The harvest season is on, with examples of the bounty of our planting fields on view at the New York Botanical Garden. The annual Giant Pumpkin display will seem more at home than ever, with Yayoi Kusama’s sculptural ode to its seedy cousins currently on view. Showcasing the artist’s lifelong fascination with the natural world, KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature is installed across the Botanical Garden’s … Read the full Story >>
For the last article this year on great places to find illustrated books, I randomly polled illustrators about their favorite haunts. Peter Kuper, who was on his way to Brussels to promote his latest book, Stop Forgetting to Remember, just had time for a quick note about the Strand and Forbidden Planet. So then I invited every illustrator who emailed or phoned during … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Saturday, November 21-Sunday November 22 American Fine Craft Show at the Brooklyn Museum. 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY. Info Designer Con 2015 | Collectible toys, designer goods, urban, underground and pop art. Pasadena Convention Center Exhibit Hll, 300 East Green Street, Pasadena, CA. Info Talks / Screenings / Beyond Tuesday, November 17 SPD presents: Richard Baker on Barak Obama | … Read the full Story >>
“Which came first, the pen or the brush?” The first question in our long-running series, In the Studio with… has steadily drawn readers to its pages. This week, DART celebrates artists who have taken up the pen to make their mark; even when much of the art is finished digitally, the artistic impulse for a sharp nib is evident. We start with … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, September 28, 7-10pm: American Punchline at Subliminal Projects Cartoonist/artist/illustrator Ward Sutton—the creator of the Sick-O cartoonist Stan Kelly, who has been telling people what to think at The Onion for an interminable length of time—is now branching out into the FINE arts, with his debut on Saturday at Shepard Fairy’s gallery, Subliminal Projects, in L.A. [Just stick with me, ok?]. Fairy, … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond The Whitney Museum of American Art presents: Myth Astray | A Project by Arto Lindsay, September 7-10. 99 Gansevoort Street, NY, NY Info NYPL events this week include Frederick Wiseman with Errol Morris; Salman Rushdie with Paul Holdengraber; Eugene Richards on W. Eugene Smith.Various venues Info Wednesday, September 6 Art and Activism | panel with … Read the full Story >>
Photographs by Lori Grinker from Distant Relations. Left: Former Jewish village of Seda, Mazeikiai, Lithuania. Right: Anthony Grinker’s memorabilia, Luxmi, Kwa Zulu, Natal, South Africa. Copyright and courtesy the artist. Tuesday, November 29 Author talk, 7-9 pm: The Roebling Legacy by Clifford W. Zink, in conversation with Kriss Roebling. powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY. RSVP. Free. Opening reception, … Read the full Story >>
According to the wall text in the exhibition R. Crumb: Lines Drawn on Paper, at Society of Illustrators, Robert Crumb’s mother told him that reading comic books would addle his brain, or words to that effect. He might have taken this as a metaphor for life; after drawing his way through and out of childhood, through and beyond a job creating cute cards … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / Special Events / and Beyond Tuesday, October 9 Tell Me Something Good | Discussion with Matvey Levenstein, Dana Schutz, Rirkrit Tiravanija, moderated by Jarrett Earnest, 6:30 pm. New York Studio School, 8 West 8th Street, NY, NY Info W. Eugene Smith Talk | Daniel Castro Garcia, 7 pm. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27th Street, NY, … Read the full Story >>
With the last installment of American Illustration's 25th Anniversary Timeline Art feature, DART congratulates the artists who made this epic project possible: Seymour Chwast, Sue Coe, R.O. Blechman, Nicholas Blechman, Vivienne Flesher, Ward Schumacher, Henrik Drescher, Anita Kunz, Filip Pagowski, Ruth Marten, Matt Mahurin, Steven Guarnaccia, Jordin Isip, Frances Jetter, Jeffrey Fisher, Juliette Borda, Jason Holley, Karen Barbour, Mark Ulriksen, Roberto Parada, Steve Brodner, … Read the full Story >>
Len Small is the art director at Nautilus, the smart and modern digital and print science magazine. In a little less than three years on the job, Small's illustration art direction has turned Nautilus into a striking showcase of brilliant visual imagery. His deft direction and wide-ranging tastes have drawn much praise from the illustration community. Working in a format initially conceived by Point … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Special Events / and Beyond Wednesday, October 17- Sunday, October 21 2018 L.E.S. Art Week | 20+ galleries featuring female artists including Coady Brown, Joyce J. Scott, Grace Weaver, Jessee Edelman, Genesis Belanger and Despina Stokou and more. Map and Info here Wednesday, October 17- Kind of Blue: Meghann Riepenhoff, 6:30 pm. New York Public … Read the full Story >>
Karen Caldicott is an illustrator and artist who is known in large part for her delightful portraits of a seemingly never-ending series of celebrities, created and sculpted with Plasticine animator's clay. Her busts of notable characters from the worlds of entertainment, business, and politics have appeared in countless major magazines, including The New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, and Rolling Stone. Caldicott gained much acclaim for … Read the full Story >>
The fall season opens with outstanding variety as always - from political art at Museum of the City of New York and Society of Illustrators to dragon subjugation dances hosted by the Rubin Museum of Art to a full-fledged BLAB! retrospective at Kansas State University's Beach Museum of Art. Roberts + Tilton reopens in LA with a new free-standing building designed to accommodate … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs November 8-16 Foto DC. Various locations. Information. Thursday, November 13 - Sunday, November 16 Paris Photo. Grand Palais, Paris. Information. L'Oeil reportage. Friday, November 14 - Sunday, November 16 Fotofever. Corousel du Louvre, Paris. Information. Special Events Thursday, November 13 2014 Benefit Reverse Auction | Buy What You Love | Rema Hort Mann Foundation. Bosi Contemporary, 48 Orchard … Read the full Story >>
When the poet William Butler Yeats [above, center] had his portrait done by John Singer Sargent in 1908, he said, “I wore a velvet jacket to remind myself how important he is.” Yeats, a lynchpin of the Irish literary scene, was one of many luminaries in the arts who was awed by Sargent’s gift for capturing the essence of those who withstood his compelling … Read the full Story >>
David Cowles is a Rochester, New York-based illustrator, master caricaturist, animator, and teacher. His distinctive, colorful, graphic portraits have graced the pages of countless consumer magazines and newspapers. A former newspaper art director, Cowles brings a consistently smart graphic and editorial focus to his work, whether it's his many caricatures or more conceptual illustrations. In addition to his print work, Cowles has created a … Read the full Story >>
Whenever I encounter one of Saul Steinberg's ink drawings by his very human patchwork cat character, especially one in which he draws swooping spirals that soar upwards, releasing all kinds of whimsical figures, I'm reminded of a Chinese poem that begins, "I think, therefore I am a butterfly." The imaginary worlds that unfold on even the smallest of Steinberg's notebook pages have offered laughter, … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, September 5 Book signing, 6:30 pm: Water Politics in the Time of Drought | A Ditch in Time (Fulcrum 2012) by Patricia Nelson Limerick and Jason L. Hanson. Center for the American West, Boulder, CO. Information. Opening reception, 6-10 pm: Jennifer Mills | Low Middle High. Recession Art at CultureFix, 9 Clinton Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Nobuhito Nishigawara | … Read the full Story >>
Ward Sutton is an illustrator and cartoonist based in Fort Collins, Colorado. His bright, bold, comic book-influenced illustrations, cartoons and humor pieces have appeared in numerous publications, and he contributes regular graphic political commentary to the Boston Globe and other newspapers and magazines. Sutton also moonlights as Stan Kelly, the editorial cartoonist for The Onion, "a fake cartoonist for the fake newspaper," as he … Read the full Story >>
