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David Schonauer Friday March 28, 2025
Nona Faustine, a photographer whose self-portraits explored conditions afflicting Black women across time, died New York on March 20, at age 48. Faustine frequently photographed herself in ways that
considered how her body acted as a record of histories of exploitation and empowerment, noted Art News. "Grounded in extensive research, Faustine's photography often explored complex concepts of
legacy, representation, trauma, and identity as they … Read the full Story >>
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Robert Newman Thursday September 10, 2015
Lehel Kovacs is an illustrator based in Budapest, Hungary whose work has appeared in a wide range of newspapers and magazines. He creates smart, artful drawings that at times resemble silkscreen
prints, with supple lines and rich, flat colors. Kovacs's work is simple and direct, but he utilizes a very sophisticated approach to visual storytelling. In addition to editorial illustration, Kovacs
has illustrated an … Read the full Story >>
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Gail Mooney Saturday April 12, 2014
What were the big trends coming out of this year's National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas? Motion Arts Pro asked filmmaker and photographer Gail Mooney to keep an eye out while she
attended the giant expo of video and photographic gear, which took place last week. Mooney, whose book "The Craft and Commerce of Video and Motion" offers tips for photographers transitioning … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 3, 2023
Wednesday, May 3: Harold Ancart | Paintings at Gagosian
In this new group of paintings, Harold Ancart employs an arboreal motif to explore nuances of color, shape and texture. Having previously depicted other elemental forms such as clouds, fires, icebergs—even matchsticks—the Belgian-born artist has stated that outward subject matter serves primarily as an “alibi” for painterly experimentation. In the atmospheric canvases currently on view, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday November 7, 2018
Since his death in 1987, at age 58, Andy Warhol’s work has probably been seen in more exhibitions than any other artist. But it’s been 30 years since the seminal MoMA
retrospective—and in the ensuing years Warhol’s predictions about art, culture, and life have been largely realized. Today anyone with a smartphone celebrates themselves through selfies
distributed via online platforms. The artist as a … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 19, 2022
Hugh Hayden’s Brier Patch is now on view in Madison Square Park. Presented across four separate lawns in the park, Brier Patch will feature a total of one-hundred wooden elementary school-style desks that erupt with tree branches, cohering into tangled assemblies with complex and layered meanings. The accumulations of desks summon the grid arrangement of classroom seating. Referencing folklore traditions around the world, the … Read the full Story >>
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Fernanda Cohen Wednesday May 14, 2014
From children's books, to erotic drawings and political propaganda posters, at 82 the Alsatian/French illustrator Tomi Ungerer is still restless, curious and eternally self-taught, with an
insatiable thirst to learn and produce as much as possible as long as his hands and mind allow him. Tomi grew up in Alsace, where he experienced the Nazi occupation of World War II. He
remembers that since … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday June 24, 2021
The American Institute of Graphic Arts [AIGA] places book design high on its list of legacy commitments. In fact, its very first design competition, launched in 1923, was Fifty Books of the Year. In 1995, it became 50 Books | 50 Covers, in recognition of the many illustrated books flowing into the market.
This year’s competition netted 696 entries from 36 countries; the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday May 19, 2015
Art Fairs / Special Events Wednesday, May 20-Saturday, May 23
Art 15 London. Olympia Grand Hall, Hammersmith Road, Kensington, London. Information. Thursday, May 21-Sunday, May 24 Photo London. Somerset House, London. Information. Preview day: May 20. Information. Programs. Friday, May 22-Sunday, May
24 Offprint London. Tate Modern, Bankside, London. Information. Saturday, May 23-Sunday, May 24 The London Photograph Fair. Two … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday May 30, 2019
Peggy Roalf: Which
came first, the type or the grid? Chris Harper: This is a difficult question for me to answer, having worked as both a designer and Illustrator. It depends upon the intent or context of the
work being made, whether it is design focused or illustratively focused. As both type selection and grid structure are part of the visual semantics of any … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday February 17, 2017
This was a week of winners and losers. Among the winners was Associated Press photographer Burhan Ozbilici, whose dramatic photograph of the assassination of Russia's ambassador to Turkey in December
was named the Photo of the Year in the 2017 World Press Photo contest. Meanwhile, Los Angeles Times photographer Marcus Yam won 2016 Newspaper Photographer of the Year prize at the 74th Pictures of … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday December 15, 2015
"I come from a place where I have never wanted to be helpless in any situation," says photojournalist Yunghi Kim. "When I put my mind to something, I go full force. And I don't give up." Kim has used
that determination throughout her career while covering important international stories. More recently, she has become a vocal advocate for photographers' rights and is now donating … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday October 18, 2016
In interviews, LA-based celebrity photographer Robert Trachtenberg has called his new book "Red Blooded American Male" a "spiritual guide, a lifestyle guide, a DIY guide" for today's man. "I was being
completely tongue in cheek," he says. Nonetheless, as he went about selecting images for the book he found an unexpected message in his pictures. "The idea of challenging or playing with conventional
notions … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday January 19, 2016
In the spring of 1970, when Ken Light went off to photograph the rioting at Ohio State University that followed the US invasion of Cambodia, all he had with him was a Pentax K1000 SLR, a 50mm lens,
some rolls of Kodak Tri-X film, a light meter and a gas mask. Light came of age during one of the most tumultuous eras in American … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday January 17, 2019
Several years ago, Riccardo Vecchio, whose studio practice combines multiple disciplines, from illustration and painting to sculpture and photography, began a series of paintings on location in the mountains near his family home east of Milan. A selection of these works were first shown at the Institute of Fine Arts in 2016. Photos above and below: courtesy Riccardo Vecchio Studio
The sites Riccardo visited … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday April 16, 2020
Peggy Roalf: When did you get the idea that art and design would be your
life’s work? Lucy Jones: I’ve been interested in art and design from a young age; it's always felt like the natural path for me to follow. When I left university I worked
as a technician in a college in the print department. It was great to have unlimited access to … Read the full Story >>
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Jeff Wignall Thursday September 22, 2016
Photographer Anne Day talks about the new Olympus Pen-F camera, the new M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm f4.0 PRO and the joys of summer with writer Jeff Wignall. Listen. Can you hear the hissing of summer
lawns? Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday August 6, 2021
The headline and deck in the New York Times online article reads, “Hands Off the Library’s Picture Collection: Cornell, Spiegelman and Warhol browsed the famous collection of images in the New York Public Library. Now a century of serendipitous discovery will come to an end if the collection is closed off to the public.” Above:Jessica Cline, the current head of the Picture Collection; photo: … Read the full Story >>
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Robert Newman Thursday January 28, 2016
Eleanor Davis is an illustrator, artist, and comics creator who lives and works in Athens, Georgia. She makes vibrant, graphic illustrations and very original and brilliantly artful comics. Davis has
published one short comics book and several graphic novels for children. She also illustrated the memorable poster for this year's ICON9 conference. Although Davis switched from full-time cartooning
to illustrating several years ago, she … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday February 1, 2018
Andreas Gursky holds an important spot in photo history: In the 1990s, the German photographer helped put photography at the heart of the contemporary-art map, noted the UK's Sunday Times recently.
Now, with a big retrospective opening at London's newly reopened Hayward Gallery, Gurksy is making news again. This week we spotlighted an intriguing interview with Gurksy in The Guardian, in which he
talked … Read the full Story >>
