When Daniel Peacock's announcement for his upcoming exhibition, Sweet Spot, arrived, I thought, "this looks like summer fun." Sweet Spot (the announcement reads): Noun, origin unknown. 1. a place of dizzying delights, whimsical wonders, and unexpected revelations. One canvas at a time (the announcement continues), Daniel Peacock creates a universe founded solely on the logic of visual delight. His paintings surprise, amuse, occasionally … Read the full Story >>
It’s a well-known fact in real estate that when artists make art in low-rent neighborhoods, the area changes dramatically—for the good. Less well known are the real estate developers who exhibit art in their lobby spaces—for the good of their employees and the area. Time Equities, Inc. has been a leader in presenting major art installations by emerging and mid-career in their buildings for … Read the full Story >>
There’s still time to enter Latin American Fotografía TR3S and Latin American Ilustración TR3S: The deadline is Monday, June 16, Midnight EST. Information. The winning Latin American Fotografía and Ilustración TR3S collection will be included in the following:• Presented at AI-AP's BIG TALK Symposium in New York City, November 5, 2014• Exhibited at The Party in New York City, November 6, celebrating the launch of American Photography 30 and American Illustration … Read the full Story >>
Today Apple turns 40—a moment to celebrate the tech and design innovations launched by Steve Jobs and his team that have changed the way we work and live. Apple invented key concepts that we now take for granted, even if some of the acronyms are part of history: user-friendly; discoverability; UGI; WSYWYG; OS. But few who are aware of the “1984” hammer throw commercial … Read the full Story >>
June 25, 28, 29 Summer Art Book Pop-Up Shop. Petzel Editions, including recent volumes on Asger Jorn, Nicola Tyson, Seth Price, Walead Beshty, Sean Landers, and more. Petzel, 456 West 18th Street, NY, NY. Saturday, June 25, 8 pm; Sunday, June 26, 6 & 8 pm The Nouveau Classical Project presents Mysterium Novum,an immersive art installation and concert experience inspired by synesthesia, a neurological phenomenon where stimulation of one sense involuntarily triggers another. Mysterium Novum is … 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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 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 >>
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 >>
