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 >>
Being in the right place at the right time tomorrow is all you need to have a poem written for you alone. At the Fulton Center, between 11 am and 6 pm this Thursday, more than 20 poets will gather for Poetry in Motion: The Poet Is In, a special event organized by the MTA Arts & Design and the Poetry Society of … Read the full Story >>
The top DFLA posts from November 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, Motion 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: A spotlight on Chilean photographer Luis Esteban Marin and his epic documentation of the country’s railroads—a story that tells the tale of Chile’s history. We also look at Mexican documentary photographer Alicia Vera’s intimate story about the life of an exotic dancer in San Francisco. Read the full Story >>
"Think Big" might have been the mantra of American school-masters and -'marms in the decades following the "second American Revolution". After the War of 1812, civic leaders and merchants put historical rivalries aside, concentrating instead on expansion and industrialization, and pouring resources into education. Students of the time tested their memory and developed a global perspective by studying geography. This Map of the Animal … Read the full Story >>
LaToya Ruby Frazier was recently honored with the Infinity Award for Publication by the International Center of Photography for her first book, The Notion of Family (Aperture 2015). Tonight, an exhibition of selected works goes on view at the Aperture gallery. In the book, Frazier tells the story of the decline of her hometown, Braddock, Pennsylvania, through photographs of three generations: her mother, her … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Being asked to create 40 drawings for the New York magazine cover for the “Reasons We Have Loved New York” issue must be a New York artist’s dream assignment. All in one week. What were you doing when the call came in? Jeanne Verdoux: I had come to Bordeaux in September for a sabbatical semester from Parsons. The goal was to … Read the full Story >>
The biggest art bash in North America is gearing up [is that still possible?] for its final days. Art Basel Miami Beach, which will shutter down on Sunday, has been saturating all major media outlets and their online offspring with amazing photos. As expected, party scenes were on top of most editor’s lists and the best I’ve seen is Casey Kelbaugh’s high-octane coverage for The New York Times … Read the full Story >>
Art on Paper, this week at Pier 36Talks / Art Fairs / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Wednesday, March 6 Art Talks, Stonewall 50: Love and Resistance | Photographs from the Stonewall Era, 6:30 pm. New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Celeste Auditorium, Fifth Avenue at 42ndStreet, NY, NY Register Friday, March 8-Sunday, March 10 How We See: Photobooks … Read the full Story >>
New York’s independent booksellers offer shelter from the storm of holiday shopping and plenty of eye candy in the form of illustrated books, photo books, prints and objects. DART’s short list of the best follows. Downtown Dashwood Books (above), 33 Bond Street, between Bowery and Lafayette, NY, NY. Clic Bookstore & Gallery, 3 locations: 255 Centre Street, 424 Broome, 189 Lafayette Street, NY, … Read the full Story >>
Tonight, noted writer, critic and curator, Vince Aletti, will be in conversation with graphic designer Ruth Ansell and creative director Sam Shadid about his latest book, ISSUES: A History of Photography in Fashion Magazines, at The Cooper Union. He recently conducted this exclusive interview for DART by email. Above: Spread from the April 1965 issue of Harpers Bazaar; photos © Richard Avedon Peggy Roalf: … Read the full Story >>
Dancer Lori Belilove, founding Artistic Director of the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation (IDDF) invites artists to a series of pop-up dance performances and cultural events as part of the multi-year celebration of the birth of the matriarch of modern dance, Isadora Duncan (1877-1927). Presented in the Foundation’s first floor Chelsea gallery space, dancers perform the iconic, flowing moves of Duncan, accompanied by vocalist Amber Evans and her … Read the full Story >>
A career-spanning retrospective of Irving Penn (1917-2009), one of the great innovators of 20th-century photography, opens on Monday at The Met Fifth Avenue. Trained as a painter, Penn first entered the magazine world as an unpaid editorial assistant to the legendary Harper’s Bazaar at director Alexey Brodovitch, in 1936. While an art director in Saks Fifth Avenue’s advertising department two years later, Penn took … Read the full Story >>
Over the years, Marshall Arisman's name has become synonymous with the Illustration as Visual Essay program at the School of Visual Arts. The celebrated artist and illustrator organized the MFA program in 1984 and today remains its chair. Among the artists of the day who found their voice through this intense two-year program are Nathan Fox, Douglas Fraser, Eddie Guy, John Hendrix, Paul Hoppe, … Read the full Story >>
Like self-portraiture, still life is a genre that many artists and photographers gravitate to, if only because offers a wealth of subject matter that is usually very convenient. Choice of subject and the arrangement of objects is another story - and the one that generally separates art from mere massing. When I learned that curator and critic Vince Aletti had chosen the genre for … Read the full Story >>
Daniel Horowitz is a designer/artist/illustrator who works out of his storefront studio in DUMBO’s Vinegar Hill. I recently saw his self-published book, 365, which has been selected for the forthcoming American Illustration 31, and contacted him for this email Q&A. Peggy Roalf: The idea of a calendar that is not a grid page with numbers, and spaces to make notes, is a … Read the full Story >>
New York’s independent booksellers offer shelter from the storm of holiday shopping and plenty of eye candy in the form of photo books, illustrated books, prints and objects. DART’s list of NYC’s best follows, in geographic order [south to north, then east], with a few new entries this year, including the magnificent new Rizzoli Bookstore, in the Flatiron District, and Albertine Books, uptown at the French Embassy. Downtown … Read the full Story >>
