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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
In conjunction with the Affordable Art Fair, opening Thursday at the Metropolitan Pavilion, the School of Visual Arts is hosting a panel on starting a contemporary art collection. DART caught up Tom Delavan, Editor-at-Large of Domino magazine and one of the panelists, to get his advice first-hand. Peggy Roalf: Let's say a new collector comes into some money and has $10,000 to start an … Read the full Story >>
The annual exhibition of work created for the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program at School of Visual Arts celebrates the work of 19 students with an opening reception tonight. David Sandlin, the curator of this year's installment, gave me a tour of the show last week during the installation. As curator, David explained, his role began early in the year, as he … Read the full Story >>
Each year, the Autumn season launches an avalanche of new illustrated books of every imaginable kind, from those printed in the hundreds of thousands (Ken Burns' The War, 525,000, for example) to limited editions of a dozen or so (Penthesilea, see below), and self-published books printed on demand. This year is no exception. September ends with the New York Art Book … Read the full Story >>
In June of 2011, photographer Takahiro Kaneyama traveled to the Iwate prefecture on the northeast coast of Japan, the area struck by a magnitude 9.0 earthquakein March 2011, for a New York Times Magazine photo assignment. Distressed by the tragic destruction he saw, Kaneyama extended his trip to visit his great uncle further North but also to stop at Mt. Osore, one Japan's holiest places. Read more. Exhibition opening Thursday … Read the full Story >>
Creative Time, the public arts organization that brought Doug Aitken's Sleepwalkers to MoMA this winter, celebrates its 33rd Anniversary all month long. Events featuring an international cast of artists, musicians, and performers will continue around the boroughs, and the organization will also move into its new headquarters in the East Fourth Street Cultural District. On Saturday night from 4:00 to 7:00 pm … Read the full Story >>
In his Introduction to the catalogue that accompanies Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed, currently on view at the Met Breuer, Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgård wrote, If you have ever stood in a room in front of a painting by Munch, or Van Gogh or Rembrandt for that matter, you will know that part of the painting’s magic is that … Read the full Story >>
CORRECTION: Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Adam Bartos. Gitterman Gallery, 170 East 75th Street, NY, NY. is tonight, Wednesday, February 29th, not Thursday. Left: Mumbai, India; right: Victoria Station, Mumbai, India, both from the series “Metropolis”, by Martin Roemers.umbai, India from the series “Metropolis”, 2007. Wednesday, February 29 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Adam Bartos. Gitterman Gallery, 170 East 75th Street, NY, NY. … Read the full Story >>
Lynda Barry, known and loved for her zany irreverence and imagination, brought the graphic literature genre onto new terrain with her invention, the graphic memoir. In its first iteration, Picture This: The Nearsighted Monkey Book (Drawn & Quarterly 2010), she brought back Marlys and Arna, characters from her previous book, What It Is, and introduced the Near-Sighted Monkey, a cigarette-smoking alter ego from … Read the full Story >>
Is there an artist/designer/illustrator out there who hasn’t succumbed to a gnawing sense of inadequacy when trying—very hard—to understand color theory as it’s generally taught in art schools? What ever happened to the delight we took as children when cracking open a fresh box of 64 Crayolas? Often given for an important holiday or a birthday celebration, the colors represented far more than the … Read the full Story >>
To have something that’s beautiful somehow gives me a feeling that approaches immortality. It’s very similar to the act of creating. So Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) is quoted saying for a magazine article in 1978. By that time, the artist had established himself as a photographer, having had his first solo show, at New York’s Light Gallery in 1973. His work was shown at Documenta 6/Kassel in … Read the full Story >>
I always look forward to AIGA’s annual 50 Books/50 Covers show because it presents many publications that I would otherwise not have a chance to see. In addition to book jackets designed to make a novel leap off the shelf and into your hands, cookbooks that would make your mouth water, and art publications that open new worlds, there are corporate and institutional pieces … Read the full Story >>
T: The New York Times Style Magazine celebrated its tenth anniversary with these cover lines: Voice / Passion / Taste / Identity / Style / Creativity / Influence. The magazine was launched in August 2004. It is published 15 times a year and distributed within the Sunday edition of the New York Times newspaper. Stefano Tonchi was editor until 2010; his replacement was Sally Singer. Singer left … Read the full Story >>
Andrzej Maciejewski is a photographer living in rural Ontario, who teaches at nearby Fleming College, Haliburton School of Arts. He recently photographed places across Ontario that take their names from illustrious European capitals. After seeing some of the images from his series, Lisbon-Moscow, on Facebook, I contacted Andrzej about the project; this is what he wrote: I emigrated to Canada from Poland as a … Read the full Story >>
