In his Introduction to the catalogue that accompanies Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed, currently on view at the Met Breuer, Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgård wrote, If you have ever stood in a room in front of a painting by Munch, or Van Gogh or Rembrandt for that matter, you will know that part of the painting’s magic is that … 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 >>
Hanna Barczyk is a Jersey City, NJ-based illustrator and artist. Barczyk's sophisticated work is representative of her diverse background: She has a Hungarian mother, grew up in Germany, and went to school in Toronto, where she still lives part-time. Among her many cited influences are Polish and Cuban poster art; both are reflected in her stylish, colorful, and very smart poster-like conceptual illustrations. Barczyk … 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 >>
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 Missouri, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Brooklyn? A: Well, it is very stimulating and I never feel bored. I go to a lot of concerts, movies, and art shows that I don't think I would have access to anywhere else, and I get to ride my bike everywhere because I am pretty centrally located in … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Winchester, Indiana, what are some of your favorite things about living and working not far from your old hometown? A: I was born and raised on a small dairy farm an hour and a half east of Indianapolis, Indana. After Living in Cincinnati and then Los Angles, my wife and I landed back in Indiana 15 years ago to start a … Read the full Story >>
This week PPD will be devoting itself to looking back at the year in photography, pulling together images and stories featured in previous posts and adding some new ones. Today we look at a few of the trends in photography from 2015, from the top images on Flickr and the cameras they were made with to a list of the best and most popular … Read the full Story >>
A few days ago I was dodging raindrops after grabbing a cup of coffee at Cafe Grumpy in Chelsea. I was wet, caffeinated, and in a hurry to get to my office. As I blew past the storefront windows of the Lyons Wier Ortt Gallery on the corner of Seventh Avenue and 20th Street, I stopped. And then I doubled back and stared. I … Read the full Story >>
Whenever I encounter one of Saul Steinberg's ink drawings by his very human patchwork cat character, especially one in which he draws swooping spirals that soar upwards, releasing all kinds of whimsical figures, I'm reminded of a Chinese poem that begins, "I think, therefore I am a butterfly." The imaginary worlds that unfold on even the smallest of Steinberg's notebook pages have offered laughter, … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Discussions / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, August 16 Takuro Hinokio | Live Painting performance/with Jasmine Lee on Cello, 7-10 pm. Ouchi Gallery, 170 Tillary Streeet, Brooklyn, NY Info Wednesday, August 17 Screening: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972), 7pm/sundown. Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, NY Info Thursday, August 18 Sarah Singh + Rey Paris ? … Read the full Story >>
It was just three years ago (or so) that we first started seeing stories about small helicopter-like devices capable of carrying cameras aloft, and it didn't take a genius to understand the possibilities that drones had to revolutionize photography and filmmaking. The skyrocketing popularity of drones has made billionaires out of some entrepreneurs, such as Frank Wang of Chinese drone maker DJI, who are … Read the full Story >>
Talk / Discussion / Screening / and Beyond Tuesday, June 28 SVA Lunchtime Lecture Series presents: Jerry Saltz, 12:30-2 pm. Room 501H, 335 West 16th Street, NY, NY. Info Wednesday, June 29 Prix Canson 2016 finalist, ruby onyinyechi amanze and Prix Canson 2016 juror, Amanda Hunt, 6 pm. The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, NY, NY Info Strike Art | Contemporary Art … Read the full Story >>
Originally from Hong Kong, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in New York? The Illustration Community, Society of Illustrators, the Food, the Museums, the Music Scene.etc. The real question is, what’s NOT to love about New York? How and when did you first become interested in art and illustration? As a kid, I always loved to draw. My parents were very … Read the full Story >>
The 2017 Summer Invitational: Pimp Your Sketchbook, in which artists show their personal work and open a window onto their creative process, continues with Eric Nyquist, who lives and works in L.A. My sketchbooks are so important to my work process. As with every creative practice, sometimes the ideas come easily, and sometimes they just don’t. Sketching is a building process. One sketch might … Read the full Story >>
With four full weeks of summertime ahead, this is a great time for painting and drawing in the wild…well, let's say, under the sun. So, dive in! Above: Central Park's Bow Bridge, a favorite subject for painting in the wild The New York Public Library Art Cart offers drawing and crafts most days on the North end of the Fifth Avenue terrace at … Read the full Story >>
Q: What are some of your favorite things about living and working in London? A: I’ve been here my whole life really, apart from a few years away at university. After graduating around five years ago I moved to East London. There’s lots of creative people to meet around here, and good galleries too. The galleries and museums in central London are great and … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Dallas, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Portland, Maine? A: I was actually born in Portland, Maine, but went through most of my growing pains in the suburbs of Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. I currently reside back in lovely Portland. I have to say, after living eight hours away from the nearest beach growing up, I … Read the full Story >>
Whew, yeah, it's hot outside. So sip something cool and catch up up on some reading from the past month. Learn about the new community of Black women photographers pushing to fix he industry's diversity problem. Find out why Pentax is sticking with DSLRs, and why SpaceX is responsible for ruin one photographer's pictures of Comet NEOWISE. Discover the five cinematography styles every film … Read the full Story >>
OpenAI, the maker of the DALL-E image generator and ChatGPT chatbot, swept the film world off its feet in February when it unveiled Sora, a text-to-video model that, as The New York Times put it, "creates videos that look as if they were lifted from a Hollywood movie." Reactions to the new tool have ranged from concern to outright panic. "AI-generated video is here … Read the full Story >>
