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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
May 26-July 2: What Now | 2026 Across Philadelphia Opening this week, ArtPhilly "What Now: 2026" is a five-week citywide festival that bypasses colonial nostalgia to pose an urgent civic riddle: A lot has changed since 1776, so... what now? What follows is not white cube retrospective, but a vibrant, democratic display of a city wrestling with its own layers of history, identity, and erasure. … 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 >>
