You can't tell a book just by looking at the cover, goes the song. Catchy tune; groovy rhythm; but not exactly so. At least not in the sphere of book publishing where DART readers prowl. Maybe that's what Paul Buckley, Executive Vice President/Creative Director at Penguin Group had in mind when he set out to do a book called Penguin … Read the full Story >>
SVA’s MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Thesis Show opens Saturday, with a reception next Tuesday, April 30. The program, founded and chaired by Marshall Arisman is now in its 34thyear. This year’s show, curated by faculty member David Sandlin, is a tsunami of visual languages, contained only by grid plan that David has imposed on the riotous content. In his words: Illustration is the … Read the full Story >>
Two weeks ago artist and illustrator Ellen Weinstein contacted me regarding a week long program she is participating in at Columbia University. Basically the event kicked off with a day of Experiments in Digital Storytelling last Saturday. Storytellers, journalists, designers, engineers, architects, hackers and makers came together to explore a new grammar in storytelling. Ellen is one of the storytellers. So I asked Ellen to tell … Read the full Story >>
oIt’s official! The Honorable Mayor Michael Bloomberg, on behalf of the City of New York, has proclaimed the second week of November as the 5th Annual Celebration of Illustration Week. Thank you to Todd Lambrix, Director, Illustration Program at Parsons the New School for Design, Mark Heflin, Director, AI-AP, and Anelle Miller, Director, Society of Illustrators, whose collaborative efforts over this past year have … Read the full Story >>
Amani Olu, a curator devoted to presenting work by emerging photographers, gained considerable name recognition through his exhibition, 31 under 31, at the Humble Arts Foundation last spring. Olu was recently installed as director of Bond Street Gallery, in the growing Brooklyn arts district between the Gowanus Canal and Park Slope. At Bond Street, he will be presenting a mix of cutting edge mid-career … Read the full Story >>
Lou Beach, a longtime friend of DART, has left the illustration business for an illustrious career as a collage artist. The recent recipient of a Krasner-Pollack Foundation Grant, Beach has graciously agreed to respond to the Q&A. If you disagree with what he says, you may tell him to his face on April 16th, at the opening of his forthcoming show at Craig Krull Gallery, in … Read the full Story >>
Three days of peace and music would cost you $18 if you went to the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in 1969. Or nothing at all: so many people showed up that the organizers stopped trying to collect admission. Photographs copyright Burk Uzzle; courtesy Laurence Miller Gallery. Burk Uzzle, a young Magnum photographer, went and shot hundreds of pictures at the event that named … Read the full Story >>
The Afghan Air Force (AAF) MI-35 Hind helicopter gunship sits squatting on the runway in the noonday Kabul International Airport (KAIA) heat. Even with its innards exposed, the Hind still looks threatening. It looks just like the Apache doesn’t. While the Apache looks like a toy, the Hind – even this 30-year-old bird – looks like the grown-up real-deal. It looks like it could … Read the full Story >>
The official last weekend of summer 2021 in NYC looks promising, weather-wise—so if you are celebrating by staying, there are some great art escapes on hand. The Riverside Park Conservancy presents its largest art show in the park’s history, RE:GROWTH, A Celebration of Art, Riverside Park, and the New York Spirit, populated with works by 24 contemporary artists. Installed between 64th and 151st Streets. You could … Read the full Story >>
The Rema Hort Mann Foundation supports emerging visual artists and people in treatment for cancer through its grants programs. The Foundation raises all of its grant money through a lively program of events, including art crawls, auctions and fundraising parties where people who support and benefit from its work join together to build a strong community. On Monday, June 28th at 6:30 pm, arts … Read the full Story >>
And the Winner Is: Alan Fishleder, of Woodland, CA, was first to email the correct location of Brian Rea’s weekend surf fest at Point Mugu. He wrote: This is fun! By the looks of things, Brian's on the pathway leading from Pt. Mugu at Point Mugu State Park, Ventura County. It's about 15 miles south of Oxnard at the edge of the Santa Monica Mountains. For this, Alan will receive … Read the full Story >>
In June this year, DART contributing editor, Margaret Morton, reported on the takeover by pro-Russian separatists, of the Izolyatsia Foundation Art Center, in Donetsk, Ukraine. A month later, she reported that the separatists, who had turned the art center into a military training base, had also interfered with the international investigation of the Malaysian Airways Flight 17 crash site. Today she forwarded an article from … Read the full Story >>
Social Distancing, working apart from the workplace, and AI —all features rising to the front of the Covid-19 crisis—will probably alter society in ways that we have yet begun to imagine. As one accustomed to working from my home studio, and understanding its pitfalls as well as its benefits, I have been following these trends as I look for stories to bring to DART … Read the full Story >>
Ever since Mayor Michael H. Bloomberg purchased Governors Island from the Coast Guard for the historic sum of a dollar (Manhattan cost Peter Minuit 25 times as much almost 400 years ago!), I’ve been enchanted by the possibilities of what will become of this magnificent, un-urban, 172-acre island in New York Harbor. Over the last few years it has been evolving as a … Read the full Story >>
If Young Frankenstein, Love at First Bite, or Repossessed are your cinema inspirations, and you’ve been itching to get a film in front of some bona-fide suits, you still have time to get a 10-minute pilot onto Vimeo for a shot at a $10,000 prize. Lionsgate is celebrating the release of The Cabin In the Woods on DV/Blue-Ray with a $10,000 contest for the filmmaker who creates … Read the full Story >>
Climate Week NYC (Sept. 17-24), now in its 15th year, Is one of the largest annual events focused on the issue of global warming. Drawing together leaders from government, business, academia and the nonprofit sector for a bombardment of speeches and panels, it overlaps with the U.N. General Assembly, when thousands of diplomats and heads of state arrive in New York for talks that set … Read the full Story >>
Gary Baseman: The Door Is Always Open. Enter the fantastic world of artist, illustrator, animator, and toy designer Gary Baseman in this first major museum exhibition of his life and work, which opened yesterday in Los Angeles. On view through August 18, 2013, this exhibition features paintings, photographs, toys, sketchbooks, and videos. These are presented in a novel gallery setting that evokes Baseman’s childhood home, replete … Read the full Story >>
Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, a photographer transplanted from Taiwan to Queens, and now deeply rooted in his adopted environment, is currently preparing for the opening of his new exhibition, Central Park New York – 24 Solar Terms, at Foley Gallery. The title of the show takes its name from the ancient Chinese lunar calendar, which divides the year into 24 segments, each segment given … Read the full Story >>
A special report from Monsters & Madonnas, in keeping with DART's August special, Focus on Photobooks: Japanese Photobooks from the ICP Library Posted on July 21, 2014 by Russet Lederman Summer in New York – crowded with tourists and almost as hot as Tokyo! A refuge is needed and the ICP Library provides the antidote: a calm air-conditioned space where photobooks can be explored at one’s leisure. As … Read the full Story >>
Wordless novels and abstract comics might strike you as a somewhat esoteric strain of visual art until you stop and think a bit. Consider the flipbooks assigned to just about every first year art school student. Or from the mainstream, Spy vs. Spy, a strip that has been published in MAD magazine since 1961 and is currently drawn by Peter Kuper. For those … Read the full Story >>
