Surrealism, the art movement that originated in Paris around 1924, is widely perceived to be a European model that engaged in playful but often darkly realized takes on dreams and the unconscious as they materialize in daily life. Salvador Dali’s melting watch, or Rene Magritte’s miniature train that shoots out of a fireplace come to mind in this context. A new exhibition, Surrealism Beyond … Read the full Story >>
Born in Finland in 1948, Sirrka-Liisa Konttinen studied photography in the UK in the 1960s. In 1969 she began a long-term project, interviewing and photographing the residents of Byker, an area of Newcastle, where she lived. Above: David, with daughters Kadie and Robyn-and Ty-dog, 2008. © Sirrka-Liisa Kontinnen/Amber Collective The entire area, largely comprised of Victorian structures covered in industrial soot, was razed during the Thatcher years to make … Read the full Story >>
Limited-edition and one-off books as a medium of artistic expression have a heady kind of allure. Made by artists for an audience that appreciates transgressive art, these creations often push the limits of content and the notion of what physically comprises a book. Currently on view at The Center for Books Arts is an exhibition that goes a step further. Fun & Games (and … Read the full Story >>
Ellen Weinstein, whose editorial illustrations are something of a way of life for print readers, is also an in-demand speaker at workshops and events from Beijing to Bogota. Her recent book, Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity (MoMA 2017), is about to be partially eclipsed by Recipes for Good Luck: The Superstitions, Rituals and Practices of Extraordinary People (Chronicle 2018), which … Read the full Story >>
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 >>
Earth Day, for me, has always felt less like a global mandate and more like a quiet, necessary recalibration of the eye. It’s that brief, sharp moment each April where we’re asked to stop simply consuming the landscape and start actually seeing it—the way the light hits a revitalized urban garden or the stark, graphic silhouette of a lone tree against a changing … 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 >>
