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 >>
Tuesday, December 10 Opening reception, 7-9 pm: Typhoon Haiyan Benefit Auction and Exhibition. The Lodge Gallery, 131 Chrystie Street, NY, NY. Friends of Friends presents, 6-8:30 pm: Friends of Friends Photography Auction for children’s medical care in Asia. Metropolitan Pavilion, 123 East 18th Street, 2nd Floor, NY, NY. Information. View the catalog. Wednesday, December 11 Panel discussion, 6-8 pm: The Missing Link in Post-War art | Salvatore Emblema. Bosi Contemporary, … Read the full Story >>
Unsettled weather, the Ides of March, the seesaw election campaigns -- or whatever - have inspired artists and galleries to hang some edgy work this month. Some of the titles are spooky too: Little Deaths All the Same, at 31 Grand; My Vacation with a Kidnapper, at Envoy; I Am Who I Pretend to Be at Randall Scott Gallery. But there's also … Read the full Story >>
Opening this fall in New York City: Picasso Sculpture at MoMA. The largest museum exhibition of Picasso’s sculptures to take place in the United States in nearly half a century, the exhibition brings together around 150 sculptures from Picasso’s entire career via loans from major public and private collections in the U.S. and abroad, with the largest selection of works coming from the Musée national Picasso–Paris. With … Read the full Story >>
What is ICON7 The Illustration Conference? In random order, according to friends who have attended, it is: A movable feast of talks, meetups, and fun stuff centered on illustration that happens every other year in a different location. I guess you could call it an arty rave party. A trip to the bountiful, to catch up with old friends and make some new ones in … Read the full Story >>
Alison Rossiter, Fuji Gaslight, exact expireation date unknown, ca. 1920s, processed in 2010. Save the date: November 30, 7 pm, Photographers Lecture Series at ICP. Information. Tuesday, November 22 Opening reception, 6 pm: Pharmacophore: Architectural Placebo, an installation and dance performance collaboration with HAt and dancer/choreographer Silas Reiner (who will be joined by his Merce Cunningham colleagues Rashaun Mitchell, Jamie … Read the full Story >>
If you haven’t done so already, prepare your submissions for the American Photography 32 competition. The deadline is January 22. Entering comes with privileges, such as having your work seen by a jury of top creative professionals, who often make assignments on the spot. Entrants receive a 53-percent discount on the AP annual published in November, as well an an invitation to the AI-AP Big Talk symposium and The Party that follows. They also receive free subscriptions to PPD, Motion Arts Pro, Profiles, Dispatches from Latin America, and DART: Design Arts Daily. (But you may have already known that.) Read the full Story >>
Special for DART Subscribers: $100 discount for tickets to ABSTRACT: The Future of Design in Media Conference, which will take place on June 10, 2011 in Portland, Maine. It is organized and hosted by AIGA Maine. The conference will bring together leading graphic designers and innovators to share their views on the changing media landscape, to inspire and challenge, and to help … Read the full Story >>
News Brief February 24, New York: Mark Lubell, Director of the International Center of Photography, announced the 2014 recipients of the Infinity Awards: Cornell Capa Lifetime Achievement: Jürgen Schadeberg Art: James Welling Fashion: Steven Klein Photojournalism: Stephanie Sinclair and Jessica Dimmock Publication: Holy Bible by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin (Mack/AMC, 2013) Young Photographer: Samuel A. James The awards will be presented at the … Read the full Story >>
Tuesday, November 30, 6:30 pm: Aperture presents Daniel Gordon on his large color photographs, including Flying Pctures (powerHouse Books, 2009), in the Parsons Lecture Series. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 546 West 27 Street, 4th floor, NY, NY. Free. Tuesday, November 30: Last chance for Vogue'ology, an exhibition created by the Ballroom Archive & Oral History Project and the sound art collective Ultra-red, in … Read the full Story >>
If all that you knew about Isabel Toledo was the elegant lemongrass yellow ensemble that Michelle Obama wore to her husband's inauguration, don't miss the exhibition of her couture fashions currently on view at The Museum at FIT. Toledo, who is often called "a designer's designer," is something of a cult figure and, very definitely, an iconoclast. Her last runway show under her … Read the full Story >>
Thursday October 18-Sunday October 21: Texas Contemporary Art Fair. George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX.Information. Friday October 19-Sunday October 21: Noon-6 pm: High Line Artists’ Open Studios. Information/Map. Saturday, October 20-Sunday, October 21: The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center presents: Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST) 2012. Information/Map. Tuesday, October 16 Book signing/panel discussion, 7 pm: Join Francoise Mouley, Nora … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / Fairs / and Beyond Thursday, September 20-Sunday, September 23 Photoville 2018, gates 4 pm: Exhibitions, talks, workshops, activities & tours, special events, and beer garden. Info Brooklyn Bridge Park under the Brooklyn Bridge/Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY Info/ Visit Danspace Project | Times Square. 3 site-specific commissions. Info Thursday, September 20 Allen Hansen … Read the full Story >>
It is hard to imagine how New York City as a destination for art could be improved upon, with its wealth of venues offering—in some cases—24/7 access to art of all kinds. But this week ushers in the physical results of the vision and commitment of two leaders in the field. Photo above, courtesy of Pace Gallery Downtown, the family-owned, commercial Pace Gallery has … Read the full Story >>
Woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e (''the floating world'') have had a lasting effect on Western art. Their pictorial and printmaking innovations have reverberated in the works of Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, notably Monet, van Gogh and Whistler—especially the work of Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). This artist, who was of the samurai class, is probably best known for the series, 100 Famous Views of Edo. … Read the full Story >>
“if you can’t make it big, make it red.” A favorite, often misquoted art school saw was best exemplified—at least for this writeropposiin the form of the big, red and shiny 3D piece of typography that once marked the entrance to 9 West 57th Street, NYC—a prime location opposite a luxury retail strip, built in 1974 by developer Sheldon Solow. A regular commuter to … Read the full Story >>
Opening night for The AIPAD Photography Show at the Park Avenue Armory amassed a throng of collectors, art dealers, photographers, and members of the press – among them, Bill Cunningham of the New York Times (bottom row right). The newly renovated Wade Thompson Drill Hall has never offered a better home for North America's premier photo show; everything about the setting, from the gorgeous … Read the full Story >>
