The first time I encountered work by Howardena Pindell was her installation featured in the 2006-07 exhibition High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975, at the National Academy of Design, New York. Her radical feminism has squarely located her painting and photo-based work in the realm of protest and although she has exhibited widely and regularly since the 1970s, Pindell has had … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Protest / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, July 11 Ánde Somby Art Residency | Yoiking, 12-1 pm. Madison Square Park, 11 Madison Avenue, NY, NY Info Performances all week, hours vary Marlon Riggs & “No Regrets” | Disclosure, Performativity & Legacy, 6:30 pm.The 8th Floor, 17 West 17th Street, NY, NY Info Sketch Night at Society of Illustrators, with … Read the full Story >>
In 1963 LIFE Magazine published a photo by Charles Moore of a black man being arrested during a civil rights protest in Birmingham. Howardena Pinell (b. 1943 Philadelphia) proposed a video based on the photo, and others of Civil Rights clashes she saw as a child, to the AIR Gallery, in New York City. The gallery, which is the country’s first female-run, feminist co-op space, … 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 >>
This week, The Nation, founded by abolitionists in 1865, launched a new series of artistic dispatches from the front lines of resistance. Spearheaded by celebrated artists and illustrators Andrea Arroya, Steve Brodner, and Peter Kuper, OppArt will showcase fresh content daily online as a diverse group of artists take aim and draw. Launched on Monday with art by longtime DART contributor, Peter Kuper, … Read the full Story >>
One of the prominent features of the political struggles that have taken place here in Oaxaca, Mexico has been street art. Sometimes it takes the form of beautifully designed posters announcing an event; sometimes artists combine bold stenciled graphics with political slogans like The revolution will not be televised; and sometimes they're more like an open canvas that becomes an expanding dialogue between … Read the full Story >>
A new year, and so many photo contests to enter: This week we noted that the deadline for the American Photography 33 competition has been extended to January 27, so you still have time to submit work! There are also deadlines approaching for the Audubon photo contest, the Oskar Barnack Award, and the NPPA's Best of Photojournalism competition. We also learned who will be … Read the full Story >>
What can you post on social media? And what can't you post? Knowing the difference can be hard, because Community Guidelines on many social media platforms remain vague and in many cases have proved to be overly restrictive. Now the New York-based advocacy group Don't Delete Art has launched a guide aimed at helping artists avoid censorship online, giving advice in areas such as … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Continuing through March 18 Asia Week. Various venues, NY, NY Info March 15-26 New Directors | New Films 2017. MoMA, 11 West 53rd Street, & The Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center. Info Resist | Protest Wednesday, March 15 Designing Resistance | How to Create and Distribute Political Art & Design, with Intererence Archive, 7-9 pm. SVA Library, 380 Second Avenue, … Read the full Story >>
Journalists are used to scary border crossings while reporting in places like the Middle East. Now it's the U.S. border they're worried about. According to the Committee to Project Journalists, more than seven journalists have recently been detained and questioned at the U.S. border and have had their belongings, including electronic devices, searched. This week the CPJ issued an advisory outlining steps to prepare … Read the full Story >>
It almost seems like Spring—at least the daffodils and crocus are doing their bit to satisfy our hungry eyes. So this might be a weekend for enjoying some outdoor art installations to celebrate the season. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the 2018 Roof Garden Commission opened this week with a colossal bronze sculpture by Huma Bhabha. Titled We Come in Peace, the … Read the full Story >>
Special Events March 9-18 Asia Week New York. Various venues. Map Info March 9-12 NY Antiquarian Book Fair. Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue at 67th Street, NY, NY Info Protest | Resistance Wednesday, March 8 Collective Thinking, For Freedoms, 6:30 pm: Collective Thinking/Roundtable. Aperture Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, NY, NY Info Saturday, March 11 Civic Education Workshops, 1-4 pm. The Kitchen, … Read the full Story >>
For the inaugural LES Art Week, the twenty-four participating galleries are featuring work by woman artists, both established and emerging—offering fuel for the blazing evidence for why there have been, until now, “no great woman artists.” Linda Nochlin’s dramatic feminist rallying cry of 1971 is being proclaimed in venues from coast to coast, and around the world, more so than ever this year. And … Read the full Story >>
When she was attending the Rhode Island School of Design in the 1980s, photographer and filmmaker Jill Greenberg created a body of work she describes "drawings, paintings, and sculptures of little disgusting men in suits." In 2012 she returned to the theme, creating a 6:30 slow-motion video that comments witheringly on the culture of power and entitlement. The work was inspired by a dinner … Read the full Story >>
A high profile resignation. Destroyed books. And a new debate over cancel culture. As we noted this week, Martin Parr, the esteemed photographer of British life, has resigned as artistic director of the Bristol Photo Festival following a protest alleging racial insensitivity. Parr came under fire for contributing an introduction to a 2017 reissue of a photography book by the late Italian photographer Gian … Read the full Story >>
This week we took note of new developments in state-of-the-art video: TechCrunch reported that a group appears to have leaked access to Sora, OpenAI's video generator, in protest of what it's calling duplicity and "art washing" by Open AI. TC also noted that Indian-based video-editing platform Invideo is launching an AI-powered video-creation feature that lets you use prompts to generate video clips in various … Read the full Story >>
Forty years after Earth Day was proclaimed a national day of observance, our planet faces greater perils than ever before, according to the Earth Day Action Center. The idea of marking a day on which to take notice, on the most basic level, of what surrounds us began as an "environmental teach-in" in Seattle and launched a worldwide environmental movement. This year's observance … Read the full Story >>
In the fight to free the nipple on social media, irony is always a possibility. For instance: A New York art gallery showing an exhibition that aims to de-sexualize the concept of nudity had its Instagram account flagged for, yes, posting an artwork depicting a naked body. The group show at the Kravets Wehby Gallery, titled "Nudity is not Radical!," is "coming face-to-face with … Read the full Story >>
The beagle who stands watch at the worldwide news headquarters of Pro Photo Daily recently informed us that it is high time we put together one of our semi-regular reports on dog photography. Today's edition features dogs with human bodies; a New York Times story about a Miami lawyer and emerging photographer who is saving shelter dogs; a report about the fate of abandoned … Read the full Story >>
CLOSING Sue Coe | Graphic Resistance, through September 9. MoMA PS1, NY, NY Info An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017, through August 27. Whitney Museum of Art, NY, NY Info Made in L.A. 2018, through September 2. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Info Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art, through September 30. Whitney Museum … Read the full Story >>
