This weekend Beyond/In Western New York, a collaborative contemporary art exhibition, opens its second edition in 12 museums and galleries in and around Buffalo, NY. It is a true biennale in the sense that it began with nearly a thousand submissions vetted by Anna Kaplan, a curator at the area's premier contemporary art museum, the Albright-Knox Gallery, followed by exhaustive studio visits … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, February 27-Sunday, March 1 | Gala Preview Wednesday, February 26 The Art Show | Art Dealers Association of America. Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, NY, NY Info “The nation’s most respected and longest-running art fair is comprised of 72 booths presented by ADAA member galleries and offers collectors, arts professionals, and the public the opportunity to engage with … Read the full Story >>
Ional Talpazan (1955-2015), Untitled, New York City, August 4, 2004. Courtesy of the American Folk Art Museum. Photo: Adam Reich. Wishing you a Safe, Happy, Hopeful Holiday Peggy Read the full Story >>
What do you see when you’re not even looking? Today as I was waiting for a bus on Madison Avenue, after having an penetrating discussion with a friend about the fact of terrorism as a feature of contemporary life, I saw that the fear of this reality has informed corporate decisions in a way that was evident exactly where I was happened to be standing. Take … Read the full Story >>
As I navigate the uncertain terrain of Phase Two Opening in NYC, avoiding places and people I like, I try to avoid wondering how long the Virus will rule our lives. Worrying is out of the question: it does not help and most of the stuff we worry about never materializes after all. So it was with a mixture of trepidation, pleasure and curiosity … Read the full Story >>
As we greet the return of Hillary Rodham Clinton to the political stage, it cannot be denied that she is unique in many ways. One of these is an almost unheard-of political longevity. Players in politics seldom hold onto front-runner status after 23 years in the public eye. In spite of great controversies (and one very big loss) Hillary, most definitely, still does. Of … Read the full Story >>
If you missed the '60s - or if you miss the '60s - an exhibition opening tomorrow at the Whitney Museum will take you there. The entire second floor is installed with early works by Claes Oldenburg and later projects in collaboration with his wife Coosje van Bruggen, the late art historian and writer. In his introduction of Mr. Oldenburg at today's preview, Adam … Read the full Story >>
On Wednesday night, Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York Parks, which presents the work of photographer Joel Meyerowitz, opened at Museum of the City of New York. Meyerowitz has spent more than three years recording wild places in New York City's parks, located in all five boroughs. These escapes to the woodlands, streams, waterfronts, marshes, and beaches are among … Read the full Story >>
THE AIPAD PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW opened today at the Park Avenue Armory. Its 28th installment might be the best ever - for several reasons. A new design for booths and graphics creates an environment that is clean but not sterile, open and airy, yet concentrated with images as far as the eye can see. The color scheme of warm gray, blue and red backgrounds makes … Read the full Story >>
In New York: Carmen Herrara | Lines of SightSome artists get a major museum show right out of graduate school; some artists have to wait until they’re 101. This is an overdue showcase for the Cuban-born centenarian painter, whose exacting geometric compositions – of boldly contrasting blue and orange stripes, or whispering green triangles drowned in fields of white – have an emotional … Read the full Story >>
Desiccated goat, rat, and turkey; steel, rope, carpet, peach basket, wood, tire scraps, plastic toys, shoes, motor-oil bottle, wire fencing, chains, ironing board, farm and construction tools, wire, paintbrushes, enamel, spray paint, and Splash Zone compound. While this list could understandably be mistaken for items encountered by John McPhee on one of his epic road trips, they are, in fact, the materials … Read the full Story >>
Editor's note: Steve Brodner, a National Treasure and a great friend of DART, has offered his coverage of the national conventions, starting today. (I've often wondered how Steve gets through the intervening years...)--PR I’ve covered many political conventions over the years. They are hard to forget, but sometimes I think it would be a good idea. Today, conventions seem to be … Read the full Story >>
Friday, May 21: Opening day Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter | The Jewish Museum Bourgeois’s complex and ambivalent relationship with Freudian psychoanalysis forms the core of this exhibition of nearly 50 works from throughout her career, including the Personages of the late 1940s; the organic forms in plaster and latex of the 1960s; the pivotal installation The Destruction of the Father (1974); Passage … Read the full Story >>
Born Anna Mary Robertson in 1860, this artist left home at a young age to work as a hired girl at a neighboring farm.Marrying at age 27, she eventually gave birth to 10 children (5 of whom survived past infancy). Moses disliked spending time knitting and sewing, but she began entertaining herself by making needlework pictures and quilts portraying colorful scenes of farm … Read the full Story >>
When Camera Club of New York, one of the city’s oldest continuously operating cultural organizations, made its move downtown last winter, it also took on a new identity. Starting with a new name, Baxter Street at Camera Club of New York, CCNY emphasizes its downtown location, to underscore its commitment to fostering emerging contemporary lens-based artists and bringing their work to the attention to … Read the full Story >>
Miniature Narcissus on my windowsill. Photo: Peggy Roalf. Read the full Story >>
Media and art people by the hundreds converged on the Guggenheim last Thursday for a preview of the hotly anticipated installation of works by James Turrell. The entire rotunda was given over to Aten Reign, and the space was completely reconfigured to screen off the spiral ramp. Sculpturally, the construction was soft [formed of fabric stretched over fiberglas armatures] and strangely enveloping. The ground floor is … Read the full Story >>
Art Journalist, illustrator, caricaturist, film maker, and all around swell fellow, Steve Brodner has been a friend of DART since before there was a DART. In fact, he was my “celeb interview" for the single-issue precursor to this newsletter, back in 2005, when his book Freedom Fries was published. Steve presents Illustration Next, tomorrow at 7 pm, at the Third Floor Amphitheater at SVA, … Read the full Story >>
The other day I checked in at Drawger.com to see if there was anything new to broadcast on DART. Sure enough. Lou Brooks, a California-based artist, has created The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies, a virtual gallery show that invites participation by artists everywhere. Minutes later, an email came from Lou telling me about the Museum and that it had been picked … Read the full Story >>
DART Partners with the Arts on a subscriber special for illustrators: Half-off tickets to Pictoplasma NYC – the world’s leading festival of contemporary character design and art November 4-5, 2011 at Parsons The New School for Design. In its third US edition, the Pictoplasma Conference originating from Berlin returns to New York and presents a marathon of over 12 inspiring lectures, talks, and panel … Read the full Story >>
