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 >>
Holiday Pop-Ups / Special Events Tuesday, December 8 - Saturday, December 19 David Zwirner Books, 529 West 20th Street, NY, NY. Info Saturday, December 12 Aperture Holiday Book Bazaar | Book Signings, 1-7 pm. Aperture Gallery, 527 West 27th Street, NY, NY. Info Howard Greenberg Gallery Holiday Book Fair, 11am-5 pm. 41 West 57th Street, NY, NY. Info Continuing through December 19: 37th Annual Holiday Sale. … Read the full Story >>
With only three Thursdays left in this cool rainy August - today in New York being a prime example - this is a good time to enjoy something uniquely refreshing. The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) is enhancing its "pay what you wish" Thursday evenings with not one, but two, special features. MAD Crush, a "pop-up" wine bar that will … Read the full Story >>
This just in: Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation announced The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards yesterday, celebrating the book’s contribution to the evolving narrative of photography. Two prizes will be awarded: First PhotoBook and PhotoBook of the Year. A preselected shortlist of thirty titles will be profiled in The PhotoBook Review; will be exhibited at Paris Photo at the Grand Palais and at Aperture Gallery in New York; and will … Read the full Story >>
The big news from the Whitney Biennial this week is that Pat Oleszko, the 79-year-old performance artist who repeatedly crashed the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade in the ‘70s, has taken home the 2026 Bucksbaum Award. This comes as a surprise to many in the media, who note that the award of $100,000 has generally served to elevate mid-career names—or sometimes a newly minted … Read the full Story >>
DART picks from shows that opened last week: Big Shots: Andy Warhol Portraits of Celebrites, on view through February 26 at Danziger Projects, 534 West 24th Street, NY, NY. Ray K. Metzker: Intimations, a selection of photographs from the 2007 retrospective Light Lines, through February 26th at Laurence Miller Gallery, 20 West 57th Street, 3rd Floor (between 5th & 6th Avenues), … Read the full Story >>
