Getting a late start on my annual Art By Cycle tour of Queens, I sped over to Socrates Sculpture Park last Sunday for an art workshop with Nick Paparone. This New York-based artist, who was among last year’s emerging artist fellows at Socrates, had set up a silk-screening workshop in the studio pavilion. Step by step, he introduced the assembled group of 20 or so … Read the full Story >>
On Monday, March 10, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco will host the second annual Bloomberg Businessweek Design Conference. The day-long event will bring together an international crowd of some of the world’s most forward-thinking design professionals spanning the disciplines of architecture, transportation, graphic design, technology, urban design, 3D printing, product manufacturing, data visualization, genetic engineering, corporate branding, and more. Among the presenters … Read the full Story >>
It's time to "Think_Postive." That's the theme of the American Photography 36 annual, which is now accepting entries. (The deadline is January 24, 2020.) Entries are also being accepted for the International Motion Art Awards 8 competition and the American Illustration 39 competition. All photographers, creative professionals, publishers, agencies, representatives, students and teachers of photography of any nationality living, working or studying in North … Read the full Story >>
September 6-8: 30th Anniversary Armory Show at the Javits A cornerstone of New York’s cultural landscape since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show brings the world’s leading international contemporary galleries to New York each year. Through elevated presentations, thoughtful programming, curatorial leadership, meaningful institutional partnerships and engaging public art activations, The Armory Show has played a significant role in global contemporary art. The … Read the full Story >>
A career-spanning retrospective of Irving Penn (1917-2009), one of the great innovators of 20th-century photography, opens on Monday at The Met Fifth Avenue. Trained as a painter, Penn first entered the magazine world as an unpaid editorial assistant to the legendary Harper’s Bazaar at director Alexey Brodovitch, in 1936. While an art director in Saks Fifth Avenue’s advertising department two years later, Penn took … Read the full Story >>
Neither Here Nor There, currently on view at RadiatorArts, in Long Island City, presents work by eight artists born in France who have made a home in New York City. Through mixed media, sculpture, photography and painting, the artists of Neither Here Nor There examine a state of being slightly “out of tune” and how their experience may have impacted their work over … Read the full Story >>
That's how Society of Illustrator's annual juried show of children's book art got its name, "The Original Art." Its founder, artist's rep Dilys Evans, felt that the originals for those magical narratives should be appreciated by more than an audience of three - the editor, the art director, and the artist, who were usually the only people beyond the artists' circle to see the … Read the full Story >>
With Presenting Shakespeare, Mirko Ilic and Steven Heller have gathered over a thousand posters from around the globe to show why Shakespeare has become the most important writer in the English language. In a lively and entertaining introduction, the two demonstrate the power of branding, from the dawn of the poster to the banner ads that invade today's desktops. While they're at it they explain … Read the full Story >>
John Chiara makes large-scale, unique photographs using a camera obscura 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 drives all over the San Francisco Bay Area, creating … Read the full Story >>
The latest in our series on work by Pro Photo Daily readers features a groundbreaking book and three very personal projects: Noted photographer Chester Higgins Jr lends an archive of images shot in northern Sudan to a scholarly look at the kingdoms of ancient Nubia ... the much-traveled Anja Hitzenberger photographs colorful Chinese fast food stalls in Beijing ... LA-based photographer Douglas Hill finds … Read the full Story >>
The New School Part-time Faculty Strike Update DART has been covering the strike by part-time faculty at The New School, which includes Parsons School of Design, since the Union representing faculty, Act UAW 7902, voted to strike, on December 6th. Yesterday, Ben Davis, National Art Critic for artnet news, updated the situation with a look at the support by prominent artists, writers and … Read the full Story >>
Esther K. Smith teaches the art of the book to the creative and the curious. First through classes and workshops, and later through her books (How to Make Books; The Paper Bride). Now, with Making Books with Kids: 25 Paper Projects to Fold, Sew, Paste, Pop, and Draw (Quarto 2016), she invites people of all ages and interests to discover a world of magic … Read the full Story >>
Scotty Kelley had more to do in space than take pictures. But then again, he spent 340 days aboard the International Space Station on his last mission, so there was some time to kill. During that stay in space, Kelly made more than 5,000 trips around the Earth, drank nearly 200 gallons of drinking water made from recycled sweat and urine, and used a … Read the full Story >>
If an art performance takes place and no one is around to photographic it, did it really happen? That's the philosophical question behind "Performing for the Camera," an exhibition at London's Tate Modern on view through June 12. A vast show of more than 500 photographs, it looks at the complex relationship between performance and photography over the past 150 years, starting with Nadar's … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, December 6, 6-8pm: The Book Show at SVA An annual exhibition, The Book Show challenges first-year MFA students in the Illustration as Visual Essay program at SVA to conceive, write and illustrate a book—whether a children’s book, graphic novel, self-help book, or visual essay—based on a personal expwerience or subject matter that is meaningful to them. The exhibition of book projects by 19 … Read the full Story >>
Often, creatives like to tuck away the little inspirations that they come across in everyday life until they can find a way to incorporate them into their chosen medium. St. Louis-based photographer Ashley Gieseking had been holding onto some vintage 1950s gift wrap from a present she received a few years earlier, and this past holiday season she turned the remnants of that gift … Read the full Story >>
Even if the streets are slippery with snow, here are five reasons—and more—to head out this weekend: Outsider Art Fair 2016 Thursday, January 21-Sunday, January 24 Outsider Art was first defined as the English equivalent of "Art Brut," a term invented by Jean Dubuffet, who championed art created outside the confines of "official" culture. The popularity of this strain of highly individualistic artistic production … Read the full Story >>
Tuesday, December 11 Panel, 6-9 pm: Stock Film Footage Today | Creative Uses and Licensing. Parsons the New School for Design, Theresa Lang Student Center, 55 West 13thStreet, 2nd Floor, NY, NY. Information. The early years at Aperture, 7:00 pm: The Minor White Years | A Conversation with Peter C. Bunnell and Diana Stoll. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, NY, NY. Information. … Read the full Story >>
“Photography books have never commanded greater interest than they do today.” Those were the opening words to the first edition of Publish Your Photography Book (Princeton Architectural Press March 2014) and are as appropriate now as they were in 2011. Next Wednesday, May 7, New York Public Library’s Career Development lecture series presents the book’s authors, Darius Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson. They will show … Read the full Story >>
Friday, April 26, 6-8pm: Diedrick Brackens | blood compass at Shainman In this show, which occupies the gallery's two locations on Friday and Saturday, the weavings by Diedrick Brackens map an imagined place — visualizing the internal mechanisms and symbols that animate his work while removing the anchor of direct narrative. The scenes depicted in each weaving exist out of time, suspended between a … Read the full Story >>
