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 >>
Talks / Discussions / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, August 9 Camille A. Brown performance | Society, Community, and Culture: Ronald Lockett in Context from "Mr. Tol E. Rance", 6:30 pm. American Folk Art Museum, 2 Lincoln Square, NY, NY Info From Here to Haiti | Volunteer update, 6 pm. Queens Museum | New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, NY Info Wednesday, … Read the full Story >>
Boundless: 10 Years of Seeding Black Comic Futures, celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s Black Comic Book Festival, through photographs, memorabilia, creator highlights, comic book reading stations, and clips from past festival programs. Drawn from the Schomburg Center’s archival collections, this exhibition illuminates the long history of Black comics and sequential art creators and … Read the full Story >>
Friday, October 27, 6-8 pm: Bradley Wood | Notes from a Lucid Dream at Jane Lombard "Fantastic as it may sound, I was in full possession of my waking faculties while dreaming and soundly asleep: I could think as clearly as ever, freely remember details of my waking life, and act deliberately upon conscious reflection. Yet none of this diminished the vividness of … Read the full Story >>
Editor’s note: With ICON9 The Illustration Conference on the horizon—a weekend of art, discussion, performance, and plenty of talk in Austin, TX—the new roster for the Q&A is peopled with many of the exceptional artists making presentations during this biannual artfest. Reminder: if you were thinking of submitting work for the animation / motion graphics screening, the deadline is tonight at midnight! Q: Originally from … Read the full Story >>
Monday, May 10 | Madison Square Park, NYC Maya Lin | Ghost Forest A new installation by American sculptor Maya Lin, Ghost Forest at Madison Square Park, will confront viewers with the devastating impacts of climate change head-on. Starting on May 10 and on view through the fall, visitors to the public square in Manhattan will be able to walk among a thicket of … Read the full Story >>
Today I had email from artist/illustrator Jeanne Verdoux, a long-time subscriber, regarding her participation in the commemoration of the November 14, 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, where more than 125 lost their lives. She wrote: My work is featured in an exhibition in France titled 'Une image pour la fraternité,’ an event taking place one year after the November 2015 Paris attacks. It is … Read the full Story >>
The historic James A. Farley Post Office Building, dubbed by the New York Times “the most elaborate post office in America,” and possibly the largest in the world, is poised to become the centerpiece of an expanded railroad center that will be named the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Train Hall under a $3 billion plan announced by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo last fall. Margaret Morton, … Read the full Story >>
Erna Rosenstein. Once Upon a Time opens Thursday, September 30 at Hauser & Wirth It’s beginning to look as if Surrealism is edging out Abstract Expressionism as the lingua franca of the NYC art scene. An exhibition of the Polish artist, Erna Rosenstein (1913-2004 )—the first monographic exhibition of her work outside of Poland—opens this week. One of the key figures of the Polish … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Monday, June 4-Friday, June 8, 6 pm EST Freedom | The Magnum Photos Square Print Sale. 1968 was a seismic year of deep societal and political shifts. International issues of freedom from oppression, freedom of speech, political, sexual and religious freedom all came to the fore as student protests racked cities, declarations of independence were … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, October 11: Monet and Venice at Brooklyn Museum During his 10-week visit to Venice in 1908, Claude Monet captured the city’s ethereal cityscape in close to 40 shimmering canvases, creating works unlike anything produced by the centuries of artists who painted the city before him. Upon arriving in this place of magical light, Monet remarked that Venice was “too beautiful to be … Read the full Story >>
When It came to my attention that Martha Rich is in a 2-person show opening this week, I emailed to invite her to do a Q&A for DART. Here’s what happened: Q: Martha, you seemed like such an LA girl before moving to the City of Brotherly Love. What do you like best about Philly? In what ways is it most different from LA? Is it … Read the full Story >>
The first DART Board of 2019 is a hybrid: introducing the winners of the last Book Prize Contest of 2018, ahead of must-see museum shows soon to close. Here’s the summary: In the past the Book Prize Contest has involved identifying, from a photo of mine, “Where in New York Am I?” Info But this one is different. It invites DART subscribers to … Read the full Story >>
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera—the art world power couple of the 20th century—are being celebrated in a joint exhibition of their work at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting continues through May 12, featuring more than 120 pieces, including a number of Rivera’s oil paintings, which are less well known than his mural projects. It also includes … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs / Special Events Tuesday, May 11– Sunday, May 17 Salon Zürcher. Zürcher Gallery, 33 Bleecker Street, NY, NY. Information. Wednesday, May 13-Friday, May 15 Anti-Fair | Harper’s Books Pop-Up at The Carlysle. 35 East 76th Street, NY, NY. Information. Wednesday, May 13– Sunday, May 17 Select Art Fair NYC. Center 548, 548 West 22nd Street, NY, NY. Information. LIC Arts Open. Open studios and events … Read the full Story >>
