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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
