My best friend Eric and I were each carrying part of the drafting table up Seventh Avenue. One would carry the metal legs and one would carry the top. We would occasionally switch off who would carry the desk top because it was so heavy. It was August of 1990; I was 19 years old and I was about to start my second year … Read the full Story >>
Peter Hujar was a leading figure of the downtown New York scene of the 1970s and ’80s—a period of highly experimental art, theater, music and club culture. He is most well known for his sensitive portraits of New York City’s avant-garde artists, musicians, writers, and performers, featuring personalities such as Susan Sontag, William S. Burroughs, Fran Lebowitz, David Wojnarowicz, Andy Warhol, Candy Darling, and … Read the full Story >>
Continuing through April 2: The New Bend at Hauser & Wirth Curated by Legacy Russell, Executive Director & Chief Curator of The Kitchen, ‘The New Bend’ brings together 12 contemporary artists working in the raced, classed, and gendered traditions of quilting and textile practice – Anthony Akinbola, Eddie R. Aparicio, Dawn Williams Boyd, Diedrick Brackens, Tuesday Smillie, Tomashi Jackson, Genesis Jerez, Basil Kincaid, … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from New Jersey what are some of your favorite things about living and working in the Garden State? A: It’s where I grew up, it’s familiar. My family and friends are here. And being so close to NYC (about 20 miles) there’s diversity in the culture and people. Q: Do you keep a sketchbook? What is the balance between art you … Read the full Story >>
Works by Louise Bourgeois (1911 Paris-2010 New York), an artist of international reknown, are currently on view at MoMA/New York, SFMOMA, and at MassMOCA, at last count. Much has been written about the motivations that propelled her aggressive and multivalent art works that range from massive bronze sculptures to small books stitched out of cloth. Using the body as a primary form, Bourgeois explored … Read the full Story >>
Sunday, June 6 | Opening Day Cézanne Drawing at the Museum of Modern ArtMoMA presents a major exhibition offering a new look at the celebrated modern artist Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) through close attention to his process in pencil and watercolor and fresh insights into this profoundly original yet lesser-known body of work. Cézanne Drawing is the first major effort in the United States to unite drawings from … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Thursday, March 30-Sunday, April 3 The Affordable Art Fair. The Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, NY, NY. Info Thursday, March 30-Monday, April 4 Art Paris Art Fair. Grand Palais, Paris, France. Info Saturday, April 2-Sunday, April 3 2016 MoCCA Arts Festival, 11am-6 pm. Metropolitan West, 11th Avnue at 46th Street, NY, NY. Info. Philadelphia Art Book Fair. The Annex on Flbert, 830 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, PA. Info Talk … Read the full Story >>
A graphic novel, The Women Who Changed Art Forever, just out from Laurence King Publishing, offers a fresh perspective on four trailblazers of feminist art: Judy Chicago, Faith Ringgold, Ana Mendieta and the Guerilla Girls. Written by Valentina Grande, an art historian, and illustrated by Eva Rossetti, the book tells the story of how each of these artists have drawn from the strengths … Read the full Story >>
While having opposable thumbs sets us apart from the animal kingdom, the ability to hold a shard of charcoal, or any other mark-making stick, and draw, makes us human. For most artists, drawing is often the bridge from procrastination to expression—the quickest shift from being fogged in to being focused. Above: Francesco Clemente, “5-22-2020”, courtesy of Levy Gorvy. In the invitational exhibition currently … Read the full Story >>
This month, the art on view around the country embraces themes running the gamut from politics, environmental consciousness, moral conflict, greed, revenge and malice, power, anxiety, truth, and fear. And that's just for three exhibitions opening next week in New York. If you'd like to bathe your eyes in beauty, check out the 33 original posters created by 8 artists for Washington, D.C.'s Arena … 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 >>
Every week I receive information about artist-in-residence programs and am intrigued by the most far-flung of these; the Arctic Circle Residency, and another in Newfoundland stand out. The most unusual so far is the Nida Art Colony, located on the Curonian Spit, a 98 km long peninsula separating Lithuania’s Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea. The Curonian Spit is included in the UNESCO … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Barcelona what are some of your favorite things about living and working traveling around? A: I decided to leave Barcelona because I realized I was able to work from anywhere. This discovery was mind-blowing for me. Suddenly I was able to move wherever and see the world, so I did. I moved to Bristol, then to Finland and now I’m moving … Read the full Story >>
Q: Born in Germany, what are some of your favorite things about living and working near the Rockies? A: My family was an Air Force family—and I was the youngest of four children. All of my formative years, after leaving Germany, were spent ship-wrecked in a small desert town in Nevada. In contrast to my siblings who experienced traveling the world, I grew up … Read the full Story >>
If you were to curate a photography exhibition presenting new work by artists who have never been shown or published before – beyond blogs, YouTube, and POD – where would you begin? When he answered that question five years ago, William A. Ewing, then director of Musee de l’Elysee, in Lausanne, Switzerland hoped to identify some of the stars of the future. “The … Read the full Story >>
Seth, a cartoonist known for creating a deep sense of longing for times and places that have never existed, continues his autobiographical exploration of the mythical city of Dominion, Ontario, Canada in his upcoming books Palookaville 22 and 23. This week, an exhibition of 80 drawings from these books goes on view at Adam Baumgold Gallery. In these meticulously worked drawings, Seth stitches together … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, November 16, 6-8 pm; Barbara Nessim | Drawings at Derek Eller Balancing Act: Drawings 1969-1974 brings together a collection of portrait drawings by pioneering artist Barbara Nessim. These depictions of enigmatic female archetypes reflected the zeitgeist of a pivotal moment in women’s history by an artist who broke through the barriers in a male-dominated field and went on to become a … Read the full Story >>
This week The Museum of Modern Art opens a fashion show – its first in 70 years. Items: Is Fashion Modern? asks a question whose answer lands squarely in the sensibility of the know-it-all now-ness that is New York City. While Paris has been the capital of couture, New York is the place where some of the past century’s most culture-defining garments have originated, … 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’m originally from Orange County, California (just outside the gates of the Real Housewives); now I live in Queens and work out of my studio in Brooklyn. I've pretty much centered my life around my work. I don't know that a lot … Read the full Story >>
Sunday, April 7: Last chance for Going Dark | The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility This exhibition, which fills the Guggenheim’s rotunda, is predicated on a duality: works of art that present the figure, yet obscure it in some way, thus existing at the “edge of visibility.” The exhibition asserts that these experimentations in figuration across media—painting, photography, drawing, prints, sculpture, video, … Read the full Story >>
