Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, March 27 Talking About David Antin, 7:30 pm. Artists Space, 55 Walker Street, NY, NY Info Japanese Incarceration | Public Memory and Cultural Produaction, 6:30 pm. International Center of Photography, 250 Bowery, NY, NY Info New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium presents: Bill Plympton, 7 pm. The New School, 66 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, August 12-Sunday, August 16: Puppet Fringe Festival at The Clemente The 4th International Puppet Fringe Festival hits Manhattan with a sprawling, five-day low-tech takeover that defies the dusty constraints of traditional performance, leaning heavily into tactile storytelling, cardboard surrealism, and a timely showcase dedicated this year to Women in Puppetry. This multi-disciplinary gathering of 100+ international makers captures the creative energy that … Read the full Story >>
Up On The Roof: Petrit Halilaj | Abetare (Spider) at The Met The Kosovo-born artist draws intricate, goofy, figures in space against the Manhattan skyline—birds, flowers, Batman—in metal for the latest Rooftop Commission, which opened yesterday. But look a little closer and fearsome shapes emerge: a hammer and sickle, an ominous spider, indecipherable characters with no linguistic heritage. Halilaj brings to his work images from childhood … Read the full Story >>
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When is a pigeon not a flying rodent? Hmmm…that’s a tough one for me. But when I read about the new plinth commission for the High Line, it began to make perfect sense. Paris-based Colombian artist Iván Argote told a reporter for Hyperallergic, “As much as you can imagine or see what the reactions of people will be, you will always be surprised, because [creating a … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond Tuesday, August 15 SVA Alums present: PleinAir Drawing, 6-8 pm. Madison Square Park, Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street, NY, NY Info Wednesday, August 16 Bowery Poetry [hearts] John Giorno | Poetry Jam, 7 pm. Artists Space, 55 Walker Street, NY, NY Info Jill Mulleady | Figments, talk/screening, 7 pm. Swiss Institute, 102 Franklin Street, NY, … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Milano, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in your hometown? A: I like here but I also like many other places to live and work. In the last three years I've spent much time in the Tuscan country and I really enjoyed it. Q: Do you keep a sketchbook? What is the balance between art you … Read the full Story >>
In 1986, photographer Keith Carter set out on a Texas road trip with his wife Patricia in celebration of their ten-year wedding anniversary. Having been inspired by a chance meeting with the famous Texas playwright Horton Foote, Carter decided to focus his observations on his native East Texas as an exotic land. Left to right: Mt. Calm, TX, 1986; Maydell, TX, 1985; … Read the full Story >>
The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is a great destination for holiday museum hopping on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Currently on view through mid-January is How Posters Work, which explores the ways designers see--and produce--the medium beloved by graphic designers inventing and sharing new visual languages. Organized by Ellen Lupton, the museum's senior curator of contemporary design, the show features more than 125 … 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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
