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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
“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 >>
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 >>
