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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 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 >>
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 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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
With the Met Breuer set to open next week on Madison Avenue at the former Whitney bastion, New York’s Upper East Side is polishing up for a breath of fresh air. Storefronts in the formerly drab Whitney Townhouses are being refashioned into two-story glass galleries fronting the luxury condo development within. All along Madison Avenue and its side streets in the ‘70s, new retail … Read the full Story >>
Longtime subscriber, artist and educator Gayle Kabaker recently posted a wonderful story to Facebook, which is routinely taken over by cats. So I emailed asking if she would share it on DART; the answer was “yes.” Here’s an extract, with spoilers removed. You can read the entire piece here. My whole adult life I thought I was allergic to dogs, Gayle wrote.... … Read the full Story >>
Paris—the City of Lights—so called because Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the Robert Moses of the mid-19th century metropolis, lit up his newly widened boulevards with thousands of gaslights. The fallout from this offshoot of the Industrial Revolution was another revolution in itself, and perhaps the origin of the notion of celebrity. For the first time, the streets were safe to travel after dark and quickly became a … Read the full Story >>
Last year Michelle Dunn Marsh launched Minor Matters to provide a new platform for publishing high quality art books through pre-sales to a collaborative audience. She also was appointed Executive Director of Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW), Seattle’s lively hub for photographic education and presentation. With that in mind, I asked Michelle, a longtime friend and colleague, to speak about the world that awaits young photographic artists finishing up … 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 >>
