In 2006, Gap windows in the US and the UK hosted Product (Red), a campaign created by rock star Bono to help raise money for the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa. "Can a T-shirt change the world?" was the slogan. Red T-shirts emblazoned with statements like EMPOW(Red) and ADMIRE(Red) helped bring awareness to the program, which also partnered with Armani Exchange, Converse, … Read the full Story >>
Editor’s note: With ICON9 The Illustration Conference on the horizon—four days of art, discussion, performance, and plenty of talk in Austin, TX—the current roster for the Q&A is peopled with many of the exceptional artists making presentations during this biannual artfest. Robert Hunt will give a workshop on Thursday, July 7, at 10:40 am. InfoQ: Where are you from and where do you live and … Read the full Story >>
Tuesday, January 7 Artists’ talk, 6:30 pm: Edmund Clark and Jacqueline Hassink in Conversation. In conjunction with the exhibition Prix Pictet: Power. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27th Street, NY, NY. Information. Wednesday, January 8 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Paper | 20 Danish Artists, Works on Paper. Munch Gallery, 245 Broome Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Matthew Oates. Station Independent Projects … Read the full Story >>
The observance of the 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth, in 1897, is being celebrated with exhibitions, tours, and special events, from New York City to the prairie states that were the architect’s home turf. Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive continues through October 1 at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, NY, NY Info Read the … Read the full Story >>
A media event is something that happens only because someone made it happen. Today, the top producer of media events is arguably Donald J. Trump. But between 1968 and 1978, the Bay Area artists’ collective known as Ant Farm used performance art as a platform to publicly announce their disenfranchised view of consumptive culture and media. For their 1975 piece, Media Burn, performed … Read the full Story >>
The ICP Library, located in the ICP School, beneath the original glass cube on Avenue of the Americas at 44th Street, is jammed with visual treasure. With open shelves, a large selection of periodicals, and a window that serves as an exhibition space, the Library is a photobook-lover’s destination. The current window offering is Photobook Tehran, which is on view concurrent with a … Read the full Story >>
Digital art pioneer Barbara Nessim has been at the forefront of the new media revolution as an artist, an illustrator and an educator. With The Model Project, closing this Saturday at DFN Gallery, she takes a cutting edge view of fashion's hold on women with a limited edition series of large scale collages printed on aluminum panels. The culmination of a two-year … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Continuing through March 18 Asia Week. Various venues, NY, NY Info March 15-26 New Directors | New Films 2017. MoMA, 11 West 53rd Street, & The Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center. Info Resist | Protest Wednesday, March 15 Designing Resistance | How to Create and Distribute Political Art & Design, with Intererence Archive, 7-9 pm. SVA Library, 380 Second Avenue, … Read the full Story >>
Loneliness, loss, depression—these are subjects that regularly engage Keith Negley in his editorial illustrations for national media such as the New York Times, The New Republic and McSweeneys, among others. But the artistry and the feeling of serenity he brings to these images are life lessons in themselves. Keith recently took the DART Artist Q&A and here’s what he wrote: Originally from Door County Wisconsin by way … Read the full Story >>
Just as New York's gallerists take a deep breath and mark their calendars for a summer slowdown, Brooklyn's arts organizations take charge. This weekend alone, artists in Red Hook/Carrol Gardens, Flatbush and Bushwick open their studio doors to the public. But if you must remain in Manhattan, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art's annual festival brings artists from all over who will be … Read the full Story >>
The author formerly known as acclaimed illustrator Lou Beach is debuting a collection of short fiction titled 420 Characters (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011) this week. For the social-network-media-challenged, the title refers to the maximum number of characters that a Facebook message may contain. Hmmm, you might wonder, as I did when I first heard of this enterprise. But Lou explained, in a recent email, … Read the full Story >>
For the IDEAS CITY 2015 Street Program, The Drawing Center presented Balmori Associates’ Meditation Room: Horizon, on Saturday, May 30. In this two-layer, continuous wall of paper, mounted on to a sinuous frame of galvanized tubing, the overlapping of two dot matrix systems came together to create a visible horizon. Meditation Room: Horizon explored basic traits of landscape, in this case, the effect of an … Read the full Story >>
Talk / Discussion / Screening / and Beyond Tuesday, June 28 SVA Lunchtime Lecture Series presents: Jerry Saltz, 12:30-2 pm. Room 501H, 335 West 16th Street, NY, NY. Info Wednesday, June 29 Prix Canson 2016 finalist, ruby onyinyechi amanze and Prix Canson 2016 juror, Amanda Hunt, 6 pm. The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, NY, NY Info Strike Art | Contemporary Art … Read the full Story >>
Photographs from the Henry Buhl Collection, known as A Show of Hands due to the collection’s theme, were sold at Sotheby’s NYC on December 12 and 13. Stephen Perloff, Editor of The Photo Review, interviewed Mr. Buhl last week. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought? In 1993 I bought Alfred Stieglitz's gelatin silver print from 1920 of … Read the full Story >>
Editor’s note: With ICON9 The Illustration Conference just a month away—four days of art, discussion, performance, and plenty of talk in Austin, TX—the current roster for the Q&A is peopled with many of the exceptional artists making presentations during this biannual artfest. Gemma Correll gives a talk on ideas and inspiration on Saturday, July 9, at 3 pm.Q: Originally from the UK, what are … Read the full Story >>
The Great Wall of China, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is not a single unbroken structure but stretches for thousands of miles in sections, from Shanhaiguan on the east coast to Jiayuguan in the windswept sands on the edge of the Gobi desert to the west. According to a report in The Beijing Times last week, it is so dilapidated in places that estimates of its total length vary … Read the full Story >>
This weekend, Creative Time, New York's prime proponent of avant-garde art and performance projects, continues the largest public art initiative in its 34-year history at the Park Avenue Armory. Democracy in America: The National Campaign takes over the historic structure for six days starting Sunday, September 21st. The year long project, in which the organizers traveled across the country to measure the state of … Read the full Story >>
Montpellier, the capitol of Languedoc-Roussillon, is France’s fastest-growing and youngest city, with over a third of its population made up of university students. It’s also a bit like Paris with palm trees, but smaller and easily manageable on foot, bicycle and the ultra-chic tram system. One of the standout art experiences there is La Panacée, the new contemporary art center housed in a historic building … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from the North of Spain, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in the South? A: Originally from Asturias, my favorite things about living and working in Barcelona are the huge amount of culture and artistic forms. I like meeting my colleagues for exhibitions, discovering art everywhere or going around town by bicycle, as if it were a … Read the full Story >>
According to his blog, Eric Nakamura, co-founder of Giant Robot, is a big baseball fan. He even plays third base for the aptly named Giant Robot softball team. So it's not surprising that the show he's opening at GR/2 this weekend is a celebration of sporty fun by Misaki Kawai. Illustrations above by Misaki Kawai, courtesy of GR/2. The artist, who divides … Read the full Story >>
