Textile design, weaving methods and hand embroidery have recently informed contemporary visual arts in a big way as painters become textile muralists and sculptors weave discarded soda cans into room-size installations. Pieced work, as in patchwork quilts, is another form that artists are embracing to create large, colorful installations in which sewing machines and fusible mesh supplant paints and brushes as tools. And as … Read the full Story >>
Artist Kevin Cooley has recently engineered his largest installation to date, filling a new residential building alongside the High Line Park with TVs that receive a live transmission of the evening's line-up of programs his father watches, at his home in Niwot, Colorado. In Remote Nation, as the installation is titled, he writes, “the inhabitants of an entire high-rise apartment building appear to … Read the full Story >>
Field Condition, a fascinating website that documents the architectural evolution of New York City, silently burst on the scene in September 2013. With a singular vision and consistent photographic style, the anonymous author and photographer offer(s) a mesmerizing view of urbanism at the top of the scale. Starchitects, including Herzog and de Meuron; Santiago Calatrava; Stephen Holl; Robert Stern; SHoP; FXFowle; and the like, form the list … Read the full Story >>
For the last official week of summer, DART looks at the extraordinary Modernist villa, E 1027, perched on a rocky promontory in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, near Saint-Tropez, France. Built in 1929 by the now-legendary designer/architect Eileen Gray as a love nest for herself and the Romanian architect and critic Jean Badovici, the house has become something of an icon for Modernist design and preservation; in design … Read the full Story >>
Molière, born Jean Baptiste Poquelin (1622-1673), was inspired by modern life, particularly the huge disparities between the noble and peasant classes. He invented a form of satirical comedy known as farce to avenge the greed and stupidity of the court and its courtiers. Before he became well known in Paris, Molière and his stage company toured the provinces for 13 years, later settling in the city … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: I understand that you were trained as a graphic designer; what kind of work were you doing when you began making these tiny sculptures from scraps—and how did the personal work influence your design work? Lydia Ricci: I was doing a lot of packaging and branding work at the time when I made my first sculpture: The Dodge (green Dodge Dart, below). … Read the full Story >>
At this time of year many students, new graduates planning a gap year, and art faculty members are organizing for a summer residency program. And every spring, some of the most fascinating programs reveal themselves among the hundreds of announcements that land in my inbox. The Urban Incubator: Belgrade [UIB] is my choice for a program to follow on a regular basis this summer. … Read the full Story >>
British photographer Martin Parr offers sound advice for documenting family vacations: "On holiday, photograph the daytrips and good times, but make sure you document when everything isn't going to plan as well." Above: Italy, Lake Garda, 1999. © Martin Parr In an article for the Guardian, he went through the canon, covering all of the W’s. For example: “Don't be scared of photographing a … Read the full Story >>
The Frieze New York Art Fair, in its New York debut, proved to be a first in several ways. Located on Randall’s Island and accessible only by a dedicated East River Ferry or shuttle busses from the #4/5/8 lines at 125th Street, it turned out to be easier and more fun to get to than the Armory Show on the West Side. According to The … Read the full Story >>
If ever there was a design polymath, it's Paul Sahre. Designer, illustrator, photographer, and inventor, his process and practice consistently taking the road not taken. For a recent assignment to create the packaging for a new release by rock stars They Might Be Giants, he has topped himself, creating a life-size "truck hearse" out of paper and cardboard (below left), and … Read the full Story >>
Leif Parsons is an artist whose illustrations appear in major publications coast to coast, from the New York Times to the L.A. Times, where he produces a monthly art column. On receiving an announcement about a solo show of his personal art opening this Friday at the Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, and a group show opening on Saturday at the Buffalo Arts Studio, I … Read the full Story >>
This just in from Brian Palmer: Like several hundred others, I spent the early hours last Friday morning at the Occupy Wall Street protest just a couple of blocks north of Wall Street, at Zuccotti Park. I saw clusters of grungy, crunchy kids lounging and talking, several long-haired and funky lefties closer to my age holding forth, giddy tourists angling for photos, plus thousands … Read the full Story >>
Doug Fogelson, a Chicago-based photographer and founder of Front Forty Press, takes a utopian approach to art making: collaboration. Extending the ethos to this week's installment of Fine Print: Alternative Media at P.S. 1, he will bring colleagues Dan De Los Monteros and David Castillo to the party. Many FFP artists and writers will also be on hand to give readings, and Yuri … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from [where?] what are some of your favorite things about living and working in [your current locale]? A: I grew up in New Jersey. My parents did the very common Brooklyn to Staten Island to New Jersey migration. They had one kid in each place, and I was born when we lived in Staten Island. It all feels like one continuous outer-borough/suburban … Read the full Story >>
The fifteenth installment of Paris Photo takes over the magnificent belle époque Grand Palais, bringing together 118 international galleries and shining a spotlight on sub-Saharan African photography, from November 10th to 13th. See a slideshow of selected images on exhibit here. This year, Paris Photo celebrates the photo book, with a new space dedicated to international publishers and specialist booksellers, and the launch … Read the full Story >>
While serendipitous online research can sometimes seem like a tool of procrastination, it often leads to thought-provoking visual treats. A good example is a publication designed by the Modernist designer, Will Burton, while he was serving in Army during WWII, in the presentation branch of the OSS. During that time he created the infographics on position firing in a gunnery training manual for the US Air Force. Burtin was … Read the full Story >>
“Today's verdict is the long overdue vindication of what I have said from the beginning four years ago: a young talented artist named Pete Edward Doige painted this work, I did not,” said Scottish-born painter Doig in a statement read in the Federal District Court for Northern Illinois, July 23, 2016. “That the plaintiffs in this case have shamelessly tried to deny another artist his legacy for money … Read the full Story >>
Photography buffs crowded into the massive Park Avenue Armory this weekend for AIPAD, The Association of International Photography Art Dealers’ 33rd presentation of one of New York’s biggest photo events. If you wanted to catch up with people from all over that you only see a few times a year, all you had to do was hang out near the entrance to the hall for … Read the full Story >>
This week’s art-by-cycle tour took me to the annual juried crafts fair known as Makers Market. On a perfect day for cycling – hazy sun with high overcast skies and a cool summer breeze, my friend and I went first to Astoria for a tasty Cypriot lunch at Aliada’s shady streetside cafe on Broadway and 30th Street. Then on to Socrates Sculpture Park, which … Read the full Story >>
Hugh Hayden’s Brier Patch is now on view in Madison Square Park. Presented across four separate lawns in the park, Brier Patch will feature a total of one-hundred wooden elementary school-style desks that erupt with tree branches, cohering into tangled assemblies with complex and layered meanings. The accumulations of desks summon the grid arrangement of classroom seating. Referencing folklore traditions around the world, the … Read the full Story >>
