Timothy Egan’s new book, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012), tells of the epic undertaking of the photographer who documented Native American life. Mr. Egan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for The New York Times, who won a National Book Award for his book about the Dust Bowl, The Worst … Read the full Story >>
If you want to take in some Chelsea galleries and only have an hour, you could check the listings and make a plan; that alone could take some time. Or you could pick a single block and hit the bricks. Each block is different, but if you want variety and high-density, some of the choice blocks include West 27th Street; West 26th Street, West … Read the full Story >>
Left: Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976. Right: Polka Dots, November 1976. Courtesy and copyright © 2012 George and Betty Woodman. In the brief span of less than a decade, Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) produced a complete body of work in photography. From the time she picked up a camera as a teenager, she made herself the main subject of her work. She plumbed … Read the full Story >>
What can I say...I'm a complete fool for things that grow in my subsistence herb farm - which is just a window box - with just enough light, it seems. In case you haven't followed the epic tale of one tarragon plant's survival through a harsh New York winter, here's the link. And here's the update: this tough little plant has done more … Read the full Story >>
Abundance. Vitality. Progress. This was New York City circa 1848, in a painting that depicts Manhattan’s downtown skyline as seen from Brooklyn. Thanks to the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, New York City became the Eastern hub of continental commerce. This view celebrating the optimism of the day, by an unidentified artist, is in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum. Info … Read the full Story >>
Until 2006, the “world’s largest photographs” were arguably the Colorama advertising images produced by Eastman Kodak and installed in Grand Central Terminal between 1950 and 1990. As the editor of Colorama: The World’s Largest Photographs (Aperture 2005), I was intrigued by an announcement for the installation of The Great Picture at UC Riverside’s Sweeney Art Gallery. Installation view of The Great Picture in the … Read the full Story >>
Above: Milocan Tous Les Saints Tous Les Morts (c .2000) by Myrlande Constant Happy Holidays from DART: Design Arts DailyPeggy Myrlande Constant is acknowledged as the matriarch of a generation of contemporary Haitian Vodou flag makers. She began her creative journey more than twenty years ago after leaving her job in a wedding gown factory in Port-au-Prince. It was here and from … Read the full Story >>
Images above, copyright Martha Rich; her work can be seen in Nice School, on view April 3Â - 26, 2009 at La Luz De Jesus, Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES, CARebecca Bird: Everything that ever existed still existsPaul Kopeikin GalleryMarch 14 - April 18, 2009Opening reception: March 14, 6-9 pmBeautiful Decay, A-ZExtended through April 18, 2009 Group Show: Year … Read the full Story >>
Year 2019 begins for me with a new take on the long-running DART Q&A. That Proustean model has been advanced with the subject-based DART Interview, starting with Sergio Baradat. A long-time subscriber, subject, and if I may blow his cover, the brilliant mind behind the DJ tracks you've been grooving to at The Party over the years. Sergio's multidisciplinary talents, his love art, … Read the full Story >>
The optimism many of us felt as our own ball fell on December 31st probably feels a little tarnished by now. With uncertainty and doubt trying to elbow their way in, this is a good time for a “Call and Response” page in DART. So I invite you to send an illustrated story about how you are handling this phase of the pandemic, specifically: how … Read the full Story >>
On a tip from DART subscriber Elliot Kaufman, I checked out the current show at the Hudson River Museum, in Yonkers, where photographs celebrating Hudson River crossings are on view. In Harry Wilks: Hudson River Bridges, Wilks shows us the Hudson River from a sharply designed perspective. Girders and railings frame or bisect the views; lines of structures intersect with lines in nature, leading … Read the full Story >>
All you need on your mobile to get from point A to Z in New York City this weekend. Frieze week art fairs continue through Sunday, May 17. Randall’s Island Frieze Art Fair New York. Randall’s Island Park, NY, NY. Information. Projects | Talks | Education. Tickets Harlem FLUX Art Fair, Corn Exchange Building, Park Avenue at 125th Street, NY. … Read the full Story >>
The art of fashion illustration is alive and well at a show on view at the Society of Illustrators through May 2. Some of the top names from its heyday to the present are represented, including Rene Boucher, Joe Eula, Kenneth Paul Block, Michael Vollbracht, Antonio Lopez, and Glenn Hilario, to name a few. Drawings in a staggering array of mediums, and highly finished … Read the full Story >>
Abundance. Vitality. Progress. This was New York City circa 1848, in a painting that depicts Manhattan’s downtown skyline as seen from Brooklyn. Thanks to the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, New York City became the Eastern hub of continental commerce. This view celebrating the optimism of the day, by an unidentified artist, is in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum. … Read the full Story >>
The mid-February fire that damaged Pratt Institute’s landmark Main Building destroyed work by 35 of the 44 senior drawing and painting students in the BFA program. For many of them, most of the work they produced during their four years of study went up in smoke, leaving them with nothing to show for their thesis exhibitions at Pratt, or for grant and graduate school … Read the full Story >>
Margaret Morton, noted phototographer, educator, and activist, died last week in her East Village apartment at age 71. Known for her pioneering work documenting the home-building practices and social lives of the homeless who moved into the cavernous underground below Penn Station in the 1990s, Margaret became a fierce advocate for their equal treatment by city agencies conditioned to sweep them further into … Read the full Story >>
A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial, a global survey of contemporary photography and video, opens at the International Center of Photography on Friday, May 17. The exhibition will feature 28 emerging and established artists from 14 countries whose works speak to and illuminate the new visual and social territory in which image making operates today. Artists include Nayland Blake, A.K. Burns, Thomas Hirschhorn, Elliott … Read the full Story >>
"Pricked: Extreme Embroidery," which opened last Friday at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), proves that whatever medium an artist chooses is strictly a matter of choice. The exhibition presents work by 48 artists from 17 countries, using everything from stone, comic books, discarded work gloves, and human hair, as well as linen fabric and silk thread, to offer provocative, and often satirical … Read the full Story >>
Moyra Davey, Copperhead No. 285; Copperhead No. 295, 2015. Available in Baxter Street/CCNY benefit auction. Special Events Wednesday, October 14 The 36th Annual W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography Awards, 7 pm. SVA Theater, 333 West 23rd Street, NY, NY. Information. Online now: 2015 Photo Auction Benefit | Baxter Street / Camera Club of New York. Information Register. Preview: 2015 Photo … Read the full Story >>
Special Events May 16-20 Akris x Vivian Maier. Howard Greenberg Gallery, 41 East 57th Street, NY, NY Info May 17-21 LIC Arts Open. Various venues, Long Island City, NY Info Open studios: May 20-21, noon – 6 pm. Info May 19-20 Brooklyn Art Book Fair. McCarren Park Play Center, Brooklyn, NY Info [Greenpoint} May 20-21 Sunset Park Open Studios, noon-6 pm. Various venues, get … Read the full Story >>
