DART celebrates its first anniversary with the most expansive issue of Photography Coast to Coast ever. Here are over one hundred places where you can see the best in photography today, with half of them in New York City. So if you're in town to help open the Fall season, keep this issue of DART handy. You'll easily find your way to the best … Read the full Story >>
Above: Mitch Dobrowner, Road; opening Saturday at Kopeikin Gallery The first week of September is a tsunami of art events, including the 14th Annual BLAB! Show. Organized by Monte Beauchamp, this year’s edition presents works by more than 70 artists, including DART subscribers Ana Bagayan, Cathie Bleck,Chris Buzelli, Marc Burckhardt, Matt Duffin, Owen Smith, Ryan Heshka, Travis Lampe, Tim O’Brien, and … Read the full Story >>
I loved the peace and quiet the pandemic lockdown afforded me. Of course, I feel badly for all the people who were suffering with the loss of loved ones—that goes without saying. During the quiet time I found that I could get a lot of work done without any distraction—it provided me with pure undivided attention to create new work in uncharted territory. I … Read the full Story >>
Thrill seekers – get ready for what might be the most exhilarating ten minutes in your weekend. STREB Extreme Action Company will be performing today and tomorrow at Gansevoort Plaza, courtesy the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Williamsburg-based performance company, headed by Elizabeth Streb, was commissioned by the Whitney to create a piece to celebrate the museum’s new building at the High Line. … 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 Christopher Darling, who lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio, where he is on the faculty at Kent State University in the School of Visual Communication Design. My favorite thing to do in any sketchbook is to draw people—to me, they … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, August 6pm: Sahana Ramakrishnan | Arctic Circle, talk at Fridman Sahana Ramakrishnan will share her recent experience in The Arctic Circle residency based in the remote Svalbard archipelago. Drawing from underwater recordings of belugas, narwhals, and bearded seals, she’ll explore Arctic ecology, sea ice, noise pollution’s impact on marine life, and reflections on Svalbard’s landscape and deep time. In her paintings … Read the full Story >>
Women’s Soccer “Forever” Stamp With two World Cup titles along with Olympic gold medals to its name, the U.S. national women’s team is considered among the best in the world, and the odds-on favorite to win the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, which continues through August 20 in Australia and New Zeland. Growing up, illustrator Noah MacMillan was a devoted fan and player … Read the full Story >>
With the Whitney Museum of American Art opening its new survey Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back on Monday, this week’s DART Artist Q&A features an interview Glenn O’Brien did with Warhol for Interview magazine [The Crystal Ball of Pop] in June, 1977. Warhol’s famously laconic speaking style often failed in its attempt to present him as a dumb blond; see for … Read the full Story >>
With her magically exuberant color palette, Aliza Nisenbaum tells human stories: painting people, individually or in groups, with their countenance, posture, and immediate surroundings organically composed to depict their connections with their families ,homes, and communitie. Above: Pedacito de Sol (Vero y Marissa), 2022 In this exhibition the artist’s years-long engagement with people at the Queens Museum and its neighborhood, Corona, highlights Nisenbaum’s personal … Read the full Story >>
Fiber arts—a newer name for “womens’ work”, is everywhere in museums and galleries—but nowhere is the idea of craft as art as environmentally equal to work made in metal and bronze by men more beautifully realized than it is today at Madison Square Park. Sheila Pepe, a feminist and queer artist whose elaborate web-like structures have been seen in New York in galleries and museums, … Read the full Story >>
It’s no lie: I love artists’ books and book arts. Last year around this time I received a windfall royalty check from the UK, and decided to invest profits from trade books into book arts. I took several courses at The Center for Book Arts, and have continued the practice in my home studio. My most recent project is a journal with a cover … Read the full Story >>
Juli, Ivo, little Karla and baby Marla were an urban family that moved to the country and settled down on an old, dilapidated farm in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the most rural of the German states. Marcus Reichmann, a photography student from Hannover and a long-time friend, started photographing them on visits he made to help them fix up the house. The result is a closely observed … Read the full Story >>
The Summer Sketchbook Invitational continues with Davide Bonazzi, who recently visited from Bologna, Italy, and sketched his way from San Francisco to the Grand Canyon. Have a look: I confess I'm not the kind of artist who absolutely needs a sketchbook when he travels. Mostly I just enjoy traveling light, keeping my eyes wide open and taking pics. I used to keep sketchbooks when … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Thursday, September 10-Sunday, September 13 + beyond Photoville returns to the Brooklyn Bridge Park this week, with more of everything you want from photography. The preview is on Thursday starting at 4 pm, followed by the opening night party at 7 with Down ‘n Dirty, celebrating music photography from over four decades curated by Janette Beckman. Info. More about nights … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / And Beyond Tuesday, May 23 James Welling in conversation with Quentin Bajac, Robert Slifkin, 6:30 pm. Celeste Auditorium, Celeste Bartos Education Center, The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwartzman Building, 5th Avenue at 42nd Street, NY, NY Info Wednesday, May 24 Brian Palmer | The Image of Greatness, 7 pm. ICP School, 1114 Avenue of the … Read the full Story >>
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 >>
