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 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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
The “official story”: Frank Horvat was born in 1928 in what was then Italy and is now Croatia. He studied art in Milan and a meeting in 1951 with Henri Cartier-Bresson decided his fate as a photojournalist. He traveled the world in the early 50's and sent his work back to Paris Match, Life and Realities among other magazines. In 1956 he settled in … Read the full Story >>
On Monday the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced it will commit an unprecedented $250 million to overhaul historical monuments in the US over the next five years. The “Monuments Project,” as the ambitious initiative is called, is the most substantial effort in the foundation’s history. Above: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. Unveiled in April 2020 and funded in part by the … Read the full Story >>
Special Events November 30-December 4 | Miami Art Week In addition to Art Basel Miami Beach, NADA Art Fair Miami Beach, Pulse Miami Beach, Scope Miami Beach, Aqua Art Miami, Untitled Art Fair, Satellite, Fridge Art Fair, and X Contemporary, more satellite fairs have sprung up on the mainland. Info Books / talks / Screenings … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Saturday, January 21 Women’s March on Washington and sister marches coast to coast. Info Info January 19-22 Outsider Art Fair. Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, NY, NY Info January 21-22 Classic Photographs Los Angeles. Bonham’s, 7601 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA Info Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, January 17 UPRISE: Angry Women Show, 6-9 pm. … Read the full Story >>
Edward Weston (1886/Chicago-1958/Carmel), brought photography out of the Victorian age and revolutionized the form by making it modernist in every sense of the word. A humble man who was devoted to his sons Brett and Cole, Weston’s approach to photographing elemental landscapes, nudes and still lifes was, in his words, “to make the commonplace unusual.” When he turned his camera on an ordinary green … Read the full Story >>
In Aperture magazine #199, from 2010, I interviewed Richard Learoyd about his life-size portraits made with a room-size camera obscura, on the occasion of his first U.S. solo exhibition, at McKee Gallery. This fall, Aperture released Day For Night, a deluxe monograph of Learoyd’s photographs, to coincide with a solo exhibition of the artist’s work at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Tonight, he gives a talk at Aperture … Read the full Story >>
This post was to have been an announcement about the reinstallation of the Noguchi Garden Museum’s second floor to its configuration when the artist lived there, from 1961 to 1988. When looking around for some additional information, however, I came across an intriguing statement by independent curator Glenn Adamson, writing for Hyperallergic: “The Noguchi Museum, in Long Island City, may … Read the full Story >>
