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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
With the holiday weekend bringing spare hours that many readers would like to spend reading, today we are updating the long-running DART feature on indie booksellers. If your neighborhood has hosted any more of these most-wanted treasures, please let me know! Bureau of General Services/Queer Division 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, is a queer cultural center, bookstore, and event space that seeks to … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, October 5, 3pm: Works in Public, Riverside Park North The Art Students League of New York and The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation present Works in Public 2024, a year-round outdoor public art exhibition at Riverside Park in Manhattan. The exhibition features four new site-specific sculptures by League artists: Patricia Espinosa and Malin Abrahamsson [above] in Riverside Park North … Read the full Story >>
A bird in hand is something to be thankful for, and here is a beautiful illustration of the old proverb, courtesy the American Folk Art Museum. Some scholars believe that the saying warns against high-risk enterprises while other readings of the meaning refer to medieval falconry where a bird in the hand (the falcon) is a valuable asset and arguably worth more than two … Read the full Story >>
THE HUMAN DESIRE TO ANTHROPOMORPHIZE ANIMALS SEEMS TO BE UNBOUNDED. From doggie dress ups, canine birthday parties and pet cemeteries to the time-honored use of animals as product spokescritters - I'm thinking of canned tuna here - there seems to be no limit to the imagination and creativity thrown in that direction. Tuesday's DART touched on a more high-minded view of this phenomenon in … Read the full Story >>
When recently retired mayor Mike Bloomberg announced his plan for mandatory composting in New York City last June, the idea was met with derisive groans from media outlets and much of the public. Going from unimaginable mountains of trash to a “Zero Waste to Landfill” metropolis is the proverbial mountain moving problem made real. So when a press release from Simon Fraser University … Read the full Story >>
The annual New York destination for alternative sequential art, the MoCCA Festival, arrives early this year - it's on this weekend at the 69th Regiment Armory. Each year artists and publishers look forward to the event as if it were a love fest, and this one's no exception. Here's the talk from the street: Steven Guarnaccia, Illustration Program Chair at Parsons the New School … Read the full Story >>
In just two weeks the photo world will converge on DUMBO, Brooklyn for The New York Photography Festival. Founded by Daniel Power of powerHouse Books and Frank Evers of VII Photo Agency - both based in the creative media center of DUMBO - the festival has proved to be recession proof: the third annual event has expanded, with more locations, more programming and extended … Read the full Story >>
Frieze New York, through Sunday, May 8. Randall’s Island, NY, NY. Info Tickets: $49/$29 Info Transportation: bus from Guggenheim Museum or Ferry from Pier 11 Info Art New York, through Sunday, May 8. Pier 94, 12th Avenue at 55th Street, NY, NY. Info Context New York, through Sunday, May 8. Pier 94, 12th Avenue and Westside Highway, NY, NY. Info Tickets: $75/$40/$25 are good for both Context and Art … Read the full Story >>
