Q: Originally from [where?] what are some of your favorite things about living and working in [your current locale]? A: I’m from Italy. I grew up in Florence, where I received my MFA in Architecture, and I’m currently living and working nearby, close to the city and to the Chianti countryside, in the studio that I cofounded in 2000. Even if I love the … Read the full Story >>
George Sand (1804-1876), the French polymath so sure of her creative powers that she took a masculine name, wore bespoke frockcoats over her dresses and smoked cigars. She was adored by both men and women, and was held in high regard by cultural luminaries such as Flaubert, Victor Hugo and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Not only did she write novels (more than 70), plays (30), and … Read the full Story >>
Q: What are some of your favorite things about living and working in New York City? A: I was born in Montreal, Canada. When I was two years old my mother decided to move back to Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. Growing up in the Caribbean sealed my love of the ocean and my pride in being Latin American. I moved to New York … Read the full Story >>
Special If you wish to help save the National Endowment for the Arts, you can make you voice heard through the Americans for the Arts Action Fund. Info Talks/ Book Events / Performance / and Beyond Tuesday, March 21 Panel: Contemporary Perspectives on De Chirico, 6 pm. Center for Italian Modern Art, 421 Broome Street, NY, NY Tickets Panel: Fashion and Celebrity in 1960s … Read the full Story >>
John Cuneo loves to draw. Go to his website homepage and you'll see a heading that says "John Cuneo Drawings" (as well as a monkey with pens and coffee at a drawing table...). He's a masterful illustrator, artist, humorist, and visual storyteller whose work has appeared in just about every major magazine, and most of the smaller ones, too. Cuneo's ink and watercolor drawings … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from New York, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Philadelphia? A: Philly's got loads of history, artists and museums, and lovely green spaces. It's got so many interesting things but even more crucially, it gives you room to enjoy and explore them. It's also a city with a sense of humor—the historic prison in our neighborhood throws … Read the full Story >>
Daniel Zender is a Brooklyn-based illustrator, artist, comics creator, and art director. His illustration work has appeared on a wide range of publications, most notably last year's #oscarssowhite cover of Variety magazine. In addition to his illustration work, Zender creates zines and comics, art directs for the sports website Bleacher Report, and teaches at Queens College. Read the full Story >>
Q: What are some of your favorite things about living and working in Baltimore? A: I'm originally from the Frederick area of Maryland and moved to Baltimore in 1987. Baltimore on a whole is an unpretentious town that is perfectly located between DC and Philadelphia and close to New York. The neighborhood we're in is clustered with craftspeople and artists; there's a blacksmith up the … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Your art for the 2018 memorial day cover of The New Yorker made me feel like a kid again—and got my holiday off to a great start. What is there about kids playing in water that gets your pen moving? Gayle Kabaker: Thank you! It's not really kids in water that inspires me—more just people and water in general ! When it's … Read the full Story >>
In the summer of 1980, a relatively unknown rock band from Seattle traveled to New York City, where Michael Lavine photographed them in his studio for a session arranged by Sub Pop Records owner Bruce Pavitt. Lavine had earlier lived in Seattle, landing in that city at the birth of the grunge era, and would go on to photograph bands like Mudhoney, Pussy Galore, … Read the full Story >>
If your day is off to a bad start, just go to Serge Bloch’s website; you should feel better right away. For now: Q: As an artist, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Paris and New York A: I was born in Colmar, in Alsace, on the border between Germany and France. I like Paris and New York; I like cities in general, they make it easy to meet people, and I like people. All loners do. NY and Paris are different cities, the people are different, and they have different cultures and histories. I like to break out of the everyday, and changing locales lets me do that; after all, one has the freedom to work from anywhere now… How and when did you first become interested in art and illustration ? I studied at the Ecole des … Read the full Story >>
During the years he was addicted to heroin, photographer Graham Macindoe took pictures of himself. He used a cheap digital point and shoot, placed on a table or shelf and set to snap at intervals. Then he would shoot up. At that point, photography was all he had left. After being arrested and nearly deported to his native Scotland, MacIndoe became sober and has … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, June 12 Susan Lipper | Domesticated Land, 6-8 pm. Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, NY, NY Info Museum Mile 2018, 6-9 pm.Free admission to nine Fifth Avenue museums between 82ndand 105th Streets. Info Wednesday, June 13 John Suler onn Photography, Psychology, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, 6:30 pm. ICP Museum, 250 Bowery, NY, NY Info … Read the full Story >>
You live in New York, originally from South Korea. As an artist, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Brooklyn? Well curated shows in galleries and museum. I have a membership in MoMA and I just got a Guggenheim membership for my birthday. Seeing art in person is different from seeing it online. Online is good for research but when I find … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Germany, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Canada? A: I grew up in a small town called Bad Waldsee, situated in the south, close to the Alps. However my mother is Hungarian and my father is of Polish-East Prussian descent. When my twin sister and I were 13 years old we emigrated with our mother to Toronto, … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the pencil or the brush? Vlad Alvarezz: The pencil. My work is finished digitally, but everything starts with a tight sketch, and the pencil has always been my tool of choice for preliminary ideas and sketches. A lot of times I like to do finished drawings from my sketches to keep a physical version of the art. PR: Please … Read the full Story >>
Earlier this year, Meta decided to add a notification to images uploaded to its platforms that were made with AI. That rollout went poorly: Meta labeled images as "Made with AI" even if only small adjustments had been made to a photo with editing tools that incorporated AI, angering many creators..Meta later changed the label to 'AI Info.' Now the company is rethinking the … Read the full Story >>
After several years of email correspondence with artist Lynn Pauley, we finally met last fall, in class. Lynn was guest artist at Anastasia Aukeman’s foundation year seminar at Parsons The New School of Design. After a rousing introduction to her way of drawing on location, the class headed to the High Line for total immersion [more]. With the DART Summer Invitational now on … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: When did you know that you would become an illustrator? Davide Bonazzi: I’ve had an interest in drawing since I was a kid, so I can say I’ve wanted to become an illustrator my entire life! More specifically, I got interested in illustration around age 24, while attending a postgraduate course in illustration at the European Institute of Design, in Milan. At … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Austin, Texas what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Cape Elizabeth, Maine? A: I was actually born in a small west Texas town named Lamesa but was moved to Austin when I was a few weeks old. I grew up there. The two towns couldn’t be more different. I now live along the quaint, lighthouse-sprinkled rocky … Read the full Story >>
