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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
April has proved to be "the cruelest month" this year, with ice and snow dusting the spring holidays throughout the Northeast and Midwest. But New Yorkers can take shelter at one of the marquee art fairs. The Photography Show 07, which opens this week at the 7th Regiment Armory. AIPAD's annual invitational will offer everything from contemporary to classic, from platinum to digital prints, … 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 >>
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 >>
As everybody knows, Sicily is a big island in the Mediterranean Sea, born from Mount Etna, a volcano near Catania. The sandy beaches here are almost all private. In order to enable citizens to take advantage of the sea, the city built a solarium. On this great wooden platform, every year summer plays out as if on the stage of a Greek theater. Suspended over a lava formation, with … Read the full Story >>
The School of Visual Arts’ Silas Theater hosted the MFA Designer as Author Thesis Forum on Wednesday, with 18 students presenting the results of their 2-year explorations into designing marketable products. According to the program’s mission statement, “entrepreneurship has become more significant throughout the contemporary design scene. MFA Design students work individually and collaboratively during two intensive years to develop objects of value … Read the full Story >>
Ayano Sudo at Picture Project Space booth, AIPAD 2012. Photo: Peggy Roalf. Continuing Through April 7: Mark Ruwedel | Records. Yossi Milo Gallery, 245 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY. Through April 27: Lost & Found | 3.11 Photographs from Tohoku. Aperture Gallery, 547 W. 27th Street, 4th Floor, NY, NY. Information. Through April 28: Matthew Pillsbury | City Stages. Bonni Benrubi Gallery, 41 … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Thursday, November 3-Sunday, November 6 Editions/Artists’ Book Fair [E/AB Fair]. The Tunnel, 269 11th Avenue, NY, NY Info Thursday, November 3-Sunday, November 6 IFPDA NY Print Week. Various locations, NY, NY Info Buy the Book Fair 2016. Central Booking, 21 Ludlow Street, NY, NY Info Through Friday, November 4 The Magnum Square Print Sale | Conditions of the Heart: On Empathy and … Read the full Story >>
Friday, April 11: Bravin Lee’s The Golden Thread 2 Bravin Lee Programs, known for their longtime commitment to fine rugs by artists, opens its second major exhibition on the larger subject of textile arts, off-site at South Street Seaport. A practice that encompasses embroidery, tapestry, quilting, carpet design, and much, much more, textile art has undergone a renaissance over the past century. Artists … Read the full Story >>
