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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
"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 >>
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 >>
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 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 >>
Alpine skiing—not the kind you see in World Cup and Olympic events, where athletes look like muscular sausages stuffed into neon lycra casings—has lent itself to a level of style unusual in recreational sports. I recently came across photos from earlier times, when style was equal to the expertise it takes to navigate off-piste skiing in the Alps. But first, take a look at … Read the full Story >>
The top PPD 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, Motion Arts Pro, Dispatches From Latin America, 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 posts up this month: An opinion piece from photo-industry veteran Paul Melcher on how brands will define photography for the next decade and a spotlight on how members of Dysturb photo collective are putting their art where everyone will see it—on the walls of NYC buildings. Read the full Story >>
Thanks to everyone who entered the last Book Prize Contest of Summer! While everyone got the bridge right, only two were on the Left Bank, or Roosevelt Island, side of the East River. First reply in gets the prize, Patricia Lindgren of Redding Center, CT. Special thanks to David K. Pearce, who chose the Right Bank tennis bubble, for identifying the presumed location as … 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 >>
Heading the holiday weekend leader board—for me, at least—is Portal: Governors Island. The 12thannual art fair organized by 4heads, and formerly known as Governors Island Art Fair, has been renamed with a view towards more expansive future programming. This year it opens on Summer’s closing moment, and brings 89 artists from New York and abroad for a month-long stay. Installations, which span the spectrum of … Read the full Story >>
The top PPD posts from August 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, Motion Arts Pro, Dispatches From Latin America, 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 posts up this month: a look at 26 amazing Instagram accounts that will expand your worldview; some ideas from Andy Warhol that will make you a wiser artist and person; and a look back at photographer Dorothea Lange, the subject of a recent PBS documentary whose “Migrant Mother” image has become an icon of American history. Read the full Story >>
"We all know the feeling: some familiar music, possibly a few drinks, and that irresistible urge to dance kicks in. It never fails. It is as predictable as night follows day. In a club, outside on a terrace at a fading seaside resort, young or old, this simple and wonderful social phenomenon is what we celebrate in these pages," writes Martin Parr in the … Read the full Story >>
Left to right: Karen with Matadors, pour Palma de Majorque, 1958; Barbara and Marie Helene, pour Elle, Cap d’Antibes, Eden Roc, 1957; Barbara Mullen on the Boardwalk, Saint Tropez, 1957. Photographs by Georges Dambier, courtesy Bonni Benrubi Gallery. Wednesday, April 20, 7 pm: Talking Books, Aerotropolis: Greg Lindsay in conversation with Andrew Blum. McNally Jackson Bookstore, 52 Prince Street, between … Read the full Story >>
They appeared last Monday without warning, one after another, until by lunchtime, the park was full of them. Then they began showing up on street corners. By the end of the day you couldn't walk 100 yards without bumping into one. Outside shops, on window sills, park benches, in the middle of the pavement. London's snowmen seemed to have a penchant for hats; many … Read the full Story >>
