"Has it ever happened to you," asks Monterrey, Mexico-based illustrator Eduardo Corral, "that you're looking for something in your attic or in the basement, and suddenly, inside a box or chest that contains a bunch of old stuff, you find some strange objects, and you have no idea what they are for or how they got there?" Those are exactly the kinds of delightful … Read the full Story >>
David Hockney, England’s most celebrated living artist, took New York by storm this spring: first with the major retrospective at The Met [featured in DART]; then with his cover for The New Yorker’s April 23 travel and food issue; and concurrently, a major show of recent work at Pace Gallery, which is closing this Saturday. Info An artist who has made swimming … Read the full Story >>
Fine-art photographer Brian Oglesbee shares his thoughts on the beauty of digital prints vs. traditional silver-gelatin prints and why he chose Epson wide-format printers for his work. Plus, he provides an inside look at his recent one-man shows in China. Read the full Story >>
For more than forty years, Chuck Close has explored the art of printmaking in his continuing investigation into the principles of perception. Celebrated as a painter and photographer, he has mastered the unique artistic language of printmaking, having done editions in etching, aquatint, lithography, direct gravure, silkscreen, traditional Japanese woodcut, and reduction linocut. Close has said that any innovation that is evident in his … Read the full Story >>
The AIPAD Photography Show celebrates its 30th anniversary this weekend with special features that underscore the constantly evolving processes that make photography unique among the arts. This show, which brings together galleries from around the world presenting museum-quality images, is a destination for collectors and connoisseurs. It's also a must for anyone hooked on process and innovation in the camera arts. Organized by Bill … Read the full Story >>
As western leaders worked overnight, in Minsk, to negotiate a cease-fire in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, heavy fighting is said to have escalated. The ceasefire, described as "fragile," goes into effect at midnight [GMT] on Saturday. Information. Meanwhile, in the old city of Kiev, overlooking the shipyards of Podil, the Izolyatsia Foundation of Donetsk boldly continues its exhibition, education, and outreach programs in … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Connecticut, you live in Sunnyside, Queens now; what are some of your favorite things about living and working there? A: I like the access to everything, although sometimes when something's at your footsteps it can be easy to take it for granted. How and when did you first become interested in art and illustration? I always made things. I originally went to school … Read the full Story >>
Some of the people at this year's Palm Springs Photo Festival come to take workshops with photographers like Nigel Parry and David Muench. Others come for the seminars with people like social-media marketing expert Frederick Van Johnson. Many come to show their own work to art buyers and photo dealers at the portfolio review sessions each day. Colorado photographer Brenda Biondo came to this … Read the full Story >>
Tomorrow a new gallery opens at The Point, a South Bronx art center, with an exhibition of images from the neighborhood by Martine Fougeron. The French-born photographer, widely known for portraits made for The New Yorker, moved from the West Village to Port Morris, in the South Bronx, in 2011, and began photographing people at work in the neighborhood. Trades/Oficios/Metiers, her continuing project … Read the full Story >>
September 8-10: The Armory Show at the Javits Center Founded in 1994, The Armory Show brings the world's leading international contemporary and modern art galleries to New York each year. This is one of the best art fairs going and has been for years, plus it's a good time of the year to visit NYC. The fair plays a leading role in the city's … Read the full Story >>
For many illustrators, being commissioned to create a U.S. postage stamp is a career high; getting a return engagement is even better. When I saw that Sergio Baradat has a set of five postcard stamps being issued this week, I called to ask the Miami-based artist about the allure of creating stamps. Tropical Fruit postcard-rate stamps by Sergio Baradat. "You know," he said, "When … Read the full Story >>
The New Museum, now in its 40thyear, is known for presenting confrontational art by living artists—the kind of work that is not easily adopted by traditional art museums. In 1990 it produced the exhibition, Have You Attacked America Today?, Erika Rothenberg’s parody of dissent and freedom of speech, complete with flag-burning kits; in 1998 it mounted the first solo show of Colombian artist Doris … Read the full Story >>
Brooklyn-based photographer Giacomo Fortunato received his first camera from his father in high school - a 35mm Konica. The high school specialized in the arts, and Fortunato spent much of his time playing jazz and printing photos in the school's darkroom. Photography, he says, spoke to him in a way trigonometry never could. He ended up earning his BFA at the Rhode Island School … Read the full Story >>
The summer is almost over. But you've still got time to enter the American Photography Open 2018 contest! The final deadline is August 31, 2018, at midnight Eastern Time. The contest is open to images taken with all types of cameras - from your smartphone to your DSLR or mirrorless camera. The first prize is $5,000 plus additional items from our partners.There are also … Read the full Story >>
Continuing: Gillian Wearing | Wearing Masks at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Featuring more than a hundred pieces, the first retrospective of Wearing’s work in North America traces the development of the British conceptual artist’s practice. Over her three-decade career, Wearing has focused equally on her own self-portraiture and on the depictions of others, testing the boundaries between the private and public, questioning … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: When did you get the idea that art and design would be your life’s work? Elisa Talentino: I have been drawing since I was a child. I was born and raised in Castellamonte, a city famous for its ceramics, in the province of Turin. My primary school was next to the Institute of Art, and I was always admiring the girls and boys with their … Read the full Story >>
For over 30 years, the American Photography juried competition continues to be a prestigious vehicle for pro photographers to show off their work and celebrate the art they love. With the proliferation of so much great photography taken by everyone we are introducing an additional new competition for photographers at all levels. Now you can enter the American Photography Open 2018 competition. Read the full Story >>
The history of printing—from the Bible and religious pamphlets to electioneering flyers dropped from drones—can be told through the history of illustration—most recently shown in DART through the book, This Is What Democracy Looked Like: A visual History of the Printed Ballot. So consider the human body: the physical envelope that encases the mind and spirit of an individual. The flesh that inspires … Read the full Story >>
Among the great artists of mid-century America, Helen Frankenthaler is now receiving a share of recognition long overdue. Currently featured in MoMAs Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, and in a solo show at Gagosian, Paris, two sides of the artist’s formidable output are further explored in exhibitions opening this weekend at The Clark Institute, in Williamstown, Massachusetts. As in Nature: Helen … Read the full Story >>
John Chiara makes large-scale, unique photographs using a camera of his own design. If you were to catch him on the mobile early on a work day, he might say, “Hang on while I park the camera.” The Big Camera, as it has become known, is roughly the size of a U-Haul, which Chiara has driven all over the San Francisco Bay Area, creating … Read the full Story >>
