Ten From Your Top Ten
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Art of Another Kind at the Guggenheim
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 >>
Folk Art for Sophisticates
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 >>
Edel Rodriguez's Sketchbooks
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 >>
Protest at AIPAD: The Photography Show
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 >>
The DART Board: 08.19.20
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 >>
DART Diary: 05.10.2024
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 >>
See It Now: DFLA's Best of May, Now on Flipboard
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 >>
The DART Board: 10.27.2021
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 >>
Weegee: New York and L.A.
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 >>
Gary Taxali at The Royal Canadian Mint
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 >>
The DART Interview: Chris Sharp
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 >>
Saturday Night in New York, for Everyone!
Jordin Isip, whose work was featured in the American Illustration 25th Anniversary Timeline, is having his first solo exhibition, opening this Saturday with a reception for the artist from 7 to 10 pm at the Aidan Savoy Gallery. The show runs through April 28, 2007. Never Been, the exhibition's title, refers to the artist's obsessions, and the ambiguities and chaos that often shadow … Read the full Story >>
The DART Board: 03.21.2012
The Jungle Journal series has prompted numerous subscriber responses. Here, from Caryl Baron in Sandia, NM, a link to a film by Louie Schwartzberg, which was shown at the TED Conference last fall. Above: screen shot from The Hidden Beauty of Pollination. Information. Wednesday, March 21 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: On the Threshold of the Senses | New Art from Southeast Asia. Tally Beck Contemporary … Read the full Story >>
The DART Board: Open Studios Continued
Saturday-Sunday, October 19-20: 28th Annual Gowanus Open Studios More than 400 artists, businesses, and venues in Gowanus will open their doors, giving the public a rare glimpse inside the former factories, warehouses, and studio buildings of this vibrant neighborhood. Artists will be present to discuss their work, share their processes, and showcase their latest projects. Plus, it’s a unique opportunity to purchase work … Read the full Story >>
Peter Kuper's Library
Peter Kuper is, luckily, an artist who needs no introduction. I say this because his long and varied career is impossible to summarize in a paragraph. Whether celebrating his life-long fascination with the universe of bugs, in Insectopolis, or satirizing the political nature of human inhumanity in World War III Illustrated, Peter’s work begins with research—scientific, literary, political, psychological and you … Read the full Story >>
Friday notePad: 12.04.2015
Opening tonight in Boston Drawn from 150 years of photographic works, this exhibition groups images that have a sympathetic relationship, sometimes as simple as subject matter or formal issues, that amplify, reveal, and resonate with each other. Resonances is a group of thirty six photographs, including works by Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan, Nicholas Nixon, Andrew Young, Martin Schoeller, Greg Kahn, James Nasmyth, Wendy Snyder MacNeil, Harold Edgerton, Susan Derges … Read the full Story >>
The DART/ICON9 Q&A: Eleanor Davis
Editor’s note: With ICON9 The Illustration Conference on the horizon—four days of art, discussion, performance, and plenty of talk in Austin, TX—the current roster for the Q&A is peopled with many of the exceptional artists making presentations during this biannual artfest. Eleanor Davis, the artist behind the ICON9 poster, will be on the Main Stage Saturday, July 9, at 6:20 pm. Info Q: Originally from the … Read the full Story >>
DIARY: Drawing Al Fresco NYC
Drawing in Battery Park City Parks has begun for the season! Organized by the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, this long-running series is a city favorite. Free classes in figure drawing with a live model, as well as nature drawings take place weekly, with all materials provided. Figure Al Fresco Many people are challenged when trying to draw the human figure. The Battery … Read the full Story >>
Armory Arts Week 2014
Armory Arts Week, March 4-9 In its sixteen years, The Armory Show has become an international institution, and every March, artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make New York City their destination. The concept of a week of arts-related events grew organically, and was formalized as “Armory Arts Week” with the support of the city in 2009. In celebration … Read the full Story >>