Art Fairs & Special EventsWednesday, May 14-Sunday, May 18 LIC Arts Open / 54 locations across Long Island City, NY. Over 250 artists are transforming Long Island City into a cultural adventureland of galleries, performance spaces and open studios. With 85-plus exhibitions and events, and over 160 artists opening their studio doors, LIC Arts Open will likely be the biggest event happening in the five boroughs this … Read the full Story >>
Margit Lewczuk, Drums for Connie, 2006 [detail]; poetry reading Saturday at New York Studio School Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Thursday, February 28-Sunday, March 3 ADDA: The Art Show. Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue and 67thStreet, NY, NY InfoSaturday, March 2 Brooklyn Rail presents: Poems for Margrit Lewczuk’s Angels, 5-7 pm. New York Studio School, 8 West 8thStreet, NY, … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond Tuesday, August 22 Shelley Hirsch | Book-Bark-Tree-Skin-Line, performance, 1-2:30 pm. Madison Square Park, Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street, NY, NY Info Additional performaces through Saturday, August 26. DRAFT_, Movement & Art | Choreographer: Burr Johnson; Dancer: Russell Stuart Lillle; Visual artist: Christopher Stout, 6:30-8 pm. MW Proects, 218 West 57th Street, NY, NY Info Thursday, … Read the full Story >>
Self. Family. Memory. Loss. Displacement. Catastrophe. These are subjects of concern in the visual arts—perhaps never more so than today. As the planet degrades at an accelerating pace; as war, poverty, displacement, tribalism, nationalism and other such human catastrophes fail to be contained, photographers in particular make these subjects the focus of their work. And with increasing frequency, the self-published photobook is the locus … Read the full Story >>
Invite a friend to a portrait photography exhibition, and chances are good that you'll go alone. But two group shows opening this week and next prove that there is more to portraiture than meets the eye. A New American Portrait, at Jen Bekman Gallery, presents work by nine photographers who blend fiction, truth and metaphor to create highly structured realities. Some are … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, December 21, 6-8pm: Exposure at Ceres Gallery Works by Marcy Bernstein, Robert Bunkin, Aliza Driller, Sung Gross, Leigh Jerome, Francine Perlman, Alan Reddick, Jenny Tango Ceres Gallery is a feminist, not-for-profit, alternative gallery in New York City, dedicated to the promotion of contemporary women in the arts. Over the years Ceres has encouraged not only artists but writers, musicians, dancers, poets and storytellers … Read the full Story >>
Film Still from Magnificent Cake, this week at Socrates Sculpture Park Summer in The City offers a feast of arts-related events—outdoors and in—across the boroughs. This week, for example: Wednesday, August 7 Screening: Rooftop Films presents: Dark ’Toons, 7 pm; Highlighted by De Swaef and Roels’ masterful This Magnificent Cake!, the films in this program utilize groundbreaking visual innovations, eerie sound design, … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from northeastern New Jersey, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Baltimore? A: It's weird, historic and cheap. It's an old industrial city wrapped around a harbor. There is at least one of everything here and greatseafood; a super nice creative community, perfect for artists to work and not have to chase a buck to make rent. We … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, June 12, 19 Reading:Harry Dodge | My Meteorite or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing, 7 pm. Callicoon Fine Arts, 49 Delancey Street, NY, NY Info Art Talk:Seph Rodney on Leonardo Drew’s City in the Grass, 6 pm. Madison Square Park, at the Farragut Monument, Broadway between 23-24thStreet, NY, NY Info Above: Leonardo Drew Installation, … Read the full Story >>
Miami is popular worldwide thanks to its year-round warm weather, its great beaches and intense nightlife, though Art Basel Miami Beach, which ended yesterday, has managed to shift the city’s attention more towards the arts in the past decade. Celebrating its tenth anniversary this month, Art Basel Miami gets enough national and international press to be known by pretty much anyone interested in … Read the full Story >>
Magnum Photos, the great photographer-owned and directed agency founded 60 years ago at New York's Museum of Modern Art, rings in another decade with a festival that runs through June. In celebrating the documentary tradition, the festival includes film as well as still photography, in venues all around town.Tonight, Robert Capa: In Love and War kicks off a month of special screenings at the … Read the full Story >>
Photographer Danny Lyon became famous for documenting the civil rights struggle and death row inmates in Texas prisons and riding with bikers in the 60s, To make these affecting, intimate images, Lyon was both a participant and an observer. He got to know his subjects and often captured their stories in highly descriptive, opinionated texts as well as in photographs. His goal, he said, … Read the full Story >>
Even with the centennial exhibition celebrating the life and work of Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), organized by the Walker Art Center in 2007, this quixotic figure still has been somewhat shrouded - both by the mystery she herself created as well as by the influence of others in her life, notably her husband, the muralist Diego Rivera. Frida Kahlo: Her Photographs, a new book … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from South Asia, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in the American heartland? A: Originally from India, I am currently based in Indianapolis. I love the peace & quiet in scenic Indiana, especially the stormy summer season. Q: Do you keep a sketchbook? What is the balance between art you create on paper [or other analog medium] versus … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Friday, July 22-Sunday, July 24 2016 San Francisco Art Book Fair, presenting its inaugural festival of artists' publications, with 70 independent publishers, antiquarian dealers, artists, collectors and enthusiasts. Minnesota street Project, 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA Info Lectures / Discussions / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, July 19 Lunchtime Lecture Series presents Dread Scott in conversation with Ron English, 12:30 pm. … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Connecticut, what are some of your favorite things about living in New York? A: I grew up in suburban Fairfield, Connecticut, always described, at the time, as a bedroom community for New York City. I never really understood what that meant, though it sounded slightly licentious. My parents were public school teachers so it was really a bedroom, living room and … Read the full Story >>
The tides are right and the corvina are close to shore. This kind of 'croaker' is delicious, running up to 20 pounds. We go to the beach at dawn and dusk, bobbing in waves up to our armpits, casting our lures, immersed in the transitional times of day, when its not so hot. By the third day of good fishing the word was out; four people fishing became a party of 45. … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, January 29, 6pm: Beatriz Cortez x rafa esparza: Earth and Cosmos at Americas This exhibition inaugurates a series in which Americas Society invites two artists who are friends and collaborators to jointly explore how they influence each other's work. This new approach shares insight into a vital part of artistic production that is seldom the subject of exhibitions: the conversations … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, May 14-Sunday, May 18: LIC Arts Open Had enough of global art fairs and commercial vibes? Join LIC Arts for 5 days filled with art, music, performances, and more. Immerse yourself in the local art scene and discover the zeitgeist of this vibrant art community, with Open Studios on May 17 & 18th from 12pm - 6pm. Whether you're an art enthusiast, … Read the full Story >>
If you're heading to Long Island's South Fork this weekend, and want to add an international art event to your calendar, consider the second annual installment of The Big Show, at Silas Marder Gallery. For the season opener, Silas Marder distributed custom-made 8 x 10" blank canvases to more than 50 painters. Half are from the Hamptons, known for its high concentration of … Read the full Story >>
