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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Aperture has always been a magazine first, a book publisher second, and only in recent decades a place with a bookstore and gallery space that people could walk into. During the pandemic lockdown, the doors to that space, in Chelsea, closed. Next month, those doors will reopen, at 380 Columbus Avenue, across from the American Museum of Natural History. The Upper West Side is … 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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
“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 >>
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 >>
The top DFLA posts from September are now on view at Flipboard, the app that brings you content from your favorite websites in a magazine-style format. Also look for Flipboard posts from our sister newsletters, Pro Photo Daily, Motion Arts Pro, and DART: Design Arts Daily. (Once you’ve downloaded the app, you must subscribe to the newsletter to access the DFLA content—see button at top.) Among the posts up now: A look at New York City-based photographer Stefan Falke’s “La Frontiera” project, which looks at artists and the burgeoning cultural movement along the Mexico/United States border. Read the full Story >>
One of the most interesting questions answered in the DART Artist Q&A is, “What do you like best about teaching?” Baltimore-based artist and designer Whitney Sherman answered the question in January. She wrote, “I teach at the Maryland Institute College of Art. For many years, I taught part-time in illustration and design (then called Visual Communications). “Through my position as Co-Director of Dolphin Press … Read the full Story >>
Tuesday, July 15 Opening reception and book launch, 6-8 pm: Brian Rose | Metamorphosis: Meatpacking District 1985-2013. Dillon Gallery 555 West 25thStreet, NY, NY. Information. Wednesday, July 16 Artist talk/demonstration, 6 pm: Rosaire Appell | Book experiments, asemic writing, abstract comics, mark making and more. Bring a favorite tool to participate. The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor, NY, NY. $10/$5. Information. In … Read the full Story >>
Henry Horenstein has probably taught more photographers and snapshooters than any other person working today (or at any time, for that matter), between his classes at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and his “basic manuals” on Black & White and Digital Photography. When he was a student at RISD, the advice given him by his teacher, Harry Callahan, was to photograph people and places that … Read the full Story >>
Artist, designer and long-time DART subscriber Jeanne Verdoux has a multi-pronged art practice that continues to expand. Widely known for her ink drawings of people on the subway, inscribed onto New Yorker magazine subscription cards, she also makes photography a medium for her narrative art. [info] Earlier this year, the Paris-born Verdoux created a mural for a French restaurant, LES Enfants de Bohème, located on the fringes of the Lower … Read the full Story >>
The other day, I was wondering where the next good idea for something new was hidden when the following message came in from John Cuneo. This is what he wrote: At an International Summit the President attended last week, Climate Change was on the agenda. At about the same time, Kim Kardashian's ass was on mine. There is a kind of liberation in pitching … Read the full Story >>
Photographer and writer Will Steacy invited 63 others to “abandon the conventional tools needed to make a photograph, and, instead, make one using words to describe the memories and experiences that didn’t go through the camera lens.” Photographs Not Taken (Daylight 2012) is a collection of essays that “allow us to look directly into the photographer’s mind and eye and focus on where … 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 >>
