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 >>
Currently on view at The Ukrainian Museum, one of NYCs almost hidden treasures, is Finding Sanctuary During the Pandemic, an installation by Christina Saj. In the catalog for the exhibition she writes, “At the beginning of the quarantine, glued to news outlets, barraged by images of the virus, feeling vulnerable and confused and stuck at home, as an artist my response was to … Read the full Story >>
Editor’s note: With ICON9 The Illustration Conference on the horizon—four days of art, discussion, performance, and plenty of talk in Austin, TX—the current roster for the Q&A is peopled with many of the exceptional artists making presentations during this biannual artfest. Alex Mathers will be on the ICON9 Mainstage Saturday, July 9, at 9 am. Info Q: What are some of your favorite things about living and working … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, April 9-Sunday, April 12: The IFPDA Print Fair at Park Avenue Armory The “gold standard for fine art print collecting” (ARTnews, April 7, 2025), the IFPDA Print Fair is an annual pilgrimage site for print curators and collectors. This spring, the fair returns to the Park Avenue Armory from April 9 to 12 with 80 exhibitors and an expanded focus on drawings alongside … Read the full Story >>
The DART Summer Invitational, Pimp Your Sketchbook, continues with Brooklyn-based artist Dean Monogenis, who is currently on the road with his sketchbook, in Greece. Traveling with a sketchbook is essential. I have found that what I can accomplish with a camera will take me only so far. In terms of compiling source material for my studio art, it is important to have a … Read the full Story >>
W.M. Hunt, art dealer, educator, and collector extraordinaire, began his own photography collection almost 40 years ago as an antidote to depression. In a going-out-of-business sale, he found what he describes as "a girlie Madonna-like figurine, and it probably was not even a silver print." He paid $40 dollars (which he didn’t have to spare) and took it home, where "she would come out … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the pen or the brush? Kathleen Marcotte: I’d have to say the pen. While I tend to think in shapes rather than lines, I usually have to draw everything out first. It was a real turning point in finding my style as an illustrator when I started printmaking. It influences my work whether I’m working traditionally or digitally. PR: … Read the full Story >>
Editor's note: Seth Greenwald's essay accompanies the exhibition Identity Identities, opening tonight at Aperture Gallery. "Who are you?" said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, "I, I hardly know, sir, just at present...at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several … Read the full Story >>
IF POP SURREALISM AND LOW-BROW ARTISTS SHARE A SINGLE TRAIT, it might be a talent for shaking things up. Tim Biskup, whose solo exhibition, Ether, opens Saturday night at Billy Shire Fine Arts, is one who seems to be in constant motion. He moves between mediums, motifs and motives with acrobatic ease. Known for cheerful, non-figurative abstractions in a mid-century modernista … Read the full Story >>
Artist Katrin Korfmann grew up in Berlin, but has lived and worked in Amsterdam since beginning her studies at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 1995. Her work in photography reveals a new perspective on social dynamics, presenting an abstraction of human interaction framed by the grid of everyday life. This week, Kopeikin Gallery of Los Angeles is presenting her newest work, Back Stages, at Volta/New … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Your ink/wash drawings are so expressive. Where did you first notice this medium and when did you take it up yourself? Paul Alex: I’ve been drawing with Chinese brushes and ink wash for about three years now; before that I mostly used technical pens. I can’t recall specifically where I first noticed the technique although I have been a life-long admirer of … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Los Angeles, what are some of your favorite things about living and working there? A: I was born in Los Angeles and have lived here all my life. I like everything about L.A., its short weird history, its architecture, the influence of movies on its culture, the freeways, the odd neighborhoods and the way everything is always changing. Some people move here and … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, December 5 Emmet Gowin | Mariposos Nocturnas, book signing, 6-8 pm. Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, NY, NY Info IDS Lecture Series presents Burak Ariakan: Data Asymmetries, 7 pm. The Frederick P. Rose Auditorium at Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square at 7th Street, NY, NY Info 24:7 | ZAZ 10 TS Video Billboard. 10 … Read the full Story >>
Labor Day is so late this year that this summer wind-up could begin and end in different seasons. So I was thrilled to see that the Upstate Art Weekend is on once again this year. Organized by Helen Toomer of Stoneleaf Retreat (above), the three-day event, which runs from August 27th to 29th, brings together dozens of art and cultural spaces, outdoors and indoors, for … Read the full Story >>
One hundred years ago in Zürich, a group of artists turned a former dairy into a club they named Cabaret Voltaire, and called for revolutionary actions that would dissolve the boundaries separating life from art. The group included Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp, Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Marcel Janco, Sophie Taeuber and Richard Huelsenbeck. "Dada," as they named the movement, was the new normal—hypermodern, international, provacative, inventive. It became code for a … Read the full Story >>
Described as an object-based quarterly publication by its creators, THE THING seems to have caught on. The affordable art by subscription, now in its third installment with a work by the German-born artist Koto Ezawa, is the brainchild of Bay Area artists Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan. The two came up with the idea while they were grad students at UC Berkeley. Interested in … Read the full Story >>
Cold weather has finally arrived, just in time for an opening reception sure to warm things up. The Center for Photography at Woodstock launches its winter shows with a champagne and chocolate reception on Saturday, January 20, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. Kiss & Tell presents work by eight artists from the US and abroad who explore intimacy through photography. The title, inspired by … Read the full Story >>
