The 2015 Summer Invitational: Pimp Your Sketchbooks, continues with Carol Fabricatore, an acclaimed proponent of Drawing on Location. My sketchbooks are a place I can experiment and play in. I’ve always drawn in sketchbooks. Working in a sketchbook gives me permission to be fearless and not worry about making mistakes. Most times what I think I’m just playing, becomes what I like most in my drawing. When I let go … Read the full Story >>
The School of Visual Art’s new subway poster is designed and illustrated by alumnus and faculty member Viktor Koen (MFA 1992 Illustration as Visual Essay) and touts the phrase “Where Art Is Made.” MFA Design Co-Chair Steve Heller, who provided art direction for the poster, says, “SVA has so many incredible offerings, but the common denominator throughout the college is, and always will be, Art. … Read the full Story >>
Tonight, artist Marcllus Hall will be at Desert Island Comics, in Williamsburg, to launch Kaleidoscope City. His first graphic novel, this is story about a man recovering from a love affair gone wrong as well as a love letter to the city he lives in. The book presents a young artist as he wanders the streets, sketchbook in hand. Throughout the four seasons, … Read the full Story >>
Wherever you are, there's still time to see some of the top critics' picks of the year.The New York Times The Best in Art of 2015 Los Angeles Times The 10 Best Art Exhibitions at L.A. Museums 2015 SF Chronicle 10 San Francisco Art Events That Mattered in 2015 Dallas Observer 10 Best Art Exhibitions of 2015 Hyperallergic Our Top 10 Exhibitions Across … Read the full Story >>
CALLING ALL ARTISTS: Make art to support cancer patients and the visual arts. The Rema Hort Mann Foundation invites you to submit drawings, paintings, mixed media - whatever is your passion - as long as it is done on a sheet of 8-1/2 x 11 paper provided. WHY: Your works on paper will be sold at auction to support the Foundation's activities, which … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Panels / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, August 30 Cutter Designer Cutter | Cutting as Design, 5:30 pm. The New School, University Center, UL 105, 63 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY. Info Visiting Artists Lecture Series presents: Cao Fei, 7:30 pm. Pratt Institute, Higgins Hall, 61 St. James Place, Brooklyn, NY. Info Fort Green Thursday, September 1 Black Women Artists for Black Lives … Read the full Story >>
Serenity and solitude are not the first two qualities of life that spring to mind for an artist working in New York. But that’s what Nick Lamia found during his residency at Wave Hill this winter. In an email last week he wrote, I was invited to use a studio in Glyndor House at Wave Hill for six weeks this winter. It has been … Read the full Story >>
Continuing LMCC presents: Ernesto Pujol's The Listening School and The Listeners, Sarah Michelson's june2019/\, Jennifer Monson's ditch, Carol Becker and Mark Epstein's The Agitated Now, and The Sound of Silence, presented by Rooftop Films. River To River closes with Drag Queen Story Hour and Workshop on the Street in celebration of WorldPride NYC. Various venues. InfoAll LMCC events are free and all are welcome to attend. Top: … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, July 23, 3-5 pm: Sculptors Alliance Meetup | Sam Moyer at Flag Art Join Sculptors Alliance President Marco Palli [above] for this week’s Meetup at Hill Art Foundation in Chelsea. Bring your sketchbook and a friend to explore sculpture and mixed media works by Sam Moyers, then chill out over cold drinks and casual chat about the art. This is the … Read the full Story >>
Carsten Höller, Animal Group, 2011. Dolphin, Hippopotamus, Crocodile, Orangutan, Rhinoceros, Reindeer, Walrus. Installation view, "Experience," New Museum. Photo © Benoit Pailley This is a great week to catch up with some exhibitions that will be closing in January. Here’s a short list of top draws: Kindred Spirits: Native American Influences on 20th Century Art through January 28th at Peter Blum Gallery. … Read the full Story >>
Friday, March 13, 6:30pm: Leanne Shapton and Jason Fulford Talk at Dashwood Dashwood Projects presents In Cars: On Diana, an exhibition of paintings on paper by artist and writer Leanne Shapton. The work is based on photographs of Princess Diana getting out of cars. In Shapton’s hands, Diana is abstracted and turned into shades of grey reducing her to form and motion, exploring … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, March 27, 5-8pm: Edel Rodriguez | Reading and talk at Baruch Visit Baruch College's Newman Library for an evening of readings and conversation with Spring '25 writer-in-residence Edel Rodriguez, author of the graphic memoir Worm, and this year’s Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College, CUNY. The evening will be hosted by the Harman Program and "Latinx Visions", a podcast that … Read the full Story >>
The MTA’s long running Arts & Design program has a new face for the digital age. Instead of the stained glass and mosaic installations that had become synonymous with NYC's best public art program, digital art is the new normal, continuing with The Blowing Bowler, by Chris Sickels/Red Nose Studio. “Fulton Center represents the future of the MTA, so we looked to technology that also … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Thursday, November 20 Reception and benefit auction, 6-8 pm: International Print Center New York | prints by Jane Kent, Endi Poskovic, David Sandlin and more. 508 West 26thStreet, 5th Floor, NY, NY. Information. Friday, November 21-Sunday, November 23 CultureHub presents, REFEST 2014: A Festival of Art and Technology. La Galeria, 47 Great Jones, NY, NY. Information Talks / Discussions / Workshops Wednesday, November 19 SPD … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Saturday, September 26-Sunday, September 27 6th Annual Maker Faire NY. New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111th Street, Corona, NY. Information. Smack Mellon Open Studios. Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, NY [Dumbo] NARS/J&M Studios 2015 Fall Open Studios, noon-6 pm. Nars Foundation, 201 46thStreet, Brooklyn, NY. Free ferry, shuttle. [Sunset Park] Chashama Brooklyn Open Studios 2015, 6-9 pm. … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond The Whitney Museum of American Art presents: Myth Astray | A Project by Arto Lindsay, September 7-10. 99 Gansevoort Street, NY, NY Info NYPL events this week include Frederick Wiseman with Errol Morris; Salman Rushdie with Paul Holdengraber; Eugene Richards on W. Eugene Smith.Various venues Info Wednesday, September 6 Art and Activism | panel with … Read the full Story >>
Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) created Painting, Number 5, one of a series of War Motifs, during an extended stay in Berlin. Hartley was fascinated by the military pageantry of pre-war imperial Germany, and fragments of flags, banners, medals, and insignia crowd the surface of his canvases fromthis period. "The military life adds so much in the way of a sense of perpetual gaiety … Read the full Story >>
Original art from the new edition of Blab! makes its debut this weekend in Santa Monica - and signals the fall rush of narrative art exhibitions. From contagiously cute to edgy to lowbrow to classic, there's something for everyone this month in the galleries. Please check websites for details. Hellish fun from the Devilish Greetings show at Copro/Nason Gallery, left to right: Pene Testa … Read the full Story >>
Michael Foley opened Foley Gallery in Chelsea in the fall of 2004 after several years of working with notable photography galleries, including Fraenkel Gallery, Howard Greenberg Gallery and Yancey Richardson Gallery. Two years ago he moved to the Lower East Side, where his incisive take on contemporary photography continued to provoke interest and where he began presenting works on paper beyond lens-based art. Michael sent news … Read the full Story >>
This week I’m giving thanks for some extra time for breathing, seeing, and feeling the NYC vibe. So for this holiday week DART Board, join me on a tour of not to miss art shows. DOWNTOWN Bianca Beck | Body Double, through December 23. Rachel Uffner, 170 Suffolk Street, NY, NY Info Rachel Mica Weiss | Limits, through December 21. LMAKGallery, 298 Grand … Read the full Story >>
