An afternoon of gallery-hopping on the Upper East Side is a perfect cure if you are wishing you were in Europe. With its tree-lined streets, distinctive townhouses, major art museums, and Central Park defining its western edge, the neighborhood’s many contemporary art galleries offer a bracing view of some of the most compelling art of the past 50 years. Yesterday I grabbed an umbrella … Read the full Story >>
Award-winning illustrator Carol Fabricatore, a longtime subscriber and contributor, as well as Professor of Art at School of Visual Arts, also offers workshops at Kykuit (the Rockefeller Estate), in Westchester. She has been awarded numerous residencies from Alaska to Ireland to foster her work as a painter. Among her independent projects is a series of paintings of women from the Coney Island Mermaid … Read the full Story >>
Starting Wednesday, February 16th, through the 28th: Documentary Fortnight 2011: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media. Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, NY, NY. Free with museum admission. View related screenings. Wednesday, February 16, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for Warhol Soup. Armand Bartos Gallery, 25 East 23rd Street, NY, NY. Wednesday, February 16, 8:00-10:00 pm: Andrea Meislin presents … Read the full Story >>
Anthony Freda is a Long Island-based artist who is equal parts editorial illustrator and visual political activist. He worked for several years in his own corporate advertising agency before quitting to focus on editorial illustration. Freda explains, "I may have started my career pimping alcohol and cigarettes, but I have repented and now use my visual communication skills to sell ideas." Freda creates his … Read the full Story >>
Above: From Another Country in New York. © Daido Moriyama, courtesy Galerie Alex Daniels/Reflex Amsterdam. 2012 can be called the “Year of Daido Moriyama,” starting with the ICP Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement, in May. Even before that, the energy began to gather with the presentation by Ivan Vartanian from Goliga Books of Printing Show—TKY at Aperture Gallery on the weekend of November 4, 2011. … Read the full Story >>
Editor's note: This week’s DART Board feature is by sculptor Marco Palli, who also writes on the subject. Who Made LOVE? by Marco Palli There are many versions of “LOVE” around the world, but this particular kind of “LOVE” has been in the making since 1966. The first LOVE sculpture was fabricated out of Cor-Ten steel in 1970 and is currently located at … Read the full Story >>
As a former New Yorker transplanted to Boston, what are some of your favorite things about living and working there?Unfortunately, I don’t feel I that I've taken advantage of the city as I should during the last four years but I do frequent Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and other museums whenever possible. Boston is cool because it is a very compartmentalized city … Read the full Story >>
The Museum of Modern Art’s announcement this week of a “transformative gift” of African Contemporary Art from collector Jean Pigozzi is reason to celebrate. How Pigozzi, the Italian heir to an automotive fortune who took up photography as a student at Harvard, came to assemble one of the largest—and most comprehensive collections— of sub-Saharan art is a long one; but following is a short … Read the full Story >>
Once again we are looking back at some of the short documentaries, video news reports, time-lapse photography and other work featured in the past month at our sister newsletter Motion Arts Pro. November was, of course, a month of big news, with the election of Donald Trump as president, and today's round-up reflects that. We start with an innovative short from Josh Begley, a … Read the full Story >>
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in AmericaThe New Museum, February 17-June 6 Originally conceived by Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) for the New Museum, and presented with curatorial support from advisors Naomi Beckwith, Massimiliano Gioni, Glenn Ligon, and Mark Nash. “Grief and Grievance” addresses the concept of mourning, commemoration, and loss as a direct response to the national emergency of racist violence experienced by … Read the full Story >>
Remember "fake news?" That was then. This year saw the rise of fake faces. Last January we reported on new technology using artificial intelligence to create very realistic photographic portraits of people who do not exist. As The Verge noted at the time, "we're getting scarily good at creating fake people." Even alt-right media site Breitbart was concerned over the implications of the advancement, … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the brush or the pen? Jeff Lowry: Definitely the pen, as long as I can remember I have always drawn in either pen or marker. I love other materials for sure, but pen has a special place in my heart. I especially enjoy sketching in ink only, as this forces me to be more mindful the decision I make … Read the full Story >>
Upstate Art Weekend [UPAW] is one of the miraculous outcomes of the Pandemic lockdown. Founded by art world phenom Helen Toomer in 2000, it has grown from a smattering of 23 participating galleries and institutions to more than 145 this year, running from Thursday, July 18 through Sunday, July 21. The opening celebration of the fifth edition takes place at The School | … Read the full Story >>
Louis Carlos Bernal, a Chicano photographer born in the Arizona border town of Douglas in 1941, invented a style of art photography that honored his Mexican American culture. In the process, Bernal, who died in 1993 at age 52, "created an indelible record of life in Southwestern barrios -- low-income, primarily Spanish-speaking neighborhoods -- in the 1970s and 1980s." So notes Rebecca Senf, chief … Read the full Story >>
Call it the calm before the storm. Except no one seems very calm: Over the past months North Korea has fired increasingly accurate ballistic missiles topped with increasingly powerful nuclear weapons, as the rogue country's leader Kim Jong Un engaged in an escalating contest of provocation with U.S. President Donald Trump. Amid the incautious personal insults and threats of nuclear annihilation lobbed by both … Read the full Story >>
Johanna Goodman is a vibrant and diverse illustrator and artist who works in both paint and ink and collage. She does a lot of editorial illustration, much of it oil and ink portraits. (I'm very partial to this Village Voice cover illustration of Brian Wilson.) Goodman has also done a powerful set of concept lllustrations, and recently started working with collage, to great effect. … Read the full Story >>
Several photography shows currently on view have spurred a wider interest in studio-based, conceptual, and non-objective photography. Following is a cross-country lineup of current and upcoming exhibitions of interest. The Photographic Object, 1970, at Hauser & Wirth, New York City. The exhibition revisits Peter Bunnell’s landmark 1970 MoMA exhibition, in a much expanded version of the 2011 show at Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, as part of Pacific Standard … Read the full Story >>
Laurie Rosenwald is a New York City-based illustrator, artist, designer, and book creator. In addition to her many editorial illustrations for a wide variety of publications, Rosenwald has created animation, product design, and leads an ongoing workshop, "How to Make Mistakes on Purpose." You can see a cool video interview with Rosenwald here, where she talks about art, design, illustration, and her approach to … Read the full Story >>
Time once again for our semi-regular series on pet photography, this time coming in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. It wasn't only millions of people affected by the storm and its catastrophic flooding in Texas - the media also focus on the plight of pets and other animals, from bats to owls. We feature some of the most memorable photos today, along with an … Read the full Story >>
David Benjamin Sherry, from American Monuments, courtesy of Salon 94 In the current issue of Photograph, Editor Jean Dykstra writes about the exhibition of Isa Leshko’s black-and-white photographs of farm animals, opening this week at ClampArt Gallery, [her] “portraits bring to mind Peter Hujar’s photographs of animals, which similarly captured the particularity of a dog or horse (or goose or goat), a sense of … Read the full Story >>
