Pimp Your Sketchbook began as a summer feature this year and is now embedded as an occasional feature in DART. Michael Paraskevas, who lives on the South Fork of Long Island, recently sent some sketches from his trip to Iowa. Your favorite travel sketchbook I loved going to Iowa. It was like being on the moon. It was so removed from the life I live that … Read the full Story >>
Tuesday, May 28 Opening reception, 5-9 pm: Show Up | The Cooper Union End of Year Show. The Cooper Union, Foundation Building, 7 East 7th Street, NY, NY. Information.Professor Margaret Morton took time out from the installation yesterday to send this preview: In the Foundation Building: In the Fourth Floor Lobby we will have our version of an energy bike—a collaborative project between students in my 2D … Read the full Story >>
For those who complain, with some reason, that there’s a lack of an avant-garde zeitgeist in contemporary art, The Whitney Museum offers something to argue about every two years. This invitational, which began life as an annual in 1932, has morphed over the years as a survey show alternating between painting and sculpture, becoming a biennial that combined both in 1973. Since then, … Read the full Story >>
A new exhibition of paintings by Max Miller opens next week at the Yesheva University Museum on West 16th Street. While the subject of this suite of 50 watercolors and 2 large works on canvas - the Jewish mourner's Kaddish - is indeed dolorous, the paintings themselves are a joyous celebration of life. Left to right: Cuban Hebrew Congregation, Miami Beach, FL; Chabad, Burlington, … Read the full Story >>
New York's galleries and art institutions offer all kinds of ways to celebrate the launch of new photography books - from serious discussions to after-work parties with DJ sets and local brew. Today, DART tags a number upcoming events of interest for this week and beyond. Joseph Rodriguez: East Side Stories and Flesh, Life, Sex in Mexico CityNew York Camera Club @ The … Read the full Story >>
Frieze Week The eighth edition of Frieze NY opens at Randalls Island Park with a VIP preview on Thursday, from 11am to 7 pm, and runs through Sunday, May 5th. InfoNew this year is a major exhibition of sculpture by 14 international artists at Rockefeller Center. Selected bycuratorBrett Littman (Director of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in Long Island City, New … Read the full Story >>
One of the questions I like best in the DART Artist Q&A is, “Where do you look for inspiration?” The answers are as lively and inspiring in themselves as the artists being asked. More about that later, because last weekend I found a place that would work for me every time. The Brooklyn Library, in Williamsburg, is home to The Sketchbook Project—a crowd sourced … Read the full Story >>
DART Partners with the Arts at Museum of the City of New York Thursday, July 28, 6:30 pm Food Markets and Immigrant Identity in New York City From the Lower East Side’s legendary bialys to the papusas of Red Hook ball fields, the city’s diverse ethnic markets have long helped New Yorkers maintain ties to their homelands and define new identities. Explore the customs, … Read the full Story >>
M. Wells, a Québécois diner that gained a large following during it’s brief stint in Long Island City, will host a Winter Carnival in the MoMA PS1 courtyard tomorrow. Husband-and-wife team Hugue Dufour and Sarah Obraitis return to their old neighborhood to prepare a feast of a wood-oven duck cassoulet, slices of meat pie and maple pie (both will be available for pre-order and … Read the full Story >>
Wishing you a Safe, Happy, Hopeful Holiday Peggy Above: Untitled (Twins); Eddy Mumma, ca. 1978 – 1986Smithsonian American Art Museum Read the full Story >>
Special Events Friday, September 18 Greenpoint Gallery Night. Various locations, including Dusk Editions, 7-10 pm. Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Information. Friday, September 18-Sunday, September 20 Printed Matter Presents the 10th Annual NY Art Book FairFree and open to the public, the NY Art Book Fair is the world’s premier event for artists’ books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines.This year, the fair features over 370 booksellers, antiquarians, … Read the full Story >>
The AIPAD Photography Show New York, presented by The Association of International Photography Art Dealers each spring—this year for the first time at Pier 94—celebrates the medium’s irresistible alchemy, from its 19th-century origins to its practice by artists around the globe today. There is so much new this year that a preview is in order. The 37th edition of The Photography Show will feature … Read the full Story >>
Last chance, Sunday, January 7: Manet/Degas at The Met While it was tighter than elbow to elbow yesterday, unless you know you’ll get to Paris soon, this show is a must. Two of the most adventurous artists of the 19th Century, Édouard Manet (1832–1883) and Edgar Degas (1834–1917), and ones who maintained a fierce rivalry streaked with deep respect for the art of the other, are presented … Read the full Story >>
The Roosevelt Island Tram, which vanished from the East River skyline last March for a total overhaul, is scheduled to resume service in November. The most exciting 3-minute trip in the city now has a completely new system. Rebuilt by the French company, Poma, which built the Aiguille du Midi tram on Mont Blanc, all that remains of the original are its three … Read the full Story >>
Anyone who follows this page knows that I love books. All kinds of books. Home-made flip books. Scrappy zines done on copiers running out of toner. Art books. Design books. Photo books. One-off artists books. Stands to reason, being that DART exists solely because of two very special books, American Illustration and American Photography, which have been celebrating the best in design … Read the full Story >>
Once I opened the box containing an eagerly anticipated photobook only to find that the cover was warped. It curved in an arc that radiated from the full length of its spine to its front edge. The book had a chrome yellow cloth cover. It was beautiful. But as an object, it was useless. I always thought the book was warped because the grain of the … Read the full Story >>
It's hard to recommend the Louvre at this time of year, with a half-hour wait guaranteed. Photo: Peggy Roalf, July 2015 Before NYC galleries shut their doors for a summer break, take a walk on the Lower East Side. Here is DART’s list of go-to contemporary art galleries, plus the New Museum—which attracted many of these venues to their current addresses. Some galleries are already … Read the full Story >>
David Butow, whose shot from Nelson Mandela’s funeral made the cover of AP30, is a frequent contributor to DART. It must be stated that I have worked with David since our collaboration on China: 50 Years Inside the Peoples Republic back in 1998. Info. As the editor of that book, researched during an exciting—and dangerous—period as a new order was taking shape … Read the full Story >>
Renate Müller began designing and producing toys in the early 1960s as part of a program launched by the Sonneberg Technical College for Toy Design in Germany. Her large, brightly colored, ruggedly made toy animals were used in therapeutic settings for handicapped children. The toys invite interaction, even abuse as they embody the calm personalities of story-book pets who allow children to do anything … Read the full Story >>
Animalistic, millions of lines, organic symmetry, sweet and savage, and static cannibals are the words I scribbled on a napkin as I stood in front of the current Barneys New York windows with my mouth half open in awe. This is a one-of-a-kind creation by artist Dennis McNett, in collaboration with Barneys' legendary creative director Simon Doonan: a feast of hectic colors, … Read the full Story >>
