780s, it opened the floodgates to oceans of data, information and visual graphics central to global developments in trade and economics. By the time of Napoleon’s disastrous retreat from Moscow in 1812, the most influential data graphic so far presented the six changing variables that lead to his downfall in single diagram created by … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Japan what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Queens New York? A: I’m originally from Kagoshima, Japan. It is definitely the Deep South of Japan where the accent is as thick as pork fat. Currently I live and work in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York. Every day I smell all kinds of spices, see vivid colors … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Buenos Aires, what are some of the things you like best about living and working in New York A: I always felt New York was a very stimulating place. That is what made me move here to study art in the first place. How and when did you first become interested in art and illustration? I have been interested in art since … Read the full Story >>
Last week, a new set of first class postage stamps was unveiled by the United States Postal Service at Ricco Maresca Gallerly, in Chelsea. The honor conferred on the artist, Martín Ramirez, has been a long time coming; in conjunction with the issue, the gallery is presenting an exhibition of work by Ramirez. Following are extracts from the archives of Folk Art magazine, the publication of the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM), … Read the full Story >>
Currently on view at Japan Society, When Practice Becomes Form: Carpentry Tools from Japan, features a diverse array of hand tools—planes, axes, saws—and joinery techniques that have been used to build Japan’s wooden architectural masterpieces for hundreds of years—from temples and shrines to bridges. In the press release, gallery director Yukie Kamiya says, “This year is the 50th anniversary of the landmark building … Read the full Story >>
Ten years ago Michael Itkoff and Taj Forer launched Daylight, an innovative publisher of art photography that explores the documentary mode alongside the more conceptual concerns of fine art. Now celebrating its tenth anniversary, Daylight just announced its list of spring books that cover a compelling array of topics and issues: the struggles of LGBTQ men and women in the US military; the transgender community in Cuba which enjoys greater … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, February 16, 6:00-8:00pm: Posturing | Kathy Osborn & Bradley Wood at Susan Eley The word “posturing” is defined as calculated or affectatious behavior: aware of oneself and projecting a deliberate, specified image. For Kathy Osborn—her posturing is generated from a stage, a scene. She collects vintage dollhouses and sets up intricate vignettes in her studio. Each is precisely lit to add drama to … Read the full Story >>
David Goldblatt, the South African photographer who bore witness to a society that perpetuated the brutal injustices of apartheid, captured the tension between the sharp contours of racial difference and photography’s power to mediate historical realities. Peter MacGill, his New York representative, announced yesterday that Goldblatt had passed away, in Johannesburg. Following is a feature about his 2009 retrospective at the New Museum. For … Read the full Story >>
Digital image-making and -sharing platforms, the ubiquity of social media and the camera in every pocket has radically altered today’s visual culture. With Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change, continuing through May 7, the International Center of Photography delves into the ways in which the immediacy of events alters individual perception of the world and, in a larger sense, speeds up the … Read the full Story >>
Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? | The Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? features Wangechi Mutu’s new hybrid busts, full-scale figural sculptures, films and collages—mythologies of Afrofuturism, posthumanism and feminism, in dialogue with notable European historical works from antiquity to Impressionism within the Legion of Honor Museum. Photos by Gary Sexton, courtesy of The Fine Arts … Read the full Story >>
