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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
New York's most adventurous photography galleries often celebrate summer with thematic group shows that are both thought-provoking and entertaining, and sometimes organized by guest curators. This year's schedule was launched by two galleries that added seasonal interest to the list of delights. Please check links for gallery hours and details. At Hasted Hunt, Colour Before Color, curated by Magnum photographer Martin Parr, … Read the full Story >>
Looking ahead: Works on paper by Georgia O’Keeffe at MoMA Georgia O’Keeffe: To See Takes Time, the first exhibition to investigate the artist’s works on paper made in series, using charcoal, watercolor, pastel, and graphite, presents more than 120 pieces created over more than four decades. The artist explored forms and phenomena—from abstract rhythms to nature’s cycles—working in series that sometimes gave rise to … Read the full Story >>
How often have you heard somebody say, "Feast your eyes on this!"? As compliments go, it doesn't get much better when the subject is art. So if you have a hungry eye, here's your chance to fill up. Following on the success of "Look Behind You," a salon-style show at Giant Robot New York last March (see the March 15th issue of DART), … Read the full Story >>
Above: Eline Mugaas, Towels, 2000. Galleri Riis, Oslo Tuesday, July 24 Author talk, 6:30 pm: Louis Hyman | Borrow: The American Way of Debt, which examines how the rise of consumer borrowing in the 1920s, just before the Great Depression, altered our culture and economy. Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, NY, NY. Tickets $12/$8/$6. Save the date: August 9, Big … Read the full Story >>
It's not surprising that taxidermy in art has become almost mainstream. Perhaps the first instance, in contemporary art, is Damien Hirst's shark in formaldehyde, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. Created in 1991, its replacement (executed in 2006 when the original was found to be disintegrating) was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2007. More recently, Maurizio Cattelan's disturbing installations that … Read the full Story >>
Sunday, January 14: Timothy Cummings at Hoffman These dream-like fantasy figures filled with myriad detail and discovery often address the issue of youthful turmoil, of that awkward moment between childhood and adulthood, of identity, and of gender. The artist often paints portraits as a child might conjure them in his/her mind, giving an almost hallucinatory quality to a grown-up persona. Mostly intimate in scale … Read the full Story >>
Mitra Tabrizian, Untitled, 2009, from an exhibition opening Thursday at the Leila Heller Gallery in Chelsea. Tuesday, June 5 Film screening benefit for Society of Illustrators, 8:40 pm: One Day on Earth. Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues, NY, NY. Tickets $11/$8. BEA Book Week and powerHouse Arena present, 7-10 pm: DUMBO LIT | featuring Alice Gregory, J. Hoberman, Nicole Sealey and Leigh Stein. Information … Read the full Story >>
Left to Right: Money, Jewels, Set For Life, copyright Melissa Brown, courtesy M+B Gallery. Looking for the Future, copyright Esther Pearl Watson, courtesy Billy Shire Fine Arts. Golden Elephant, copyright Nancy Monk, courtesy Craig Krull Gallery. MINNEAPOLIS, MNArt + ObjectWeinstein GalleryFebruary 6 - March 31, 2009 DALLAS, TXNew Year | New Art, featuring works by Susan Budge, Marc Burckhardt, Danville Chadbourne, Adriana … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from [where?] what are some of your favorite things about living and working in [your current locale]? A: I’m originally from Los Angeles but have been living in Brooklyn for the past five years. There are so many wonderful resources in New York but what I love most about it is my neighborhood and its proximity to the Brooklyn Museum … Read the full Story >>
Most of what we know about photography in America today, nearly 175 years after it was introduced, was shaped by the work done by over 1,000 photographers who created indelible images during the Civil War, of the people, the conflict and uncertainty they experienced between 1861 and 1865, and the landscape of a pre-industrialized America. Photography and the American Civil War opens tomorrow at … Read the full Story >>
