Arts and Book Fairs Thursday, April 3-Sunday, April 6 The ABBA presents: The 2014 New York Antiquarian Book Fair. Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, NY, NY. Information. Thursday, April 3-Sunday, April 6 The Affordable Art Fair, Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, NY, NY. Information. Friday, April 4-Sunday, April 6 ArtExpo New York. Pier 94, 711 12th Avenue at … Read the full Story >>
A new year. New prizes. New judges. The American Photography Open 2021 competition is now accepting entries, and this year's edition of the contest looks to be the biggest yet. American Photography is known around the world for its juried competition for professional photographers, but in 2018 we launched the AP Open competition for photography enthusiasts at all levels shooting with any type of … Read the full Story >>
The Paris salons that Gertrude Stein hosted at the beginning of the 20th century, first with her brothers Leo and Michael (with his wife Sarah), and later, her life companion Alice B. Toklas, had a lasting influence on the American taste for Modernism and the Avant Garde. Exhibitions coast to coast are celebrating what became something of an epicenter for the arts, in Paris, … Read the full Story >>
Adrian Tomine came to New York, Brooklyn, to be precise, from Berkeley, California, in 2004. Right away, he got a steady gig doing illustrations for The New Yorker. In the autobiographical strip that introduces his new book, New York Drawings (Design&Quarterly), he says that he finds it hard to believe that he works for the only magazine he’s ever subscribed … Read the full Story >>
March 15-April 27 Fotofest 2014 Biennial. FotoFest's own exhibitions for the 15th International Biennial of Photography and Photo-related Art Biennial will focus on Contemporary Arab Video, Photography and Multi Media art. The Biennial will showcase 48 contemporary Arab artists using photography and related visual media to address a broad range of aesthetic and cultural values impacting Arab culture. FotoFest has commissioned one of the world’s leading experts on contemporary … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs & Special Events Tuesday, March 3—Thursday, March 5 Harper’s Books presents Rare Book Room at The Carlyle Hotel. 35 East 76th Street, NY, NY. Information @harpersbooks. Ask for the Harper's Books Suite at the front desk. Wednesday, March 4- Sunday, March 8 ADAA | The Art Show, Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, NY, NY. Information … Read the full Story >>
Amy Elkins exchanged letters with prisoners on death row, and she interspersed those letters with images created in an effort to capture the interior landscapes evoked in these correspondences: imagined seascapes; re-creations of items described by prisoners; a prison lunch tray purchased on eBay. She created color portraits of inmates by pixelating and obscuring their faces according to the amount of time each individual … Read the full Story >>
The International Center of Photography's third Triennial, Dress Codes, is also the final installment in the ICP's exhibition cycle, A Year in Fashion. A global survey of photography and video art, the triennial is the only photography exhibition program of its kind in America. This year's edition raises the bar on what has already been a dynamic take on new and innovative … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Taiwan, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Queens? A: Working in Queens allows me to conveniently connect to the art community and resources around Manhattan, but at the same time have more space (physically and mentally) compared to the crowded downtown. Also, the place I live is full of choices of Asian food, which I … Read the full Story >>
Last March, the School of Visual Arts, where I teach, switched from in-person to online on the 11th. On March 12, as I waited for my wife to fly back to New York from a trip, I packed the car with art supplies and a portfolio of more than 30 unfinished drawings for my latest print series, as well my graphic novel-in-progress, Belfaust. … Read the full Story >>
Growth can be slow and hard when you are groping alone. It quickens when you meet other photographers who have worked and thought intensively about their medium. You listen, and ask, and a phrase sticks in your memory like a barb. You see a photograph that blazes with significance. Suddenly a way of working, dim till then, comes clear before you.—Minor White, 1952. … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from America, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Toronto A: I was born in the States but my parents moved to Canada when I was 3 months old. I've lived in areas surrounding Toronto all my life and currently I'm located in North York—one of Toronto’s districts which is a little more suburban. I like how … Read the full Story >>
Continuing through August 20 at Pace Gallery, NYC Alicja Kwade | TransForm Alicja Kwade transforms materials and environs into immersive laboratories where viewers are encouraged to question their understanding of the universe that surrounds them—as she did last summer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Commission. What defines an object in Kwade’s scenarios is based on the subjective interpretation of the viewer, … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs / Special Events Monday-Sunday, July 6-12 Opening Week | Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles. Information. Friday-Monday, July 9-13 Art Southampton. Nova's Art Project, 60 Millstone Road, Watermill, NY. Information Friday-Sunday, July 9-12 Market Art + Design, Fairview Farm at Mecox, 19 Horsemill Lane, Bridgehampton, NY. Information. Lectures / Discussions / Screenings / Performance Tuesday, July 7 The Lunchtime Lecture Series presents, Chrissie Iles, the … 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 live in a fishing village in Sicily, Italy. I recently left my studio in the city center to work from an old camper van. I have a few favorite spots near my home where I can park my camper van studio. (Think … Read the full Story >>
Chain Reaction: The Photography of Patrick Nagatani The exhibition features the entire Nuclear Enchantment series, a powerful body of work made between 1988 and 1993, which deals with the history of nuclear weapons development in New Mexico, as well as the effects of this industry on the people and places there. As a Japanese-American whose parents were both put in internment camps during WWII, … Read the full Story >>
The noted video journalist and TV documentary maker Travis Fox was an early adopter of drone aerial photography, and has since gone on to teach City University of New York's first drone journalism course at the CUNY Newmark Journalism School. His new book, Remains to be Seen (Daylight 2020) explores a disappearing but still tangible American landscape. Amid abandoned industrial sites, amusement parks, and shuttered … Read the full Story >>
The Embedded Stitch | Wen-Jen Deng Wen-JengDeng’s work will be on view at Manhattan’s Tenri Cultural Institute in the exhibition The Embedded Stitch – Contemporary Fiber Art from Taiwan, which opened last Friday. The title of the show draws inspiration from The Subversive Stitch(1984) by British art historian Rozsika Parker, whose influential study explored the historical relationship between women and embroidery, … Read the full Story >>
"The term 'Immagini Italian' may evoke the various travels delineated by Goethe, D.H. Lawrence, Mark Twain, and others; or, one might envision Paul Strand's people of Luzzara; the Venice of Palladio and Canaletto, or Alfred Stieglitz's Venetian boy. Pictures of piazzas articulated by magnificent duomos, packs of tourists with umbrella-waving guides, landscapes - seductive, verdant, timeless, surreal, Felliniesque - all come to mind. And … Read the full Story >>
Wangechi Mutu, an artist who divides her time between New York and her native Nairobi, has made her presence felt here since the late 1990s. Once moved in to study at the New School, then earning her BA at Cooper Union School of Art and later an MFA at Yale, she began making art that went against the grain of prevailing trends. She made … Read the full Story >>
