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 >>
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 >>
