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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
