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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
For over 50 years the Garrison Art Center, an hour north of Manhattan by Metro North, has offered community-based art programs in drawing, painting, pottery and printmaking. In addition, its three galleries present several exhibitions each year; a visiting artist program that hosted Judy Pfaff in 2014; a holiday craft fair; and the long-running painting-on-location plus art auction each spring. This weekend, the … Read the full Story >>
Happening in the heart of Brooklyn Bridge Park from June 22nd – July 1st, 2012, Photoville is a destination for photography lovers – a purpose-built village, constructed from repurposed shipping containers, celebrating photography in all its forms and across all levels. Photoville will have exhibitors from all over the world, lectures, hands-on workshops, nighttime projections, a photo dog run (with photo booth), and … Read the full Story >>
One of New York's treasures, and for many book lovers a hidden treasure, is Urban Center Books. Situated in the 1884 Vuillard Houses, designed by McKim Mead & White, this high-ceilinged room is packed to the rafters with books and magazines on architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture, interior design and graphic design. The selection is breathtaking. You will find monographs on luminaries like Frank Gehry … 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 >>
In Topography of Quiet the artist Bastienne Schmidt, a DART reader, explores the subtle interaction between nature and imagination through painting, drawing and photography. Inspired by the beauty of natural patterns and typologies that she discovered on her extensive travels in Egypt, Vietnam, Japan, Burma and Greece, she traces with the camera, pencil and paintbrush the impact that our environment has on our imagination—and vice … Read the full Story >>
The University of California Riverside offers a certificate program in crime scene investigation. In the outline for the Crime Scene Photography Course [info] instructor Steven Staggs includes the following information on what makes a photo admissible as evidence: a. Object pictured must be material or relevant to the point in issue b. The photograph must not appeal to the emotions or tend … Read the full Story >>
WHAT IS "Blab!"? A better question would be: What is "Blab!" not? "Blab!" is neither a compilation of the best emerging talent, nor the conventional showcase for eye-candy images. "Blab!" is certainly not the kind of book most art directors would refer to in their search for a safe illustrator for an assignment. If anything "Blab!" is all about excess. Each annual volume, now … Read the full Story >>
"Won't you please come out for some fun tomorrow night? Highlights to include kaleidoscopes, overhead projectors, and blind-folded dancing!" This enticing message came yesterday from iheartphotograph's Laurel Ptak [DART May 21], now Aperture Foundation's Educational Program Manager. Tonight's Spotlight Series event offers an evening with Jason Fulford and Leanne Shapton, co-founders of J&L Books, a small non-profit press. In addition … Read the full Story >>
Cathie Bleck, an illustrator and printmaker based in Cleveland, Ohio, and a charter subscriber to DART, created a new postal card for the United States Postal Service, which was introduced at the end of March. Following is the announcement from the USPS: From the ancient sequoias to the majestic oaks, trees evoke a sense of beauty and wonder, making them a favorite subject for artists … Read the full Story >>
Peter Kuper, award-winning illustrator, comics artist and co-founder of World War 3 Illustrated, will launch his long awaited book Insectopolis: A Natural History, at the opening of an exhibition of the original work at Society of Illustrators this week. Peter is a long-time contributor to DART, going back to his first stay in Mexico, in 2006, when he fell in love with Monarch … Read the full Story >>
