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 >>
Last week’s art by cycle escape took me to Brooklyn Bridge Park on a day so hot that eggs were dropping from their hens hard-boiled. But an ocean breeze sweeping across New York harbor, with its view of Lady Liberty set off by a humid smoggy sky, was as refreshing as the home-made ice cream at the Blue Marble cart on Fulton Landing. Oscar Tuazon (b. 1975, Seattle, … Read the full Story >>
Garry Winogrand's often quoted line, "There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described," could be aptly applied to a new exhibition of photographs that opened yesterday at the Museum of Modern Art. Barry Frydlender: Place and Time consists of ten photographs made in Israel during the last five years. They are remarkable on several counts, not least of which is their mammoth … Read the full Story >>
The man affectionately known in the world of photography as H.C.B. famously refused to be interviewed throughout most of his life. In his later years, after essentially quitting photography, he relented. In two interviews, one with Charlie Rose on PBS, in 2000, another with David Friend for Vanity Fair, in 2003. Henri Cartier-Bresson spoke about his passions, his beliefs, and his work. … Read the full Story >>
When Earth Day was proclaimed a national celebration in 1970, the words "ecology" and "biosphere" were rarely heard outside of spelling bees. Since then, clean air, clean waterways and clean fuel have become the norm; toxic dumping is a federal offense; and Superfund cleanup stories usually make it to page one of the newspapers. In the last several years, photographers around the globe have … Read the full Story >>
Marco Palli, a New York-based sculptor from Venezuela, opened an exhibition of new work at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture (NYSS) last week. The show honors the Larry Einbender Travel Award, which sponsored his anthropological research in Europe last fall. As a friend and colleague who often writes on the subject, he graciously agreed to meet in the … Read the full Story >>
Book Arts. Art of the Book. Artist’s Books. Printmaking. Book Binding. Paper Arts. These are just a few of the terms that come into play in the subject at hand, and one of the reasons that [I’ll stick with] Book Arts is, perhaps the ultimate interdisciplinary art of our time. The Center for Book Arts, located in New York City’s Flatiron District, is a leader in … Read the full Story >>
