“I made a knife to cut fruit, but if others use it to kill, blaming me is unfair,” said Chinese painter Pei-Shen Qian in 2014 when he was indicted on charges of producing 40 worthless fakes that were subsequently sold by the Knoedler & Company gallery for tens of millions of dollars. Info In an interview by Bloomberg News in 2013, Qian said that he was the innocent victim of … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the pen or the brush? Kathleen Marcotte: I’d have to say the pen. While I tend to think in shapes rather than lines, I usually have to draw everything out first. It was a real turning point in finding my style as an illustrator when I started printmaking. It influences my work whether I’m working traditionally or digitally. PR: … Read the full Story >>
Photographer Pete Barrett is nominally based in South Florida, but for the past six months, he and his family have taken to the road for an indefinite trip around the country as Barrett works on a personal project called "The American Worker." He started the series as a challenge to himself to create fresh work that was different from his usual commercial assignments. His … Read the full Story >>
Last week’s art by cycle escape took me to Brooklyn Bridge Park on a day so hot that eggs were dropping from their hens hard-boiled. But an ocean breeze sweeping across New York harbor, with its view of Lady Liberty set off by a humid smoggy sky, was as refreshing as the home-made ice cream at the Blue Marble cart on Fulton Landing. Oscar Tuazon (b. 1975, Seattle, … Read the full Story >>
The great Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa once said, “Being an artist means never looking away.” These words resonate when considering the work of photographer Eugene Richards. In Eugene Richards: The Run-On of Time, the George Eastman Museum, in collaboration with the Nelson-Atkins Museum, has pulled together a collection of 146 photographs, 15 books, and a selection of short films that might be the … Read the full Story >>
AI-AP, the parent company of DART: Design Arts Daily, invites subscribers and their friends to The Party, on Thursday, November 6, to launch American Illustration 33, American Photography 30, Latin American Ilustración 3, Latin American Fotografía 3, and the International Motion Art Awards. Tickets. But first, warm up at the BIG TALK Symposium, on Wednesday, November 5. From 1 to 5 … Read the full Story >>
Having something of an obsession about my hair, I've been looking forward to the next installment of Nelson's Electric Chaircut. The announcement just came in: This Saturday, from 4:00 to 7:00, Nelson Loskamp will give free haircuts at Printed Matter, which is hosting the second annual Artists T-Shirt Summer Spectacular.A Brooklyn-based artist who originally took up styling to support his art, Nelson … Read the full Story >>
So far, the Bernie meme is the meme of the year. (Of course there's a lot of year left.) But as we noted this week, the photographer who took the picture behind the meme rues having taken it. "I am not crazy about [my photojournalism] becoming memes but I am glad to have eyes on my work," said Brendan Smialowski, who shoots for Agence … Read the full Story >>
Flying slightly under NYC’s media radar—but not for long—the Danish architectural firm BIG: Bjarke Ingles Group, is now placing its first spire into the city’s skyline. W57, a residential/mixed use building, commissioned by Durst Organization, is rising alongside the Hudson River Greenway at 57th Street. While it is not competing for height with other towers along the midtown thoroughfare, W57 is a midrise tower that will offer spectacular views … Read the full Story >>
The White House called the images "horrific." The pictures set social media ablaze. But the photographer who shot the controversial photos of US Border Patrol agents on horseback chasing down and "whipping" Haitian migrants says they have been misconstrued. "Some of the Haitian men started running, trying to go around the horses, and that's kind of when the whole thing happened," Paul Ratije said … Read the full Story >>
Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997) was among the New York artists who created a seismic shift in painting in the early 1960s by taking the artiness out of art. One of the founders of the Pop Art movement, he invented many of the strategies in art that we now take for granted, such as irony and the appropriation of commercial images. And it was … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, November 23, 11am-6pm: Chelsea Art Fair Platform, a click-and-buy offshoot of David Zwirner, and the historic Chelsea Hotel invite art lovers to a one-day, free art fair this weekend. Founded during the Pandemic shutdowns, Platform started out by offering around 100 one-of-a-kind works per month presented by about 12 independent international galleries with prices currently under $2,500. In an interview with … Read the full Story >>
This week we're catching up on a few stories we didn't cover in the daily, plus some we did. We did, for instance, note that Lytro, the company that thought light field photography would revolutionize the medium, has now come out with a revolutionary virtual-reality camera. Meanwhile, legendary war photographer Don McCullen, subject of a new documentary film, offered some thoughts about the state … Read the full Story >>
According to Fritz Haeg - the architect/artist/educator who left his geodesic dome in L.A. on a road trip aimed at revolutionizing America's front yards - the lawn must go! His mission is to replace these latent throwbacks to the American Dreamscape of post-war suburbia with vegetable gardens, which he calls Edible Estates. Starting in the heartland of America, Salina, Kansas, he has mounted … Read the full Story >>
Giorgio Morandi – Time Suspended II is among the largest and most significant exhibitions devoted to the artist in the United States in 20 years. Curated by Marilena Pasquali – founder and director of the Giorgio Morandi Study Center, Bologna – and gallerist Mattia De Luca, the exhibition brings together approximately 60 works from across Morandi’s career on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the … Read the full Story >>
When Jen Bekman opened her pocket-sized Lower East Side gallery in 2003, her choice of location was destiny. At the time Spring Street west of Bowery was a chic shopping strip where you could indulge a passion for affordable art after you were done buying clothes. But Jen banked on changes that were also destined when the New Museum would open. Future forward: the … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: I understand that you were trained as a graphic designer; what kind of work were you doing when you began making these tiny sculptures from scraps—and how did the personal work influence your design work? Lydia Ricci: I was doing a lot of packaging and branding work at the time when I made my first sculpture: The Dodge (green Dodge Dart, below). … Read the full Story >>
LaToya Ruby Frazier was recently honored with the Infinity Award for Publication by the International Center of Photography for her first book, The Notion of Family (Aperture 2015). Tonight, an exhibition of selected works goes on view at the Aperture gallery. In the book, Frazier tells the story of the decline of her hometown, Braddock, Pennsylvania, through photographs of three generations: her mother, her … Read the full Story >>
Thomas Struth, a leading proponent of large-scale color photography, began his work in photography creating typologies of cities, which stemmed from his studies with Bernd and Hilla Becher. First of his native Dusseldorf; then in 1977, of London. Above: Crosby Street,Soho, New York (1978). © Thomas Struth. That same year he was awarded a scholarship which enabled him to live and work in New York for six months with a studio at … Read the full Story >>
August brought shocking news, and a shocking documentary: After a violent rally of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups in Charlottesville that left one counter-protester dead, HBO's Vice News aired a 22-minute documentary providing a disturbing behind-the-scenes look at the event and a chilling interview with a white supremacist leader. We featured the film, which became an online sensation. Last month also brought a total … Read the full Story >>
