For more than forty years, Chuck Close has explored the art of printmaking in his continuing investigation into the principles of perception. Celebrated as a painter and photographer, he has mastered the unique artistic language of printmaking, having done editions in etching, aquatint, lithography, direct gravure, silkscreen, traditional Japanese woodcut, and reduction linocut. Close has said that any innovation that is evident in his … Read the full Story >>
Friday, August 2, Noon-3pm JIMMY! God’s Black Revolutionary Mouth at the Schomburg Join NYPL on James Baldwin’s 100th birthday for the opening reception for our newest exhibition JIMMY! God's Black Revolutionary Mouth. Stay for this public program featuring Yahdon Israel, Senior editor at Simon & Schuster and two-time Grammy Award-winning recording hip-hop artist and humanitarian, Che “Rhymefest” Smith, in a conversation … Read the full Story >>
Two items from the Camera Club of New York benefit auction, left: Alison Davies, Untitled (Outerland), 2001. Right: Martine Fougeron, Sleepover: Les Crepes, 2008. Copyright the photographers, courtesy CCNY. Information. Tuesday, November 1 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Peter Hujar | Influential Friends. John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 50 1/2 East 64th Street, NY, NY. Wednesday, November 2 Opening reception and … Read the full Story >>
Closing January 11: Ayiti Toma II: Faith, Family, and Resistance at Luhring Augustine “Ayiti Toma II: Faith, Family, and Resistance” a is an intergenerational show organized by Haitian-born artist Tomm El-Saieh in partnership with El-Saieh Gallery of Port-au-Prince (founded by the artist’s grandfather, musician-composer Issa El-Saieh), and Central Fine gallery of Miami Beach, Fla., where he is also one of the principals. The title … Read the full Story >>
As a fan of the Center for Land Use Interpretation [CLUI] and the haunting novels of Nobel Laureate, Patrick Modiano, I agree with Lucy Lippard’s assessment in The Lure of the Local that “space combined with memory defines place.” While Modiano shows a passion for estrangement, his quiet exploration of mood and memory is inextricably founded in his recall of the places where … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 7:00 pm. Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940-1959. Panel Discussion with Vince Aletti, critic and curator; Deborah Bell, Deborah Bell Gallery; Howard Greenberg, Howard Greenberg Gallery; Brian Wallis, Chief Curator, International Center of Photography; Lisa Hostetler, Curator of Photographs, Milwaukee Art Museum. Moderator. International Center of Photography, School at ICP, 1114 Avenue of the Americas at … Read the full Story >>
Ken Carbone is an artist, designer, and Co-Founder of the Carbone Smolan Agency, a design company he built with Leslie Smolan over 40 years ago. Ken is also a long-time subscriber and contributor to DART, which today re-caps his report on a visit to Rome that was recently published in PRINT in slightly different form. My fascination with Rome may have … Read the full Story >>
Urban Sketchers is a global network of artists who enjoy drawing on location. According to the Seattle chapter the international community of urban sketchers is estimated at over 50,000, with 13 chapters in the US alone. The mission of Urban Sketchers is “to raise the artistic, storytelling and educational value of location drawing, promoting its practice and connecting people around the world who draw on … Read the full Story >>
The way things are going in our nation's capitol, the opening this weekend of the new Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) might be the last great museum moment in New York City for a long while. On Saturday and Sunday, from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, the public is invited, free of charge, to explore the newly renovated building on Columbus Circle and … Read the full Story >>
Toronto-based artist and long-time DART subscriber Gary Taxali has an exhibition opening this Saturday in New York. In his second solo show at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery, Unforget Me, Gary’s blend of images and media inspired by vintage advertising and animation art and design will again offer his unique and idiosyncratic view of the human condition. Gary works with multiple mediums and utilizes a variety of … Read the full Story >>
Taking Tiger Mountain, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2011; copyright and courtesy Richard Mosse. What lies beneath any meaningful perception of the ongoing conflict in the internally colonized Democratic Reputlic of Congo? Richard Mosse, a photographer armed with an 8 x 10 camera and Kodak’s outdated Aerochrome infrared surveillance film, sought to discover truth beyond journalism in his images of a war whose nomadic … Read the full Story >>
The history of printing—from the Bible and religious pamphlets to electioneering flyers dropped from drones—can be told through the history of illustration—most recently shown in DART through the book, This Is What Democracy Looked Like: A visual History of the Printed Ballot. So consider the human body: the physical envelope that encases the mind and spirit of an individual. The flesh that inspires … Read the full Story >>
Now that it's really hot and summery, a little altitude might help to cool things down. A climb 110 feet above Central Park can be yours for the price of admission to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where Doug and Mike Starn's Big Bambu is installed in the roof garden. Photo left: Peggy Roalf. Right: Big Bambú installation view; photos by Doug and … Read the full Story >>
The Outsider Art Fair is back for the third year at Center 548, the clean and well-lit former New York home of DIA. The show, now in its 23rd edition, used to run at the funky Puck Building across town, and is larger than ever under the direction of Andrew Edlin. The owner of the eponymous Chelsea gallery, which represents Thornton Dial and Henry Darger among … Read the full Story >>
Danielle Levitt came to New York from LA and began photographing the downtown hipster scene in the mid-1990s. Her street fashions first showed up in The New York Post. Now her highly structured photographs of celebrities and art stars are seen in magazines like Rolling Stone and The New York Times Magazine, and in ads for Target and Nike. Her first book, We … Read the full Story >>
“A Man who Stands for Nothing Falls for Anything.” —Malcolm X “Love’s the only engine of survival,” —Leonard Cohen “When they go low, we go high.”—Michelle O “I will peacefully resist.”—Anonymous These are just a few of the sentiments posted in the corridors of New York’s subways in the days following the unexpected victory of president-elect Donald Trump. When it became evident that fewer than … Read the full Story >>
To celebrate what would have been Andy Warhol’s 90thbirthday, today's DART Q&A is extracted from the interview Glenn O’Brien did with Warhol for Interview magazine [The Crystal Ball of Pop] in June, 1977. Advance tickets to Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again, the Whitney's full-on retrospective that will open November 12 [November 7 for members], just went on sale. For now, … Read the full Story >>
Have you see the Koons? No? Well the Whitney has come up with something for anyone feeling left out of this retrospective extravaganza that will close next Sunday: A 36-hour marathon, during which the museum will be open from 11am Saturday, October 18 through Sunday, October 19. There will be special events, including a book signing with the artist on Saturday night and a Q&A with … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, November 14, 7 - 11pm: The Party at Angel Orensanz Foundation The year's most anticipated networking schmooze-fest celebrating the American Photography 40 and American Illustration 43 winners is just 20 days away—get your tickets here Once again AI-AP brings the art, photo and design communities together in a one-of-a-kind, trifecta gathering of photographers / illustrators / and creatives to launch the new AP40 and AI43 … Read the full Story >>
Starting today, the Olana State Historic Site, in Hudson, New York, will host the third annual Creating Landscapes within the Landscape event. A group of 30 artists from New York State and New England have been invited to paint here for three days, from the same points of view of the artist who built this magnificent home high above the Hudson River. You can spend the day … Read the full Story >>
