Could it be that President Donald J. Trump has done society a favor by offering so many reasons to mount protest rallies? “Dump Trump.” “I am a PERSON, not a PUSSY.” “Make America Queer Again.” “Impeach Hate Speech.” In the weeks leading up to the Women’s March on Washington this year, for example, Chicago’s Newberry Library issued a call for Pussy Hats and protest … Read the full Story >>
In 1964 a young female artist from Louisiana arrived in New York and began creating a body of work that subsequently turned the macho art world on its ear. This was Lynda Benglis, who was inspired by Jackson Pollock’s action painting and Helen Frankenthaler’s gestural art, among other things. Taking a physical approach to art-making, she also made self-presentation and performance part of her … Read the full Story >>
Video artist Doug Aitken has characterized his new installation of colossal, multi-part projections on the glass facades of the Museum of Modern Art as a way to "fold Manhattan inside out and create a kind of architecture that is living and flowing, a waterfall of information and ideas." In his first public art installation in New York, most prominently displayed on the walls surrounding … Read the full Story >>
Beauty Last night Pace/MacGill Gallery opened an exhibition of Duane Michal's new color work. Based on forms created by 19th century Japanese wood block artists who depicted the urbane pleasures of Ukiyo-e, or the floating world, Michal's series presents images of a contemporary pleasure dome completely isolated from mundane affairs. Left: Good Morning Glory, 10/2/07. Right: The skinny dipper's song, 8/2/08. C-prints with … Read the full Story >>
The AIPAD Photography Show opened today at the Park Avenue Armory, and runs through Sunday. Presented by The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), the fair brings together 80 leading fine art photography galleries from around the world, and offers a lineup of stimulating panel discussions on Saturday. At the preview yesterday, I wanted to focus my viewing on a theme, as there … Read the full Story >>
With its first graduating class poised for takeoff; the third group, Class of 2017, expected to land in a few weeks; and an exhibition of work by the Class of 2016 opening tonight, the MFA Visual Narrative program at SVA was asking for a visit. Earlier this week, Chair Nathan Fox welcomed me to the studios, which are currently being fitted out with workstations, … Read the full Story >>
Jeff Koons, A Retrospective opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art tomorrow, making a spectacular end point for the museum’s stay on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The show fills four floors of the Breuer building, plus the lobby gallery. Arranged chronologically, it traces the career of a controversial artist who is alternately cheered and reviled in the art world. Outside of the art world, … Read the full Story >>
Left: Automaton 04, 2010. Right: Automaton 06, 2010. Copyright Paolo Ventura, courtesy Hasted Kraeutler Gallery. Wednesday, September 7 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Seher Shah: Object Anxiety. Scaramouche Gallery, 52 Orchard Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-8: Lisa Kirk: If You See Something… Invisible-Exports, 14A Orchard Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-9: Joe Brittain: AMP. Toomer Labzda, 100a Forsyth Street, … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Los Angeles, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Brooklyn? A: I like living in New York for the usual reasons: access to culture, things like exhibits, theater, lectures, classes. Though, I entertain the thought of moving to a quieter, gentler city all the time. Q: Do you keep a sketchbook? What is the balance between the art you create on … Read the full Story >>
Today DART launches the 2016 Summer Invitational: Pimp Your Sketchbooks, in which artists show their personal work and open a window onto their artistic process. We begin with Chris Sharp, who lives and works in New York City and loves to travel. I've been working with sketchbooks since 1983. I was mostly using them as a pictorial diary to record my daily life. They helped me relax and … Read the full Story >>
Thanks to everyone who entered the July Book Prize Contest, from here to Smyrna, Georgia, and beyond. My exact location is the northern section of Gantry Plaza State Park, in the Hunter's Point section of Long Island City, Queens, NY. This was a tough one because my view (below) was from slightly north of the transfer bridges (above), which make the site immediately identifiable. … Read the full Story >>
A Short List: Top Picks of Photo Shows on View Coast to Coast on the Holiday Weekend In New York Julie Blackmon | Day Tripping. Robert Mann Gallery, 525 West 26th Street, NY, NY. Jitka Hanzlova | There Is Something I Don’t Know. Yancey Richardson Gallery, 535 West 22nd Street, NY, NY. Karin Apollonia Muller | The Gate. Julie Saul Gallery, 535 West … Read the full Story >>
This weekend, Williamsburg, Brooklyn becomes the World Capital of Comics, as Comic Arts Brooklyn opens its doors for two days of unique and entertaining fun. More than 100 artists/publishers/galleries/friends of comics will offer their wares on Saturday. From the Arctic plains of Finland [Bolng Boing] to the Pacific Northwest [Fantagraphics], all wrapped in a cyber-mantle of individual proponents of the form [Birdcage Bottom Books, … Read the full Story >>
Seventy years ago in February, at the Museum on Modern Art, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David “Chim” Seymour formed a cooperative photo agency conjured out of the ashes of post-war Europe. With a champagne toast, they proclaimed “Magnum.” The agency was unique for its time in that each member owned the rights to their photographs and could determine conditions for their … Read the full Story >>
2013 Photo Plus Expo and Conference, Wednesday, October 23-Saturday, October 26 Keynote speakers: Donald Pettit, Mark Seliger, and Rick Smolan. Information. Over 90 Conference Seminars. Information. Portfolio reviews by industry insiders. Information. 30th Anniversary Party. Information. Javits Convention Center, NY, NY. Directions. 2013 Lucie Weekend | Saturday, October 26 - Sunday, October 27 Saturday, 1-6:60 pm: Lucie Lectures presents Taryn Simon; John H. White; and Richard … Read the full Story >>
You can now access the top PPD posts from May at Flipboard, the app that brings you content from your favorite websites in a magazine-style format. As we’ve noted before, Flipboard is a great way to view this newsletter and our other publications, Motion Arts Pro, Dispatches From Latin America, and DART: Design Arts Daily, on your tablet or smartphone. (Once you’ve downloaded the app, you must subscribe to the newsletter to access the MAP posts—see button at top.) Among the posts up this month are a look at photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind’s series of portraits of protesters and mourners taken in a makeshift studio in Kiev, Ukraine, in February. Read the full Story >>
The DART Summer Invitational, Pimp Your Sketchbook, continues with West Coast artist Malado Baldwin’s epic sketchbook projects. Grenoble self-portrait with African masks, Modigliani, 1995 / 2015. On view at Hackett Mill Gallery, San Francisco: August 23rd- October 19th 2018. Looking back, I’ve been working with the sketchbook format for more than twenty-five years. As a teenager, sketchbooks were a sacred, private place to reflect … Read the full Story >>
When a reminder came in that the exhibition on William Blake (1757-1827) at The Morgan Library & Museum was closing soon, I emailed David Sandlin, an artist and illustrator who works in the narrative mode: would he join me for a walk-through and dialogue on this fascinating artist? We met this morning and a discussion immediately began as to why the subject of … Read the full Story >>
“Another way to take up more space is with perfume.” Ever since Andy Warhol penned those words as he created his Smell Museum back in the ‘70s, New York City has been the site of numerous experimental installations of scent as art. Most recently, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum included a smell map of Central Park, featuring the aromas of organic decay, by … Read the full Story >>
Talk / Discussion / Screening / and Beyond/ Tuesday, March 22 The Griot, The Parrhesiac, The Cannibal, The Oversharer, The Artist, The Realist, with Devin Kenny, 7 pm. The Rose Auditorium, Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square (Third Avenue between 6-7th Streets), NY, NY. Info John Cyr | Photographic Processes, 7 pm. Penumbra Foundation, 36 East 30th Street, NY, NY. Info Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel, Studio Job | Monkey Business, Discussion, with Dennis Freedman … Read the full Story >>
