Marshall Arisman, chair of the School of Visual Arts graduate program Illustration as Visual Essay, which he initiated in 1984, celebrates the program’s 30th anniversary this year. An exhibition of over 350 works by its graduates opened this week at SVAs Chelsea Gallery, where an artists’ reception will take place next Tuesday. Following is an excerpt from the publication for the show. Writing is easy: all … Read the full Story >>
Q: Who was Mona Lisa? Editor’s note: Leonardo da Vinci [1452-1519] himself never wrote on the subject, but scholars have pieced together the following narrative from accounts by one of his supporters, Niccolò Machiavelli [The Prince], and Giorgio Vasari [The Lives of the Artists] as follows. Above left: the Isleworth Mona Lisa [now called “the Earlier Mona Lisa” Info; … Read the full Story >>
It’s probably safe to assume that most events in hurricane-socked areas will be rescheduled. And because many servers are down, information is sketchy. Here are a few updates and notes from the field. Pictoplasma will return to Parsons at a later date—probably in February 2013. In its 4th US edition, the Pictoplasma Conference originating from Berlin will return to New York to present a marathon of … Read the full Story >>
Susan Wides, a photo artist who traded NYC living for a new home upstate, near Catskill, during the Pandemic lockdown, is a long-time DART subscriber and contributor. Recognized for her innovative use of shift-tilt distortion in large-format photography to explore perception and presence, her work was first featured in AP17, in 2001. Since her immersion in the wildness of her present environment, the images … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, January 16 Life Model Drink & Draw | Instruction, Discussion & Exploration of Process with Catherine Lepp, 6;15-8:30 pm. Back Room at the Cobra Club, 6 Wycoff Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Info Continues every Tueseday through February Wednesday, January 17 Gender & Justice | Sarah Maslin Nir, Lucy Lang, Rev. Vivian D. Nixon, 7 pm. … Read the full Story >>
The 2015 Summer Invitational: Pimp Your Sketchbooks, continues with Katherine Streeter, who lives and works in New York City. I keep many sketchbooks that are always in various stages of completion. Some of them are filled from first page to last, in that order, while others are a timeline zig-zag, with random pages chosen without sequence. I feel compelled to use collage, even when using … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Sunday, May 29 Boogie on the Boulevard, noon-4 pm. The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY. Info Talk / Discussion / Screenings / And Beyond Tuesday, May 24 Seymour Chwast in conversation with Steve Heller, 6 pm. The Cooper Union, The Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square, NY, NY. Info Lydia Panas, 7 pm. SVA MPS Digital Photography, 136 West 21st Street, Room 418F, … Read the full Story >>
Provincetown is my home. It is comfort food and my favorite reading chair. It is the smell of a newborn’s hair or that moment when you first wake up in the morning snuggled against your lover. It is the place that offers me the intangibles: security and happiness, as well as a place for discovery, development, and ultimately a source of inspiration. I have spent … Read the full Story >>
Just Opened: Innovation Triangle at Tasteelab Building, Harlem The first arts installation at Innovation Triangle features an enormous fiber rope installation by Tomo Mori @tomomoriart [above] together with works by Rafaela Luna @rafaelalunarl, Paul Deo @planetdeo, and SO HARLEM @soharleminc Activation of the Innovation Triangle, within Manhattanville’s old Factory District, fulfills West Harlem Art Association’s @whaanyc vision to facilitate and develop collaborations through … Read the full Story >>
During the Covid 19 pandemic I was furloughed from the Walt Disney Company as a Disney Imagineer. It was a terrible feeling after I had worked for the company for over 14 years. At the time everybody was optimistic that the furlough would soon end and we’d all be brought back to work! That didn’t happen. After working so hard to become a … Read the full Story >>
Journalism in this age of conflict continues to be biased towards a western and white point of view when, in fact, most of the current conflicts and unrest occur in regions that are non-western and non-white. Even the terminology for these places has evolved along lines that have little to do with realities. For example, Mao Zedong’s term “the Third World,” coined when he … Read the full Story >>
As a young photographer juggling artistic work with commercial assignments, John Goodman always had color slide film loaded in a camera. Beginning in the 1970s and through the late 1980s, he photographed on the streets of Boston, finding fleeting moments of connection at diners, shops and gas stations. He printed a few images, but packed most of his slides in a cabinet and only … Read the full Story >>
AS LONG AS MANY OF THEM CAN REMEMBER, TOP CREATIVE DIRECTORS have reached for American Illustration for inspiration, when assigning the top artists for important commissions, and sometimes just to treat themselves to a little eye candy. To commemorate AI's 25th anniversary, 25 of today's top artists were commissioned by Mark Heflin, Director, to create a new work to represent one year from the … Read the full Story >>
CREATIVE PEOPLE WHO REGULARLY work with top illustrators have long been vocal fans of American Illustration. Today's issue of DART features three top illustrators who also teach illustration in New York. And here are a few comments about AI that were overheard in the lunchroom: "AI is one of my most effective teaching tools. It presents the most defiant, experimental, raw, unbiased, cutting-edge art, … Read the full Story >>
Text Out of Context, an exhibition that recently ran at Marymount Manhattan College in celebration of the art of the book, also heralds the return of Maddy Rosenberg’s Central Booking to the gallery scene. Central Booking, formerly located at 111 Front Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn, has continued in a nomadic fashion since the gallery closed last year. When I reached Ms. Rosenberg by … Read the full Story >>
If you’ve been inspired by recent exhibitions of works on paper [drawings, that is] and want to get your hand into making art for art’s sake, or if you're looking for a drawing workout apart from your regular studio practice, there are many uninstructed, drop-in figure drawing groups to choose from. Here’s a starter list for New York City. Society of Illustrators currently offers … Read the full Story >>
Frank Webster paints landscapes, from delicate, page-size watercolors to works on canvas that span close to ten feet in width. Above: Monacobreen IV, acrylic on canvas, 2024. He seems equally at home painting on a Zodiac in the frozen North—and in the even more frozen South, as he is working the finishing touches In his studio. Based on what he brings in to … Read the full Story >>
If you’ve been wondering how long it would take for Google to insert arte favela into its home page, your question was answered today. Luckily, The Independent is covering this global placement—otherwise the artist’s name—Matt Cruickshank—would remain in the dark. The animated image shows the green ‘l’ in Google kicking a football against a stationary ‘e’ in the middle of the country’s … Read the full Story >>
Antonio De Luca, who heads a communication design studio in Berlin, has masterminded an art show that brings affordable art to the public and benefits a worthy cause. The 100 $how, which opens tonight at Wieden + Kennedy, Portland, will feature 100 Illustrators, with more than 100 works to be exhibited and for sale for 100 $. The original art can be purchased directly … Read the full Story >>
If you missed the 2013 NY Art Book Fair, here are a few views from the halls. Row 1: Bruno Ceschel of Self Publish Be Happy; in the front row on his table are copies of A Dalston Anatomy, a new release by Lorenzo Vitturi. Subtitled One Pound Have a Look Yam Yam, this is a photobook of still lifes Vitturi created from objects found in the Ridley Road Market, London, … Read the full Story >>
