Unfixed—ideas, methods, materials—is what can be said to characterize the extraordinary output of Robert Rauschenberg. In a sweeping retrospective of his six-decade-long career, opening this week at the Museum of Modern Art, this restless innovator’s contributions to the art of our own time registers in full. Visitors will experience the moment when Modern art made its exit, rules were swept aside, and friendships became … 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 >>
With the political campaign season in New York City getting off to a rumbling, if somewhat stumbling start, I emailed Steve Brodner yesterday to get an update on what makes making fun of politicians such an important part of the social order: Q: The people who inhabit your narratives are primarily alpha-male power-trippers. Why do you find these characters so fascinating? Have you been able to … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, February 27-Sunday, March 2: 2025 Outsider Art Fair The Outsider Art Fair returns again to the Metropolitan Pavilion this year with 66 exhibitors from 40 cities in 9 countries. "The 33rd edition is a testament to the rich diversity of the field and as always embraces art from the fringes,” said Andrew Edlin, the fair’s owner. “As the art world continues to catch on … Read the full Story >>
The more Hiroshi Sugimoto expands his repertoire and experiments with new ideas and forms, the more he progresses toward becoming a quintessentially Japanese artist. His most recent show "Nature of Light" opened this week as the inaugural exhibition of the new Izu Photo Museum located on the green hills of the Izu peninsula, about an hour-and-a-half's drive south of Tokyo. This exhibition features just … Read the full Story >>
This just in from ArtNet News: When the Ukrainian painter Volo Bevza left his apartment in Berlin to attend the opening of his solo exhibition in Kyiv last month, he never imagined that he would end up in the middle of a war zone, using his artistic skills not to create sculptures, but to construct anti-tank metal structures known as “hedgehogs.” Above: An artist called Alex … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Mexico, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in the Midwest? A: I was born and spent all my childhood in Mexico City. As a teenager I moved to the US, and between my teens and my twenties I moved a lot (Tennesee, Pittsburgh PA, Vermont, San Francisco, NYC, Iowa and Kansas City. Kansas City is (against all … 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 >>
From Strange Bedfellows, by Ruth Marten: Wild Woman of New Caledonia, 2012; Museum, 2012; Mother and Child, 2009 In 2006 Ruth Marten was among the artists selected to create a painting for a timeline of American Illustration. Her subject was a sign for a 14th Street barbershop, painted on a discarded construction sign, with an incredible African-inspired hairstyle. Asked about … Read the full Story >>
Saturday March 2: Americans I Paris, 1946-1962 at Grey Art Museum Following World War II, hundreds of artists from the United States flocked to the City of Light, which for centuries had been heralded as an artistic mecca and international cultural capital. This exhibition at the new Grey Art Museum explores a vibrant community of expatriates who lived in France for a year … 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 >>
Each month DART expands its coverage of the photography scene. This issue includes 31 more galleries and museums that consistently present exhilarating views of camera work, contemporary and classic. And just in time for a holiday weekend, we include the beginnings of the special summer group shows that offer expansive views of the medium, quirks included. Feast your eyes, and please check the links … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the pen, the brush or the tablet? Brian Lutz: I’ve always been drawing. Drawing, drawing, and then drawing more! I didn’t get into painting or digital tools until I went to college. So, I’d say the pen, certainly. PR: Where do you live and how does that place contribute to your creative work? BL: I live in Connecticut not far … Read the full Story >>
Alex Katz (b. 1927), the subject of an eight-decades retrospective, Gathering, currently filling the spiral ramps of the Guggenheim Museum, has had my respect and admiration since his mid-career retrospective at the Whitney, in 1986—and as much for going against the grain of contemporaneous art markets as for his luminous paintings. Katz grew up in a bohemian, first-generation Russian emigrant family in Brooklyn. … Read the full Story >>
PHOTOLUST, the 7th annual benefit auction for Seattle’s Photo Center NW, is offering an exceptional selection of photographs, including works by John Cyr, Elinor Carucci, Arthur Tress, Annie Marie Musselman, Erik Johnson, and many more. Doors open for the live auction tomorrow at 6 pm, with Laura Michalek at the gavel. Tickets. Online bidding is available by contacting Rafael Soldi at PCNW. Photo Center NW, 900 12rh Avenue, Seattle, WA. The Center … Read the full Story >>
In 2011 the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art jointly acquired art and archival materials by or associated with Robert Mapplethorpe. The vast majority was a generous gift from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation and the remainder was purchased with funds provided by the David Geffen Foundation and the Getty Trust. In Focus: Robert Mapplethorpe at the J. Paul … Read the full Story >>
The final deadline for the American Photography 39 competition is Feb.15, so get your work ready now. All entrants benefit through AI-AP's continued focus of honoring, connecting and informing the photography, illustration and creative community: your work is seen by a jury made up exclusively of top creative professionals who assign and use photography and illustration, including art directors, designers, photo editors, art buyers, … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from York, England what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Lyon, France? A: Oh all the usual things, it’s cheaper than London and the weather is nicer! But really my favourite thing about living in France is learning French in order to work with French clients. It has been simultaneously more difficult than I expected but also … Read the full Story >>
