Editor’s note: Alternative comics artist and illustrator Peter Kuper, a longtime contributor to DART, emailed me last week after cutting short his visit to Oaxaca, Mexico. Following is his report from the time he recently spent there.—PR Once again my wife Betty and I returned to Oaxaca for an extended stay and this visit we rented a place right in the center … Read the full Story >>
Minneapolis is an arts-forward city, home to major institutions that have recently built expansions by grandee architects including Frank Gehry (Weisman Art Museum), Michael Graves (Minnesota Institute of Arts), Herzog & de Meuron (Walker Art Center), and Jean Nouvel (Guthrie Theatre). A mecca for architecture aficionados, it was recently listed as one of Travel & Leisure's top 5 destinations. It is also home to … Read the full Story >>
The 2017 Summer Invitational: Pimp Your Sketchbook, in which artists show their personal work and open a window onto their creative process, continues with Eric Nyquist, who lives and works in L.A. My sketchbooks are so important to my work process. As with every creative practice, sometimes the ideas come easily, and sometimes they just don’t. Sketching is a building process. One sketch might … Read the full Story >>
The pre-Columbian Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead, celebrated the lives of the departed with food- and flower-based celebrations that were so popular that the observance spread beyond Mexico to South America, then to Europe and beyond. The holiday also promotes artistic expression in a nice D.I.Y. mould, with elaborate preparations including the building of alters, the sculpting of goddess-like avatars, and even … Read the full Story >>
2017 marks a hundred years since the founding of De Stijl (Dutch for “style”), a legendary group of artists and architects that revolved around Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian and Gerrit Rietveld. Museums throughout the Netherlands will be celebrating this special year, headlined by the exhibition 100 Years of De Stijl at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Meanwhile in The Hague, where the world’s largest … Read the full Story >>
Special Events July 4-September 25 Les Rencontres de la Photographie. Various locations, Arles, France. Info July 6-9 ICON9 | The Illustration Conference. Hilton Austin Hotel, Austin, TX. Info July 7-10 Market Art + Design | Hamptons. 2368 Montauk Highway, Bridgehampton Historical Society, Bridgehampton, NY Info July 7-11 Art Southampton. 60 Millstone Road, Southampton, NY. Info July 8-10 2016 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. Nathan Phillips … Read the full Story >>
Special Events May 28-30 Ideas City | New York City Festival for the Future Conference, 9:30am- 7:30 pm. Great Hall, Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, NY, NY. Information/Tickets More End of Year Shows Tuesday, May 26, 15 Cooper Union School | 2015 Annual Student Exhibitions, 5-9 pm. The Cooper Union, Foundation Building (7 East 7th Street), 41 Cooper Square, and 31 3rd Avenue, … Read the full Story >>
According to the borough president's office, Queens is the nation's most multi-ethnic county, where over 100 languages are spoken. The 7 train, which runs through it, is commonly referred to as the International Express, although it stops every few minutes. Even the site of the Queens Museum of Art, in Flushing Meadow Park, was home to not one, but two, World's Fairs. The … Read the full Story >>
For Illustrators: Opportunity KnocksEarlier this week, Julian Knapp, Creative Director of the Legatum Institute, reached out to DART with a view towards expanding the global talent pool available to this London-based organization. He wrote, “We are calling on illustrators to submit their visual take on what it means to be ‘genuinely prosperous'. “Our aim is for the winning entry to become the cover … Read the full Story >>
For many illustrators, being commissioned to create a U.S. postage stamp is a career high; getting a return engagement is even better. When I saw that Sergio Baradat has a set of five postcard stamps being issued this week, I called to ask the Miami-based artist about the allure of creating stamps. Tropical Fruit postcard-rate stamps by Sergio Baradat. "You know," he said, "When … Read the full Story >>
Last Chances: Tuesday December 17-Saturday, December 21 Special hours: SCARYOKE!!! | Organized by Dan Koi. The end of a 6-week party: a chance for New Yorkers to sing on a Saturday night, on their lunch hour, or after a morning jog. It is an experiment, encouraging visitors to explore the outer boundaries of their own performativeinstincts and capacity for risk-taking. You might be wondering, what … Read the full Story >>
Alternative endings; scenes that shift from reality to dream sequence; characters with multiple personalities; unreliable narrators—this is the stuff of film noir thrillers. Add to that a Faustean tale about an Everyman named Bill Grimm who is taunted by an evangelist preacher named Carl Bob Deville, a kind of modern Mephistopheles who is after Bill’s wife, Betty, and what you have is A … Read the full Story >>
Today, at the National Stationery Show being held at the Javitz Center in New York, Chronicle Books announced a global competition for notecard designs. Designers from around the world are invited to submit finished art for notecards to Minted (www.minted.com/contest) through May 24. Four different notecard designs will be chosen by Chronicle Books Executive Editor Christina Amini and her colleagues. These cards … Read the full Story >>
As the broadening financial crisis has many wondering if the American Dream will ever be theirs, an art project opening tomorrow in Madison Square Park offers much to consider in the meantime. Tree Huts, an installation by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata, seeks to explore the architecture of shelter and the idea of placing what is decidedly a private place - a home - into … Read the full Story >>
The subject of most of my pictures is a troubling mixture: buildings and roads that are often, but not always, unworthy of us; people we are, though they participate in urban chaos, admirable and deserving of our thoughts and care; light that sometimes still works an alchemy.—Robert Adams Since the late 1960s, Robert Adams has made the American West the subject of his work, … Read the full Story >>
Saturday-Sunday October 21-22: Open House New York Weekend “A pubic celebration of New York and the power of place! The 21st edition of Open House New York Weekend festival will offer a mix of in-person experiences, self-guided explorations, and digital content—inviting you to get an insider’s look at everything from single rooms, studios, factories, and public spaces to entire buildings, blocks, bike corridors, and waterways. Above: … Read the full Story >>
October for book lovers concludes with a flourish as usual, with the annual Editions/Artists' Book Fair. EAB's opening night gala on Thursday, October 30th benefits P.S. 1's exhibitions and public programs, and tickets are reasonably priced. But there are plenty of events and signings before that, starting with Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf's talk at Aperture tonight at 6:30. Please check websites for information and … Read the full Story >>
Lens, the photojournalism blog of The New York Times, recently held a cellphone photo contest, which was open to all readers. Out of 1,524 photos submitted, Josh Haner, a regular contributor, selected 353 photos that he thought were worth sharing with a wider audience. "Many entrants," writes chief Lens blogger and photographer David W. Dunlap, "focused on the sky, capturing moody … Read the full Story >>
As the music industry struggles to reinvent itself in today's digital environment, this is a good time to look at work by the artist credited with inventing the record album. Tomorrow night in L.A., the Robert Berman Gallery opens the first exhibition of work by Alex Steinweiss, who in 1939, at age 23, created both the jacket art and a marketing strategy for the … Read the full Story >>
Should you skip the always colorful Easter Parade on Fifth Avenue this Sunday, make a visit instead to East 57th Street, on Saturday. Photography galleries along this luxe shopping strip are currently presenting black and white images that offer stark relief from the color that usually prevails. At Pace/Macgill, work by one of the most influential figures in contemporary photography is now on view. … Read the full Story >>
