Q: Originally from Buenos Aires what are some of your favorite things about living and working there? A: I lived in New York for almost 12 years, pretty much my entire adult life, so I learned how to work and deal with people, situations and such in the U.S. I moved to Buenos Aires 4 years ago, and I really enjoy now being able … Read the full Story >>
Michael Bierut, a designer, critic and educator, was honored this week by the School of Visual Arts with the 27th annual Masters Series Award. The award was established to bring to public view the achievements of groundbreaking designers, illustrators, art directors and photographers whose work has been strongly felt and by many, yet without widespread recognition. Through a comprehensive retrospective of his work on view … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, January 23 Chris Knight, 7 pm. School of Visual Arts/MPSDigital Photography, 136 West 21st Street, Room 418F, NY, NY Info More events at SVA Bunk: Kevin Young with Rebecca Carol, on the rise hoaxes, humbug, plagiarists, phonies and fake News, 6:30 pm. New York Public Library, Celeste Auditorium, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, NY, … Read the full Story >>
As power is restored in NYC neighborhoods, many galleries and arts organizations are reporting that they are back in business and rescheduling events. A number of these are hosting special election night events, and others are donating a portion of receipts from benefit events to Hurricane relief organizations, such as the Red Cross Relief Fund. Here's a short list: If you need assistance -- … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, September 21-Sunday, September 24 Photoville Week 2, gates open at noon. Brooklyn Bridge Plaza, Dumbo, NY.On Friday, Photoville offers a workshop under the Brooklyn Bridge on shooting in low light settings on a photo walk with Matt Rick, at 5:30Nancy Borowick will be leading a Walking Tour of her exhibition, THE FAMILY IMPRINT, on Saturday and Sunday. She'll also be joining Daniella Zalcman, Glenna … Read the full Story >>
After several years of email correspondence with artist Lynn Pauley, we finally met last fall, in class. Lynn was guest artist at Anastasia Aukeman’s foundation year seminar at Parsons The New School of Design. After a rousing introduction to her way of drawing on location, the class headed to the High Line for total immersion [more]. With the DART Summer Invitational now on … Read the full Story >>
Fernand Léger was born in 1881 to a family of cattle farmers in Normandy, France. His parents discouraged his interest in art so he initially apprenticed to an architect, in Caen, before moving to Paris in 1900 to pursue his art studies. Although he didn’t get in to the École des Beaux-Artes, he studied classical drawing and painting independently. Influenced by Modernist painters of the time, including … Read the full Story >>
Photo-Poetics: An Anthology, on view at the Guggenheim, presents works by 10 contemporary photographers who use the camera as a weapon to make viewers think. Installed in the Tower's 3 main floors, the show offers a close reading of the works in intimately staged solo shows. This might be the most agressively anti-art-fair exhibition to grace a New York winter in recent years. To borrow … Read the full Story >>
This week’s respondent is author, critic, and curator Vince Aletti, who before making photography his beat, was the longtime music critic at the Village Voice. Although I often see Vince at media previews of photography shows, my favorite place to run into him is on the second floor of the Strand Bookstore where, quickly riffling through bins of catalogues and magazines, he appears … Read the full Story >>
With four full weeks of summertime ahead, this is a great time for painting and drawing in the wild…well, let's say, under the sun. So, dive in! Above: Central Park's Bow Bridge, a favorite subject for painting in the wild The New York Public Library Art Cart offers drawing and crafts most days on the North end of the Fifth Avenue terrace at … Read the full Story >>
The 2015 Summer Invitational: Pimp Your Sketchbooks, continues with Paul Hoppe, who lives and works in Brooklyn. For the DART Summer invitational, I’m sharing the travel sketches I made during a month-long trip to Europe this summer. While my everyday sketchbooks have become mostly utilitarian, this was a great opportunity to start a fresh book and dust off my location drawing chops. It seems … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, February 8, 6-8 pm: Vernita Nemec | Evil Plastic Blues Sculptor, performance artist, and curator, Vernita Nemec finds fascination in the weathered beauty of broken and discarded objects, drawing inspiration from the Japanese philosophy Wabi-Sabi, which embraces the value of imperfection and material transience. Evil Plastic Blues features her latest series Eco-Plasticism, which includes vacuum-formed bas relief collages and small sculptures created from … Read the full Story >>
In celebration of Black History Month, Society of Illustrators will open the exhibition, The Art of MARCH: A Civil Rights Masterpiece on February 28th The show presents the story of Congressman John Lewis's experience in the civil rights movement as told in his graphic novel, March, illustrated by Nate Powell and co-written by Andrew Aydin. This exhibition takes visitors on a visceral tour of the … Read the full Story >>
Left to right: Paolo Ventura, Winter Stories #42, 2007, copyright the artist, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Gallery; Handset type and Esther K. Smith's new book, courtesy Purgatory Press; Stuart O'Sullivan, Dionicia in Lake, Vermont, 2006, from the Proect 5 Portfolio, copyright the artist, courtesy Daniel Cooney Fine Art. Today, 6:00-8:00 pm: Paolo Ventura, Winter StoriesOpening reception at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Gallery, 537 … Read the full Story >>
This just in from the Home Office: We’re very excited to bring the creative communities back to celebrate the winners in this year’s launch of the American Illustration 40 and American Photography 37 - along with last year’s American Illustration 39 and American Photography 36 books – and the Int'l Motion Arts award Thursday, November 11, 2021, 7-11 pm Angel Orensanz Foundation … Read the full Story >>
Tomorrow night, Thursday, July 16, the glitterati of typography will converge live, at Strand Books, for an evening of typographic intrigue. Type Nite, presented by the Type Directors Club, in collaboration with Princeton Architectural Press, and Designers & Books, will be a star-studded evening, with discussion, signings and prizes. In front of a live audience, Tobias Frere-Jones, Peter Mendelsund, Abbott Miller, and Ellen Lupton will show us their projects that went … Read the full Story >>
DART Subscribers in the News Photo above: John Doe and Exene (X), NYC, © 1982, Photographed by Laura Levine, courtesy the artist. Saturday, March 19 Marcos Chin | Fairies in Wonderland, 4 pm. Artist talk and book signing for Marcos’s new coloring book, published by Harper Collins. BookCourt, 163 Court Street (between Pacific and Dean Streets), Brooklyn, NY. (Subways: 4/5 to Borough Hall, and F/G to … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs and Special Events July 24-July 26 ArtExpo is an eclectic selection of emerging artists and do-it-yourself creatives featuring original artwork, books, prints and collectibles July 24-26. Created by the students at Media Design School of Digital Arts at NSAD, ArtExpo is an alternative art fair taking place during Comic-Con and Gam3rCon at the Wonder Bread Factory, 121 14th Street, San Diego. Free … Read the full Story >>
The October 1 edition of DART, 150 Years of Wonderland at the Morgan, found its way to the Marketing Department at the British Library, which wrote yesterday to inform me that the original manuscript of Alice Under Ground has been digitized and made available for everyone to read by "turning the pages". The story about how the manuscript came into the possession of … Read the full Story >>
Art Basel Miami Beach went oceanside to celebrate our planet in a happy reunion of visiting ambassadors from the seven corners of space. The beach was breezy, the skies were blue, the band was brassy and the balloons bodacious. Scion, along with FriendsWithYou, presented Skywalkers, a parade of giant blimps, on the opening day of North America's biggest art fair. Advertised as Public Art … Read the full Story >>
