Tuesday, November 16, 6:00-8:00 pm: SPD presents Real or Surreal? Silent Auction: 6:00 - 8:00pm. Live Auction: 8:30pm. PREVIEW art by over 100 artists at the online gallery. The live auction takes place MILK Gallery, 450 West 15th Street, NY, NY. Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served. $35 at the door. Photographs by Marcus Gaab (l) and Martine Fougeron (r), available in … Read the full Story >>
If you ever have a day so bad that you question your career choice, a look at Lars Tunbjork's Office might be all you need to thank your lucky stars and get on with it. A large selection of prints from the Swedish photographer's book of the same title is now on view at Cohen Amador Gallery. At the opening last night, I toured … Read the full Story >>
Desert Germination II (Detail), 1959, by Clinton Hill. Copyright the artist, courtesy Pavel Zoubok Gallery. Wednesday, October 12 Opening reception and book signing for Seth: The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists on October 12, 6-8 pm, at Adam Baumgold Gallery, 60 East 66th Street, NY, NY. 212-861-7338. Unseen in “The Unseen Eye”: An Evening with Susan Bright and W.M. Hunt, 7pm. … Read the full Story >>
Sarah Nicholls is a book artist known to many in the field for her role at The Center for Book Arts, In New York City. For more than a decade she was Programs and Marketing Manager there, and a constant presence in the print shop and bindery, helping others and creating her own works. Last year she went full time on her own art, … Read the full Story >>
After being inundated with hateful rhetoric for months of campaign, I could not get his image out of my head, most disturbingly even in sleep. This portrait is my first attempt to remove him… it works... for awhile… then I make another. “Fool’s Gold” is collaged with assorted debris. The faces are getting progressively more hideous, reflecting the reality through my eyes. I’m in … Read the full Story >>
Nightfall in the New Mexico desert. A passing photographer notices the full moon with craters defining a face, illuminating the darkness around a lonely church and graveyard in the village of Hernandez. He stops his car and quickly sets up his 8 x 10 camera, exposing a single negative. There is no time for another setup before the light changes, no time to check his … Read the full Story >>
As the Fall season of art openings and events escalates here in New York, there’s never been a better time to resort to a quiet library full of books on art and design. So, this week DART resumes its Bookcases department, in which artists and designers are invited to pimp their bookcases. We are pleased to continue this series with designer and artist, Paul … Read the full Story >>
Chad Springer of Brooklyn wrote: You are on Randall's Island during setup for the Frieze Art Fair, more specifically I would guess that's where the sculpture park will be beside the impressive waterfront of the East River, adjacent to the fair. I believe that is Manhattan in the background and you are facing south. Congratulations, Chad, your book is on the way. And thanks to everyone who … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Panels / Book Events / Art Fairs / and Beyond This Week Frieze New York and Satellite Art Fairs. See the Frieze Week Preview in DART here Tuesday, May 1 Inside the Box | Conversation on Research in Exhibition-Making Institutions, 6 pm. The James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY Info Friday, May 4-Tuesday, May 8 29th Dusty Film & Animation … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Thursday, August 4 – Sunday, August 7 Seattle Art Fair. CenturyLink Field Event Center, Seattle, WA Info Friday, August 5-Sunday, August 7 Wassaic Project Summer Festival. The Maxon Mills, 19 Furnace Road, Wassaic, NY. Info Talks / Discussions / Screenings / and Beyond Wednesday, August 3 Roundtable | Making Sense of the Senses, 6:30 pm, with Josely Carvalho, Ximena Perez Grobet, … Read the full Story >>
“The common perception of the book today is fairly straightforward: a series of pages organized around a spine and protected on either side by two covers. This format allows for easy access, storage and retrieval of information. Yetwhat happens when the book is stripped away of centuries of preconceptions and is allowed to reveal something else: playfulness, utility, invention?” With this provocative question, the … Read the full Story >>
Among the pioneers of graphic design, Tom Geismer, in his partnership with Ivan Chermayeff, has been at the forefront of corporate branding since the formation of Chermeyeff & Geismar, in 1957. At the time, graphic design was a new discipline, and branding was called corporate identity design. Yet the firm is noted, said designer Rudy de Harak, for starting “a craze for abstract corporate symbols, with the … Read the full Story >>
Steven Heller, the grandee of design criticism, author of over 100 books on design and popular culture, co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author Department at School of Visual Arts, art director (for 30 years) of the New York Times Book Review, and one of the founders of American Illustration, brings the story of this highly focused organization to light in a … Read the full Story >>
For the first DART Book Prize Essay Contest, students in Dr. Anastasia Aukeman’s Integrative Seminar 2: Visual Culture course at Parsons School of Design, in the School of Art and Design History and Theory, submitted their critiques of the Beauty–Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial exhibition. The second first place award goes to Anna Kampfe. The honorable mention will be announced and published in the following weeks.—Peggy Roalf Beauty: Art Emerging from Nature … Read the full Story >>
DART Partners with the Arts at Museum of the City of New York Saturday, February 11, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Gay New York and the Arts of the 20th Century Explore the influence of gay New Yorkers on the city’s artistic life from the 1920s through the 1960s and the dense social and cultural networks that fostered and supported them in the worlds … Read the full Story >>
From resistance to reflection, NYC offers plenty of visual stimulation for weekend wanderers. The tip of the iceberg: Cuban Socialist Posters from the 1970s On January 1, 1959, a now famous poster was created and widely distributed to celebrate the fall of Fulgencio Batista’s army in Cuba. The use of public messaging graphics under the US-backed dictator had up until then been utilized for … Read the full Story >>
As a new decade approaches - and not a moment too soon - I'd like to feature the exhibitions and events of 2009 that were memorable, signifiers of something new, or just plain fun to cover. Here in reverse date order is my list of favorites, some of which are still on view. Be sure to check links for holiday schedules. Tim Burton at … Read the full Story >>
Above: Massimo Vitali, Porto Miggiano, 2011; copyright the artist, courtesy Bonni Benrubi Gallery. Thanks to everyone who entered the Art Book Give-Away! Submissions came from near and far: Bangor, ME; Winchester, KY; Albuquerque, NM; Montreal, QU; and beyond. The winner, selected at random, is: Jeremy Clowe, in Hudson, NY. And huge thanks to the LOVE AND CARE Shops, PQ Blackwell, Abrams, and Chronicle Books … Read the full Story >>
A self-proclaimed "troubled teen addicted to Sartre," Nausea, in particular, Dan Graham has built a career around his off-center ideas about self-perception. A self-taught artist who never attended college, Graham considers himself a writer who also makes things. His work in an array of media, including print, film and video, sculpture, and architectural structures can now be seen in a retrospective that opens … Read the full Story >>
This snail's pace belies the derogatory time-worn catch-phrase. Captured on my LumixHD yesterday afternoon, it easily made 2.5 feet in less than 10 minutes. At the scale of a snail--and my subject is minuscule--this rivals many actions in the fast-paced world of media. Cheers for peace and happiness on this beautiful spring weekend! --Peggy Read the full Story >>
