The continuing deep freeze here in NYC offers another chance to revisit another great library. Stay tuned for new issues in this department! Here we visit designer and artist Paul Buckley, former Senior VP/Executive Creative Director at Penguin Random House and a longtime AI-AP contributor. Peggy Roalf: When did you realize that your career was meant to be in the world of books? paul buckley: … Read the full Story >>
One of the cultural highlights of Clermont- l'Hérault, in Languedoc, France, is La Vache qui Lit—a secondhand bookstore operated by Eric Simard. Specializing in BD—bande dessinée, or comics—Simard named the shop after the Laughing Cow character invented for the cheese brand "La Vache qui Rit", in 1924, by Benjamin Rabier. On a visit to the store earlier this month, Eric showed me copy of … Read the full Story >>
The landscape remains an alluring subject for photographers - and the approaches that emerge are as diverse as the natural and human history they encounter along the way. This month, Jem Southam presents a new series at Robert Mann Gallery in New York while simultaneously opening a reprise of his acclaimed Upton Pyne project at the Davis Museum in Wellesley, MA. Human encroachment on … Read the full Story >>
Live hard. Die young. Leave enough lurid evidence for novelistic retellings of a life cut short at age 28 by the influenza pandemic that swept Europe at the close of WWI. Le Bohème, in this case, is Egon Schiele [1890–1918]. Best known for his emaciated, erotic nudes and self-portraits, he is now the subject of an exhibition of the landscape paintings made throughout his … Read the full Story >>
In a flurry of emails about climate change and the abysmal tone of the presidential campaign, Peter Kuper sent over some drawings from his archive about the malevolent effect Trump was exercising on Our Fair City--back in 1989! So as you can imagine he's still at it, and when begged, sent over some recent ones as well. In the spirit of Art Beyond Reason, Peter … Read the full Story >>
The School of Visual Arts presents Russia Rising: Votes for Freedom / 30 Artists and Designers Challenge the 2011 and 2012 Russian Elections, an exhibition responding to recent political turmoil in Russia through the language of the poster. The original posters were created in support of the popular Russian movement for democracy that emerged at the third-term election of President Vladimir Putin. The … Read the full Story >>
There has probably never been a better time to envision peace through the understanding of different cultures and belief systems. This Saturday, the Rubin Museum of Art offers that opportunity to children ages five through nine, along with their adult companions. After a tour of the exhibition, The Missing Peace: Artists and the Dalai Lama, there will be art conversations and sketching, followed by … Read the full Story >>
Call for Entries Deadline: June 10, 20142015 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Fashion is accepting applications from foreign-born fashion professionals age 38 and under. Eligible applicants include fashion designers, stylists, hair/makeup artists, writers, curators, photographers, filmmakers and illustrators. Three winners will be awarded a $50,000 cash prize. Categories include illustration and photography as well as fashion design. Information. Call for Entries Deadline extended: … Read the full Story >>
In just two days, the creative communities gather together to honor the year’s AI-AP winners. Come with your friends to mix, mingle, look, hang out, connect and to reinvigorate your artistic heart, mind and soul at Angel Orensanz Foundation. Online registration is closed, but walk ins are welcome as capacity allows. Please register at the door. The Party includes drinks and snacks along … Read the full Story >>
The Second Avenue Subway has been a dream for New Yorkers since it was first proposed in 1929. It would run from 125th Street south to the financial district and cost $86 million. Then came the Great Depression. Then World War II. Then existing subways needed repairs. In the early ’70s, short sections of the Second Avenue tunnel were burrowed at the foot of the Manhattan … Read the full Story >>
Fashion week explodes on the New York scene next week, on September 10th to be exact. To celebrate the occasion, and to show that art can be repurposed in a fashionable way, Target is putting up a set of nine vinyl billboard ads designed by four notable New York artists: Laurie Rosenwald, Michael Anderson, Josh Goldstein and Charles Wilkin. The billboards will be unveiled … Read the full Story >>
Armory Week Art Fairs The Armory Show, March 8-11. Piers 92 and 94, Hudson River, NY. Info NADA/the New Art Dealers Alliance, March 8-11 100 exhibitors at Skylight Clarkson Square, 550 Washington Street, NY, NY Info Independent New York, March 9–11 57 exhibitors, Spring Studios, 50 Varick Street, NY, NY Info Volta NY, March 8–11 85 international galleries at Pier 90, … Read the full Story >>
While bloggers and tech writers all over are speculating about what will be the killer app for Apple's iPad, going on sale this Saturday, artists all over are still happy with the silent killer app for iPhone: Brushes. The easy-to-use program is useful for quick sketches on the run, but the artist who first took it seriously - Jorge Colombo - has … Read the full Story >>
The day before the opening of a show of new drawings at the Riviera Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, Christopher Silas Neal and Ted McGrath sat down to discuss their work over coffee, and Ted's recently purchased platter, Invisible Touch, by Genesis. Ted McGrath: So yeah, we're having an art show...how's that working out for you? Christopher Silas Neal: Yeah...it's working out well. I … Read the full Story >>
Francesca Woodman, a photographer unknown before her death by suicide at age 22, became unusually influential for her approach to camera work as fictional art. An exhibition currently on view at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presents over 100 vintage prints, along with rarely seen artist books and video that cast a broader perspective on an artist whose creativity has often been overshadowed … Read the full Story >>
Above: Joni Sternbach, Hawaiian Ed #6 (08.08.04) Ditch Plains, Montauk, NY, 2008 From Surfland, Revisited, 2006-2011, extended through August 10. Rick Wester Fine Art, 511 West 25th Street, NY, NY. Closing Friday, July 6: Richard Avedon | Murals and Portraits. Gagosian Gallery, 522 West 21st Street, NY, NY. Continuing through October 1: Alighiero Boetti | Game Plan. Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, … Read the full Story >>
Hong Kong-based photographer Michael Wolf, widely known for his Architecture of Density series, has recently photographed artists who churn out copied art so well done it can fool the experts. His Copy Art series, which reflects China's new economy and the trend of mass production all up and down the food chain, goes on view at the Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco … Read the full Story >>
This fall, SVA will honor author, graphic designer and illustrator Christoph Niemann with its 29th Masters Series award and exhibition. Established in 1988 by SVA founder Silas H. Rhodes as a way to honor the great visual communicators of our time, the Masters Series brings greater exposure to those whose influence has been felt strongly and by many, but whose names often go … Read the full Story >>
Artist's books take countless forms, their expressive qualities as limitless as the materials that can be considered for use. As to size and shape, artist's books are limited only by the size and shape of the room in which they are to be viewed. The annual exhibition of works by Cooper Union's Art of the Book students opened last night in the 2nd floor … Read the full Story >>
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described….I photograph to find out what the world looks like photographed.—Garry Winogrand Often placed within the “social landscape school,” Garry Winogrand’s photographs turned ideas about documentary photography literally on edge when his work appeared in exhibitions during the 1960s. Self-taught, with Walker Evans’ book American Photographs as his sole reference to the history of the medium, Winogrand operated through a … Read the full Story >>
