When Donald J. Trump blasted his way into the White House through the bluster, bravado, and false claims of a used car salesman, he launched a new round of culture wars. In the past 14 months, which already seems like an eon, he has attempted to vitiate the foundations of what does make America great, from curtailing diversity through a stranglehold on immigration; attempting … Read the full Story >>
Special Events October 29-November 1 Photo Plus Conference and Expo. Javits Convention Center, NY, NY. Information. November 2 The Lucie Awards. Carnegie Hall, NY, NY. Information. Tuesday, October 28 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Picasso and the Camera | Curated by John Richardson. Gagosian Gallery, 522 West 21st Street, NY, NY. Opening: El Anatsui. Mnuchin Gallery, 45 East 78th Street, NY, NY. Book signing, 7:30 … Read the full Story >>
Every so often I happen on a gallery show that's just right. Today it was paintings by Alex Katz from the 1950s to the 80s at Adam Baumgold Gallery, on the Upper East Side. But just right for what, you probably wonder. For starters, the selection of 22 paintings, plus a drawing and a print, is just right for spending a half hour or … Read the full Story >>
For a primer on what it means to create something new in photography, take a couple of hours between now and next Monday noon to see more than a thousand photographs from the historic Polaroid Collection, on view until then at Sotheby's. The collection is being sold "by Order of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Minnesota," according to the … Read the full Story >>
Life without logos, loud colors, and sharp edges is peaceful and free of distraction—an opportunity to make your own mark for your lifestyle. And that’s the appeal of Muji—an aesthetic that embodies products that are rational, and free of doctrine, and ‘isms’. Based on an extreme form of simplicity and utility, Muji embodies a fantasy of Japanese culture—attributes that lie at the center of the … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, November 3, 6-8pm: Brice Marden | Let the painting make you at Gagosian One of the things about art is that it is full of contradictions. The only rule is there are no rules. But everybody works by rules. You set up your own rules. —Brice Marden (1938-2023) The exhibition features a group of large paintings that Marden made in his studio in … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Wednesday, September 21- Sunday, September 25 Photoville 2016, ; over 60 exhibitions, plus panels demonstrations, w, orkshopsnight time projections, and more, opening Wednesday, 4 pm. Brooklyn Bridge Plaza at corner of Water Street and New Dock Street, directly under the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, NY [Dumbo] Info Above: screening at Photoville 1 Thursday, September 22-November 3 Crossing the Line Festival. Various Venues, … Read the full Story >>
Driven from their homes by war and persecution, refugees from such countries as Somalia, Burundi, Bhutan, Iraq, Ethiopia, and Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) have been, with great hope and some difficulty, relocating to the United States for years. According to the Department of Homeland Security, more than 56,000 refugees were admitted to this country in 2011. For many, their first experience of America … Read the full Story >>
I was organizing jpegs for a story today when a thud near my elbow distracted me. The large jiffy bag that made the noise contained a copy of Pictorial Webster's, just in from Chronicle Books. This was a cause for procrastination! A welcome change from jpegs! An eyeful, a bouquet, and a banquet all rolled into one! I dutifully read the intro … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Saturday, December 13 Symposium, 10 am-4 pm: What’s Love Got to Do With It | with dance and theatre educator Jessica Berson, poet Andrew Durbin, photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier, artists Gerard & Kelly, and performance artist Jacolby Satterwhite. Moderated by Johanna Burton, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement at the New … Read the full Story >>
Q: What are some of your favorite things about living and working in your current locale? A: I’m in love with my city, Tel Aviv, which has the best of what you have in a big city—mixed population, tolerance, culture, many cafes as well as the best things you find in a small places: you can walk or bike anywhere, people are friendly, you … Read the full Story >>
Magdalena Jetelová, one of the leading Czech artists of the land art/installation school, has been curiously absent from view in recent years—especially from the New York scene. Hopefully, a major installation of her work at the Czech Center, which opened last night, will amend this situation. Multiplication of Horizons, the show’s title, comprised of two installations. The first, (Des)Orientation?, features a large, mirrored panel that … Read the full Story >>
Yesterday, The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened an exhibition of work by South African photographer Jo Ractliffe. Featuring 23 images produced over the past 10 years, the show examines the landscapes of Angola and South Africa as sites of conflict and contention. Focusing on the aftermath of the Angolan Civil War and the intertwined conflict known in South Africa as the "Border War," her … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs & Events January 23-26 The Metro Show. “Historic and contemporary American arts and design: paintings, furniture, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, folk art, ethnographic, textiles, Native American, and applied and decorative arts.” Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, NY, NY. Information. January 23-January 26: The Magic Hour: Harpers Books and Fulton Ryder pop-up shop at the Beverly Hills Hotel during the Grammy Awards. The … Read the full Story >>
DART picks from shows that recently opened: Christian Marclay: The Clock, continuous screenings on view through February 19th at Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 West 21st Street, NY, NY. The Diary: Three Centuries of Private Lives, on view through May 22 at The Morgan Library and Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, NY, NY.Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor: Land Distribution, on view … Read the full Story >>
The brothers Rob and Christian Clayton, in their upcoming exhibition Open to the Public, examine the mythos, culture, and visual language of an archetypal second-hand store located near their Los Angeles studio. Hailed as a thrifting mecca for several decades, Sun Thrift Store in Sunland, California, draws its share of both unusual characters and the commonplace man—all participating in the hunt for trash-turned-treasured objects. Drawing … Read the full Story >>
“I made a knife to cut fruit, but if others use it to kill, blaming me is unfair,” said Chinese painter Pei-Shen Qian in 2014 when he was indicted on charges of producing 40 worthless fakes that were subsequently sold by the Knoedler & Company gallery for tens of millions of dollars. Info In an interview by Bloomberg News in 2013, Qian said that he was the innocent victim of … Read the full Story >>
Puppets, like comics characters, get away with murder. From domestic violence a la Punch and Judy to racism and atonement via William Kentridge's Handspring Puppet Company, to the gleeful exposure of society's dirty laundry by Kara Walker or the scatological muckraking by the team that brought you "South Park," no subject is off limits. Avatars and sock puppets signify displaced identity and manipulation, central … Read the full Story >>
The POND is a body of work – vintage silver print photographs taken around and away from a muddy pond situated in an unkempt, wooded area behind a shopping center in Queenstown, Md. It was considered groundbreaking when first published in 1985, and remains one of the most important photobooks of the “New Topographics” mode, which includes Robert Adams’s The New West, Stephen Shore’s Uncommon Places, and … Read the full Story >>
Everyone who lives in a large city is an end user of public policy, urban design programs, and large-scale urban development, such as the massive transit hub that accompanies the recent development of the Barclay Center in downtown Brooklyn. Rarely, however, does the public have a voice in the future of their cities (a notable exception being the defeat of the West Side Stadium … Read the full Story >>
