April 16, Film Forum, NYC and Laemmle NoHo, LA Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts, a new documentary on the life and art of Bill Traylor, an American artist with a remarkable and unlikely biography, will be released next week, in person and online. Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama. After the Civil War, Traylor continued to farm the land as a sharecropper until … Read the full Story >>
The Museum of Modern Art/MoMA lets its hair down for the short winter days ahead, courtesy of Pipilotti Rist: Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters). The video/sound/sculptural installation takes over and effectively reconfigures the massive Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, previously occupied by Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk. What had formerly been a glass-bound box with a corporate feel that only … Read the full Story >>
Having something of an obsession about my hair, I've been looking forward to the next installment of Nelson's Electric Chaircut. The announcement just came in: This Saturday, from 4:00 to 7:00, Nelson Loskamp will give free haircuts at Printed Matter, which is hosting the second annual Artists T-Shirt Summer Spectacular.A Brooklyn-based artist who originally took up styling to support his art, Nelson … Read the full Story >>
Strolling through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Egyptian wing, it's easy to see why this place is a magnet for kids. There are fantastical figures of humans with animal heads; paintings of people doing all kinds of fun things, like hunting, fishing, and playing games; and everything you wanted to know about mummies. On a recent visit, a boy from West Virginia said he … Read the full Story >>
The last week of Summer brings the last featured sketchbook, as Pimp Yours also draws to a close. Today enjoy pages from John A. Parks, whose next exhibition opens in November, in Chelsea. I regard my sketchbooks as a kind of private playground, somewhere I can go to explore an idea, try out an image, or simply spend time looking at something. Sometimes I use … Read the full Story >>
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 >>
