When thinking about houses designed by the great Modernist architect known as Le Corbusier, images of stunningly articulated villas, expressions of pure geometry combined with deluxe furnishings of his own design spring to mind: Villa La Roche: Villa Savoye; Villa Stein to name a few. Yet the only house he ever built for himself was a 12-by-12-foot rustic cabin perched on a wooded cliff above … Read the full Story >>
Katherine Hubbard, this week at Company Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Saturday, January 11 Artists Book Sale: limited edition books by Cig Harvey, Michael Kenna, Lee Friedlander, Alejandro Cartagena and more. Kopeikin Gallery, 2766 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA Info Pieter Hugo, Making pigments, San Agustin Etla; this week at Yossi Milo In Galleries / Lens-based Art Thursday, … Read the full Story >>
What has the impact of the past decade been on New York's neighborhoods? What did some of the world's leading contemporary architects contribute towards making New York a more livable, dynamic, and sustainable city? How can we balance the often-conflicting objectives of preserving the historic city while also allowing for new development? Have the Bloomberg Administration's efforts to reshape and invest in the physical … Read the full Story >>
Mother’s Day was a holiday created with the best intentions of honoring one’s mother. It quickly devolved into marketing device for selling greeting cards, flowers and chocolates and continues along that vein today, with same-like, mass-produced items, largely in shades of pink and lavender, crowding the aisles of chain drugstores. So today, when I stopped in at the International Center of Photography, I … Read the full Story >>
Last night the organizers of the first New York Photo Festival, which opened today, hosted a party to welcome participants and the media to Dumbo, Brooklyn's historic industrial area. The assembled crowd filled powerHouse Arena to eat, drink and catch up on industry business. Left: powerHouse Arena in action. Right, front: Holly Stuart Hughes of Photo District News and photographer Gillian Laub; center, … Read the full Story >>
The harvest season is on, with examples of the bounty of our planting fields on view at the New York Botanical Garden. The annual Giant Pumpkin display will seem more at home than ever, with Yayoi Kusama’s sculptural ode to its seedy cousins currently on view. Showcasing the artist’s lifelong fascination with the natural world, KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature is installed across the Botanical Garden’s … Read the full Story >>
The LA-based Tornado Design Studio, whose motto is 'Making Culture Pop,' is behind the upcoming group exhibition and benefit sale, Enlighten! Featuring limited-edition lamp shades designed by over 85 established artists, the sale benefits Inner-City Arts, an organization that offers arts education programs for at-risk children from Los Angeles' public schools. The art is printed on polypropelene shades, which are mounted on … Read the full Story >>
Flying slightly under NYC’s media radar—but not for long—the Danish architectural firm BIG: Bjarke Ingles Group, is now placing its first spire into the city’s skyline. W57, a residential/mixed use building, commissioned by Durst Organization, is rising alongside the Hudson River Greenway at 57th Street. While it is not competing for height with other towers along the midtown thoroughfare, W57 is a midrise tower that will offer spectacular views … Read the full Story >>
Joni Sternbach’s recent book, Surf Site, Tin Type, is enjoying a strong reception, with images from that collection featured at Photo Basel this week, as well as in an exhibition on classic photo processes at Musée de l’Elysée that continues through the end of August. She recently replied to an exclusive Q&A for DART: Q: When and why did you take up large-format photography? … Read the full Story >>
Twenty-four photographs by Chris Killip currently on view at Amador Gallery offer the photographer's experience of England's industrial decline under Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. His selection of images (four of them vintage prints) from this period, many of which originally appeared in his 1988 photobook In Flagrante, create an unalloyed feeling of despair for lives wrecked by the government's … Read the full Story >>
If Robert Capa was here today, he would be the first one on Instagram. And he would see the power of communicating directly to an audience and bringing them his experience directly.—MarkLubell, Executive Director, International Center of Photography [more] Art Fairs & Special Events May 1-31: Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival. 310-80 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON. Information. May 1-4: Boston Flash Forward. Fairmont Battery Wharf, Boston, MA. … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the brush or the pen? Amalia Restrapo: Where did the pencil go? PR: Please describe your work process—is most of your work done directly, or do you also use digital media? AR: I like my work to have strong ideas behind it. When I have that, I just start brainstorming. I don’t write anything down, it doesn’t help me, … Read the full Story >>
Much like the rest of humanity, my sense of time being suspended during this pandemic has been both good and bad. Eighteen months ago, I was in Rome at the beginning of a three-month teaching assignment and art residency. On March 9, I fled Italy and arrived back in New York. My immediate quarantine for fourteen days was unsettling but revealing. Compared to many who … Read the full Story >>
“Thirty Under Thirty” seems to be the most popular idea for competitions across the board, from Time, Forbes, and PDN to TED—and beyond. Now the Magnum Foundation has jumped in, with a new competition to identify some of the world’s best emerging documentary photographers. This just in: The competition will recognize new photographic talent, and provide exposure to emerging photographers to a wider network of industry professionals. … Read the full Story >>
George Sand (1804-1876), the French polymath so sure of her creative powers that she took a masculine name, wore bespoke frockcoats over her dresses and smoked cigars. She was adored by both men and women, and was held in high regard by cultural luminaries such as Flaubert, Victor Hugo and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Not only did she write novels (more than 70), plays (30), and … Read the full Story >>
The holiday season brings throngs of people out to museums, perhaps looking for a special way to close out the year on a high note. This year, New York City is a Mecca for art lovers, with many surprising shows on view. While many museums close their doors for New Years Day, a number of them remain open, including the American Museum of Natural … Read the full Story >>
With social geography joining ranks with social media, and infographics becoming essential to getting your news, a new exhibition about graphic designers in New York gets the GPS on 78 top firms. Image of the Studio: A Portrait of New York City Graphic Design, on view through October 26th at Cooper Union’s Gallery 41, puts a face on New York design studios, and links studio-created material with … Read the full Story >>
Fashion designer Isaac Mizhrahi, known for wide-ranging interests that include fine cuisine, made his curatorial debut this summer with a group show at Julie Saul Gallery. His selections are highly personal and idiosyncratic - and mouth-watering, like food for the eye. He has brought together work by well known and rarely seen artists, chosen for their sophisticated use of color, and a sensual, joyful … Read the full Story >>
Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997) was among the New York artists who created a seismic shift in painting in the early 1960s by taking the artiness out of art. One of the founders of the Pop Art movement, he invented many of the strategies in art that we now take for granted, such as irony and the appropriation of commercial images. And it was … Read the full Story >>
Relax. This is not the surveillance moment you've been silently dreading. This is your chance to be so surrounded by great art that wherever you stand in Giant Robot's New York gallery and store, there will be something behind you to look at.The salon-style installation will present over 100 works, none larger than 5" x 7," by fifty artists. Many have individually shown their … Read the full Story >>
