As students began streaming back to NYC school yesterday, the lucky youngsters at PS 29, in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, were streaming through a big, bold, colorful mural to reach their classrooms. Created by Max Miller, a New York based artist, and titled Elementary (below), the mural was funded through a grant made by A Beautiful World Foundation, a not-for-profit which seeks to place … Read the full Story >>
Sunday, April 19, 1:30, Risha Gorig | The Journey at Prospect Park’s Boathouse The Journey depicts a flock of neon-pink kinetic birds suspended 15 feet in the air, wings catching and releasing with the wind. The work deploys allegory and ingenious engineering in equal measure, conjuring the act of migration as both literal phenomenon and lived condition.The installation is a reminder that destination … Read the full Story >>
DART Partners with the Arts at Museum of the City of New YorkSaturday, March 10, 2:00 pn The Greatest Grid: Curator’s Talk Exhibition curator Hilary Ballon will present an illustrated talk about the creation of New York's street grid — one of the most distinctive and defining features of the city. Join us as she explores how the grid has spurred Manhattan's physical and economic … Read the full Story >>
Best Wishes for a year of reaching to realize our dreams! My photo of Cherry Hill Fireworks, NYC Fujicolor 800 with Zeiss Contax 50mm/f1.7 lens Read the full Story >>
FREE FOR DART subscribers: Tuesday, November 17, 6:30 pmOnly in New York: Photographs from LOOK Magazine Celebrate the new exhibition and publication of Only in New York: Photographs from LOOK Magazine (Monacelli, 2009) with the curators and authors Donald Albrecht and Thomas Mellins. Reaching a peak circulation of nearly eight million in the late 1960s, LOOK was a national publication attracted to … Read the full Story >>
Left: Ken Lum, Untitled (Sauq!), 1987, from Spelling the Image, opening Thursday at Marc Jancou Contemporary. Right: Thomas Ovlisen | Tomato, opening Friday at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. Wednesday, January 25 Book signing, 6-8 pm: Motoyuki Daifu | Lovesdy (Little Big Man 2012). Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street (Between Bowery and Lafayette), NY, NY. Talk and book signing, 6-8 pm, with Seattle-based … Read the full Story >>
Tonight, SepiaEYE Gallery will host a gallery talk with Beatrice Pediconi, in conjunction with her exhibition, Subject to Change. In conversation with Jean Dykstra of Photograph Magazine and Mary-Kay Lombino of the Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, the artist will discuss the evolution of her work and process. I stopped in to the gallery last week for a preview, and met the … Read the full Story >>
And the Winner isKent Miles was first in with the most comprehensive information -- about the facade and the labyrinth of the Cathedral of Amiens (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens). For this he will receive a copy of AP 27, designed by Antonio de Luca. Keith wrote: I believe you are at the Our Lady of Amiens Cathedral, north of Paris. Completed in … Read the full Story >>
Thanks to everyone who entered the Where in 2011 Am I Book Prize Contest! The winner is Cliff Elbl, of Cambria, CA, who is a recent graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA—and was chosen for the AI-28 and AI-27 annuals. The answers are: Row 1, left to right: Sze Tsung Leong: Cities opening at Yossi Milo Gallery, last February; Streb … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, October 27Last chance for Richard Misrach | The Desert Cantos. Robert Mann Gallery, 525 West 26th Street, NY, NY.Last chance for Gordon Parks | Centennial. Howard Greenberg Gallery, 41 East 57th Street, NY, NY. Friday, October 26-Sunday, October 28: Designers and Book Fair. FIT, 27th Street and 7th Avenue, NY, NY. The Fair Exhibition Hall will include approximately 35 U.S. … Read the full Story >>
Josef Albers (1888-1976), whose explorations of color are currently on view at the Morgan Library and Museum, began making art as a child in Germany. His father was a house painter, set painter, and decorator. From him, young Albers learned the craft of art, and took pleasure in painting imitation wood grain and marble. His ambition was to become an artist, but at his … Read the full Story >>
Works by Alighiero Boettie (1940-1994), the Italian conceptual artist whose opus came to a wider view in New York through MoMA’s 2012 retrospective, Game Plan can now be seen in a small show at Gladstone Gallery, uptown. Originating in the Arte Povera ethic that emerged in Europe during the 1960s, he became part of a group of experimental artists that included Michangelo Pistoletto and Fausto Melotti. Complications and ambiguities are written into Boetti’s highly conceptual work, which … Read the full Story >>
I began teaching in the MFA in Illustration program at FIT this past spring, so my late winter and early spring was already a test in a much changed schedule. In mid-March, in one week, I had to create a shared digital space that my students could access. I needed to learn how to use video conferencing tools, how to create video demonstrations, and … Read the full Story >>
When Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week left Bryant Park for a larger plot at Lincoln Center, some of the edgy fashion vibe must have saturated the turf at 42nd and Sixth. Yesterday, to celebrate M-B Fashion Week 2011, Target opened a spectacular pop-up store opposite the park to promote a new line designed for the mass-market retailer by the Italian fashion juggernaut, Missoni. The vibe was … Read the full Story >>
Scenes at the media preview of New York Photo Festival 2011 last week. Far left, Feastival Director Sam Barzilay with public relations man Blake Zidell. Right: At the entrance to main exhibitions curated by Elisabeth Biondi and Enrico Bossan. Tuesday, May 17 Book signing, 6-8 pm, for John Currin. Gagosian Shop, 988 Madison Avenue, NY, NY. Wednesday, May 18 Talking Books, 7 pm,: … Read the full Story >>
If you’re ready for an early summer escape, the sixth annual Upstate Art Weekend is just two weeks away. Founded by curator Helen Toomer as a celebration of local and regional creativity hubs, this massive, self-guided art experience breaks down gallery walls entirely. It transforms the pastoral landscape of the Hudson Valley and Catskills into an open-air art crawl on steroids. For five consecutive days … Read the full Story >>
Best known as an assemblage artist over her long career, Betye Saar has created a living history about what she calls ‘national racism” through intimately scaled works in which she combines materials scavenged from swap meets, flea markets, and sidewalk trash bins. The visual dialog she creates challenges viewers to engage with her take on Black icons that were previously figures of fun, … Read the full Story >>
