Continuing: Michael Lin | Pentachrome at The Met Michael Lin’s site-specific installation Pentachrome brings contemporary art to the Museum’s Great Hall Escalator for the first time. Inspired by The Met collection and the building’s architecture, Pentachrome invites visitors to reconsider the Museum’s Great Hall, its Balcony, and the surrounding art from a fresh perspective. For more than a hundred years, Asian art, especially Chinese … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from the south of Italy what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Rome? A: I was born in Lecce, a beautiful city in the Salento area, the southernmost part of the Adriatic coast. I’ve lived in several cities in Italy and abroad but currently I’m in Rome. I love to take long walks in the old city … Read the full Story >>
For most folks, Labor Day marks the end of summer. But we still have nearly a month of this season, with the weather rapidly improving. Here are a few ideas for celebrating art, nature and culture in a park or garden Saturday, August 31, 11:59pm: Last Chance for Marco Palli’s Our Gates Bring your own music and dance the night away at Our … Read the full Story >>
A week of illustration and celebration is coming up, with events and workshop that will appeal to all the overachievers out there. Each year, the days leading up to the launch party for American Illustration and American Photography brings people from near and far to town - and various arts organizations respond with fun and inspiring things to do. Here goes: Left to right: … Read the full Story >>
The Jewish Museum’s public art installation of a building-wide banner by artist Lawrence Weiner went on view yesterday on the building’s façade at Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street. Weiner’s ALL THE STARS IN THE SKY HAVE THE SAME FACE (2011/20) is a two-story graphic that stretches across the Museum’s Fifth Avenue-facing façade at 92nd Street. Celebrating our shared humanity along New York City’s Museum Mile, the … Read the full Story >>
THE WEST itself seems to be the star of current gallery offerings west of the Mississippi, from Carleton Watkins at the Getty to Elger Esser at Rose Gallery to Hollywood film stills at the David Gallery. Elsewhere, the landscape is viewed from above by Richard Misrach at Seattle's Henry Art Gallery and by Yiorgos Kordakis at M+B. Bill Owens' California suburbs still provoke double … Read the full Story >>
Rineke Dijkstra: Vondelpark, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 19, 2005, from the retrospective opening Friday at the Solomon R. Guugenheim Museum. Courtesy the artist and Jan Mot. © Rineke Dijkstra. Tuesday, June 26 Book launch, 5-7 pm: David Armstrong | Night and Day. Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, between Lafayette and Bowery, NY, NY. Opening reception, 7-9 pm: Aesthetics Anesthetics | Architectural Drawings by International … Read the full Story >>
The School of Visual Arts Subway Poster program is one of the most time-honored commissions for New York City artists. For close to 60 years, the school has bought ad space in the most hostile surroundings possible—subway platforms throughout the city, traveled by millions of people each day. But the concept is brilliant: Find future students in places where they can be saturated with … Read the full Story >>
Note: Please check websites re: weather closings this week Art Fairs January 29-February 1 The Outsider Art Fair, Center 548, 548 West 22nd Street, NY, NY. Information. Special Events Tuesday, January 27 Film screening and discussion, 7-9 pm: Tracy Snelling, The Stranger. The Battery, 717 Battery Street, San Francisco, CA. Thursday, January 29-Wednesday, February 4 The $100 Larry Clark Photograph Sale. Ooga Booga, 943 … Read the full Story >>
Since making her photographic debut in 2001 with the simultaneous publication of three books in Japan, Rinko Kawauchi has continued to inspire fascination for her portrayal of the endless cycle of nature. Photographing minute details from everyday moments that might otherwise pass unnoticed, Kawauchi has shaped a new narrative for photobooks. Images that might seem not so interesting at first glance become an … Read the full Story >>
Longtime DART contributor Ken Carbone—who, it must be said is also a friend and colleague going back to my participation in writing projects for his agency—has a way of looking at art. As cofounder, with Leslie Smolan, of the Carbone Smolan Agency, in 1977, his branding projects always stood on the foundations of the plastic arts as they have existed since the Sumerians … Read the full Story >>
Harvey Stein took up photography in 1970 as an antidote to a suffocating job in the corporate world. Although self-taught, he took classes when he could and his first teacher, Ben Fernandez, advised him to get a Leica with a 21 mm lens and head to Coney Island. Stein was hooked on his first visit and for more than 40 years he hit the … Read the full Story >>
Special Events October 19-22 Photoplus Expo 2016. Javits Convention Center, NY, NY. Info. Conference: October 19-22. Expo: October 20-22 Info Books / Talks / Panels / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, October 18 Town Hall | Freedom of Speech, 6:30 pm. ICP Museum, 6:30 pm, 250 Bowery, NY, NY Info Geometric Abstraction in the Americas | Carmen Herrera, 6 pm. Institute of Fine Arts, … Read the full Story >>
When the publishing world, if not so much the art world, was rocked by news that the hot ticket for spring was: Adult Coloring Books, you could practically hear the fluffering sounds of book dummies of future titles being made from coast to coast. So it’s no surprise that the next big title in this genre is sure to be: Game of Thrones. Overseen by … Read the full Story >>
The exhibition tours, book signings, symposia, projections, and awards that make the Rencontres d’Arles a mecca for photographers during the first week of July each year are finished, although the exhibition venues remain open through mid-September. “Arles in Black” was this year’s theme, and the poster [below, left] and communications program for the event was designed, as always, by the inimitable Michel Bouvet. It’s a great tribute to … Read the full Story >>
With less than two weeks to go before the start of the Olympic Games, there's definitely something in the air. You can see it, hear it and feel it. First there's the infamous Beijing smog. According to a page-one story in the state-run China Daily, it has been at unhealthy levels for four days running despite the recent reduction of construction and factory output. … Read the full Story >>
A cool breeze from the north, in the form of Tony Cederteg, has brought in a group show featuring 18 photographers he invited to create work that expresses pure emotion. The Stockholm publisher, curator, and tv fashion show host, known here mainly for his zines, asked each of the artists to photograph someone or something that's very dear to them. The exhibition of portraits … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Protest / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, July 11 Ánde Somby Art Residency | Yoiking, 12-1 pm. Madison Square Park, 11 Madison Avenue, NY, NY Info Performances all week, hours vary Marlon Riggs & “No Regrets” | Disclosure, Performativity & Legacy, 6:30 pm.The 8th Floor, 17 West 17th Street, NY, NY Info Sketch Night at Society of Illustrators, with … Read the full Story >>
The title ofJade Doskow’s recent work, collected into the book, Lost Utopias, resonates on more than one level, not least of which is the uncommon beauty of her luminous well-observed images. Her photographs of World’s Fair/International Exposition sites, stateside and worldwide, often portray crumbling artifacts of American technological glory, such as the New York State Pavilion at the New York 1964 World’s Fair … Read the full Story >>
The line between insanity and genius is said to be a fine one, and in early 20th century France, anyone envisaging a near-2,500-km-long cycle race across the country would have been widely viewed as unhinged. But that didn’t stop Géo Lefèvre, a journalist with L’Auto magazine at the time, from proceeding with his inspired plan. His editor, Henri Desgrange, an avid cyclist, was bold enough to believe … Read the full Story >>
