December 16, Mthatha, South Africa The dramatic clouds from the Eastern Cape rolled through the hills this evening, bringing rain to the sparsely-populated village of Qunu, the boyhood home of Nelson Mandela and the place where his body was buried yesterday. Just a day after the service, when thousands arrived in buses, fighter jets flew, and hundreds of journalists filed stories from satellite trucks … Read the full Story >>
Colorama: [Formerly] The World’s Largest Photographs George Eastman House announced today that a reproduction of a Colorama image is being installed adjacent to its new Thomas Tischer Visitor Center, which will open to the public on Saturday, October 10. An image of the Taj Mahal, made by Don Marvin in June 1964 was installed in Grand Central Terminal from June 2 to July 9, 1986. Billed … Read the full Story >>
For the next two weeks, a group of artists will hold “office hours” in a storefront on West 37th Street, in which they will offer creative interpretations of psychotherapeutic consultation to passersby. Visitors are encouraged to drop in or schedule a free, 15-minute “initial intake” session, during which they may discuss, in complete confidence, any topic they wish. This installation/performance piece is the work of … Read the full Story >>
Left: Phoebe Washburn, Nunderwater Nort Lab; courtesy Zach Feuer Gallery. Right: Eva Struble, Night Assembly; courtesy Lombard-Freid Projects. Tuesday, June 28 Opening reception, 6-8 pm, for Photo Camp: The Culture of Now. Aperture Bookstore and Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, 4th floor, NY, NY. Wednesday, June 29 Opening reception, 6-8 pm, inaugural exhibition at Franklin Parrasch Gallery’s new space: Peter Alexander, 1969-1972 … Read the full Story >>
Police NavidadTwas X-mas night in Oaxaca and all through the town,not a teacher was stirring (they're in jail, not around).The graffiti of protest has been covered with paint and police roam the streets to enforce that it's quaint.All barricades gone, tear gas dissipated,burning buses removed and encampments have faded.It's like nothing has happened,Gov'nor Ulises pretends, no cheating, nor violence, he'll declare 'til the … Read the full Story >>
Now that Hurricane Season has officially moved into action, the DART Summer Invitational, Pimp Your Sketchbook, concludes with Craig Frazier. Your first sketchbooks. I started keeping a sketchbook several years into my design career—around 1990. It was the first time that I realized you could gather a complete idea in a thumbnail sketch. I designed a lot of posters and annual reports between … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Discussions / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, August 16 Takuro Hinokio | Live Painting performance/with Jasmine Lee on Cello, 7-10 pm. Ouchi Gallery, 170 Tillary Streeet, Brooklyn, NY Info Wednesday, August 17 Screening: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972), 7pm/sundown. Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, NY Info Thursday, August 18 Sarah Singh + Rey Paris ? … Read the full Story >>
LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY AS A VEHICLE FOR PROTEST was a new idea when the George Eastman House mounted "New Topographics: Man-Altered Landscapes" in 1975. The first major exhibition in which contemporary photographers rejected a heroic view of the wilderness, as exemplified by Ansel Adams among others, this landmark show presented the effects of human depredation on the natural world. Nearly three decades later, the message … Read the full Story >>
Contemporary Korean art is emerging from the shadows this winter with an exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). And starting this Friday, a mini-festival of Korean anime is being presented in the museum’s recently restored mid-century modern auditorium. Screen shots from A Coffee Vending Machine and Its Sword, directed by Hyung-Yun Chang. Though Japanese anime has become hugely popular in … Read the full Story >>
For the first DART Book Prize Essay Contest, students in Dr. Anastasia Aukeman’s Integrative Seminar 2: Visual Culture course at Parsons School of Design, in the School of Art and Design History and Theory, submitted their critiques of the Beauty –Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial exhibition. First place for the afternoon section goes to Angela Yang. First place for the morning section as well as runners … Read the full Story >>
Shanghai is not a city that is big on preservation. What little remains of its once dense, pre-war architecture has been mostly renovated beyond recognition. An exception, however, is the 1929 Shanghai Bank Union Building at 59 Xianggang Lu (Hong Kong Road), which has retained its wood flooring and stately stairwells. Just a few blocks inland from the city’s historic waterfront area, the Bund, the building … Read the full Story >>
Where are you from originally? As an artist, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in New York? I was born in Texas, raised in Florida and then Colorado, I work and live in Brooklyn, New York. The best part of working in Brooklyn is the shared experiences with my peers and our tight-knit illustration and design community. It's not … Read the full Story >>
Shooting with a large format camera, in black and white, on weekends off from jobs assisting advertising photographers in London, Chris Killip documented the British working class of the Northeast. With In Flagrante, whose images he made between 1973 and 1985, Killip bridged a period in which the foundations of England's empire-building industries were undermined, then shattered, by new economic policies that came to be personified … Read the full Story >>
Peter Kuper, a charter friend of DART, will be enjoying a career retrospective exhibition opening next Thursday at Scott Eder Gallery, in Brooklyn. As if he didn’t already have enough to do, I sent him a page of questions. Here’s what he wrote: Q: What were you doing immediately before you picked up a pencil to make your first drawing? A: At age four or … Read the full Story >>
Natalie Frank's first museum show, in 2015, presented drawings based on the unexpurgated Brothers Grimms fairy tales as translated by the scholar Jack Zipes. In a series of bold, expressionistic gouache and pastel drawings, she explored subjects present in the original writings including incest, rape, physical violence and other taboo themes that have been suppressed since the Victorian era. More recently Frank has … Read the full Story >>
Downtown for Democracy is a political action committee [PAC] that works in art, music, fashion, film, writing, theater, food, media and advertising, and shares a deep commitment to America’s progressive traditions. Their activism utilizes creativity to reach people, to educate and to raise funds—through image, words and music. D4D aims to be the voice of creative people across the USA, raising money that will … Read the full Story >>
The biggest week on NYCs art calendar just got bigger. As galleries reopen after their August break, Armory Art Week opens for the first time during the same time slot. So if you throw a dart in any direction, chances are you’ll hit an opening or an artists talk or performance that appeals. Here are just a few things that got my attention. … Read the full Story >>
Left, Lorna Simpson: Momentum, at Salon 94. Right, Martin Kippenberger: I Had a Vision, at Luhring Augustine. Ongoing The third annual Creative Week continues with a blizzard of events celebrating creativity in design, advertising, new media, and the arts in general. Every day through Sunday, May 15th, there will be numerous events to choose from. Many of the programs are free and all information … Read the full Story >>
Photographer David Butow, a longtime subscriber and contributor to DART, arrived in Ukraine the second week of March to cover the effects of war on ordinary people who were caught in the indiscriminate shelling of cities like Lviv and Chernevo. He covered the growing humanitarian crisis amid the escalating attacks, with people seeking shelter in makeshift camps in Poland, Moldova and Romania. David … Read the full Story >>
Photoville gates opens today at 4 pm, with an opening night Town Hall with For Freedoms, a platform for artists co-founded by Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman, starting at 7pm in The Beer Garden. Info On the inaugural week of their 50 State Initiative, the For Freedoms team will highlight Freedom of Speech, bringing together contemporary artists, designers, policy makers and the … Read the full Story >>
