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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
When the news about possible Republican candidates for the presidency is so grim that even NPR’s Morning Edition spends much of its energy covering the always effusive governor of New Jersey, it’s time for a closer look. So I asked Steve Brodner to share his thoughts on Chris Christie. This is what he wrote: Not satisfied with being an obnoxious bore in New Jersey, Chris Christie is now … 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 >>
I was beginning to think that the only way to get a lift out of the noise and disruption being thrust upon me by the current administration might be to take my paints into the woods, along with a tent. Then I received email from Bay Area artist and illustrator, long-time DART subscriber [and it must be said, friend], Vivienne Flesher, along with this … Read the full Story >>
Sarah Pickering has an uncanny knack for developing visual narratives designed to simultaneously scare and thrill the viewer. In her series, Explosions, which was exhibited at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in 2006, the bucolic English countryside is rocked by outbursts of napalm, land mines, artillery, and other kinds of ordnance. Photographed on military proving grounds where scaled-down versions of the real thing are … Read the full Story >>
Leading the art news everywhere today is the remarkable story about returning a long-lost painting by Jacob Lawrence from the “American Struggle” series to its family—and to the exhibition of the extant works currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A recent visitor to the show noticed the wall label stating that this piece had been lost; there was no photograph of … Read the full Story >>
If Albert Watson's just-released UFO: Unidentified Fashionable Object is a coffee table waiting for its legs, then the soon to be unveiled Strip Search is a performance piece waiting on its audience. A black linen slip case wears a wrap-around super-saturated color view of a road to nowhere in the desert. Once the shrink-wrap is punctured, it becomes evident that the two volumes inside … Read the full Story >>
The 2015 Summer Invitational: Pimp Your Sketchbooks, continues with Jonathan Twingley, who lives and works in New York City. My Mom is a retired college librarian. My Dad is a retired high school art instructor. Maybe that’s why sketchbooks have always made a lot of sense to me. Making a drawing in a sketchbook is like going to the movies, waiting in suspense, wondering what … Read the full Story >>
Q: What are some of your favorite things about living and working in Brooklyn? A: I’m from Manhattan. I now live in Brooklyn. Actually I have a love/hate relationship with it but realize after many years of considering living elsewhere that there’s nowhere else to live. I love the people here, the vibrant creative culture all around and the history. Q: How and when … Read the full Story >>
Cold War nostalgia is an odd sensation that registers somewhere between pleasure and pain for many in today’s seemingly borderless art world. Back in 1989 a global cheer went up the night the Berlin Wall fell; the subsequent dissolution of the Eastern Bloc created a migration of scholars and students to Wenceslas Square in Prague, and other points East. In the former Soviet Republic, … Read the full Story >>
Correction: The October 26th issue of DART inadvertently threw the baby out with the bathwater!1988: 5.105 Billion Plus 1, by Filip PagowskiThe year my daughter Kamila was born, and a day that redefined my life, with a start in an adventure that's still thrilling, inspiring and spooking me today. Filip Pagowski is a New York-based graphic artist, born and educated in Poland. … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, February 19, 7:00 pm: Launch of Errata Editions; discussion with publisher Jeffrey Ladd and panelists Ed Grazda, Chris Killip and John T. Hill. Errata Editions Books on Books series is a publishing project dedicated to making rare and out of print photography books accessible to students and photobook enthusiasts at reasonable cost. Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway at 12th Street, New York, NY … Read the full Story >>
If you’ve been looking for an excuse to step inside the former Whitney Breuer Building since Sotheby's New York took it over, the time is now. Botero in New York—curated by Anna Di Stasi, Global Head of Latin American Art—gathers roughly 37 rare, early paintings and several small sculptures made by Fernando Botero (1932-2023) between 1960 and 1973, the years during which the Colombian master lived, … Read the full Story >>
