In December 1948, Life magazine sent French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, a founding member of Magnum Photos, to China to document the turbulent transition from Kuomintang to Communist rule. In the photograph above he captures the pandemonium incited by the currency crash of that month, when the value of paper money plummeted and the Kuomintang decided to distribute forty grams of gold per person. Thousands … Read the full Story >>
DART WILL PRESENT AN OCCASIONAL LISTING of exhibitions and events related to new books and work by illustrators. Herewith our mid-October installment. Illustrations, top to bottom: Mother Nature's Son #3, 2006, by Cathie Bleck Lily, by Marc Burckhardt Untitled, by Zohar Lazar Puncture, by Jonathan Weiner Cover art, Raw #3, 1981, by Gary Panter Open Spaces By Cathie Bleck In conjunction with the publication … Read the full Story >>
New York Comic Con, the country's second biggest pop-culture convention - after San Diego Comic-Con - rolls into the Jacob Javits Center this weekend. Starting tomorrow, the world of superheroes, classic comics, cults and sci-fi is met by some of the most sophisticated narrative art being created today. The three day event also features presentations by legends of the trade including former Marvel Comics … Read the full Story >>
Special EventsThursday, January 28-Sunday, January 31Art Los Angeles Contemporary. Barker Hanger, Santa Monica, CA. Info Talks / Panels / Demonstrations / Screenings / and beyond Tuesday, January 26 Fia Backström | Growth and its Perennials, 7 pm. The Artist's Institute, 205 Hudson Street, NY, NY. Info. Ebecho Muslimova, 7 pm, in conjunction with Hans Schärer: Madonnas and Erotic Watercolors. Swiss Institute / CONTEMPORARY ART, 18 … Read the full Story >>
Andrew Moore, a photographer who has captured the grandeur of decay in Russia, Cuba, and most recently in Detroit, traveled to the oil-rich United Arab Emerites last year. The Urban Landscape of Abu Dhabi, now on view at NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, offers his view of a modern city with big plans for the future. Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, September 17: Coco Fusco | Tomorrow I Will Become an Island at el Museo The first U.S. survey of the influential Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco covers more than three decades of her groundbreaking career. The exhibition explores central concerns that Fusco has addressed across her practice, including immigration, military power and surveillance, post-revolutionary Cuban history, and the lasting legacies … Read the full Story >>
For all the would-be burners out there who were unable to snag a $475-ticket to this year’s festival—yes, the 40-second window didn’t work for most—this DART page is devoted to the phenomenon known as Burning Man. Since 1986, revelers from far and wide have trekked to the temporarily constructed Black Rock City, located in Black Rock Desert, for a week of art, music, dancing, … Read the full Story >>
Brooklyn’s free pop-up photography village, Photoville, has returned to Brooklyn Bridge Park this week with an impressive lineup of 85 exhibitions featuring more than 600 artists. The festival, now in its eighth year, showcases the work of local, national and international photographers inside repurposed shipping containers beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, as the Brooklyn Eagle reports. It’s the brainchild of DUMBO nonprofit United … Read the full Story >>
Tomi Ungerer grew up in Alsace, during World War II, under the Nazi occupation of France. Even as a child he was a resister—a proverbial thorn in the side of the fatted calf. He says that his teachers tried to brainwash him with pro-Führer propaganda, but to no avail. In an interview last year he said, "I was a Frenchman with my family, a … Read the full Story >>
Just last week groundhogs throughout the northeast proclaimed an early spring for 2011. But New York City’s Parks & Recreation Department got there first with an installation of The Roses, by Will Ryman, on the Park Avenue Mall between 57th and 67th Streets. (Photos: Peggy Roalf) Ryman has brought some of his bent for the absurd and the dramatic into the installation by … Read the full Story >>
The AP40 Call For Entries is extended through February 9th! As the team has been shipping the current annual, AP39 (below), designed by Emily Crawford, with cover photograph by Devin Yalkin, they’ve taking a look into the archive of covers over the past forty years. Showcasing each year’s best editorial, photojournalism, advertising, books and personal work since 1985, the American Photography Archive … 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've lived in a lot of different places—Maryland, Texas, Florida, Ohio, and finally California. I'm proud to have called Oakland my home for the past 6 years. I love it's diversity, creativity, and individuality—there's really no other place like it. I love that … Read the full Story >>
Illustrations by Jonathan Bartlett have appeared in top-drawer publications like The New York Times, WIRED, Playboy and Fortune, to name a few. But lately, his work is turning up on collectable clothing and the façade of a prominent Greenwich Village building—and he’s giving back to the School of Visual Arts (SVA) at the same time. Bartlett was selected to participate in … Read the full Story >>
“No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky” wrote E.B. White in 1949. And lucky are those who head uptown to the Museum of the City of New York for an exhibition of photographs from LOOK, one of America’s most influential pictorial magazines in the post-war era. Some 130 images portray the climbers and self-promoters, the … Read the full Story >>
AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION HAS BEEN CALLED "The most electric gallery in print;" "A time capsule in the making;" "Tasty and explosive, the Pop Rocks of eye candy." The creative people who use it, year in and year out, support the founders' idea that cutting-edge illustration stimulates mind and spirit. See for yourself as DART continues to showcase American Illustration's 25th Anniversary special edition. 1994: Untitled, … Read the full Story >>
The art of ceramic sculpture has lately become more visible in New York, thanks to works by the Italian master Lucio Fontana on view at The Met last fall, and Bay Area outlaws Peter Voulkos and Ron Nagel seen in galleries this year. A new exhibition of pieces by the French artists Andrée and Michel Hirlet, which opened last week at Dobrinka Salzman Gallery, brings mid-century … Read the full Story >>
Friday, April 2, 6-8 pm: Owen James GalleryDavid Sandlin | Belfaust: Paintings, screenprints, books The artist will be in attendance at the gallery Saturday April 3rd (from 2-5 PM) to meet with visitors and discuss his work. The following is a preview. Above: David Sandlin, Belfast Bus, acrylic on canvas. From the late 1960s until 1998, Northern Ireland suffered through The Troubles: an … Read the full Story >>
War, plague, earthquake, fire, flood, and terrorism are some of the forces that have shaped great cities. History has been told and retold in painting, literature and film—and now in a series of sculptures by Matthew Picton, which are on view at Christopher Henry Gallery until the end of the month. First seen through the gallery’s glass doors, from across the street, the … Read the full Story >>
David Byrne, the chief Talking Head, has become something of a Talking Head himself. With the success of his book, Bicycle Diaries, he has turned what would commonly be a book tour into a public forum, complete with public officials, to promote sustainable cities through cycling. As this page posts, Byrne is on his way to Sao Paolo, Brazil, with his Cities, … Read the full Story >>
Lillian Bassman, Wonders of Water, New York, Harper’s Bazaar, 1959 (Variant). Courtesy Staley-Wise Gallery. Tuesday, April 10 Opening reception, 7-10 pm: Motofumo Mori | “Chocolate Pencil.” Ouchi Gallery, 170 Tillary Street, Brooklyn, NY. Wednesday, April 11 Opening reception, 6:30-8:30: Jonathan Alpeyrie | World War II Veterans. Anastasia Photo, 166 Orchard Street, NY, NY. Opening, 11 am-6 pm: Evgeny Mokhorev | Photographs 1991-2010. Nailya Alexander Gallery … Read the full Story >>
