Special Events Wednesday, November 5 & Thursday, November 6 The BIG TALK & The Party. Come celebrate, with AI-AP/DART. Information. [Online registration is closed; tickets for The Party are available at the door.] November 5-9 IFPDA Print Fair 2014. Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, at 67th Street, NY, NY. Information. November 6-9 EAB Editions/Artists’ Books Fair. 306 West 37th … Read the full Story >>
The DART Artist Q&A, which has been running for over a year and a half, currently includes the question, “What would you have for your last supper?” Mikel Jaso, an artist living in Barcelona, recently replied, “My mother’s Spanish omelette.” Intrigued, I asked for the recipe and made it last Sunday. No wonder it’s Mikel's choice for the last tasty morsel on his last … Read the full Story >>
You can now access the top MAP posts from March 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, Pro Photo Daily, 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 the young stars of Vine video, our BTS look at the making of a Mariah Carey music video, and a guide to what not to do when making a no-budget film. Read the full Story >>
Twenty-eighteen marks the 50thanniversary of a year of world-wide protest. From the March 17thanti-war demonstrations, in London; to the Poor People’s Campaign occupation of the National Mall in Washington [May-June]; to the violent Events of May, in Paris, which brought all of France to a standstill; to the Columbia University Students for a Democratic Society strike and occupation of the administration; to the liberalizing … Read the full Story >>
Given the power and pervasiveness of photography in both art and everyday life, what is the significance of the rapid and fundamental changes that the field is undergoing? How have social media, digital cameras, and amateur photojournalism altered the way photographs capture the everyday, define current events, and steer social and political movements? How have photographers responded to these shifting conditions, as well as … Read the full Story >>
Special public preview, Thursday, April 17, noon-8pm: Rashid Johnson | A Poem for Deep Thinkers at the Guggenheim For nearly 30 years, artist Rashid Johnson (b. 1977, Chicago) has cultivated a diverse body of work that draws upon an array of disciplines such as history, philosophy, literature, and music. This major solo exhibition highlights Johnson’s role as a scholar of art history, a … Read the full Story >>
Tuesday, December 11 Panel, 6-9 pm: Stock Film Footage Today | Creative Uses and Licensing. Parsons the New School for Design, Theresa Lang Student Center, 55 West 13thStreet, 2nd Floor, NY, NY. Information. The early years at Aperture, 7:00 pm: The Minor White Years | A Conversation with Peter C. Bunnell and Diana Stoll. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, NY, NY. Information. … Read the full Story >>
Yesterday Maria Santto, one of my students in the full-time Photojournalism/Documentary Program at ICP back in the day, wrote in to share her lockdown experience: “A State of Emergency was declared in Finland on the 18th of March 2020. We haven't had a situation this extreme since the Second World War. I think that since the COVID 19 crisis was declared a pandemic, life has … Read the full Story >>
Thursday July 3, Last Chance: Picasso: Tête-à-tête at Gatosian You see me here, and yet I’ve already changed, I’m already elsewhere.—Pablo Picasso, 1963 Picasso: Tête-à-tête, presented in partnership with the artist’s daughter Paloma Picasso, offers a unique opportunity to view over fifty rarely seen works. On view are paintings, sculptures, and drawings from the full span of the artist’s career—1896 to … Read the full Story >>
Left to right: Kolobrzg, Poland, July 26, 1992; Coney Island, NY, USA, June 20, 1993; Hilton Head, S.C., USA, June 24, 1992. From Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective, courtesy the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Reinke Dijkstra, whose mid-career retrospective opened at the Guggenheim Museum last week, is truly a photographer’s photographer. Driven from a young age to break the mold (her father enrolled her … Read the full Story >>
Once—or twice in a lifetime, if you're lucky—you'll find a summer haven with a vibe that dissolves any lingering traces of urban stress. For me, Roquemengarde, in Languedoc, France, is such a place. Its fortified towers, situated in the river Hérault, date from the time of the first crusade, in the late 11th century. It is believed to have been a stop for knights … Read the full Story >>
John Chiara makes large-scale, unique photographs using a camera obscura of his own design. If you were to catch him on the mobile early on a work day, he might say, “Hang on while I park the camera.” The Big Camera, as it has become known, is roughly the size of a U-Haul, which Chiara drives all over the San Francisco Bay Area, creating … Read the full Story >>
The top posts from Motion Arts Pro are now on view at Flipboard, the app that brings you content from your favorite websites in a magazine-style format. It’s another great way to keep with what’s going on in the filmmaking world, whether you’re working on desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone. Also look for Flipboard posts from our sister newsletters, Pro Photo Daily, Dispatches From Latin America, and DART: Design Arts Daily. (Once you’ve downloaded the app, you must subscribe to the newsletter to access the MAP content—see button at top.) Among the recent items on Flipboard: Predictions for the motion graphics industry in 2015 and a TV tower climber shot with a drone. Read the full Story >>
"Spring has sprung; the grass is riz; I wonder where the birdies is?" Office bound on the first day of Spring, my mind wandered to an old schoolyard chant. Then I started hearing bells. DART's office is just a few yards north of the Flatiron District, and the closest church, the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava, doesn't have chimes. A few minutes later, … Read the full Story >>
Brooklyn-based artist Daniel Heidkamp is a figurative painter whose plein-air landscapes are abstract enough to be appreciated as immersive color studies alone. Having grown up near the North Shore of Boston, he spent summers enjoying the beaches and light of Cape Ann. In a YouTube video made at the Pace Paper studio, he talks about the area as a hub of American art history, a place … Read the full Story >>
Type@Cooper offers continuing education post-graduate courses, including certificate programs in type design, public workshops, and exhibitions. The majority of these courses are limited to 16 to 22 students, by registration. Top industry professionals lead a highly focused and comprehensive study of key typeface design principles: technique, technology, aesthetics, expression, history, and theory. Students explore the foundation of typography in depth by creating their own typefaces … Read the full Story >>
The top posts from Dispatches From Latin America are now on view at Flipboard, the app that brings you content from your favorite websites in a magazine-style format. It’s another great way to keep with what’s going on in Latin American photography and art, whether you’re working on desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone. 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 PPD content—see button at top.) Among the recent items on Flipboard: a look at the work of photographer Jim Graham, who has documented a Cuba that may be changing dramatically. Read the full Story >>
The top MAP posts from October 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, Dispatches From Latin America, and DART: Design Arts Daily. (Once you’ve downloaded the app, you must subscribe to the newsletter to access the MAP content—see button at top.) Among the posts up this month: an anti-selfie short film starring Kirsten Dunst that really impressed the Internet, and a new twist on the travelog time lapse—a split-screen comparison of Paris and New York City by French filmmaker Franck Matellini. Read the full Story >>
The top DFLA posts from June 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, Motional 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 this month: Brazilian photographer (and Latin American Fotografía winner) Luiz Maximiano’s portraits of soccer superstar Pele and a profile of Latin American Ilustración winner Walter Vasconcelos. Read the full Story >>
The temperature in New York will drop below 60F tomorrow morning, signaling the Fall edition of DART BookSightings. Following is a select list of upcoming events where you can meet the creators of exceptional illustrated books on photography, art, and design. Please check websites for information. Left: Photo by Wayne F. Miller, courtesy of Higher Pictures. Center: Jacket, Glamour of the Gods, courtesy of … Read the full Story >>
