Next week, Smithsonian Associates and Anthony Wilder / Architecture will jointly present Celebrating Whimsy in Art & Architecture, The Rodney Smith Legacy, at the Smithsonian’s Ripley Center. Until his untimely passing, Rodney was known to a small coterie of magazine Directors of Photography, Museum curators and collectors. With this DC debut of his work, his wider legacy as one of the 20th Century's great photographers … Read the full Story >>
Lucas Samaras, a multi-disciplinary artist known for the strange and often violent transformations he made to ordinary objects in his sculptures, and in the self-portraits that dominate his output, emerged in the 1960s with confrontational installations and performances. One of the most experimental artist of his generation, Samaras can be described as an avant-gardist and theoretician who embraced Dada, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism in his work. … Read the full Story >>
Change only happens when individuals take action. There’s no other way, if it doesn’t start with people.—Aliya Haq, National Resources Defence Council This looks, on the surface, like a blinding glimpse of the obvious. However, most people know how difficult it is to make—and keep—a New Year’s Resolution. But a group of 12 artist/activists in Brooklyn and DC banded together following the 2016 … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, August 7, 6-7 pm: Argentine Folk Dance Workshop at Socrates Queensboro Dance Festival presents Dancing Around the World’s Boro class series. Family friendly and taught by diverse Queens-based dance groups, this class on Soca is taught by carNYval dancers. If you miss this round at Socrates, check out the full summer schedule here Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, NY … Read the full Story >>
Brian Rea is probably best known in New York for the dozens of illustrations and drawings he produces each year for the New York Times. But this multi-faceted artist works across a dazzling array of media, from video art films to cut-paper 3-D illustration art to murals, environmental installations, and wearable art. Prior to decamping for the Golden State, Brian was art director … Read the full Story >>
This Sunday, Socrates Sculpture Park, in partnership with Storm King Art Center, launches its August series of guided art tours of Governors Island. In honor of the 25th anniversary of Socrates Sculpture Park, founded by Mark di Suvero, four artists who have exhibited at Socrates will lead workshops and tours of the di Suvero exhibition on the Island. Above, Mark Di Suvero: Dreamcatcher, 2005-2012. Sunday, August 12, … Read the full Story >>
Sketching as a social form of communication can be considered a natural state of being. From the cave dwellers of Lascaux on, imagine how many leaders must have said, in the absence of the written word, “Let me sketch that out for you.” Fast forward 15,000+ years to 2007, when Seattle-based journalist and illustrator Gabriel Camanario created an online forum for sketchers who “love … Read the full Story >>
At the Museum of Modern Art, where Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs is currently on view, artists of all ages are invited to try their hand at making art in the style of this master. MoMA Studio: Beyond the Cut-Out, located in the Education Building, offers artist-led interactive workshops, art-making practices, and social interaction. Visitors have the opportunity to explore how Matisse’s practice of drawing … Read the full Story >>
Last week the 2015 Infinity Award, Young Photographer, was presented to Evgebnia Arbugaeva. Evgenia Arbugaeva was born in 1985 in the town of Tiksi, located in the Russian Arctic. She is a 2009 graduate of ICP’s Documentary Photography and Photojournalism program and since then has been working as a freelance photographer. In her personal work, she often looks to her homeland—the Arctic, discovering and capturing the remote worlds and … Read the full Story >>
Tuesday, February 4 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: The 2014 Benjamin Menschel Fellowship Exhibition. The Cooper Union, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. 7 East 7th Street, 5th & 6th Floor Galleries, NY, NY. Information. Wednesday, February 5 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Tom McGrath, Santi Moix, Jackie Saccoccio. 143 Reade Street| Lucien Terras. 143 Reade Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Marta Jovanovi Republika. BOSI Contemporary 48 Orchard Street, NY, NY. In Connecticut Opening reception, 5:30-7 … Read the full Story >>
While the work of Austrian sculptor Oliver Laric seems so of the moment as to dismiss any connection with appropriation, his practice is rooted in works as old as time. Essentially, Laric deals with versions, spurred in part by the tradition, during antiquity, of producing multiple iterations of master works. Laric inhabits a universe of multiple realities, the lack of distinction between an original … Read the full Story >>
The High Museum of Art commissioned Martin Parr to document Atlanta as part of its Picturing the South project, which also includes work by Kael Alford and Shane Lavalette. Channeling his unparalleled ability to converge humor, wit, and curiosity into his highly observant photographs, Parr has again captured the oddities and eccentricities of contemporary American life. British-born Parr, a Magnum photographer whose career spans … Read the full Story >>
Photograph of San Francisco in ruins from Lawrence Captive Airship, 2000 feet above San Francisco Bay overlooking waterfront. Geo. R. Lawrence Co, 1906, courtesy Library of Congress. Miniaturization in photography continues to trend along, with the Tilt Shift Generator for iPhone one of the most popular photo apps available. But it wasn’t always that way. In fact, soon after the daguerreotype was introduced in 1839, photographers began creating panoramic … Read the full Story >>
From Broken Manual, by Alec Soth, left: 2008_08zl0031, 2008; right: 2008_08zl0238, 2008, opening Thursday at Sean Kelly Gallery Wednesday, February 1 Opening reception, 7-10 pm: Anti-Oxidant | Promantic, featuring new video curated by Jason Leblond and Gina Medina; limited engagement, through February 5. Christopher Henry Gallery, 127 Elizabeth Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Hidra, new work by Hirosuke … Read the full Story >>
And the Winner Is Marcellus Hall, of New York City, entered last week’s Book Prize Contest, which asked Where in New York Am I? He wrote:That photo is of the Snuff Mill Waterfall not far from Lorillard Snuff Mill (40°51′36″N 73°52′35″W) on the Bronx River in the New York Botanical Garden in The Bronx. In a subsequent email, he wrote:Actually I am a New … Read the full Story >>
The dance has inspired writers across the ages to say that it's the only art form that leaves no record behind, just the memory of a fleeting moment. An exhibition currently on view at New York's AIGA gallery punches holes through this idea in a celebration of 20 years of the magazines Dance Ink and 2wice. The award-winning Dance Ink., founded in … Read the full Story >>
This week Daylight Magazine announced its 2012 Photo Award Winner. In his project Fort McKay: Sleeping With the Devil, Aaron Vincent Elkaim, (whose work on Jewish Morrocco was chosen for American Photography last year) shows a profound ambivalence about what is lost and what is gained as traditional cultures embrace modern materialism. In the New York Times Lens Blog, Matt McCann writes, … Read the full Story >>
It's official: The Honorable Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proclaimed the second week of November Illustration Week, so mark your calendar for events starting on Thursday - and tell your clients, colleagues, and friends about it. A representative from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs will present the mayor's Proclamation at the Society of Illustrators on Friday, November 5th at 5:00 pm. Following is … Read the full Story >>
Christian Cravo celebrates 25 years of representation by Throckmorton Fine Art, in New York, with the exhibition and book, Christian Cravo: Twenty Five Years. The opening reception/book launch is Thursday, January 14, from 6 to 8 pm, at 145 East 57th Street, NY, NY. InfoThe following text and images are from the artist's website. As a photographer, I seek to understand people through the … Read the full Story >>
As a run-up to the forthcoming exhibition at the Jewish Museum, Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television, DART offers a glimpse into the legendary identity design of CBS Television. The exhibition, opening on May 1, looks at television’s facility as a promotional platform for modern artists, designers, and critics; its role as a committed patron of the … Read the full Story >>
