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 >>
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 >>
