Today DART launches the 2017 Summer Invitational: Pimp Your Sketchbook, in which artists show their personal work and open a window onto their creative process. We begin with Lisa Brown, who lives and works in San Francisco and just can’t stop drawing. My resolution for 2014 was to jumpstart my art practice. My rules were as follows: post one drawing, in any degree of completion, … Read the full Story >>
When Brian Rea’s most recent Art Center class mural project came through on my Facebook feed a couple of weeks ago, I contacted him about sharing it with DART subscribers. There couldn’t be a better time to post this than NY Armory Week – running to 68 feet in length, in terms of size it probably outclasses anything currently up in New York. This is … Read the full Story >>
September 12: Mexican Prints at the Vangard at The Met This exhibition explores the rich tradition of printmaking in Mexico—from the 18th to the mid-20th century—through works drawn from the Museum’s collection. Featuring over 130 works, including woodcuts, lithographs, and screen prints, by artists such as Posada, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Elizabeth Catlett, and Leopoldo Méndez, the exhibition explores how prints were … Read the full Story >>
I won’t lie—I love The AIPAD Photography Show (AIPAD). Some of the most interesting photographs ever made, from the 1850s to the present, and this year with a fairly large selection of contemporary and experimental work, are on view at The Park Avenue Armory. Most dealers present a selection of images by a variety of photographers that they feel are likely to attract … Read the full Story >>
Speaking about the Meadowlands in the epilogue of his book of the same title, Joshua Lutz said, "For most people, the Meadowlands is a place to pass through and forget on their way to someplace else. Not unlike a neglected child, the Meadowlands has grown up without guidance, constantly unsure of what the future holds. It is this loneliness and solitude that continues to … Read the full Story >>
Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center returns to Rockefeller Center—opening this week and continuing through October 2, 2020. Loring Randolph, Director of Frieze NY, says, “So much has changed since our planned opening of this year’s Frieze Sculpture on the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, April 22nd, but what has not waivered is Frieze and Rockefeller Center’s commitment to putting the art of our time in the … Read the full Story >>
In a moment of heightened awareness one day back in 1995, Peter Kuper, while riding the packed #2 train, began wondering about his fellow passengers and their destinations in a new way. “Was this trip all we have in common,” he thought, “or might our lives crisscross and impact one another in positive or even catastrophic ways. If the flap of a butterfly’s wings in … Read the full Story >>
If you like to photograph shooting stars, we’ve got great news. According to a new study, rocky debris blasted away from the tiny asteroid Dimorphos when NASA’s DART spacecraft intentionally slammed into it in 2022 could create the first human-made meteor shower. This shower, known as the Dimorphids, could last for 100 years, notes CNN. You’ve got plenty of time to prepare for the light show: Fragments of Dimorphos will arrive in the vicinity of Earth and Mars within one to three decades, with the possibility that some debris could reach the red planet within seven years. Read the full Story >>
“Unfair labor practices” is not exactly a phrase that springs to mind when one considers the ins and outs of teaching at the historically progressive New School for Social Research. Founded in 1919 as a radical alternative to the tradition-bound Ivy League, The New School, which includes Parsons School of Design, “has produced some prominent academics and intellectuals, including the philosophers Hannah Arendt and … Read the full Story >>
Left: Dave and Pam in Their Caddy, from Montauk: The End. Right: Gisele and Rachel, from Havana Libra. Copyright Michael Dweck. Opening 12.08 at Staley-Wise Gallery. Wednesday, December 7 Day Two, 10 am-6 pm: The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, the foundational document that established Manhattan’s famous street grid. … Read the full Story >>
Today: 8-1/2—hours, that is, until the New York Studio School’s virtual auction benefit closes. Works still available by Mike Kelly, Dana Schutz, Alex Katz, Lois Dodd, Martin Puryear, Dorothea Rockburne and more. Open to the public. No ticket required. Info Browse Above: Dorothea Rockburne, Shadowed Perimeter, edition 49 of 73, 2004-2008 Halloween: The New York Public is throwing a … Read the full Story >>
"If you're not able to sketch a man who throws himself out of the window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth floor to the ground, you'll never be able to produce great paintings." –Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) For artists committed to keeping a sketchbook—perhaps even more so for those who struggle in this—the current exhibitions on Eugène Delacroix at the Metropolitan … Read the full Story >>
Q: You live in Brooklyn originally from Virginia. As an artist, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in NYC? A: My neighborhood in Brooklyn, Greenpoint, feels like a small town, with a lot of other artists in the area. There’s a really nice sense of community. After eleven years in Brooklyn it really feels like home. How and when … Read the full Story >>
According to experts there are about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 (that is, 10 quintillion) insects in the world. I estimate that roughly half of them are in our backyard here in Oaxaca, Mexico. My fascination with entomology, which dates back to my first reading of Sam and the Firefly, at the age of four, has been reawakened since we began our sojourn in Mexico over a year … Read the full Story >>
John Chiara makes large-scale, unique photographs using a camera of his own design. If you were to catch him on the mobile early on a work day, he might say, “Hang on while I park the camera.” The Big Camera, as it has become known, is roughly the size of a U-Haul, which Chiara has driven all over the San Francisco Bay Area, creating … Read the full Story >>
Talk / Performance / Protest / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, July 24, 17 Fred Tomaselli & Glenn Furhman in conversation, 6 pm. The FLAG Art Foundation, 545 West 25th Street, NY, NY Info Trevor Paglan and Ben Wizer on surveillance and civil liberties in the age of hacking, 6:30pm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY Info Wednesday, July 25-Sunday, … Read the full Story >>
Seymour Chwast is always referred to as “the legendary graphic designer and co-founder of Push Pin Studios.” But how many legends can you think of who are known by a single name? Shakespeare, Caruso, Elvis, Cher, Madonna, Bono, Jesus...The list goes on, of course, and in the world of art and design it includes Leonardo, Daumier, Hopper, Warhol, Milton, Crumb...and Seymour. Subversive. Personal. Obsessive. Radical. … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, November 7 Cathy Curtis | Elaine de Kooning & Grace Hartigan | Two Ways to Be a Woman Artist at Mid-Century, 6:30-7:30 pm. New York Studio School, 8 West 8th Street, NY, NY Info Sam Contis, artist talk, 7 pm. Aperture Foundation, 547 West 27th Street, NY, NY Info Sketch Night + Live Music … Read the full Story >>
COMICS RARELY GO LIVE, and this fall seems to be the magical moment for New York aficionados to appreciate the real thing. The Fantagraphics 30-year retrospective exhibition at the Society of Illustrators runs through October 21st. It features over 100 original pieces by dozens of artists published by Fantagraphics over the last three decades. The exquisite beauty of these drawings gave me goose bumps … Read the full Story >>
The exhibition Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949-1960 presents more than 100 paintings and sculptures acquired by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s second director, James Johnson Sweeney between 1952 and 1960. Mr. Sweeney took on the international avant-garde movements of the Atomic Age as his mandate for breathing new life into an institution that had grown somewhat stale under the … Read the full Story >>
