Art on Paper, this week at Pier 36Talks / Art Fairs / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Wednesday, March 6 Art Talks, Stonewall 50: Love and Resistance | Photographs from the Stonewall Era, 6:30 pm. New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Celeste Auditorium, Fifth Avenue at 42ndStreet, NY, NY Register Friday, March 8-Sunday, March 10 How We See: Photobooks … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Thursday, September 15 – Sunday September 18 NY Art Book Fair 2016. MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, NY Info September 13-25 Taryn Simon | An Occupation of Loss. Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, NY, NY Info Continuing through November 18 Asian Contemporary Art Week. Various locations in New York City. Info Books / Talks / … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / Art Fairs / and Beyond Tuesday, October 24 Sale to benefit relief efforts in Mexico City and Puerto Rico, 6-8 pm. Baxter St / Camera Club of New York, 126 Baxter Street, NY, NY Info Optics: A New Way of Seeing Contemporary Culture | Protest, 6:30 pm. International Center of Photography, 250 Bowery, NY, NY Info NYU’s … Read the full Story >>
George Sand (1804-1876), the French polymath so sure of her creative powers that she took a masculine name, wore bespoke frockcoats over her dresses and smoked cigars. She was adored by both men and women, and was held in high regard by cultural luminaries such as Flaubert, Victor Hugo and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Not only did she write novels (more than 70), plays (30), and … Read the full Story >>
Above: From Another Country in New York. © Daido Moriyama, courtesy Galerie Alex Daniels/Reflex Amsterdam. 2012 can be called the “Year of Daido Moriyama,” starting with the ICP Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement, in May. Even before that, the energy began to gather with the presentation by Ivan Vartanian from Goliga Books of Printing Show—TKY at Aperture Gallery on the weekend of November 4, 2011. … Read the full Story >>
Paul Klee | Other Possible Worlds at The Jewish Museum Paul Klee, who was not Jewish, was one of the first artists the Nazis declared “degenerate,” a descriptor applied to the abstract artists, who often were Jewish, that the regime sought to smear as sick, immoral and corrupting to the idea of German culture that Hitler promoted, As noted in the Forward, 17 of … Read the full Story >>
This just in from Brian Palmer: Like several hundred others, I spent the early hours last Friday morning at the Occupy Wall Street protest just a couple of blocks north of Wall Street, at Zuccotti Park. I saw clusters of grungy, crunchy kids lounging and talking, several long-haired and funky lefties closer to my age holding forth, giddy tourists angling for photos, plus thousands … Read the full Story >>
Legacy Russell on #GLITCHFEMINISM: In a society that conditions the public to find discomfort or outright fear in the errors and malfunctions of our socio-cultural mechanics—illicitly and implicitly encouraging an ethos of “Don’t rock the boat!”—a “glitch” becomes an apt metonym. Glitch Feminism, however, embraces the causality of “error”, and turns the gloomy implication of glitch on its ear by acknowledging that an error … Read the full Story >>
The headline and deck in the New York Times online article reads, “Hands Off the Library’s Picture Collection: Cornell, Spiegelman and Warhol browsed the famous collection of images in the New York Public Library. Now a century of serendipitous discovery will come to an end if the collection is closed off to the public.” Above:Jessica Cline, the current head of the Picture Collection; photo: … Read the full Story >>
David Benjamin Sherry, from American Monuments, courtesy of Salon 94 In the current issue of Photograph, Editor Jean Dykstra writes about the exhibition of Isa Leshko’s black-and-white photographs of farm animals, opening this week at ClampArt Gallery, [her] “portraits bring to mind Peter Hujar’s photographs of animals, which similarly captured the particularity of a dog or horse (or goose or goat), a sense of … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Frieze Week 2017 Frieze New York: May 5-7 | VIP Preview May 4 Randall’s Island, NY, NY Info Frieze Projects 2017 includes a “secret theater” screening videos by Jon Rafman that combines amateur 3-D animation and computer-generated erotica, with the audience becoming part of the performance. Photo: © Peggy Roalf for DART TEFAF New York: May 4-8 | VIP Preview May 3 … Read the full Story >>
Continuing: Cecily Brown | Death and the Maid at The Met For more than twenty-five years, Cecily Brown (b. 1969) has transfixed viewers with sumptuous color, bravura brushwork, and complex narratives that relate to some of Western art history’s grandest and oldest themes. After moving to New York from London in the 1990s, she revived painting for a new generation alongside a handful of … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Tuesday, June 13 39th Annual Museum Mile Festival, 6-9 pm. Free admission to seven institutions between 82nd-105th Streets. Info Thursday, June 14-Sunday June 25 16th Annual River to River Festival. Various locations in Lower Manhattan. Info Kick-off party: Wednesday, June 14, Pier A Harbor House, 6-8 pm. RSVP Friday, June 16-Saturday, June 17 Typographics@Cooper Union conference. The Great Hall at … Read the full Story >>
February 12-May 8, 2021: Border Cantos | Sonic Border Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Border Cantos | Sonic Borders is a collaboration between photographer Richard Misrach (born in Los Angeles, 1949) and sculptor and composer Guillermo Galindo (born in Mexico City, 1960) that addresses the humanitarian situation at the wall between the US and Mexico. Above: Richard Misrach. Wall, Jacumba, California (El muro, Jacumba, California), … Read the full Story >>
With people away, wild things have come to play. Since the world went into isolation, the planet's ecosystem has been readjusting. There is less pollution now -- the air has cleared over Los Angeles and Wuhan, China, for instance. And wild animals are finding they are more free to walk wherever they want. This week The Washington Post featured photojournalist Oded Balilty's images of … Read the full Story >>
This week saw charges of censorship aimed at an unexpected source: Recently, the Sony World Photography Awards revealed the shortlist for its 2020 professional competition, including several series relating to protests in Hong Kong. Then came news that those entries had been removed from the competition's website. That controversy was followed by the news that the United States had declared five Chinese news outlets … Read the full Story >>
This was a week of winners and losers. Among the winners was Associated Press photographer Burhan Ozbilici, whose dramatic photograph of the assassination of Russia's ambassador to Turkey in December was named the Photo of the Year in the 2017 World Press Photo contest. Meanwhile, Los Angeles Times photographer Marcus Yam won 2016 Newspaper Photographer of the Year prize at the 74th Pictures of … Read the full Story >>
When something ceases to live, what is left behind? It's a philosophical question. It's a religious question. and for Chester Higgins, Jr., it's a photographic question. Higgins has been an esteemed figure in the New York photography world for decades: A staff photographer for the New York Times from 1974 to 2014, he has also traveled yearly to Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan to photograph … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond Monday, September 11-Sunday, September 17 & September 21-24 Photoville 2017. Exhibitions, Workshops, Talks, Screenings, Beer Garden/Food Trucks, Dog Run, and more! Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY Info [Dumbo] Monday, September 11-Suday, September 17 After School Special | Film and Animation Festival featuring Bill Plympton, Mark Ulano, and more. SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd … Read the full Story >>
Friday, February 13: Art of Noise at the Cooper Hewitt Museum “Music is the soundtrack to our lives, and design is at the center of how we experience it,” said Maria Nicanor, director of Cooper Hewitt. “Through iconic works that many will be able to trace back to their own memories, ‘Art of Noise’ underscores how design shapes the very emotions of our … Read the full Story >>
