Gary Taxali is a master of communications - especially when it comes to the absurdities of life. Delving into the most basic forms of popular culture for inspiration, he elevates the comics genre and in the process creates single images that skewer popular assumptions with wit and whimsey. Steven Heller says of Gary's work, "[he] visually blends now with then. His style, inspired by … Read the full Story >>
Bruce Conner, the Bay Area artist whose work is currently on view at MoMA, was probably the most important mid-century American artist you are not aware of. He was the center of an inflammatory, close-knit community of artists called The Rat Bastard Protective Association, a group of artists who lived and worked in a building they dubbed Painterland, located in the Fillmore neighborhood of San Francisco in … Read the full Story >>
While the jury is still out on the acoustical reworking of the completely reconfigured home of the New York Philharmonic, the public is invited to visit the new David Geffen Hall for any reason that suits them. Come for a concert, a recital, a jazz performance or an after-school activity. Come for coffee, lunch, drinks or dinner. Come see the commissioned art on the … Read the full Story >>
What are some of your favorite things about living and working in Richmond, VA? I was born in South Carolina and have since lived in Germany, Texas, North Carolina, Nebraska, South Korea, Hawaii, Colorado, Florida, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia. Some of my favorite things about Richmond are the community of artists that I've shared a studio with (Ally Hodges, Josh George, Sterling Hundley, Aaron … Read the full Story >>
The celebrated Cuban-born artist and illustrator Edel Rodriguez was a Marielito—one of 125,000 who migrated to the United States in 1980 during the mass exodus called the Mariel Boatlift. This took place during a short-lived thaw in relations between the U.S. and Cuba. Edel’s family was on one of the first boats that landed in Key West. They lived in close quarters with another family in Miami until his … Read the full Story >>
The Norman Rockwell Museum Digital Collection, which was originally created to make the work of an iconic American artist accessible, has been expanded to include works by other artists. This online searchable database, ProjectNorman, now includes works by such artists as N.C. Wyeth, James Montgomery Flagg, and William Steig, to name a few. Last week, a major collection of artwork by Lynn Pauley … Read the full Story >>
As an author of books published in the UK who receives royalty payments—not only on book sales but also on fees paid for photocopying pages from my books, in libraries—I was excited to learn about the American Society for Collective Rights Licensing [ASCRL]. ASCRL, a membership organization based in Washington, D.C., is the only 501 C-6 not for profit tax exempt rights … Read the full Story >>
As I sit down to write this in Tokyo, at this moment, 11:37 at night on April 7, there is the most significant aftershock of the dozens I've felt in the two weeks since I've been here. This one lasted close to a minute. The main national TV channel NHK immediately shows a tsunami warning with a map of Japan and a red area … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, November 30 Artists Experiment | Emily Spivak: An Archive of everything worn to MoMA from 11.1.2017-1/28/2018, a conversation with Thessaly LaForce, 7 pm. Emily Spivack is an artist, writer, and editor whose work draws from contemporary culture, clothing, history, and our relationship to everyday objects. She is the author of Worn in New York (2017), a contemporary cultural history of New … Read the full Story >>
Walker Evans (1903 -1975) is the subject of a major exhibition organized by Clément Chéroux for Centre Pompidou, Paris and currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where he is now senior curator of photography. Info Throughout his 50-year career, first as an independent photographer, then as a contract photographer for the Farm Security Administration, later as art director and … Read the full Story >>
Art Fair ConfidentialArt Wynwood, February 14 - 18, 2013Featuring 70 international galleries featuring emerging, cutting edge, contemporary and modern works and will have its own distinct identity and design. A unique feature will be the highlight of street art, murals, pop surrealism and other genres from the Lowbrow movement. The Art Miami Pavilion, 3011 NE 1st Avenue, Miami, FL.Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, … Read the full Story >>
Continuing through January 29, 2022: Meghann Riepenhoff: Ice, Haines Gallery Meghann Riepenhoff, whose work was most recently seen in NYC at the New York Public Library, in 2019, lives and works in Bainbridge Island, WA. She creates her camera-less cyanotypes in collaboration with the elements, placing paper coated with homemade emulsion directly within the landscape. As they make contact with photographic materials, weather and water … Read the full Story >>
NoCal is a place all its own, with place names that say so: Grass Valley; Paradise; Eureka; Happy Camp, and the like. Its history as a Gold Rush town called Granite gave it a legacy of wealth overlaid by a free-wheeling spirit. Best known today for the Folsom Prison, it is also home to tech giant, Intel. So it’s not surprising that … Read the full Story >>
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA is an exploration of Latin American and Latino arts in dialogue with Lo Angeles, taking place from September 2017 through January 2018 at over 70 cultural institutions from Santa Barbara to San Diego and from Los Angeles to Palm Springs. Among the Southern California arts rooted in protest is the Chicano movement, which was born out of West Coast handstyle … Read the full Story >>
Taking place across three floors of the museum, this exhibition encapsulates the full range of Theaster Gates’s artistic activities, featuring artworks produced over the past twenty years and site-specific environments created especially for this presentation. Gates has titled the exhibition “Young Lords and Their Traces” in honor of the radical thinkers who have shaped his home city of Chicago and America as a whole. … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, September 5 Book signing, 6:30 pm: Water Politics in the Time of Drought | A Ditch in Time (Fulcrum 2012) by Patricia Nelson Limerick and Jason L. Hanson. Center for the American West, Boulder, CO. Information. Opening reception, 6-10 pm: Jennifer Mills | Low Middle High. Recession Art at CultureFix, 9 Clinton Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Nobuhito Nishigawara | … Read the full Story >>
I’m a Polaroid nut—in the sense that this instant picture-making invention has always been of significant interest. I got the SX-70 when it was launched because back in the day you didn’t have to wait six months for the manufacturer to get the bugs out. That’s the kind of company that Edwin H. Land founded, headed, and operated until it went bankrupt—not once, but … Read the full Story >>
Post-war America was a can-do place with a corporate and industrial ethos that created incredible prosperity for much of its citizenry. Upward mobility was a given; the ability of most families to own a car and a home accelerated the growth of suburbia; and consumerism became a top-down American way of life. It was the right time, and New York City was the right … Read the full Story >>
Mark Todd, an artist and illustrator whose work appears in all the right places, from Rolling Stone to Mtv to the New York Times, currently has a solo sow of his art at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in L.A. I caught up with him for an email interview this week; here’s what we wrote: Peggy Roalf: You have what many people – … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from North Carolina what are some of your favorite things about living and working in New York? A: Moving to New York was a sensory overload, but in the best way. I took a huge leap of faith and moved here without a job. A lot of people gave me the wary "good luck" when I left, but my motto was "be … Read the full Story >>
