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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
