Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond Tuesday, July 24, 18 Get Loose Artists Roundtable | Cat Balco, Ben Godward, Jason Rohlf in conversation with curator Tracy McKenna, 6:30 pm. Rick Wester Fine Art, 526 West 26thStreet, NY, NY RSVP Artists at Work | Modupeola Fadugba, Yen-Ting Hsu, 6L30 pm. International Studio & Curatorial Program, 1040 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Info [Williamsburg] … Read the full Story >>
The 2015 Summer Invitational: Pimp Your Sketchbooks, continues with Carol Fabricatore, an acclaimed proponent of Drawing on Location. My sketchbooks are a place I can experiment and play in. I’ve always drawn in sketchbooks. Working in a sketchbook gives me permission to be fearless and not worry about making mistakes. Most times what I think I’m just playing, becomes what I like most in my drawing. When I let go … Read the full Story >>
Wordless novels and abstract comics might strike you as a somewhat esoteric strain of visual art until you stop and think a bit. Consider the flipbooks assigned to just about every first year art school student. Or from the mainstream, Spy vs. Spy, a strip that has been published in MAD magazine since 1961 and is currently drawn by Peter Kuper. For those … Read the full Story >>
Next week, the winners of the 2016 Pulitzer Prizes will be announced. This past week, we learned that 11 photographers - including Alex Majoli, Robin Schwartz, Louie Palu - are among the recipients of the 2016 Guggenheim fellowships. We also learned that photographer Bryan Denton has been chosen as the recipient of the fifth annual Chris Hondros Fund Award, established in honor of the … Read the full Story >>
This week in photography we found out who will be receiving the International Center of Photography's 2016 Infinity Awards: British photographer David Bailey, who created some of the best known fashion images and portraits of the last 50 years, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award, while Johannesburg, South Africa-based photographer Zanele Muholi receives the Documentary and Photojournalism Award. Meanwhile, we also learned that poor … Read the full Story >>
Photographer Ernesto Bazan is best known for his trilogy of hauntingly beautiful books about Cuba, his home for 14 years. He says it was destiny that led him there. But when the Cuban government barred him from teaching workshops, he and his family left. "I loved being there and photographing there, so it was a big blow," he says. Now with normalization in relations … Read the full Story >>
If you liked the Reagan era, you'll love 2019. This week we spotlighted Shutterstock's newly released 2019 Creative Trends report, which the stock giant compiles by studying gazillions of search terms to see what marketers and consumers are interested in. And, as we noted, the company found that the year ahead will look a lot like the 1980s, with a twist. Shutterstock sees the … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / Special Events / and Beyond Tuesday, October 9 Tell Me Something Good | Discussion with Matvey Levenstein, Dana Schutz, Rirkrit Tiravanija, moderated by Jarrett Earnest, 6:30 pm. New York Studio School, 8 West 8th Street, NY, NY Info W. Eugene Smith Talk | Daniel Castro Garcia, 7 pm. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27th Street, NY, … Read the full Story >>
The Holocaust; contemporary space exploration; Bulgarian communism; African fashion; the women of a remote Afro-Mexican village. Those are some of the topics of the 20 longlisted titles for the 39th edition of the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards, the UK's leading prize celebrating excellence in photography and moving image publishing. Following the longlist announcement, six shortlisted publications--three in the Photography category and three in the Moving … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first the pen or the brush? Marcellus Hall: I would say the pen came first. In grade school I loved Mad Magazine. I bought quill pens and ink and emulated the art of Jack Davis, Mort Drucker, Paul Coker Jr, etcetera. Later, watercolor illustrations by Arnold Roth, James McMullan, and George Grosz had me under their spell, as well as … Read the full Story >>
Today we feature our monthly retrospective of stand-out short documentaries, video news reports, time-lapse and drone photography and other work featured in December at our sister publication Motion Arts Pro. The videos here form a tour of the globe: There's a documentary on muxes, Mexico's third gender; a look at a beauty pageant in Kenya for people with albinism; a long and dusty drive … Read the full Story >>
Whenever I encounter one of Saul Steinberg's ink drawings by his very human patchwork cat character, especially one in which he draws swooping spirals that soar upwards, releasing all kinds of whimsical figures, I'm reminded of a Chinese poem that begins, "I think, therefore I am a butterfly." The imaginary worlds that unfold on even the smallest of Steinberg's notebook pages have offered laughter, … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Thursday, September 10-Sunday, September 13 + beyond Photoville returns to the Brooklyn Bridge Park this week, with more of everything you want from photography. The preview is on Thursday starting at 4 pm, followed by the opening night party at 7 with Down ‘n Dirty, celebrating music photography from over four decades curated by Janette Beckman. Info. More about nights … Read the full Story >>
The 2014 season for grants and awards for photographers is underway, and the roster of programs is long. Following is a capsule version, with links to organization websites. The information below, arranged by submission deadline date, is provided by grants organizations. Note to photographers and educators: If you see that I have overlooked an important program, please contact me. A revised version … Read the full Story >>
