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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
According to Fritz Haeg - the architect/artist/educator who left his geodesic dome in L.A. on a road trip aimed at revolutionizing America's front yards - the lawn must go! His mission is to replace these latent throwbacks to the American Dreamscape of post-war suburbia with vegetable gardens, which he calls Edible Estates. Starting in the heartland of America, Salina, Kansas, he has mounted … Read the full Story >>
THIS IS IT: Sign up NOW to win 15 gorgeous illustrated books from PQ Blackwell’s LOVE AND CARE holiday pop-up shops! Through a random drawing, the winner will receive a selection of books valued at over $600, which will be shipped directly from LOVE AND CARE (continental U.S. only). This gift of 15 beautifully produced art books includes Strip Search by … Read the full Story >>
Chill out: From The Last Iceberg III by Camille Seaman. Blue Underside Revealed II, Svalbard, July 5, 2010. Tuesday, July 17 This just in from the Brooklyn Museum: Voter registration begins today for GO: a community-curated open studio project, an upcoming exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Participants (voters) will visit artist studios during the GO open studio weekend on September 8-9, 2012. … Read the full Story >>
From the Black Death to leprosy, smallpox, ebola - even the fictional Andromeda Strain - deadly diseases have resulted in the need to isolate large numbers of people from the general population. Most historical accounts consider the world's first institutionalized system of quarantine to be the one established in Venice during the 1348 outbreak, which killed nearly 15 million people across Europe. Until the … Read the full Story >>
Ryan McGinness, whose emblematic imagery in a dizzying variety of media blurs distinctions between art and consumer culture, inaugurated Pace Prints' new Chelsea outpost this fall with Varied Editons. The installation surrounds visitors in a kaleidoscopic array of prints, multiples, one-off metal sculptures, reliefs fashioned from skateboard decks, and more. On the gallery's longest wall, the artist's ornate iconography, seemingly originating from textile … Read the full Story >>
Artists' books - limited edition and one-of-a-kind hand-made objects - have recently gained more traction in the art world. Book artists are constantly reinventing the crafts of printing, papermaking and binding, often embracing digital image-making as a means to expand their repertoire. In fact, many contemporary examples break with tradition completely, becoming time-based sculptural objects that offer wordless visual and tactile experiences. The medium … Read the full Story >>
