If you are marking your calendar for the New York Photo Festival, which kicks off in DUMBO, Brooklyn on Wednesday, May 12th and continues through Sunday, May 16th, this just came in from Aperture Foundation. Each day at 4:30, Aperture presents a series of illuminating discussions on career building, as well as discussions with two artists, Eirik Johnson and Jowhara AlSaud, who … Read the full Story >>
Books / Talks / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, December 6 David Salle | How To See, 7 pm. 192 Books, 192 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY Info Support and Be Supported | Nonprofits and the Arts, 6:30 pm. SVA, 214 East 21st Street, Room 120, NY, NY. Info Doug Aitken in conversation with Philippe Vergne, 6 pm. Celeste Auditorium, New York Public Library, Fifth … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the brush or the pen? Giovanni Alberti: First of all, the pen. That’s how I instinctively give shape to my first thoughts or feelings. Drawing with the pen allows me to highlight the most important aspects of the image, then I can use a brush to give greater depth, or to better convey the idea of substance. PR: How did … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, February 13 Gretchen Roehrs, Edible Ensembles, book signing, custom portraits, 6-8 pm. Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway, NY, NY Info Max Farago | Boardwalk, book signing, 6-8 pm. Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, NY, NY Info Thursday, February 15 Def Jam Cey Adams, Maripol and more | A Tribute to Basquiat, 7 pm. Brooklyn Museum, … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: When did you realize that you had the ‘artist gene,’ and what caused you to choose illustration? Ignacio Serrano: I have been inclined to draw since I was a kid. Because of my family, I grew up surrounded by comics, music, and movies, which influenced and educated my taste from a very early stage. I always wanted to replicate my favorite stories in … Read the full Story >>
I walked through the Alighiero Boetti retrospective at MoMA again yesterday with a friend. Many of the artist’s ideas, which on the surface seem simple but are complex explorations by a profoud intellect, crystallized on second view. In one piece of wall text, he was quoted as saying something to the effect that he liked to take existing systems and impose new visualizations onto them. This notion … Read the full Story >>
Talk / Discussion / Screenings / and Beyond Thursday, June 2 Bahar Behbahani in conversation with Dr. Shiva Balaghi, 6 pm Thomas Erben Gallery, 526 West 26thStreet, NY, NY. Info. Friday, June 3-Sunday, June 5 Artist talk with 2015 Workspace Artists-in-Resicence, 6:30 pm. The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, NY, NY. Info Figment NYC | Art, Interactive Sculpture & Miniature Golf, 10am-5 pm. Governors Island, NYC. … Read the full Story >>
Experimental typography, at its best, makes our brain do cartwheels around the notion that the medium is the message. Rather than communicating in a straight line from an original thought contained in a musical phrase, a poetic stanza, a journalistic paragraph, or a literary novel, expressive typography can create a densely packed surface in which an idea is subsumed into an emotional territory that … Read the full Story >>
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 >>
