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 >>
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 >>
With health care arguably the top domestic issue today, the subject of health and well being fills the editorial pages of newspapers and magazines. The need to illuminate complex stories about genetics, automated medicine, geriatric care, homeopathic medicine, and more provides ample canvas to illustrators who are called upon to create thought-provoking images. This Saturday, the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, invites the … 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 >>
Day One of the New York Photo Festival kicked off yesterday with welcome sunshine flooding its waterfront location in DUMBO. The first 'official' event at St. Ann's Warehouse was packed with visitors who came to see Kathy Ryan, photo director of The New York Times magazine, in conversation with British photographer Richard Learoyd (top row, below), whose work is included in the exhibition … 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 >>
Hansje van Halem is an independent graphic designer who opened her Amsterdam studio in 2003. Widely known in Europe for her books, typographics and posters, van Halem is a highly experimental, risk-taking artist so unafraid of failure that in 2014 she published a book that includes many of her rejected designs. Her practice continues to broaden, with surface design, one of her lost-time obsessions, … Read the full Story >>
The sale last night of a nearly complete collection of Robert Frank's photographs published as The Americans (Delpire 1958/Grove 1960) can be seen as a landmark event. The total high estimate for the 77 images [out of 83 images in the book] was $3,761,000. The sale total (including buyer's premium) is $3,739,375. Two key images from the series, New Orleans (Trolley), estimated at $200,000-300,000, … Read the full Story >>
Artists In Residence After five trips to Central America—four videos and four photo series later—I’m wrapping up the fieldwork portion of “The Leafcutters” project. Next, it’s back to the studio to produce the accompanying drawings and sculptures. There is the inevitable period of reflection at the end of a significant chapter. I started working with leafcutter ants simply because I found their colorful parade to be dazzling. But it … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from [where?] what are some of your favorite things about living and working in [your current locale]? A: I’m originally from Toronto and I’ve lived in Montreal for the last long stretch. But recently, my wife and I moved to a rural suburb off the island of Montreal called Saint-Lazare. It’s the equestrian capital of Quebec, or something like that, … Read the full Story >>
Q: When is a social satirist also a children’s book author, a Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist, a playwright, a novelist, an Oscar-winning animated filmmaker, and a screenwriter? A: When his name is Jules Feiffer. New York’s fall cultural landscape seems to belong to this consummate New Yorker. In conjunction with the release of The Long Chalkboard and Other Stories (Pantheon), a book by his … Read the full Story >>
Of comics, Lynda Barry says, “Comics are a place to go. They gave me a ‘meanwhile’ and an ‘elsewhere’.” Now she returns the favor, big time, with an exhibition of more than 80 original comic drawings, watercolors, and mixed media collages from the past 35 years opening on Satruday at Adaum Baumgold Gallery. There will be work from her seminal books Two Sisters Comeek, Girls and Boys, Big … Read the full Story >>
Documentary filmmakers are speaking out about the toll the filmmaking process takes on their mental health, notes Indiewire. “The documentary film industry is in crisis,” declares Rebecca Day, a British psychotherapist who is a co-founder of DocuMentality, an initiative pushing the documentary film community to talk more openly about the issue of mental health. Over the past two years, more than a dozen film production companies have turned to the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma for training to support doc filmmakers covering trauma. Read the full Story >>
Books / Talks / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, October 4 Asaf and Tomer Hanuka | How to Tell a Story in 9 Panels or Less, 6:30 pm. Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63rd Street, NY, NY Info Photographing Politics | Campaigns, Protests, Demonstrations, panel with Sarah Blesener, Johnny Milano, Cédric von Niederhäusern; Stephanie Keith, Moderator, 6:30 pm. ICP Museum, 250 Bowery, NY, NY … Read the full Story >>
Swiss-born installation artist Urs Fischer’s 23-foot-high painted bronze 20-ton teddy bear/lamp sculpture just moved onto the Seagram Building plaza for a 5-month stay. On Wednesday afternoon, workers were waiting out the showers before fabricating a granite pedestal for the piece. The sculpture, one from an edition of three cast in 2005-2006, is based on an 11-inch-high toy cut and sewn together by Fischer, and … Read the full Story >>
Marketing guru and uber-blogger Seth Godin has said that the best way to sell stuff is to “tell a story that resonates with people and make sure it’s a true story.” As the presidential campaign rumbles on, very few memorable stories have emerged. At the first Democratic Presidential debate, for example, Hillary Clinton couldn’t beat Bernie Sanders for friendly crowd appeal. The best she could … Read the full Story >>
Today, Tomorrow and Sunday: PhotoPlus Expo. Jacob Javits Convention Center, NY, NY. Information. This is the largest photography and imaging show in North America, attended by over 24,000 professional photographers and enthusiasts. Don't miss your chance to explore over 250 exhibits, see thousands of new products, attend conference seminars, keynote presentations, special events and much more. In addition to seminars held in the auditorium, many of the … Read the full Story >>
