Everybody loves a train wreck. You can see it coming, but it can't be stopped. It's horrifying, but so compelling, you can't look away. Like (fill in your favorite celebrity implosion here). So when I learned that Nathan Fox and Paul Chatem had teamed up for a 2-man gallery exhibition on the theme, opening tomorrow night, I contacted them by email. DART: What were … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Thursday, February 26 Reception and preview, 6-8 pm: Friends Seminary Auction. David Zwirner, 519 West 19th Street, NY, NY. Online bidding. Reception and preview, 10 am: Lower East Side Printshop Benefit Sale 2015. 306 West 37th Street, NY, NY. Information. Dare to Draw, with Carl Potts, 6-9:30 pm. The Art Students League of New York, 215 West 57th Street, … Read the full Story >>
When Andy Warhol proclaimed that everyone would eventually have 15 minutes of fame, I'm pretty sure he wasn't including characters from the plant world in that equation. However, Tarragon, who has gained quite a following from a mere two appearances in DART, will soon appear in the terrariums that are part of Ecoaesthetic, an exhibition opening this Thursday at Exit Art. … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Your art for the 2018 memorial day cover of The New Yorker made me feel like a kid again—and got my holiday off to a great start. What is there about kids playing in water that gets your pen moving? Gayle Kabaker: Thank you! It's not really kids in water that inspires me—more just people and water in general ! When it's … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs / Special Events Saturday, March 28-Sunday, March 29 PMF VI | Sixth Annual Publications & Multiples Fair. Noon- 6 pm. Baltimore Design School, 1500 Barclay Street, Baltimore, MD. Information. Lectures / Discussions / Screenings Tuesday, March 24 Brave New Camera | Panel discussions and film trailer preview, 6 pm. Concerning the proliferation of Internet-connected cameras and their impact on society, featuring … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Screenings / Performance / and Beyond Above: Vija Celmins, Drypoint—Ocean Surface (Between First and Second State); this week at The Met Breuer Wednesday, September 24 Xaviar Solomon on The Painter and The Libertine | Titian and Pietro Arentino, 6:30 pm. New York Studio School, 8 West 8thStreet, NY, NY Info NYSS Lectures, Tuesday and Wednesday Evenings, schedule Thursday, September 26 On Visibility … Read the full Story >>
Stefan Sagmeister is a designer who takes risks in work and in life to make a sincere statement—for himself and his clients. Some time ago he realized that by closing down his studio for a year for travel and reflection he would elevate his perceptions, and therefore, the quality of his work. So began his tradition of taking a sabbatical from the office every seven … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond This week, three New York art institutions are expanding the scope of modern Italian art in a way never before realized. With style, grace, and a clarity that borders on perfection, the work of the Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana comes into view for the first time in more than four decades. Opening last night at … Read the full Story >>
At a reception in her New York studio last fall, Mariana Cook, known for her intimate portraits, spoke about her most recent project photographing stone walls. It began the day before Thanksgiving in 2002, she said, when a herd of cows had picked their way through a crumbling section of a stone wall on her family’s property on Martha’s Vinyard. Once her neighbor had wrangled the 56 cows … Read the full Story >>
The winner of the recent DART Book Prize Contest is Benoit Filion, of Chateaugay, New York. He wrote: You are in front of Galerie Lefebvre (intersection of Quai Voltaire/Pont du Carrousel) looking at the reflection of the Louvre in the window. Every inch of Paris is worth discovering and you likely have seen a lot already. Louvre, d'Orsay and Pompidou since you like art. And … Read the full Story >>
Last weekend I headed to the North Fork for a weekend of good friends, good food, and cycling along meandering country roads. There was a surprise element that made for some excitement and what could only be considered deluxe bird watching. In a blue spruce not more than 12 feet from the kitchen window of my hosts, Tony and Marla, a pair of … Read the full Story >>
In conjunction with Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, which opened today at Museum of the City of New York, Susan Saarinen, the architect's daughter and Mark Coir, a family historian, will present an intimate view at the remarkable legacy and fascinating lives of the Saarinens, arguably the preeminent artistic family of the 20th Century. This event is FREE for DART subscribers: please … Read the full Story >>
Thanks to everyone who sent in a Mountain Story. Here’s one from DART subscriber Greg Smith, of Bluffton, SC and Westcliffe, CO: Cloud caps are far less common here in Westcliffe, where we feel rich if we get more than a foot of moisture in an entire year. But we look out, from our Wet Mountain Valley, on nearly the entire Colorado section … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, July 16, 5-8pm: Echoes of Place at Equity As a prelude to the inevitable vacation gallery closings, Equity Gallery presents works by longtime DART subscriber AI honoree, and SVA faculty member, Carol Fabricatore, together with Susan Greenstein and Janet Pederson. The exhibition explores the landscapes we occupy, whether natural or made, physical or imaginative in a wide-ranging view of the place and … 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 >>
In a single decade, starting in 1935, Arthur Fellig (1899-1968), the photographer who re-named himself "Weegee the Famous," changed the way New Yorkers viewed their city. The Austrian-born son of Jewish immigrants, who grew up poor on the Lower East Side, got a job as a darkroom technician in 1924 at Acme Newspictures (later UPI). After ten years, he left to become a freelance … Read the full Story >>
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 >>
This Week and Next Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here assembles artists' responses to the tragic loss of a cultural and intellectual hub in Baghdad that occurred on March 5, 2007, by a bomb explosion. Al-Mutanabbi Street had been the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, and the heart of the Baghdad literary community. This important and timely exhibition will be held in five New York City cultural venues. The Center for Book Arts will be … 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 >>
