Saturday, October 15 is City of Forest Day! Our Fair City is home to more than 7 million trees, hundreds of acres of woodlands, and miles of trials. A healthy urban forest makes for a healthy city, cleaning our air and water, cooling our neighborhoods, providing critical habitat for wildlife, and improving our environment. Presented by Forest for All NYC in partnership with the Parks … Read the full Story >>
What does the future hold for cameras? To see which way the wind blows, our prognosticating photographer Wiggy hits the streets (and the clubs) with the brand new mirrorless Pansonic Lumix G85 and the Lumix G Vario 12-60mm F3.5-5.6 ASPH lens! Read the full Story >>
Noguchi’s New York at the Noguchi Garden and Museum In 1922, Isamu Noguchi first moved to New York—a city that would remain his on-again, off-again home for the remainder of his life. Though he was an avid traveler who built meaningful connections and temporary homes around the world, Noguchi always returned to New York. It was here that he created some of his … Read the full Story >>
Did you enter the American Photography Open 2018 contest? The competition, which was open to all photographers at any level, brought in thousands of entries. From them, our judges chose 10 images from nine finalists: Susan Cannarella (Connecticut); Jose Maria Perez (Argentina); Stephen Hikida (Ohio); Alessandro Marcello (Italy); Debdatta Chakraborty (India); Chee Keong Lim (Malaysia); Mauro De Bettio (Spain); Zay Yar Lin (Singapore); and … Read the full Story >>
Martine Fougeron, whose work is regularly seen on the pages of the New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, and The New Yorker, among others, is a quintessential New Yorker, transplanted from France. Her exhibition, Teen Tribe, continues at the Gallery at Hermès through November 8th. Martine stopped shooting last week long enough to do this Q&A for DART:How were you first introduced to photography? I … Read the full Story >>
A master of surrealism, a young AI actress looking for an agent, and a World War I-era aviator took their place in photographic news during the final three months of 2025. In October, PPD spotlighted an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum examining Man Ray's "radical reinvention" of art through the rayograph--his term for the camera-less images he made of ghostly objects. We also … Read the full Story >>
Winning an award in international photo contests is the dream of many photographers and often the pinnacle of their careers. Beyond that, there is no doubt that winning a respected award can be a massive boon to a photographer's career. Many photographers find that participating in awards can not only get their work noticed and give them credibility as a photographer, but also spur … Read the full Story >>
In 2009, a watershed event occurred in filmmaking: the release online of Vincent Laforet's short film "Reverie." The first 1080p video shot with a DSLR--the Canon 5D Mark II--it was viewed over two million times in just a few weeks, and it helped turn Laforet, a one-time New York Times photographer, into an acknowledged leader in an emerging world of low-cost, versatile filmmaking. This … Read the full Story >>
Dan Bejar is a Brooklyn-based illustrator and artist. His illustrations are primarily monotypes on paper, and his smart, conceptual editorial work appears consistently in numerous publications. Bejar says that "illustration is about communication with images," and to that end he has also created vibrant artwork in a variety of mediums, whose purpose is "to critique and question the roles that history, place and identity … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, March 13: Self-Taught Artists at Hirschl & Adler Self-Taught Artists at the Crossroads of Fact and Fiction brings together works that explore the fluidity of truth and imagination, celebrating the unique ways in which these artists craft their own realities through art. Each piece in the exhibition offers a fresh, intimate view of the world, blending fact, myth, and fantasy into a … Read the full Story >>
On View through January 22 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is the exhibition "Bruce Conner: It's All True," the first complete retrospective of one of the foremost American artists of the postwar era. Conner emerged from the California art scene and created work touching on various themes of postwar American society, from a rising consumer culture to the dread of nuclear … Read the full Story >>
Activism is becoming a necessary way of life for many in the post-truth Trump era. Interference Archive—a people’s center for information and activism—is hosting its annual block party this weekend, in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, to broaden the reach of this organization's programs. Along with food, music, screen printing and other fun and useful stuff, IA is also offering a short drop-in … Read the full Story >>
Jonathon Rosen an illustrator, artist, animator, graphic designer, and bookmaker who creates smart, provocative, engaging imagery with highly original style and accomplished technique. He makes comics, editorial illustrations, drawings, art projects, animation, exhibits, books and book covers, and much more, and his work appears in a wide array of publications, galleries, performance spaces, and other venues. Rosen also teaches illustration, cartooning, and visual narrative … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Friday, September 18 Greenpoint Gallery Night. Various locations, including Dusk Editions, 7-10 pm. Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Information. Friday, September 18-Sunday, September 20 Printed Matter Presents the 10th Annual NY Art Book FairFree and open to the public, the NY Art Book Fair is the world’s premier event for artists’ books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines.This year, the fair features over 370 booksellers, antiquarians, … Read the full Story >>
Lorenzo Homar was a pioneering printmaker, poster designer, calligrapher, painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and costume and theatrical set designer. Active from the 1950s through the 1990s, few equal his impact and influence as a teacher of poster design and printmaking in Latin America. This exhibition focuses on his poster output over a thirty year period during which time his work reflected the complex history … Read the full Story >>
Harry Campbell creates illustrations that are super smart, highly stylish, consistently modern, and very cool looking. His brilliantly executed and designed vector drawings have become a mainstay in countless magazines and newspapers, most notably in The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He always amazes with his ability to illustrate and explain deep, complex stories with simples lines and colors. Harry's illustrations … Read the full Story >>
Last chance—closing today: Pamela Council | A Fountain for Survivors, Duffy Square, Times Square, NYC. Jasmine Weber writes, in Hyperallergic: "Eighteen-feet tall, A Fountain for Survivors is a magnificent protrusion in the middle of Times Square that manages to stand out despite being surrounded by billion-kilowatt billboards advertising the Jolly Green Giant, Coca-Cola, and every other brand in the American capitalist lexicon. … Read the full Story >>
Originally published in installments between 1844 and 1846 by photographer and inventor William Henry Fox Talbot, The Pencil of Nature was the first book to be illustrated entirely with photographs. Some scholars consider its importance in the history of photography to be comparable to that of the Gutenberg Bible in the history of printing. Talbot invented the Calotype process and his photographs transformed everyday subjects into … Read the full Story >>
"I have always felt better taking a risk than an easier route for what I believe in," said photographer Ernst Haas, who died 30 years ago, in September, 1986. All this week we have been paying tribute to Haas, whose color work revolutionized photography and whose teaching influenced a generation of artists. Throughout the past summer photographer Eric Meola collected reminiscences of many of … Read the full Story >>
The first installment of Jade Doskow's long-term photographic exploration of World Fair sites goes on view tonight at Onishi Project Gallery, in New York City. Having been following the progress of this work with interest, I invited the artist to do a Q&A for DART. Here is what she wrote:Q: How did your interest in architectural subjects take hold? A: I spent my … Read the full Story >>
