Leaving Roquemengarde
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Last Chance: DART Art Book GiveAway!
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 >>
Edible Estates in Brooklyn
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 >>
The DART Board: 07.17.2012
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 >>
Landscapes of Quarantine at Storefront
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 Launches Pace Prints
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 >>
Space, Time, and Artists' Books
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 >>
The DART Board: 05.28.2013
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 >>
Michael Paraskevas's Sketchbooks
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 >>
Preview: The Whitney Biennial
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 >>
Max Miller's Kaddish
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 >>
Book Sightings Around Town
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 >>
The DART Board: 05.01.2019
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 >>
Art Oasis: The Sketchbook Project
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 >>
Special for DART Subscribers
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 >>
Quebecois Winter Carnival at PS 1
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 >>
Happy Holidays!
Wishing you a Safe, Happy, Hopeful Holiday Peggy Above: Untitled (Twins); Eddy Mumma, ca. 1978 – 1986Smithsonian American Art Museum Read the full Story >>
The DART Board: 09.15.2015
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 2017
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 >>
A DART Skyline Report: New York's Tram
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 >>