Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the pencil or the brush? Vlad Alvarezz: The pencil. My work is finished digitally, but everything starts with a tight sketch, and the pencil has always been my tool of choice for preliminary ideas and sketches. A lot of times I like to do finished drawings from my sketches to keep a physical version of the art. PR: Please … Read the full Story >>
Yesterday an announcement came in from BravinLee programs about their newest rug edition, with an artist well known to DART subscribers: Jason Polan. Author of Every Person in New York (Chronicle Books 2015, Info) and founder of the Taco Bell Drawing Club, Jason created Life-Size King Kong, working with BravinLee programs [BLp] to produce a work in a medium new to … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Wednesday, June 27 SVA MFA Art Practice presents: Roberta Smith, 12:30 pm. School of Visual Arts, 335 West 16th Street, 501HNY, NY Info Tibetan Book of the Dead Club, discussion, 7 pm. Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street, NY, NY Info Thursday, June 29-Monday, July 3 The Declaration of Independence | Handwritten by … Read the full Story >>
Pop culture, fine art and commerce collide in the world of Takashi Murakami, arguably the most recognized contemporary Asian artist today. In conjunction with (c) Murakami, his retrospective at L.A. MOCA's Geffen Center, the public is invited to a panel discussion and painting party with L.A. artists Tim Biskup, Gary Baseman and Simone Legno this Saturday night. The discussion will be moderated by Eric … Read the full Story >>
Lectures / Discussions / Screenings Tuesday, March 17 Mao’s Golden Mangoes and the Cultural Revolution: Asia Week open house and curator talk, 6-8. China Institute Gallery, 125 East 65th Street, NY, NY. Wednesday, March 18 Aperture and The New School present, 6:30 pm: Queer Genealogies, a conversation between Vine Aletti and K8 Hardy moderated by Richard Meyer, professor in art history at Stanford University. The New … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, August 9, 6-10pm: We Out Here | Hip Hop at Lincoln Center Plaza Celebrate 50 years of Hip Hop at this dance battle and silent disco. Different street and club styles will be on display as the invited Top 8 competitors will go toe to toe for a cash prize. Hosted by Rokafella and TDK Zone with DJs KS 360 and DP One, the … Read the full Story >>
Friday, December 04 Topographie de l’art presents new work by Bruno Bressolin, Paleosprays, in a group show titled Aérosolthérapie. Inspired by cave paintings at Lascaux, Bruno created these works in spray paint on oversize Kraft paper during a long walking tour of Haute Savoie, Charente and Bretagne, France, this summer. Topographie de l’art, 15, ru de Thorigny, Paris Info Wednesday, December 02, 6:00 … Read the full Story >>
Books / Talks / Panels / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday October 25 Ieva Epnere \ Sea of Living Memories, artist talk, 6:30 pm. Art in General, 145 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, NY Info [Dumbo] Wednesday, October 26 Nayland Blake | Parsons Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series, 7 pm. The New School, 66 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY Info Rebecca Solnit | Nonstop Metropolis, 6:30 … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, November 14 · 7 - 11pm 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 … Read the full Story >>
This issue of DART is a reprise of a story I did last year in appreciation of Steve Baron, the longtime Production Director at Aperture Foundation. I was to have had lunch with Steve, his wife Caryl, and several other Aperture expats today. I learned a few minutes in advance, however, that Steve had passed away earlier in the day. Information about the memorial … Read the full Story >>
In 1956, the sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) was invited by the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to submit a design for a monumental sculpture for the new International Arrivals Building they were designing for Idlewild Airport [now JFK], the world's first large-scale international airport. The totemic column he proposed (above, front) suggests human aspiration for the cosmos and was envisioned as carved from granite … Read the full Story >>
This photograph was made at Blue Hole, a popular but remote swimming hole in Carter County, Tennessee. I met three friends there that day—one was my former long-time assistant and photographer Shawne Brown, his wife Jessica, and their friend Kevin. It was quite hot that day. Many others were enjoying the cool shade and cold water. Shawne and I set about working independently. The … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: When did you know that you would become an illustrator? Davide Bonazzi: I’ve had an interest in drawing since I was a kid, so I can say I’ve wanted to become an illustrator my entire life! More specifically, I got interested in illustration around age 24, while attending a postgraduate course in illustration at the European Institute of Design, in Milan. At … Read the full Story >>
Countless photographers have taken their cue from Walker Evans, William Eggleston and Stephen Shore, and hit the road to capture something ineffable, something largely missing from urban life. Vernacular architecture; a country crossroads; painted advertising signs, faded and peeling. What is the attraction, for both photographer and viewer? Left: Coca Cola Sign, US 72, Burnsville, MS, 1978. Right: Dairy Queen, Iowa City, IA … Read the full Story >>
Frieze Week Art Fairs Wednesday, May 17–Sunday, May 21: Frieze New York Maintaining its reputation as an international destination for gold-standard works, Frieze NY presents more than 60 galleries this year at Hudson Yards: Gagosian will show work by Nan Goldin for the first time since the activist and artist joined its stable; David Kordansky will offer work by Lauren Halsey … Read the full Story >>
Franz Gertsch, At Luciano’s House, 1973; this week at Swiss Institute Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, November 27 Curators Clémentine Deliss and Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation, 7 pm. SVA MA Curatorial Practice, 132 West 21st Street, 10th Floor, NY, NY Info Wednesday, November 28 Eva Kenny | Rural Warhol: on the techniques of Franz Gertsch in Polyfocal … Read the full Story >>
The opening of galleries and museums is a welcome change in the city’s Pandemic cultural life—and with all that’s going on, this could be a temporary delight. With that In mind, DART offers a menu of openings, today uptown and downtown; tomorrow, in Chelsea and Brooklyn. Gallery hoppers should be prepared to show proof of vaccination, be masked and to maintain proper distancing. Above: … Read the full Story >>
In the early 1990s, graphic designer Paula Scher, a partner in the international design firm Pentagram, began painting maps of the world as she sees it. The larger her canvases grew, the more expressionistic her geographical visions became. Displaying a powerful command of image, Scher transformed the surface area of our world, rendering information and data culled from headlines, maps and diagrams in … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, October 10: Flow States | La Trienel 2024 at El Museo El Museo del Barrio announces commissioned projects, exhibition highlights, illustrated catalogue, and opening week programming for Flow States – La Trienal 2024, the museum’s second large-scale triennial of Latinx contemporary art. The exhibition will feature 33 artists working across the United States, Puerto Rico, and—for the first time—geographies that reflect the … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Tuesday, March 28-Sunday, April 2 Salon Zürcher Photo. 33 Bleecker Street, NY, NY Info Wednesday, March 29-Sunday, April 2 The Photography Show presented by AIPAD. Vernissage, Wednesday, March 29. Pier 94, 711 12th Avenue between 52nd-54th Streets, NY, NY. Complimentary shuttles will run every 30 minutes starting Thursday, March 30th at 11 am, at three locations. Info Above: © David Allee, … Read the full Story >>
