Sarah Pickering has an uncanny knack for developing visual narratives designed to simultaneously scare and thrill the viewer. In her series, Explosions, which was exhibited at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in 2006, the bucolic English countryside is rocked by outbursts of napalm, land mines, artillery and other kinds of ordnance. Photographed on military proving grounds where scaled-down versions of the real thing are … Read the full Story >>
Anthony Freda, a painter and illustrator known for seamlessly incorporating 19th-century artifacts and ephemera into his work, has made the 19th century part of his daily life as well. Formerly based in New York, where he says, "I rarely went north of 14th Street during my last few years there," now lives in one of the best-preserved Victorian towns in America. Several years ago, … Read the full Story >>
Editor’s note: With ICON9 The Illustration Conference just a week away—four days of art, discussion, performance, and plenty of talk in Austin, TX—the current roster for the Q&A is peopled with many of the exceptional artists making presentations during this biannual artfest. Mark Kaufman will lead a workshop on Collage Improvisation on Wednesday morning. Info Q: Originally from Jersey City, NJ, what are some of … Read the full Story >>
Tristan Eaton, founder and director of Thunderdog Studios, is widely known for his eclectic murals, his popular lines of vinyl toys, his ad campaigns for Puma, President Obama, Dell and Nike, his recent modeling experience with The Gap and Annie Leibovitz, and nothing less than for being the founding creative director of Kid Robot. The credibility he's been able to build in the … Read the full Story >>
Marco Palli, from the series, The New Herd of Thoughts, opening Friday, February 15, at The New York Studio School, in Greenwich Village Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Friday, February 15 Early Italian Drawings at the Morgan | Rhoda Eitel-Porter, Edidtor of Print Quarterly, 6:30 pm. The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, NY, NY Info Tuesday, February … Read the full Story >>
Persia Tatar, a former colleague at DART's parent company, recently founded The Social Media Society - a social network designed to help social networkers take advantage of social networking. Did I really write that? Well yes, and that circlular sentence aptly, I think, captures the questions we often ask when trying to figure out how take advantage of quickly evolving marketing media available today. … Read the full Story >>
Almost 60 years after the commercial release of its first instant camera, Polaroid Corporation announced last week that it would cease manufacturing instant film. As reported on Bloomberg.com, the company that invented instant imaging will produce enough film to last into 2009 before closing plants in the U.S., Mexico and the Netherlands. For die-hard Polaroid fans, the company plans to license the technology … Read the full Story >>
Continue your summer art escapes into fall with stops across Harlem; then plan some day and weekend trips from Upstate to Long Island. Harlem Sculpture Gardens, NY Harlem Sculpture Gardens is a multi-site exhibition, curated to spread joy and beauty within the Harlem community. The exhibition features two dozen works by artists of color documenting identity, diaspora, and Harlem tradition across local public parks, … Read the full Story >>
From the M23 bus on my way to Chelsea galleries earlier this week, I saw something I've been looking forward to for several months. Atop the marquee of the SVA Theatre is Milton Glaser's Tatlin Tower, an homage to the great Russian visionary artist Vladimir Tatlin. Glaser, who is best known as the creator of the "I [heart] New York" logo and … Read the full Story >>
For artists and illustrators spending too much time in their studios, Pratt Institute's third annual Big Damn Prints event might be the way to creatively blow off steam. Over 40 artists and professors from Pratt's printmaking department will create more than 40 woodblock prints measuring 4 x 8 feet each. The blocks, which are too big for any local printing press, will be proofed … Read the full Story >>
CALLING ALL ARTISTS: Make art to support cancer patients and the visual arts. The Rema Hort Mann Foundation invites yor to submit drawings, paintings, mixed media - whatever is your passion - as long as it is done on a sheet of 8-1/2 x 11 paper. WHY: Your works on paper will be sold for $250 to support the Foundation's activities, which include … Read the full Story >>
Last year, the School of Visual Arts celebrated the 30th anniversary of its MFA Visual Essay Program, with the exhibition We Tell Stories. The show filled the SVA Chelsea galleries with works by over 300 of the 600+ graduates of the program. Now there is a video documentary about the show and the program, narrated by Marshall Arisman, the program’s founding chair. In 1984, Arisman, an … Read the full Story >>
Just a week from today, DUMBO - Brooklyn's art and media haven on the waterfront - will be transformed into an international destination for photography mavens. The second annual New York Photo Festival (NYPH) opens May 14th and runs through Sunday, the 17th featuring special exhibitions, panel discussions, screenings and book events, with notables from the world of photography. The New York Photo Festival … Read the full Story >>
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, Ramesseum, Thebes, 1844; this week at The Met Talks / Book Events / Screenings / Fairs / and Beyond Friday, February 1 The Power of Stores That Shape Us | Elaine Pagels and Dani Shapiro; Elizabeth Lesser, Moderator, 7 pm. The Rubin, 150 West 17th Street,, NY, NY Info Saturday, February 2 Brainwave, in collaboration with The Joyce presents: … Read the full Story >>
Pacific Standard Time LA/LA opens today at more than 50 venues across Southern California. A celebration of Latin American/Latino/Chicano art, this series of thematically linked exhibitions explore topics such as luxury objects in the pre-Columbian Americas, 20th- century Afro-Brazilian art, alternative spaces in Mexico City, and boundary-crossing practices of Latino artists. Exhibitions range from monographic studies of individual artists to broad surveys that cut … Read the full Story >>
Repetition—multiples, that is—and vagueness, were Andy Warhol’s stock in trade. In his choice of subjects for his photo-based portraits, by electing to portray world leaders of every stripe, he ensured that his own political views remained obscure. He made portraits of liberals like Robert F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter. But he also made portraits of Ronald Regan, Richard M. Nixon, and the Shah of Iran. … Read the full Story >>
An exhibition of photographs made during the 1950 and ‘60s by Nobel Prize Laureate, Martin Karplus, is currently on view at the Austrian Cultural Forum. Now a Harvard University Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, Dr. Karplus took up photography when he was given his uncle’s Leica as a gift upon completing his PhD at Cal Tech in 1953. When he was awarded a fellowship to study at Oxford … Read the full Story >>
This is the first in a series of reports on illustrated books for the holidays. My first stop was Dashwood Books, the only independent bookseller in New York solely devoted to photography. Opened in September 2005 by David Strettell, formerly Magnum Photo's Cultural Director, the shop at 33 Bond Street has become a drop-in spot for lively discussions about image making, books … Read the full Story >>
I just finished creating a large mural in the Palo Alto law offices of Simpson Thacher, working alongside my 22-year-old daughter Emma—both new experiences and a great time was had by all. Here’s the color sketch [above] that got me (us) the job. I wasn’t even sure I wanted to do this…never done a mural before, and I was not crazy about commuting an … Read the full Story >>
February 2nd, Groundhog Day, is Candlemas in the Catholic faith, or El día de la Candelaria in Mexico. It is forty days after the birth of Christ, as well as the midpoint between the solstice and the equinox, and a sacred day in the Aztec calendar as the beginning of the agricultural cycle. It is difficult to discuss La Candelaria without looking back to Christmas and the Epiphany (Día de los Reyes, January … Read the full Story >>
