Left: Luigi Ghirri, Alpe di Suisi, 1979; copyright the artist, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. Right: Donna J. Wan, At the Edge of the Lake, 2011 (In the Landscape series); copyright the artist, courtesy Klompching Gallery. Wednesday, July 20 Curators’ talk, 6:30 pm: Alexander Campos and Jen Larsen on Multiple, Limited, Unique, an exhibition from the permanent collection. The Center for Book … Read the full Story >>
April 23-27: AIPAD | The Photography Show at The Armory The Association of International Photography Art Dealers [AIPAD] was organized in 1979. With members in the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe and Japan, the Association has become a unifying force in the field of photography. AIPAD is dedicated to creating and maintaining high standards in the business of exhibiting, buying, and selling photographic … Read the full Story >>
Above: Don Joint, Blue Machine Gun, 2011, from Fishing for Knick Knacks, opening Thursday at Pavel Zoubok Gallery. Tuesday, April 17 Opening reception, 7 pm: Archizines | 80 magazines and printed matter designed by \ / | < | \ | (Giancarlo Valle, Isaiah King and Ryan Neiheiser) with graphic work by Benjamin Critton. Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, NY, NY. Wednesday, April 18 Opening … Read the full Story >>
Friday, December 5, 6-9pm: Eliana Pérez | Ajar at PS109 Join the artist and friends for this pop-up exhibition at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109. This tapestry and book pairing that depicts the parasitic exploitation of migrants passing through El Tapón del Darién, the narrow land bridge connecting the Americas. See this alongside 3 of her other artist books, all detailing intractable challenges affecting her native country … Read the full Story >>
Next week, the Type Directors Club opens its sixty-second annual typography exhibit, with selections from the annual typeface design competition. At a special presentation on Tuesday evening, the 29th TDC Medal will be presented to Émigré (Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLans), the design firm/digital type foundry that arrived in Berkeley at the same moment as the Macintosh computer. Between 1984 and 2005, Émigré published Émigré magazine, … Read the full Story >>
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) lived during an ascendant period of book publishing in France. It was the height of achievement in letterpress printing and in printed editions of books that combined poetry, literature, and art as a collaborative expression. During his lifetime, Matisse was engaged in creating art, typographic and layout design, and hand lettering for nearly fifty book illustration projects. A perfectionist and a … Read the full Story >>
A postage stamp is an important matter. Though it is very small in size it bears a decisive message….The tiny square connects the hearts of the sender and the receiver, reducing the distances. It is a bridge between people and countries. The postage stamp passes all frontiers. It reaches men in prisons, asylums and hospitals. The small postage stamps become big works … Read the full Story >>
“Which came first, the pen or the brush?” The first question in our long-running series, In the Studio with… has steadily drawn readers to its pages. This week, DART celebrates artists who have taken up the pen to make their mark; even when much of the art is finished digitally, the artistic impulse for a sharp nib is evident. We start with … Read the full Story >>
The transformation of the Fresh Kills landfill, on the south coast of Staten Island, to Freshkills Park, has seemed, for years, primarily a figment of my imagination—until recently, when it was announced that the 24-acre North Park will open in Spring 2021. The world’s largest landfill, at 2,200 acres, has already attracted several bird species never before seen in New York City. The island’s … Read the full Story >>
Seymour Chwast is often referred to as “the legendary graphic designer and co-founder of Push Pin Studios.” But how many legends can you think of who are known by a single name? Shakespeare, Caruso, Elvis, Cher, Madonna, Bono, Jesus...The list goes on, of course, and in the world of art and design it includes Leonardo, Daumier, Hopper, Warhol, Milton, Crumb...and Seymour. Subversive. Personal. Obsessive. Radical. … Read the full Story >>
Former North Vietnamese Army Lieutenant and photographer, Doan Cong Tinh, 72, grins widely as he describes using his boots as ad hoc developing tanks while processing film in tunnels dug by fellow troops during the war. Speaking through a translator in Vietnamese, he further explains that “the officer’s boots were called ‘Buffalo Boots’, were leather and Russian-made, and thus superior to the Chinese … Read the full Story >>
The Bread Book by Kenneth Josephson (1973) is a small booklet of twenty pages printed in offset. Starting with the front cover, which shows, besides the title, the cap of a loaf of bread. Each sheet progressively shows the front and back of all ten slices of a small loaf of bread. The back cover therefore shows the other end of the loaf. Josephson … Read the full Story >>
Suburban malaise has proven to be rich fodder in contemporary literature--in Rick Moody’s Ice Storm, Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road, and Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, to name a few. Rarely has an artist taken up the theme to the extent that Ian Strange has. For his ongoing series, “Suburban,” the Brooklyn based Australian artist spent two years traveling the United States. In Ohio, … Read the full Story >>
If you ever wondered why you never hear Carrie Bradshaw utter the deadly "D" word when referring to her own slender self, the reason becomes clear in The Heartbreak Diet, a new book by Thorina Rose. Bradshaw, as personified by the wafer-thin Sarah Jessica Parker, regularly had her heart broken on Sex in the City. But she remained amazingly slim - and … Read the full Story >>
Strange Paradise traverses an ambiguous territory between the peculiar and the familiar as Charlie Rubin creates unexpected combinations with idiosyncratic logic. Taking perception as his waypoint, the Brooklyn-based artist presents a multifaceted body of work that explores the convergence of the actual and the artificial. He examines perception and the process by which people take in information thorough highly manipulated photographs that question … Read the full Story >>
The peripatetic Ivan Vartanian, of GOLIGA, Tokyo, recently remained at home in order to produce his latest project, “a mega-size poster book on Alec Soth,” which was announced yesterday on Facebook. If you’re not in Tokyo, you can purchase the limited edition poster-book here. If you are in Tokyo, you can participate in a series of events that started Tuesday with The Cave, photo … Read the full Story >>
With the buzz already audible regarding the October opening of Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous at The Met, a major exhibition on two mid-century titans that also promises to bring new perspective on the ways in which outstanding woman artists have been disappeared by the art world at large, this is a good time to focus on a painter who will likely … Read the full Story >>
There is hardly a more recognizable cultural icon than the Victorian house in Alfred Hitchcock’s genre-bending horror film, Psycho. Known as the Bates Mansion, it stands, along with the film’s shocking 45-second shower scene, as a symbol of a new American phenomenon, the slasher film. Fast-forward 56 years to The Met’s seasonal installation on the roof garden, where British sculptor Cornelia Parker has created … Read the full Story >>
The fourth annual New York Photo Festival (NYPH), which lures photography professionals and creative people from across the globe to the waterfront neighborhood of DUMBO, opens this Wednesday, May 11th and runs through Sunday, May 15th. According to the organizers, it will display over 3,000 photographs, attract over 14,000 attendees, and present over 40 events across 11 venues. This year’s main exhibitions, PHOTOGRAPHY NOW: … Read the full Story >>
Lynn Pauley, a longtime DART subscriber, is having a Pennsylvania moment, with an exhibition of her paintings opening Friday, in Scranton. So I took a moment to catch up. Here is what she wrote: Q: A Pennsylvania native, you recently moved back, to Scranton. What is the draw of your home state? A: I think that is the phrase," draw the home state." I … Read the full Story >>
