DART Partners with the Arts at Museum of the City of New YorkTuesday, December 15, 6:30 pmKathy Ryan, Lynsey Addario and Damon Winter on Photojournalism TodayFREE FOR DART subscribers Beginning in the 1930s, major picture magazines like LOOK and Life popularized photojournalism. Although they are no longer in publication, the art form that these signature magazines helped to establish is still thriving … Read the full Story >>
Three from the Manipulations, 2010 series by Rafael Ferrer. Courtesy Adam Baumgold Gallery. Wednesday, April 27th, 7pm: Book signing and video screening with Jessica Yatrofsky: I Heart Boy. Camera Club of New York. 336 West 37th Street (between 8th/ 9th Ave) Second Floor, NY, NY. Wednesday, April 27th, 6-8 pm: Book Signing for Far Too Close (SteidlMack 2011) by Martina Hoogland … Read the full Story >>
DART was launched in August 2006, with a logo designed by Florian Bachleda. At the time, Florian was heading FB Design, a New York design consultancy focused on consumer and corporate design. In November 2010, he took the creative helm at Fast Company. Here, on the occasion of DART’s “lucky seven,” Florian takes a DART Q&A. In addition to his original design for DART: Design … Read the full Story >>
Frieze Week Art Fairs Frieze New York—without doubt the most lavishly produced fine art fair in the city—also brings out the best the city’s galleries and museums have to offer. The annual spring event opens next week, along with some special events around town. Here’s the skeleton: Frieze New York, Randall’s Island Park, NY, NY 190 outfits from 30 countries. Info/Tickets Public Days: … Read the full Story >>
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts… As the celebration of 400 years of Shakespeare continues, what better way to celebrate the dramas of everyday life than to look at ways in which the Bard’s works have been collected in book … Read the full Story >>
Above, Sara Macel: In the Company Car in 1981, Spring Texas, offered at the CCNY Photo Benefit Auction tonight. Preview. Tuesday, October 15 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Heroes | Glassine Box, featuring works by Adam Green, Arturo Vega, Chad Moore, Colin Burns, Fabrizio Moretti. The Lodge Gallery, 131 Chrystie Street, NY, NY. The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund presents, 6:30 pm: Documenting War | Peter van Agtmael in … Read the full Story >>
Benefit Auction Previews 2015 Photo Auction Benefit | Baxter Street / Camera Club of New York. Cocktails and Silent Auction, Thursday, October 22, 6-8 pm. Affirmation Arts, 523 West 37th Street, NY, NY. Preview Information Preregistration ends today. Preview: Aperture Foundation 2015 Benefit Party & Auction. Monday, October 26. Terminal 5, New York. Online bidding. Register. Preview: 2015 Photo Auction Benefit | … Read the full Story >>
The School of Visual Arts will honor designer and educator Louise Fili with the 28th annual Masters Series Award and Exhibition. “The Masters Series: Louise Fili” will be the first comprehensive retrospective of the designer’s influential career and include her book jacket, branding, food packaging and restaurant identity work. An opening reception takes place October 13, 6-8 pm at the SVA Gramercy Gallery. Louise … Read the full Story >>
And the Winner Is Debbie Ullman of New York City was first in with the necessary information for last week's Book Prize Contest, and for that she will receive a copy of AI31. She wrote: Soissons Landing on Governor's Island. The pavillion there houses a bookstore, waiting area and a place to pee. The ferries come in there. Soissons is a city in Northern … Read the full Story >>
Hello Peggy, What a great time it is to be in the U.S. - I was amazed to see so much interest in the election! When I got your DART Election Day Special, I tried to find an interesting party to go to here in L.A. I searched in the web and the papers, then headed downtown where many bars were doing something special. … Read the full Story >>
Continuing: Joan Mitchell | Paintings, 1979-1985 at Zwirner This exhibition of works from public and private collections, as well as from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, is presented in conjunction with the career retrospective that opened at SFMOMA, traveled to the Baltimore Museum of Art, and is now on view at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris—concurrent with the exhibition Claude Monet—Joan Mitchell. Mitchell established a singular … Read the full Story >>
Two images by Richard Rothman from Redwood Saw (Nazraeli Press 2011). The photographer is giving a talk at ICP on Wednesday, March 7, at 7:00 pm. For information about Armory Arts Week in NYC, March 7-11, see the DART preview. Click for a list of special events in neighborhoods all over the city, including Museum Mile, today. Special for DART Subscribers: Saturday, 2:00 pm, … Read the full Story >>
At the preview this morning for David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy, which opens at the Whitney tomorrow, Adam D. Weinberg, the museum’s Alice Pratt Brown Director said, “When you see this large selection of work installed in this gallery, with natural light spilling in, you might think that Marcel Breuer designed this building for David Smith.” The show continues through January 8, 2012. … Read the full Story >>
Tuesday, October 2-Saturday, October 6Rutgers University Institute for Women and Arts presents: The Fertile Crescent | Gender, Art and Society. Multi-site exhibitions and events in New Brunswick and Princeton, NJ. Information. Thursday, October 4-Friday, October 5Christies Photographs Auction. 20 Rockefeller Plaza, NY, NY. Information. Friday, October 5-Sunday, October 7Festival opening Friday, 5-9 pm: Harvest Arts Festival in the Community Gardens … Read the full Story >>
Pop-up stores have become a hot retail trend spurred by the recession, according to a recent article in the LA Times. New York's newest entry to this market is the Museum of Arts and Design's gift shop, which opened last week on the Upper East Side, at 74th and Third. MAD PopUp is the child of Kate's Paperie, whose owner, Angelica … Read the full Story >>
As the year comes screaming to a close—likely one of the strangest, if not the worst of the 21st Century—this is a good time to offer the last DART Book Prize Contest of 2018! There have been so many fun entries that the deadline has been extended to Friday, December 21! In the past the Book Prize Contest has involved identifying, from a photo … Read the full Story >>
Activating The Drawing Center's newly inaugurated Lab Gallery as a site for innovative, impromptu, and experimental considerations of drawing, Drafts, a series of curated public programs organized by Kaegan Sparks, encourages speculative tangents from images in a variety of creative practices. The program launches on Thursday at 6:30 pm with Drafts Phase I: Advanced Mechanics of Materials, which will consider drawing as an … Read the full Story >>
For many of its 12,140 inhabitants, Marysville, California, seems mired in a century and a half of bad luck. Described in an interview by photographer Arne Svenson as “a town on hold, a place waiting for something good to happen,” its fate as the methamphetamine capital of California* and home to the most welfare recipients per capita in the state seems a disquieting echo … Read the full Story >>
Be a filmmaker and actor. Be a production designer, a lighting designer, and a costume designer. Be a makeup artist too, if you like to paint.How? Audition for Dreams and Possibilities, a film project and installation by Praxis Studio (Delia Bajo and Brainard Carey) that will be shown at the Sculpture Court of the Whitney at Altria from March 12 - 22. To audition … Read the full Story >>
The DART Summer Invitational, Pimp Your Sketchbook, continues with Raquel Aparicio, who lives and works in Valencia, Spain. For me the sketchbooks are a zone of freedom where I can experiment with no restrictions. I always try to find new ideas, different textures. I remember drawing in my first sketchbook; it felt epic to me. I used to draw on loose paper sheets … Read the full Story >>
