Working with books—creating, producing, selling, husbanding, archiving—is a dream come true. I can attest to that: my own habit began in childhood when I ran away from home for the first time at age 4.5 and headed straight for the library. I read everything I could get my hands on, from books and magazines to the Sears catalog that resided in the bathroom. I … Read the full Story >>
It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.—Elliott Erwitt Elliott Erwit (b. 1928) might have added, “it’s about being there” to his summation of a life in … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / Art Fairs / and Beyond March 10-April 22 Photofest 2018. 1113 Vine Street, Houston, TX Info March 21-March 25 Affordable Art Fair. Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18thStreet, NY, NY Info Thursday, March 15-Saturday, March 24 Asia Week New York. Various locations, NY, NY Info Exhibitions Map Friday, March 16-Sunday March 18 Focus photo l.a.. Exhibition opening, panel, … Read the full Story >>
For the first DART Book Prize Essay Contest, students in Dr. Anastasia Aukeman’s Integrative Seminar 2: Visual Culture course at Parsons School of Design, in the School of Art and Design History and Theory, submitted their critiques of the Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial exhibition. Honorable Mention goes to Jaya Jankowski, in the morning section.—Peggy Roalf Beauty by Jaya Jankowski | In the exhibition Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, … Read the full Story >>
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, currently shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Book Prize, for Holy Bible (MACK 2013), are inviting knitters to craft balaclavas for an exhibition to open in March, in London. Balaclavas? You know, the type of headgear favored by skiers, bank robbers and terrorists. In their words: “The focus of the exhibition is a new form of surveillance technology called ‘non-collaborative … Read the full Story >>
GETTING THE NEWS ONLINE is the choice of many harried people, especially those who need to view the same events through different media. While this can speed things up, readers pay a huge price because the information we usually receive through news photos is largely missing. So if you think you're pretty well-informed, the month of May offers a chance to become extremely well … Read the full Story >>
In celebration of AI-APs Illustration Week, headlined by The Party tomorrow night Info and studio visits Info, with artists and creative heads streaming into NYC from coast to coast, DART offers a view from Chicago today, and one from the West Coast on Friday. Here, from CHI: Since his death in 1987, at age 58, Andy Warhol’s work has probably been seen … Read the full Story >>
Left: Carmen and Lupita, 2011, ©Annabel Clark, courtesy Michael Mazzeo Gallery. Right: Water Landscape, ©Paul Bobko, courtesy Alan Klotz. Wednesday, July 6 Opening reception, 6-8 pm, for On Shuffle, featuring work by Billy Childish, Kim Gordon, Kalup Linzy, Ryan McNamara, Tony Oursler, Dave Muller, Dario Robleto and Stephen Vitiello. Lehmann Maupin, 540 West 26th Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 7-9 pm, … Read the full Story >>
Sunday, August 24: Central Park, North Woods This just in from Insiya Pardiwala: I’m the founder of a vibrant group called Plein Air Painters of New York. I began my plein air painting journey in 2022, and after taking a transformative workshop at the Art Students League last September, I connected with a group of passionate women who shared my enthusiasm for painting outdoors. Our small … Read the full Story >>
It’s hard to imagine contemporary landscape photography from Israel without a political framework of some sort. There are the fences; the designated roadways; the illegal settlements; inaccessible crops going to ruin in the Occupied Terratories; national parks bristling with non-native species. Powerful images by exceptional photographers portray the realities of this troubled land in ways that escape the often one-shot view of journalism. But … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs & Special Events Wednesday, January 21 Rema Hort Mann Foundation 20th Anniversery Gala & Art Auction6:30 pm on. Tribeca Rooftop, 2 Debrosses Street, NY, NY. Information. Wednesday, January 21- Sunday, January 25 The New York Ceramics & Glass Fair, Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, NY, NY. Information. Thursday, January 22-Sunday, January 25 Metro Curates. The Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, NY, NY. Information … Read the full Story >>
As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls. This elegiac line sums up, in my mind, the fate of most urban waterfalls in America. The falls at Wichita Falls, TX, originally rose just five feet; they were eventually washed away in a flood, and later restored in theme-park style as a roadside attraction. The Wichita River was dammed in the 1920s to form several lakes … Read the full Story >>
Bruno Bressolin is a Parisian artist best known for his distinctively dreamlike paintings, his bold illustrations, his imaginative sculptures made of found objects, and his large scale illustrated books. I was intrigued when he began presenting a series of illustrated ceramic plates on Instagram during the Covid-19 confinement, so in April, I contacted him. The following interview took place by email last week. Peggy Roalf: This 20/20 … Read the full Story >>
Monday, December 13, 5-7 pm: Book Launch and signing for Splendid Settings: The Art + Craft of Entertaining by Jane Korman. Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, NY, NY. Tuesday, December 14, 7 pm: The CCNY Lecture Series in conjunction with SVA's BFA Photography Department, presents Help Me, the Panel Discussion, with Luc Sante, W.M. Hunt, and Leslie Grant; moderated … Read the full Story >>
I work somewhere in between graphic design, illustration and art direction. For my lettering and illustration work, I enjoy combining digital and analog mediums: markers, brushes, ink, watercolor, and any other materials that can have that human touch quality. There is something special in a handmade detail that can add value to a design or an illustration piece. Since last year in March, when … Read the full Story >>
Will Van Overbeek, a native Californian, studied photography with Garry Winogrand at the University of Texas, Austin, in the 1970s. Searching for the subject of an extended documentary project, he looked at a nearby local pool that pulsated with life. "It was the height of the hippie era and about half the women there were topless. I was too shy." Instead, he did a … Read the full Story >>
The topsy-turvy world of fantasy discovered by a bored little girl named Alice after she fell down a rabbit hole remains a draw for artists. Originally illustrated in 1865 by Sir John Tenniel, later by Salvador Dali, Dorothea Tanning, Max Ernst, and John Steadman, and more recently by Kiki Smith, Dan Graham, and Adrian Piper, the fantastical events that Lewis Carroll invented in Alice’s … Read the full Story >>
Artist books—broadly speaking, artwork conceived and produce along the lines of a book—cover terrain so diverse that it can be difficult to make distinctions between works on paper, sculpture, book, or pure object. This is what makes the subject so appealing, both to artists and to art lovers. Opening recently in San Francsico’s Legion of Honor is the exhibition Letter and Image: Inspired Alphabets … Read the full Story >>
Paolo Pellizari, France, Saint Macaire, Tour de France, through August 31 at Anastasia Photo, 166 Orchard Street, NY, NY. Tuesday, July 31, 2012 Book launch and opening reception, 6-9 pm: Kelly Roman | The Art of War. White Box, 329 Broome Street, NY, NY. Information. Wednesday, August 1 Artist talk, 6:30 pm: Shana Agid, Eileen Arnow-Levine, Ana Cordeiro, & Thomas Parker Walker | Tell Me How … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs & Special Events Thursday, May 8-Sunday, May 11 Pulse New York Contemporary Art Fair Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, NY, NY.Information. Thursday, May 8-Sunday, May 11 Cutlog New York 2014, The Clemente, 107 Suffolk Street, NY, NY. Information. Thursday, May 8-Sunday, May 11 Downtown Fair | Modern + Contemporary, Downtown Armory, 68 Lexington Avenue at 25thStreet, NY, NY. Information … Read the full Story >>
