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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
