Leah Oates, an artist whose work involves photography, printmaking and art of the book, has opened a window onto springtime in the park — underground along the #7 line at the 42nd Street Bryant Park MTA Station. The new work for MTA Arts & Design is comprised of a 7-panel lightbox more than 50 feet long. The backlighted photographs were made, says the artist, at outer-borough parks where … Read the full Story >>
Betye Saar, the legendary Los Angeles artist, will be showing new work at Roberts & Tilton, opening on Saturday evening. The site-specific installation, The Alpha and the Omega, explores the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of a life journey, using objects that symbolize and memorialize life's milestones. Saar reimagines beds, chairs and tables which are stripped of their original context and become charged with new … Read the full Story >>
Skarstedt Paris presents Andy Warhol: Who is Who?, an exhibition that delves into the myriad influences art history had on Warhol’s work. The show, which closes on December 21st, traces his art historical appropriations throughout the 1970s and 1980s, featuring seminal examples of works from series such as Heads (After Picasso), The Last Supper, Mona Lisa, After de Chirico, and The Scream … Read the full Story >>
Barbara Nessim, whose solo show at London’s V&A Museum continues through May 19th, could be called an “accidental feminist.” Coming of age as a woman and an artist before the term “glass ceiling” was invented, she made a place for herself in a man’s world, page by page, in her sketchbooks. You could almost say that she drew her way to the top. Nessim tells of … Read the full Story >>
When President George W. Bush and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani urged citizens to go out shopping and to a Broadway show to boost the U.S. economy after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, photographer Brian Ulrich hit the malls. He began making large-scale photographs that examine the oddities of American consumer culture. And he continues to explore the consumer wasteland of stores and products in a … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, March 20, Noon-5:00 pm Reception for Susan Wides | and something happens to the light”, a solo exhibition of her recent work at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, 37 Popham Road, Scarsdale, NY Info The title of Susan Wides’ new photographs and something happens to the light is a line from a poem Robert Kelly wrote in response to her work: Sometimes in the … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, May 22 Artists on Artists Lecture Series: Senge Nengudi on Joan Jonas, 6:30 pm. DIA:Chelsea, 535 West 22ndStreet, NY, NY Info Utopia / Dystopia: Fashion, Gender, and the Feline Divine, Jo Weldon lecture, 7 pm. Hauser & Wirth, 548 West 22ndStreet, NY, NY Info Feminist Documentaries [after 1968] by Carole Roussopoulos, screenings at 4 … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Registration is open: PCNW Long Shot 2014 with Ambassador photographers Lori Nix, Richard Renaldi, Hank Willis Thomas and more. One day of photo making on June 20. Review panel June 21. Fundraiser exhibition June 22. Register/$20. Tuesday, May 20 Panel discussion, 6 pm: Shomei Tomatsu | The Americans,with Leo Rubinfein, Dr. Miwako Tezuka, and Matthew Witkovsky. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, … Read the full Story >>
According to Andy Warhol, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Hardly anyone in his retinue, however, proved able to withstand the scrutiny of the movie camera he began using in 1963. When Warhol picked up a 16mm Bolex, he continued the photographic experiments he began by using photo booth portraits of the people who inhabited his studio. For the movies, each of … Read the full Story >>
Last chance—closing today: Pamela Council | A Fountain for Survivors, Duffy Square, Times Square, NYC. Jasmine Weber writes, in Hyperallergic: "Eighteen-feet tall, A Fountain for Survivors is a magnificent protrusion in the middle of Times Square that manages to stand out despite being surrounded by billion-kilowatt billboards advertising the Jolly Green Giant, Coca-Cola, and every other brand in the American capitalist lexicon. … Read the full Story >>
In 1989 a black-and-white comic by Richard McGuire, modestly titled Here, appeared in RAW magazine. It was quickly recognized as a game-changing achievement in graphic narrative. To mark the publication of Here as an all-new, full-color hardcover and e-book, an exhibition [opening September 25] at the Morgan Library & Museum explores the (re)invention of a contemporary classic. Here is one of the most … Read the full Story >>
Moments ago, as I was going for a second cup of Joe, ArtNet News posted a report on the very creepy and compelling illustration of the virus that causes Covid-19. Commissioned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it has become the unmistakable image of the novel coronavirus. And it is a case study in how artists can, in giving things a … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond Tuesday, July 24, 18 Get Loose Artists Roundtable | Cat Balco, Ben Godward, Jason Rohlf in conversation with curator Tracy McKenna, 6:30 pm. Rick Wester Fine Art, 526 West 26thStreet, NY, NY RSVP Artists at Work | Modupeola Fadugba, Yen-Ting Hsu, 6L30 pm. International Studio & Curatorial Program, 1040 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Info [Williamsburg] … Read the full Story >>
This weekend, Caroline Hwang, a Brooklyn-based artist transplanted from California, returns for her first solo exhibition in the Golden State. Giant Robot San Francisco is hosting an opening reception for an exhibition of her new work this Saturday from 6:30 - 10:00 pm. Influenced as much by her grandmother's crocheting and knitting as by crafts, graphic arts and quilting, Caroline's hand-stitched art has evolved … Read the full Story >>
Today’s edition of DART is a true Archive-Fest. It begins with an email sent this morning by Matthew Carson, Librarian & Archivist at the ICP Library. He has taken on the task of archiving the papers of Cornell Capa, founding director of ICP, and in a recent post remarked, “It is a LOT of material. There are some real gems in amongst the boxes … Read the full Story >>
Attention all illustrators: You can still get into it! You have until 8 pm EST today to enter the American Illustration 32 competition. Armory Art Week Salon Zürcher, March 4-1033 Bleecker Street, between Lafayette and Bowery, NY, NY. The Armory Show and The Armory Show-Modern, March 8-11.Celebrating its fifteenth year and paying homage to the 100th anniversary of its namesake, the legendary 1913 Amory Show International Exhibition of … Read the full Story >>
MAN RAY has one of the coolest names in the history of art. However, he was born Emmanuel Radnitzky. He rejected his birth name moved to Paris in 1921 and became the sole American in the vanguard of Parisian Modernism. This transformation represented a conflicted identity and his deep desire to escape the limitations of his Russian Jewish past. "Le Violon d'Ingres," 1924. Rosalind … Read the full Story >>
Zilvinas Kempinas, an artist known for instilling magical qualities into banal discards, notably magnetic tape, has taken a new approach to materials for his first major outdoor installation in the United States. Opening on May 11 at Socrates Sculpture Park, in Long Island City, Scarecrow, comprised of 200 mirrored stainless steel poles connecting ribbons of silver mylar, will create a 250-foot-long field of sound … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the brush or the pen? Anthony Freda: For me, the pen is the essential tool. It is a sixth finger that leaves a mark. PR: Please describe your work process—is most of your work done directly, or do you also use digital media? AF: Usually I start by working traditionally, then scan the piece and proceed to save the good … Read the full Story >>
Beauty and the Beast, Leda and the Swan—art history is populated with high-toned references to the inevitable convergence of the spiritual and the carnal, the angelic and the demonic. But Georges Hugnet, one of the lesser-known stars of the Surrealist movement, did one better in his satirical series titled La Vie Amoureuse des Spumifères or The Love Life of the Spumifers, which he created … Read the full Story >>
