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 >>
Saturday, June 19, marks the anniversary of what we know as Juneteenth. According to the Smithsonian Institution, in 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, and over 250,000 enslaved Africans were declared free by the executive decree known as General Order No. 3. Today, Juneteenth celebrations take place largely in the form of regional parades, … Read the full Story >>
The judging is over. Today we announce the ten finalists of the American Photography Open 2020 competition. Congratulations to Dikye Ariani; Emily Bailly; Natalie Broders; Zay Yar Lin; Raquel Natalicchio; Swee Oh; Claudio Piccoli; Azim Khan Ronnie; Julia SH; and F. Dilek Uyar. This year we received thousands of entries from all over the globe from photographers at every level, and once again we … Read the full Story >>
Dr. Martin Luther King was murdered 50 years ago this month. June will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. This week we looked back at the two tragedies, as captured in historic photographs. One was an image of King's widow, Coretta Scott King, veiled at her husband's funeral. A year later, the photo, taken by Moneta Sleet Jr, was … Read the full Story >>
"Images are worth a thousand words. These images may be worth a million." US secretary of state Antony Blinken's response to being shown graphic images of the victims of Hamas's recent massacre raises an important question about whether photographs are more powerful than words in conveying the brutality of war, note Pippa Oldfield. Senior Lecturer in Photography, the UK's Teesside University, and Lucy O'Sullivan, … Read the full Story >>
Congratulations to photographer Daniel Castro: Last week Castro was named winner of the 2017 W. Eugene Smith Grant for his ongoing project "I Peri N'Tera" ("Feet on the Ground"), which investigates the refugee crisis in Europe. We also recently learned that South African photojournalist Brent Stirton's image of a de-horned black rhinoceros, killed by poachers in South Africa's Hluhluwe Imfolozi Park, earned him top … Read the full Story >>
Josef Albers’s Famous New York Mural Returns to New York Josef Albers’s enormous Manhattan mural has returned to the lobby of the former MetLife building. The mural was a central part of the Modernist lobby of the Walter Gropius-designed building at 200 Park Avenue, and there was widespread public outcry when it was removed during a renovation in 2000. It has now been recreated … Read the full Story >>
Once again, we launch Coast to Coast a couple of days early so you won't miss some opening nights this Thursday. Better still, BookSightings joins the party for the same reason: Richard Misrach, Pieter Hugo, and Frederic Roberts will be signing their new books at openings in New York and LA this week. Christopher Rauschenberg, Jenny Okun and Alicia Jackson will … Read the full Story >>
Amid visions of global migration, corporate power trips, portraits, camera-less photographs and the influence of Andy Warhol on image makers today, looking at the land and the ways in which people have altered it continues to fascinate. In at least 20 exhibitions, an incredible variety of approaches can be seen in the galleries this month, from the huge, digitally constructed panoramics of Scott McFarland … Read the full Story >>
Peter Beard. Santu Mofokeng. John Loengard. Those were some of the notable names in photography who died in 2019. Today we remember them, along with others whose passings we reported at Pro Photo Daily during the past year, including fashion photographer and portraitist Victor Skrebneski; Beatles photographer Astrid Kirchherr; Chinese dissident photojournalist Li Zhensheng; Paul Fusco, who photographed Robert Kennedy's funeral train; Chris Killip, … Read the full Story >>
Tom Stoddart. Hiro. June Newton. Those were some of the notable names in photography who died in 2021. Today we remember them, along with others whose passings we noted at Pro Photo Daily over the past year, including Daniel Wolf. Hiro, Alice Rose George, Mick Rock, Corky Lee, Nick Oza, Edward Keating, George Butler, Naomi Rosenblum, George Forss, Barbara Ess, Bill Beebe, Peter C. … Read the full Story >>
From Art Making to Art Thinking: New Paradigms for Illustration Education By Bryn Barnard, Instructor, DP Visual Art and Theory of Knowledge, American International School of Kuwait This article examines systemic, existential problems in the field of illustration education and explores potential solutions. When I was an illustration student at Art Center in Pasadena, California, I lived with a group of other aspiring artists in a seedy … Read the full Story >>
