Two by Lisa M. Robinson, from Oceana. Left: Howl, 2010. Right: Shift, 2010. Copyright the artist, courtesy Klompching Gallery. Monday, May 23, 7 pm and Tuesday, May 24, 8 pm: Sarah Small's Tableau Vivant of the Delerium Constructions. A performance, party, experiment and wedding. Skylight One Hanson, One Hanson Place, Brooklyn, NY. Tickets $25-$125. Wednesday, May 25 Book Signing, 6-8 … Read the full Story >>
Joel Sternfeld | First Pictures, currently on view at Luhring Augustine Gallery. Left: Nag's Head, North Carolina (#40), June-August, 1975 Right: Nag's Head, North Carolina (#18), June-August, 1975. Thursday, January 19 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Tadaaki Kuwayama. Gary Snyder Gallery, 529 West 20th Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook | Two Planets, Village and Elsewhere. Tyler Rollins Fine … Read the full Story >>
Just when I was wondering, “where are the latest DART Q&A replies,” I received a message from long-time subscriber Anthony Freda, wondering if I was still looking at sketchbooks. Ha! Problem solved—here’s what Anthony sketched and wrote: I often write in my sketchbooks while listening to interviews on radio talk shows. I write down their thoughts in real time, hence the lousy penmanship. Some … Read the full Story >>
Armory Arts Week began for me late yesterday afternoon, after a series of server crashes nearly obliterated this week’s DART List, which details Armory Arts Week! Whatever. All worries vaporized when I merged into the stream of visitors to The Art Show, at the Park Avenue Armory – and it quickly became evident that The Art Dealers Association of America must feel that … Read the full Story >>
As a prelude to the solo presentation of their work at Wetterling Gallery/Stockholm, at the Armory Show this week, Doug and Mike Starn invited collectors, gallerists and friends to visit their Beacon, New York studio last weekend. The artists, identical twins born in 1961 who came to notice at the 1988 Whitney Biennale, started out like most artists have: drawing at the kitchen table … Read the full Story >>
Three images by Henry Leutwyler from Neverland Lost: A Portrait of Michael Jackson, opening Thursday at Foley Gallery. Continuing through February 28th: Documentary Fortnight 2011: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media. Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, NY, NY. Free with museum admission. View related screenings. Tuesday, February 22, 7:00-9:00 pm: Book launch party, discussion, and signing … Read the full Story >>
Martín Churba is one of the top designers in Argentina, with significant success across the Atlantic—mainly in Tokyo—as well as Hong Kong, France and the Middle East. His work has made it to the U.S. too, not only through his fabulous clothes but this time also thanks to the Walt Disney Company. A pioneer in textile design, Churba has been an Argentine fashion icon … Read the full Story >>
Photographs by Machiel Botman. Left: Tree House, 2008. Right: Julia, 2007. Copyright the artist, courtesy Gitterman Gallery. Tuesday, December 13 Film Screening, 8:30 pm: A Guided Tour of Edith’s Apartment, dir. Jacob Burckhardt. The Pink Pony, 176 Ludlow Street, between Stanton and East Houston, NY, NY. Free, cash bar. Discussion on new forms of publishing and distribution, 7 pm: Stammtisch / Tertulias / Salon: … Read the full Story >>
If it’s Black Friday, it’s the day for DART’s annual Indie Bookstore Update! ! This year, Brooklyn takes the prize for welcoming three new locations, each one utterly different from the others on this growing list of shelters from the storm of addled and insensitive consumer spending that can take the fun out the holiday season. If you, dear readers, have also discovered something … Read the full Story >>
There’s hardly a golden leaf in view but it’s Fall and so it’s time to mark your calendar for two big events the first week of November: The Party and the Big Talk, hosted by AI-AP. This year the Big Talk celebrates animation art in all its forms in a presentation on Wednesday, November 2 from 7-9 pm. Held once again at the SVA … Read the full Story >>
Jenny Goldstick: This image is created by (top to bottom) Barbara Geoghegan, Alex Beguez, Jenny Goldstick, and Nadia DeLane. We are a group of female art makers who are diverse in so many ways and yet we unify under the common denominator of visual storytelling. We collaborated together on an exquisite corpse (completed in-person, then scanned and finished digitally). The resulting image is … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / Open Studios / Art Fairs / and Beyond Tuesday, October 17 The Inequity of Wealth in Contemporary America, pane, 6:30 pm, with: Leslie McCall, a sociologist and political scientist at CUNY's Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, Shawn Escoffery, director of the Strong Local Economies program at the Surdna Foundation, and Natasha del Toro, an investigative journalist and … Read the full Story >>
Daniel Joseph Martinez, I always wanted the ears of Buddha, the will of Nietzsche and the body of Mishima, Los Angeles, 1979, Silver gelatin print. On view through March 3 at LAXART, 2640 S. La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA., in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time. Information. Wednesday, February 22 History of Typography Series presents, 6:30 pm: Russell Maret, Private Press Printer and Type … Read the full Story >>
If you have begun to feel that you’ve become unaccountably distant from life, that is, perhaps you keep finding a phone camera between your eyes and the world, then it’s time to take a good look at yourself and fix this problem. And I don’t mean by taking another selfie. The solution to this anomie for many people, whether they are “artistic” or not, … Read the full Story >>
Continuing: Cecily Brown | Death and the Maid at The Met For more than twenty-five years, Cecily Brown (b. 1969) has transfixed viewers with sumptuous color, bravura brushwork, and complex narratives that relate to some of Western art history’s grandest and oldest themes. After moving to New York from London in the 1990s, she revived painting for a new generation alongside a handful of … Read the full Story >>
In just a couple of hours, the Solstice will mark the official start of Summer. And the season’s first heatwave is already on, so it’s a good time to update the DART list of NYC’s Indie Bookstores offering cool escapes, both physical and otherwise. 192 Books, at 192 Tenth Avenue (above), is not a new addition—it somehow slipped off the list during … Read the full Story >>
Ai Weiwei: According to What, the provocative and often troubling survey of work by the Chinese dissident artist who has been beaten, jailed and harassed by authorities for his outspoken political beliefs, continues at the Brooklyn Museum through August 10th. Mr. Ai, who moved to New York City in 1983 and lived here until 1993, formed his approach as an artist/instigator during that time. He … Read the full Story >>
DART honors National Hispanic Heritage Month [September 15-October 15] this week with a feature on Salvadoran-born muralist Josué Rojas. The story of how he found his way in life through painting unfolds in two recent articles about this San Francisco artist, who holds degrees from California College of the Arts and Boston University. Above: Josué Rojas, "Enrique’s Journey" (image courtesy Shane Menez) Rojas … Read the full Story >>
Meet the Guerilla Girls—the anonymous militant feminists who put on gorilla masks to tackle sexism, racism and corruption in politics, art and pop culture. Using happenings, humor and subversive imagery, they shed light on things that have been kept hidden or overlooked, about an art system prejudiced against women and artists of color. In Guerilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly, a new … Read the full Story >>
The Double All-Seeing Eye, ca.1950s-1960s. Peter Attie "Charlie" Besharo (1898–1969). Courtesy of American Folk Art Museum. Info This narrative work formally allies two recurring subjects in Peter Besharo’s visual vocabulary: a winged angel in a tarboosh and a helmeted space figure in liturgical vestments. Radiant light, enhanced by a flame and a rising sun emerging from a blue brick structure, illuminates the … Read the full Story >>
