Chocolates, champagne, flowers and a valentine card - sounds pretty ho hum unless the card is a limited edition print. It becomes anything but ho hum when the card is a silkscreen by David Sandlin, a New York artist known for his fascination with the baser side of thrilling impulses. David, a rogue artist who creates raunchy commentary out of his satiric blend … Read the full Story >>
Ken Light | American Stories:1969-1995 showcases three decades of work by the acclaimed photographer, highlighting significant moments in American history from 1969 to 1995. Light’s images focus on social issues, human rights, and the lives of overlooked communities, providing a powerful look at the stories of this period. The opening reception is Thursday, October 10, 6:00 pm. The photographer will attend and sign copies … Read the full Story >>
If your weekend takes you on the Armory Arts Week circuit, this is the only guide you need on your smartPhone. All you need is good shoes! Photo courtesy The Armory Show. The Armory Show, through March 6, 7 pm.Pier 94 and Pier 92, 711 12th Avenue between West 55th-52nd Streets. $45 general admission, or $60 when paired with VOLTA admission. InfoVolta NY, through March … Read the full Story >>
“What’s that got to do with the price of eggs?” In vernacular English, this is—or was—a snide way of saying, “Just stick to the point, ok?” Today, however, the continuing rise in the price of eggs could change that. For example, the egg section at my local has removed prices from the roughly 15 types of eggs on offer. If you need to know, … Read the full Story >>
Wacko is La Luz de Jesus's home in LA's Los Feliz hood, right near Hollywood. The alternative gallery space in the back of the store is known for showing mostly illustrators' art on its walls, having launched successful careers over the years. Some interesting examples of this include past solo shows of Rob Clayton (1995 and ‘97), Eric White (1996), Joe Coleman (1991 and … Read the full Story >>
The Winter Antiques Show is one of the most delicious visual overindulgences on the calendar of art fairs and shows. In these belt-tightening times, the only difference this year seems to be the lack of over-the-top floral arrangements that typically characterize the annual event. Instead there were arrangements of orchids, appropriately meager by comparison, ready and able to take on future assignments once the … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Screenings / Community Art / and Beyond Continuing Prospect Park | The Connective Project, submit your art for Rose Garden installation. Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY Info Sketch Four Freedoms Park Contest, submit your art, sketch with landscape architect on July 7 and July 15. Four Freedoms Park, Roosevelt Island, NY Info Summer of Shorts: Ten New Films in Ten Weeks | Jeff … Read the full Story >>
Left: Midsommer, Rattvik, 1988. Right: Ransater, 1991. Copyright Lars Tunbjork, courtesy Amador Gallery. Tuesday, September 13 Opening reception, 7 pm: Sacred Spaces in Profane Buildilngs | Matilde Cassani. Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Lars Tunbjork Amador Gallery, 41 East 57th Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Niki de Sainte Phalle | … Read the full Story >>
Do you sometimes feel that your life is unraveling? Does everyday stress seem overly stressful? Is the light of your life blind to your passion? Are you ready to sell your soul to the devil for the deal of a lifetime? Hang on, don't do anything rash until you take a look at Prayer Requested, by Christian Northeast, You will quickly realize … Read the full Story >>
Living in Chatham Square, on the Bowery…where we all hung out, was the beginning of my having a sense that community was an important part of the work. Before, my model for being an artist was this sort of lone-person up in a garret, where you work all alone all day and then you go out to a bar and just get drunk and … Read the full Story >>
Three by Gregory Halpern, from “A,” currently on view at ClampArt Gallery. Wednesday, January 11 Panel discussion, 6 pm: Typography Sketchbooks | Steven Heller and Lita Talarico, with Travid Cain, Viktor Koen, Matt Luckhurst, and Esther K. Smith + Dikko Faust. New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue at 41st Street, NY, NY. Doors open at 5:30 pm. (Map and … Read the full Story >>
Contemporary artist books are on view in an exhibition of 70 books made during the past 15 years by artists working in France, at the Grolier Club, on New York's Upper East Side, organized by the Koopman Collection at the National Library of the Netherlands. The exhibition presents the art of the book as a seemingly endless variety of mediums and methods, printing and binding crafts, … Read the full Story >>
Martin Klimas is the colorful and creative scion of photographers Edweard Muybridge and Dr. Harold Edgerton—and now, of Jackson Pollack. Through his experimentation with motion and the cause and effect in gravity, Klimas’ photographs explore relationships with time, beauty and destruction.If you want to find out, “How’d he do it?” go here. If you want some great eye-candy, go to the show, closing Sunday, at Foley Gallery … Read the full Story >>
December 1, 12-7 pm: World AIDS Day | Open Community Circle at The Drawing CenterA quiet time for remembrance and contemplation is offerend in the galleries—followed at 6pm by a public film screening, held in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition Ecce Homo: The Drawings of General Idea. Founded in Toronto in 1969 by AA Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal, General Idea is recognized … Read the full Story >>
Light-filled, 2,000-square-foot studios renting at $2 per square foot? Nothing like this exists in Brooklyn or Queens, but in Jersey City, Mana Contemporary is setting a new standard in the arts. This all-inclusive arts compound is housed in a 100,000-sqare-foot tobacco warehouse, with 23 resident artists; Shen Wei Dance Arts and the Armitage Gone! Dance Company; the Eileen Kaminsky Foundation and exhibition space; climate controlled art storage; crating and shipping … Read the full Story >>
Sarah Moon, Suzanne aux Tuilleries, 1974, from the exhibition Delpire & Co. at Howard Greenberg Gallery, opening Thursday, May 10th. Special this week through May 11: The One Club presents Creative Week | New York, a celebration of creativity in advertising, design, digital media and all the arts that feed and touch those disciplines. Information. Wednesday, May 9 Opening reception, 6-8 … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, March 2: Wangechi Mutu | Intertwined at the New Museum Prolific and visionary, Wangechi Mutu has been transforming visual media for more than 25 years. The New Museum brings together more than 100 works by the artist in a major solo exhibition that connects her current art to the fantastical depictions of contemporary realities and future possibilities she’s been creating for decades. Representing … Read the full Story >>
Armory Arts Week Wednesday – Monday Spring Break Art Show, Skylight at Moynihan Station, 421 Eighth Avenue, NY, NY. Info Wednesday-Sunday The ADAA Art Show. Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, NY, NY. Info Volta NY. Pier 90, West 50th Street and 12th Avenue, NY, NY. Info Thursday-Sunday Art on Paper. Pier 36 at 299 South Street, NY, NY. Info Independent New York 2016. … Read the full Story >>
William Christenberry is perhaps most widely known for his Southern photographs, shot with an 8 x 10 camera and presented as large-scale digital prints in gallery exhibitions, or in large format, beautifully printed books. This February, at Hemphill Gallery in Washington D.C., and again, two weeks ago in New York at Hemphill's installation at AIPAD, The Photography Show, there was a rare opportunity to … Read the full Story >>
Ben Shahn (1898-1969) was born in Lithuania, where his family lived in poverty in the small city of Kovno. Around 1904 they immigrated to New York. He first worked as an apprentice to a commercial lithographer, acquiring skills that would later support him financially while he pursued his ambition to be a painter. Shahn's initial interest in photography stemmed from his use of the … Read the full Story >>
