If you’re packing some books for a weekend escape or a summer vacation, consider some page-turners based on the art world, both real and imagined. Famous forgeries and thefts, a long-awaited biography of Diane Arbus, a new look at Modern and contemporary art, and two novels are all available in analog and digital form: Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World’s … 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 >>
Is New York becoming the new Stockholm? Judging from the crowds lined up at the East River Ferry’s 34th Street pier last weekend, it’s not a bad guess. New York is, after all, an archipelago, with islands of art and culture beckoning. For an art-by cycle-tour of Long Island City and Brooklyn, the ferry company offers an all day hop-on hop-off ticket for $15 … Read the full Story >>
The heartbreaking story of the young woman brutally shot on June 20th in Tehran continues to inspire Iranians who believe the June 12th election was rigged. Neda Agha-Soltan, whose final moments were caught by cell phone video and globally circulated on YouTube, had the misfortune of being out during one of the post-election demonstrations. Tensions were running so high after her death, reported … Read the full Story >>
This is the second to last in a series of reports on great places to find books on the arts and culture. If you're looking for something special for that someone who's obsessed with photography, the Aperture Book Center should be on your source list. The annual holiday sale is now on and whatever your budget is, you can save some real dollars. For … Read the full Story >>
Sometimes discovering a photograph in an archive leads to an avalanche of unexpected information worth knowing. This week’s offering began with the cyanotype print of Waiting in the Forest—Cheyenne by Edward S. Curtis, 1910 (above, center) from the Samuel J. Wagstaff Collection at The Getty Center. The Wagstaff collection was recently celebrated in an exhibition, The Thrill of the Chase, at the Getty. In … Read the full Story >>
“May you live in interesting times.” This pandemic year has proved, without doubt, that the ancient Chinese curse is ripe for an update. As we exit a year that has left its mark on everyone, reflecting on how we adapt in a world where change is beyond exponential is unavoidable. So I looked at the opening weeks of the Covid-19 lockdown to see how the … Read the full Story >>
Last weekend, the northwest corner of Bowery and Houston Street turned into an ad hoc hip hop block party as the legendary graffiti artist Futura (Leonard McGurr) returned to the streets. Known as the Bowery Graffiti Wall, the concrete canvas became the first street writers’ gallery when Keith Haring bombed it, under cover of darkness, in the summer of 1982. During the last decade, the wall has been maintained … Read the full Story >>
