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 >>
This year the New York Botanical Garden will present a monumental installation of major works by glass sculptor Dale Chihuly. The artist, who began his career as an interior architect, has a lifelong fascination with glasshouses that has evolved into a series of exhibitions within botanical setting that began in 2001. First at the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago, and then the presentation of … Read the full Story >>
If you are a visual or performance artist; a poet; an urbanist; a historian; a scientist—or any combination, as well as a commuter—you are invited to submit a proposal for making the use of public transportation more engaging. The New York Transit Museum just announced PLATFORM, a new series of cross-disciplinary programs created by the public for the public. Have an idea? The New York … Read the full Story >>
Playing keyboards takes on new meaning for illustrator Jonathon Rosen. Known for his collage-based editorial work, sophisticated packaging design, and surreal paintings, Rosen has taken animation to a new zone: performance illustration. Starting this weekend, he's on a U.K. tour with fellow artist and designer Stephen Byram, performing art for Tim Berne's jazz collective, Paraphrase. Rosen, who began making films a decade ago, … Read the full Story >>
On Sunday, The Richard Meier Model Museum will open to the public at Mana Contemporary, in Jersey City. Formerly housed in a 3,600-square-foot space in Long Island City, the museum, as well as the architect’s personal studio and research library, now occupies a 15,000-square-foot space in the sprawling contemporary art space. The opening is part of the January Mana Fest, which includes a variety of exhibitions, video … Read the full Story >>
