Le Havre is a city that has risen from ashes more than once. After its commercial area and port were demolished during WWII by the British, to prevent a Nazi invasion of England, a new city rose in its place. Designed by Belgian architect Auguste Perret, the modern Le Havre was named by UNESCO a World Heritage Site in 2005. But this was just another stage … Read the full Story >>
Photoville | The Tip of the Iceberg Opening tonight on Pier 5, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Photoville presents all thing photographic, including over 40 exhibitions, installations and happenings, special screenings and night time projections and a full menu of artist talks, panels and hands on workshops. Among the many exhibitions and events are: work from the Camera Club of New York's 2013 Artists in Residence program; work … Read the full Story >>
Last Thursday the deep freeze lifted long enough for lots of New Yorkers, self included, to hit the first gallery openings of the year. Three shows that made my favorites list are: Timothy Briner: Boonville, photographs on view through February 27 at Daniel Cooney Fine Art. 511 West 25th Street, Suite 506, New York, NY. 212 255 8158. Diane Arbus: The Absence … 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 >>
Talks / Book Events / Open Studios / and Beyond Tuesday, September 25 REGISTER TO VOTE AT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY. On September 25th, across all NYPL branches, you're invited to register to vote as part of the National Day of Voter Registration, and in collaboration with the New York City Campaign Finance Board. Info Claudia Rankine, Will Rawls and John Lucas | … Read the full Story >>
You can now access the top MAP 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, 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 Brooklyn filmmaker Catya Plate’s award-winning animated short Hanging By A Thread, a selection of the Brooklyn Film Festival, and director Ramtin Nikzad’s short documentary about the lost art of the courtroom artist. Read the full Story >>
Saturday, June 15, 6pm-Midnight The 4th annual Lumen Festival returns to Staten Island on Saturday. This year it takes place at the Lyons Pool, built during the Great Depression, by the WPA, to cool off 5,700 people each day during the summer months. Curated by David C. Terry and Esther Neff, LUMEN 2012 will feature video installations, new media projections, performance art, animation, light and … Read the full Story >>
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Like our son’s discovery once of a two-carat gemstone sparkling among the tourist-worn cobbles of Bourbon Street, in New Orleans, our family’s visit to the South Street Seaport Museum was an unexpected delight. Tucked in among the mall boutiques and gelato carts, this collection of venerable buildings and seacraft in lower Manhattan is an enchanting treasure trove of New York’s history—well worth braving the tour buses … Read the full Story >>
As we enter a new age of protest—or is it simply a continuum of “I can’t believe I’ve been carrying the same sign for 45 years”—it’s a good time to delve into photo archives regarding issues of social change. And how photography has foregrounded important landmark causes. At The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, which runs from April 5th to 8th at Pier … Read the full Story >>
Today the Guggenheim Museum opens an exhibition of mid-century abstract art from its permanent collection, with more than 100 paintings and sculptures installed on the ramps below the rotunda. This breathtaking view of paintings and sculpture, most of which was acquired by the museum’s second director, James Johnson Sweeney between 1952 and 1960, explores the dramatic transformations that occurred in art during the post … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, November 4 | Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Woman in LandscapeGarth Greenan Gallery presents recent works in mixed media and in 3D. Smith paints an America portrayed as maps in saturated color—in one work making each state a different shade of red. Maps have historically been instruments in the exercise of power and territorial expansion. Across the series, Smith hints at the map’s … Read the full Story >>
The 2016 Summer Sketchbook Invitational concludes with Edel Rodriguez, who hopped a flight to Europe after sharing his thoughts with DART: I started my travel sketchbooks while I was in college at Pratt Institute. The first time I traveled abroad was at that time, when I went to study in Venice for the summer; I also traveled to Paris, Nice, Barcelona, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rome, … Read the full Story >>
Art lovers who have been waiting for the live museum experience for months can now begin to make plans. Governor Cuomo announced last week that cultural institutions can re-open on August 24th, with strict protocols in place. That means plans are necessary, with advance timed tickets required in order to maintain social distancing mandates. Above: Epic Abstraction at The Met; photo by Marco Palli … Read the full Story >>
As a huge fan of the French painter, Édouard Manet, I was thrilled to see the famously desecrated portrait of the artist and his [missing] wife by Edgar Degas in the recent show at The Met, Manet/Degas. So when this release from Sotheby’s auction house landed, I felt a glow of happiness for the ultimate recognition Manet’s last body of work deserves, followed … Read the full Story >>
You can now access the top DFLA 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, Pro Photo Daily, Motion Arts Pro, 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: A look at the International Center of Photography’s exhibition “Urbes Mutantes: Latin American Photography 1941–2012,” and a spotlight on a fantastical series of images of Rio de Janeiro by Brazilian photographer Marcelo Tinoca. Read the full Story >>
At an East Side Murder, 1943. (c) Weegee/International Center of Photography. When the image above was missing from last week’s DART feature on Weegee, many subscribers protested by email. So here it is, along withinformatio about two more exhibitions about the photographer who made mayhem and murder his business. An exhibition based on Weegee's first book, Naked City, is currently on view at Steven Kasher Gallery, which scheduled the … Read the full Story >>
Toronto-based artist Gary Taxali (above), a longtime friend of DART/AI-AP, is on a roll. For the year 2011, he scored a triple, with publication of two retrospective books, either one of which would make any artist proud. Not only that, his work was included in the Made In Polaroid exhibition and auction at Phillips de Pury last September. Since then, he was appointed … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the brush or the pen? CS: I guess it would be the brush. When I was a freshman, I had an instructor who had us keep a sketchbook for painting watercolors only – under no circumstances was drawing allowed! That class started my life-long interest in painting the world around me. PR: Where do you live and … Read the full Story >>
