How many artists out there have spent time pawing through one of the world’s most comprehensive “flat files” in search of reference material? If you’re within a 10-mile radius of my desk, you probably know that I’m referring to The New York Public Library Picture Collection. Not only is it the biggest—with over 1.2 million pictures—you can borrow up to 60 pieces at a … Read the full Story >>
Social Network: The Original Model On grant applications I check the box next to ‘Artist.” It never occurred to me to select “Art Collective.” But, perhaps I should. I never work alone; my collaborators just don’t happen to be human. Early on I raised my colleagues – fed them, housed them, cleaned up after them. The dialogue was between me and the cockroach, me … Read the full Story >>
Yesterday's mail brought an announcement from Dan Cooney about a special program taking place this Saturday at the photography galleries in Chelsea's 511 West 25th Street. The announcement reads, in part, "participating dealers will be available to discuss the joys of giving photographs for the holidays. Brief talks by several gallery owners displaying their expertise will be featured throughout the afternoon." Some of the … Read the full Story >>
Even if the streets are slippery with snow, here are five reasons—and more—to head out this weekend: Outsider Art Fair 2016 Thursday, January 21-Sunday, January 24 Outsider Art was first defined as the English equivalent of "Art Brut," a term invented by Jean Dubuffet, who championed art created outside the confines of "official" culture. The popularity of this strain of highly individualistic artistic production … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, December 13, 6-8pm: Holiday Caroling and Art Crawl, DUMBO This inaugural event features 5 musical acts, large-scale holiday projections, free drinks, DUMBO Dollars and indie businesses open late. Pick up your Stamp Card at Susan Smith McKinney Park, collect your stamps at seven stops, and redeem them for free drinks. Enjoy live music by Vertrees and the Mistletoes, and watch holiday animations, designed … Read the full Story >>
I feel a little bit guilty that I have enjoyed being isolated so much over the past year. I think that it’s not unusual for an artistic temperament to include the ability to vacillate between being very social and very reclusive—and seclusion is really when we get things done. A positive result of this isolation is that I have made a lot of work—and … Read the full Story >>
Comic Arts Brooklyn [CAB], organized by Desert Island Books, which created its original, now defunct incarnation, Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, promises a wild wind-up for Illustration Week. The programming is directed by Paul Karasik, a cartoonist whose work often appears in The New Yorker, and who was an editor at RAW magazine in the ‘80s. Highlights include a panel discussion to mark the 20th anniversary … Read the full Story >>
This week the Park Avenue median between 52nd and 60th Streets becomes a summer playground for nine super-scaled polyester resin/ceramic sculptures by the French/American artist Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002). The best of these, Serpent Tree, from 1999, is a raucous, colorful take on the mythological representation of women commandeering serpents to vanquish enemies or to recall Minoan fertility goddesses who tamed serpents to guard against tomb … Read the full Story >>
When the spring downpours taper off, artists across the tristate open their studio doors. Today, DART offers the first in a rush of opportunities to visit art makers at work and a couple of related programs; these take place this Saturday and Sunday unless noted. Stay tuned for more to come. Dumbo Open Studios 2024, 1-6pm Visitors will see work from artists … Read the full Story >>
With the growing interest in artists books, from concertina fold-outs made by schoolchildren, to punk and no-wave zines that can be found at comics fairs, to one-of-a-kind objects created by artists such as Ed Ruscha (Twenty-six Gasoline Stations) and Tauba Auerbach (How To Spell the Alphabet), there is also an increasing need for education, and information about the genre. The Center for Book Arts, which was founded … Read the full Story >>
The first 100 lots in the Polaroid Collection sale went on the block at noon yesterday, with only four items not sold. Any worries that so many photographs by Ansel Adams being offered together could have a negative effect on value have, so far, been eased. A mural-sized print of Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park (below, center) went for $722,000, estimated at $300-500,000 … Read the full Story >>
When the DIA Art Foundation opened the Beacon/Riggio Galleries for contemporary art four years ago, the formerly down-at-the-heels Hudson River town quickly began to gain some luster. Second home buyers soon arrived, followed by artists, then by young professionals commuting to Manhattan a few days a week. Inevitably, new restaurants and contemporary art galleries began moving into the 19th-century brick row houses on Main … Read the full Story >>
On my way to the Museum of Modern Art the other day, I turned the corner at 53rd and Park and was met with a colossal dose of eye candy. Lever House, one of the city's landmark Modernist buildings, has been consumed at street level by the riotously colorful art of Richard Woods. Photograph courtesy Perry Rubenstein Gallery The British artist, known for installations … Read the full Story >>
Three by Edward Sorel: Robin Hood, illustration from the Washington Post Book World, 1991; The Washington Shootout, illustration for the Republic, 1972; Tower of Babel, illustration from the cover of The New Yorker, 1995. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25 Masters Series Artist Talk, 7 pm: A conversation with Edward Sorel and James McMullan. SVA Theater, 333 West 23rd Street, … Read the full Story >>
As two out of America's Big Three automakers continue their downward spiral, our car culture shows little sign of taking a reality check. While many home buyers are seizing on real estate foreclosures and flipping to a more upscale lifestyle, car buyers are also taking advantage of overcrowded dealership lots for bargains on gas guzzling SUVs. If we are what we drive, and bigger … Read the full Story >>
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 >>
