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 >>
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 >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the pen or the brush? Jason Holley: It has to be drawing, right? When you’re a kid and you pick up your mom's lipstick and draw all over the cat, well… that is as primal as it gets. Painting for me is more socialized and cerebral, and it requires so many more steps, extra gear etc. Drawing is as … Read the full Story >>
I was among the 1,500 or so spectators fortunate enough to have a ticket to the last performance of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company on New Year’s Eve. The 14 dancers took over three low stages in the cavernous Drill Hall at the Park Avenue Armory, offering 50 minutes of excerpts from the 58-year span of the company’s presence in New York. When … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Bologna, Italy, what are some of your favorite things about living and working there? A: I like Bologna because it's full of historical and artistic stuff, and has an audience for contemporary illustration and comics. It's not too big and not too small, comfortable and human-sized, with friendly people. Q: Do you keep a sketchbook? What is the balance between the art you create … Read the full Story >>
Janine Antoni, Nicole Eisenman, Marilyn Minter, Marlene Dumas, Victoria Sambunaris, Carolee Schneemann…these are just a sampling of the artists whose work will be available at auction next Thursday, November 18th, at P.P.O.W Gallery. At previous RHMF events, like the annual Lower East Side Art Crawl (above), women took the lead presenting art to its supporters. The Foundation raises all the money it … Read the full Story >>
Tom Waits, who is to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on March 15th (by no less than Neil Young) has created some unusual background noise for the proceedings. He has ventured beyond his customary terse, hardbitten lyrics into sweeping verse with Seeds on Hard Ground (X-Ray Book Co., 2011). It was first published on his website, then brought … Read the full Story >>
The seven self-portraits of Max Beckmann (Germany, 1884-1950 New York) currently on view at The Met present the horrors he experienced at the front during World War I—and a sense of foreboding that preoccupied him for the rest of his life. He wrote in a 1918 manifesto for his art, “We are on our way to very difficult times.” In one of the highlights … Read the full Story >>
As heatwaves and hurricanes continue to send us indoors, a cool library full of picture books becomes even more appealing. This week, DART’s continuing series that invites creative directors to pimp their bookshelves offers a view into a library that George McCalman, San Francisco-based Creative Director and Co-Principal of McCalman.Co, created for his grandmother. This is what he wrote: At the time of … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Originally from Tokyo, Japan, what were some of the experiences of your formative years that made you recognize that you were an artist? Natsuki Takauji: I always enjoyed the once-a-week art classes in school and some of the work I made; I still remember them to be pretty good for an untrained kid. I knew I could do it better than the … Read the full Story >>
Two colossal white ceramic figures of little girls, sculptures by Yoshitomo Nara, popped up on the Park Avenue Mall at the beginning of the month to herald a show of the artist's work at Asia Society. Yesterday afternoon, I spent about half an hour watching the interaction of New Yorkers and visitors with these White Ghost figures. Without irony, I'd like to report that … Read the full Story >>
The debut issue of The Guide generated some pretty interesting reader response. Enough, in fact, to prompt a follow-up issue with tips on how to support artists and the arts through the holiday season. In no particular order, here are my top picks for the week: Limited Editions:Post-punk downtown scene photographer Laura Levine, whose work is featured in No Wave (Abrams Image … Read the full Story >>
Andy Warhol with his dachshund Archie in 1973. © Jack Mitchell, courtesy The Whitney Museum of American Art. With the Whitney Museum of American Art closing its survey Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back at the end of the month, this week’s DART Interview features a Q&A Glenn O’Brien did with Warhol for Interview magazine [The Crystal Ball of Pop] in June, … Read the full Story >>
The last day of summer slipped by almost unnoticed here in New York. The summer invitational, Pimp Your Sketchbook, continues with Blair Thornley. I use sketchbooks to hunt for and collect images, information, gestures, study the light on something, or to just make unplanned drawings from my unconscious. Of course, also for illustration concepts and lists of what i want to do. I use at least three or … Read the full Story >>
DART launches the New Year with a celebration of sketchbook art and artists. Jonathan Twingley, whose sketchbook habit was explored during the 2015 Summer Invitational, emailed to tell about a recent project for Amtrak that originated in his sketchbooks. This is what he wrote: We seem to be in the midst of some kind of Global Sketchbook Craze. Everybody from stay-at-home-dads in Des … Read the full Story >>
All over the world community gardens thrive, offering city dwellers a chance to get back to nature and, given enough sunlight, put some food on the table. But there are allotments and there are allotments. In Amiens, France, about an hour by train from Paris, a 1.6-acre section of marshland between the Somme and Avre rivers has been cultivated by hortillons, or market gardeners, since … Read the full Story >>
