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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
While the illustrator Brad Holland may not be a household name, you could say that if anyone represented the power of illustration to provoke, over the past half century, it would be this artist. Entirely self-taught, he worked his way up from studio rat, sweeping floors in a Chicago tattoo parlor to being one of the first in The New York Times’ roster … 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 >>
Thursday, February 4, 6:00-8:00 pm | Donna Karan and Valerie SteeleParsons The New School for Design presents an evening with alumna Donna Karan, who helped to initiate the school's innovative new graduate program in fashion through her support. Karan will discuss her work and career, and how it has helped shape this new program. The conversation, moderated by Valerie Steele, Director and Chief … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Art Fairs / and Beyond Tuesday, March 26 Wednesday, March 27 Marie Tomanova | Young Americans, book signing, 6-8 pm. Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, NY, NY Info My Tiny Atlas: Our World Through Your Eyes, book launch and panel with author Emily Nathan; Adobe visual trends expert Brenda Mills; Aperture Executive Director Chris Boot, 6:30-8:30pm. Info Ellen Rothenberg … Read the full Story >>
Above: From “Eddie Martinez Whistles While He Works” by Wesley Miller & Nick Ravitch, being screened tonight at the Big Screen Plaza. A new moon is rising, waxing to full on Tuesday night. But if you look skyward tonight at 6th Avenue and 29th Street, the stars of ART21’s New York Close Up series will be screened at the Big Screen Plaza at … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, September 8, 6-8 pm: Lynsey Addario | The Masters Series Awards Ceremony at SVA Chelsea This fall, School of Visual Arts (SVA) will honor Lynsey Addario, acclaimed war photographer, MacArthur Genius Grant and Pulitzer Prize recipient, with the 32nd annual Masters Series Award and Exhibition. Curated by Maya Benton and Perri Hofmann, the exhibition is a comprehensive retrospective of her fearless, two-decade journey documenting humanitarian issues … Read the full Story >>
David Hockney, England’s most celebrated living artist, took New York by storm this spring: first with the major retrospective at The Met [featured in DART]; then with his cover for The New Yorker’s April 23 travel and food issue; and concurrently, a major show of recent work at Pace Gallery, which is closing this Saturday. Info An artist who has made swimming … Read the full Story >>
