Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the pen or the brush? Calum Heath: The pen definitely came first. I do love painting, especially the feeling of applying paint can be really satisfying, but drawing has always been the driver for my work. A lot changed for me when I started using brush pens, I love the varied weight of line and heavy ink. PR: Please … Read the full Story >>
September 6-8: 30th Anniversary Armory Show at the Javits A cornerstone of New York’s cultural landscape since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show brings the world’s leading international contemporary galleries to New York each year. Through elevated presentations, thoughtful programming, curatorial leadership, meaningful institutional partnerships and engaging public art activations, The Armory Show has played a significant role in global contemporary art. The … Read the full Story >>
Edvard Munch (1863–1944), the Norwegian artist who brought self-scrutiny into the canon of modern art, is the subject of a major exhibition opening today at The Met Breuer. Born and raised in Kristiana (now Oslo), Munch’s career spanned 60 tears and included his ties with European Symbolism, Expressionism, and Modernism in France, Germany as well as in Norway. Largely self-taught, Munch was a prolific … Read the full Story >>
Editor's Note: The Book Prize Contest winner will be announced on Friday, August 7Northeast America Is Hard to See, through September 27. Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY. Information. Sargent, through October 4. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY. Information. China: Through the Looking Glass, through August 16. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY. Information. Albert Oehlin | Home and Garden, … Read the full Story >>
During his recent exhibition, “Dream Date”, at ClampArt, Joseph Desler Costa spoke with Gregory Eddi Jones about conditions that have influenced his highly polished, machine-made- and very expensive-looking photographs. Jones, Founding Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of In the In-Between, said, “The fabrication of your work gets me thinking about art as a product, and on how art pictures essentially act as advertisements for … Read the full Story >>
THE SPRING ROUND OF ART FAIRS OPENED THIS WEEK with an air of optimism for better times. And whatever your taste in art is, there's enough to fill your weekend three times over. In geographical order, from South to North, here's what's in store. Please check websites for location, direction, and hours. The Independent at X Initiative, 548 West 22nd Street; Fountain Art Fair … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Books / Screenings / And Beyond Wednesday, August 9 Ismar David | The First Hebrew Typeface Family, 6:30 pm. Type Directors Club, 347 West 36th Street, NY, NY Info Institution Building | Abrons Art Center, with Yo-li Chan, Timothy Hartung, Alan Ruiz, 6:30 pm. Abrons Art Center, 466 Grand Street, NY, NY Info Luke Willis Thompson | Mourning, Militancy and Media, Talk/Screening, … Read the full Story >>
I’m a documentary photographer, and have been documenting tables for a few years now, without realizing that one day I’d have my own worktable where I could sit for hours and draw whatever comes to mind. Drawing takes time and patience, just the opposite of photography, yet something about it keeps drawing me in, pun intended:) The desire to illustrate little bits of my … Read the full Story >>
MONDAY DAWNED WITH MY GROANING ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the possible existence of writer's block. So I hurried to the office in hopes that my list of story ideas would jump start my day. No such luck. As I sipped the last of my coffee while answering email, a package landed soundlessly at my elbow. My worries were over, at least temporarily, when I discovered inside … Read the full Story >>
Originally from Pennsylvania, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in New York? I was born in Philadelphia and grew up in a suburb 30 minutes west of the city. I moved to New York because I had a suspicion that that's where my job would eventually be (which it now is). If I was working anywhere else, I'd worry … Read the full Story >>
Google celebrates opening day of the 2016 Rio Olympics with a wacky game you can play on your iPhone or Android—the 2016 Fruit Games. Play The opening day game features a race along the famed Copacabana promenade, designed by the great Brazilian modernist Roberto Burle Marx. One of the most influential landscape architects of the twentieth century, Marx is not a familiar figure outside … Read the full Story >>
As Lockdown begins to be lifted—here in NYC at least—people are leaving home en masse, with streets so crowded and noisy when I went to the P.O. on Monday it seemed "normal". Now more than ever the urgency of keeping safe is everyone’s task. Artist/creative director Mirko Ilic recently sent info about the Anti-Corona Virus poster he created in conjunction with the Poster House … Read the full Story >>
Opening Friday, October 22: Felix Gonzalez-Torres | inbetweenness at the Judd Foundation. The exhibition comprises “Untitled” (Loverboy) (1989) and “Untitled” (1991 – 1993), works that engage the distinctions between art and architecture, the public and the private, and specificity and indeterminacy. Curated by Flavin Judd, the works were selected with consideration to how they would respond to the architecture of 101 Spring Street. … Read the full Story >>
MABSOCIETY, Shanghai, is presenting an exhibition that, in quoting Frederic Jameson, proposes, “It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of the current order of capitalism.” BANK presents The BANK Show, Vive le Capital, an exhibition that explores, celebrates, and critiques the omnipresent power of global finance through its site-specific venue, the former Bank Union building in Shanghai’s historic Bund district … Read the full Story >>
Every March, just as daffodils begin emerging from dead leaves and mud around town, the photo world converges on the Park Avenue Armory for AIPAD. I probably say this every year, but it is the cream of the photo fairs - with this year being no exception. For the 30th anniversary of the show, more than 70 of the finest galleries from around … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Cuba, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in St. Louis? A: I was born in 1976 in Cuba. I graduated from the Design School in La Habana and left my country when I was 27. I followed a ballerina that was visiting La Habana to Quito, Ecuador in 2003. After a year of dating she confessed … Read the full Story >>
In 1963 LIFE Magazine published a photo by Charles Moore of a black man being arrested during a civil rights protest in Birmingham. Howardena Pinell (b. 1943 Philadelphia) proposed a video based on the photo, and others of Civil Rights clashes she saw as a child, to the AIR Gallery, in New York City. The gallery, which is the country’s first female-run, feminist co-op space, … Read the full Story >>
American Girl in Italy, Florence, 1951. Copyright © Estate of Ruth Orkin / Courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery Wednesday, August 10 Screening, 6-8 pm: Chain directed by Jem Cohen (2004, USA, 99 minutes). BMW Guggenheim Lab, Houston Street at Second Avenue, NY, NY. Free. Information. Lecture, 7 pm: Cory Arcangel’s Title TK meets Danny Goldberg at the Whitney. Free with registration … Read the full Story >>
Before and since her death at 60 in 1989, Jay DeFeo's reputation has hinged on one colossal work: The Rose (1958-66). A retrospective opening today at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which owns the painting, corrects that overemphasis. Born in 1929 in Hanover, New Hampshire, Jay DeFeo was one of the few women of her generation to rise to artistic prominence, but one who has not been given … Read the full Story >>
It’s a beautiful mid November afternoon and I’m sitting at an outdoor café in the Zocalo. Scanning the bustling scene I see a woman in a dazzlingly colorful dress, carrying a basket of fruit on her head. Near a baroque gazebo, an old man is selling hand- carved animal figures next to a group of musicians playing some perfect Latin rhythm. The sun … Read the full Story >>
