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 >>
Modern meets Post-Modern in a wall-to-wall face-off at Lever House, where both sides win. Los Angeles artist Jonas Wood has created an installation in which ten large paintings of plant forms are hung on seemingly permanent walls that are wallpapered with a large-scale basketball print. The title, “Plant Clippings,” while it suggests a common horticulture practice, actually refers to the artist’s process of cutting … Read the full Story >>
As Lockdown is gradually being lifted, live cultural opportunities are creeping back into the social fabric. But at a a price: Most are by appointment, which makes for an unruly calendar. As online presentations have become the new now, there continue to be exceptional offerings afoot. This just in from Denny Dimin Gallery, NYC, which represents Dana Sherwood and Mark Dion. From the … Read the full Story >>
The pop-up store might be the new model for today's flailing economy. With plenty of retail space going empty, why not try out something new for a set period of time? For example - and the only one I can think of right now - Artbook@X, on the ground floor of the former Dia Center for the Arts, on West 22nd Street in … Read the full Story >>
When looking for photos of Mastadon in the American Museum of Natural History online archive, I stumbled upon a collection of photographs of African Americans in the South. The photographer, Julian A. Dimock, was a New York financier who left his job at age 31 and with his 62-year-old father, Anthony Weston Dimock, traveled to Florida and the Carolinas in order to photograph and … Read the full Story >>
In Arabic, the word rawiya means “she who tells a story.” The photographs in an exhibition at the Carnegie Museum—made by women with roots in Iran and the Arab world—are themselves a collection of stories. At a time when American and European views of the Islamic world tend to be filtered through a lens of fear and anxiety, a more nuanced portrait of … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, November 15-Sunday, November 18Paris Photo 2012. Le Grand Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris. Information. Friday, November 16-Saturday, November 17School of Visual Arts MFA Design for Social Innovation Department presents: Social Enterprise Boot Camp. 136 West 21st Street, 5th Floor, NY, NY. Register $55-$105. Continuing through February 3, 2012 War Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1001 Bissonnet Street … Read the full Story >>
In the interest of public health concerns regarding COVID-19, this week’s DART Board offers a menu of exhibitions and books to visit and read rather than a list of public events. Many of this week’s events have been canceled or postponed, especially those presented by educational institutions, so the standard offering would be a hit-or-miss mess. This just in from Printed Matter: We … Read the full Story >>
From the streets of Bangkok to the logging camps of India's remote offshore islands, photographer Palani Mohan has traveled to eleven countries over the last six years to document the plight of the Asian elephant, and the people who look after them. At a time when its close relative in Africa is flourishing, the Asian elephant is highly endangered. The pressures of urbanization, logging, … Read the full Story >>
Thomas Holton is half Chinese, and grew up on New York's Upper East Side. When he got interested in photography around age 15, he picked up his father's old Nikon and began making pictures of his friends, some of which went into his high school yearbook. His father was George Holton, a noted travel photographer and contributor to Time/Life Books in the 1960s and … Read the full Story >>
It’s a suicide mission with no conceivable effect, only consequences; a political action for and by a constituency of two. It is the sort of fantasy that can emerge only when people are trapped like rats even while they know that there is an unreachable alternative out there somewhere. To go on the run is to chase the dragon of that vaguely envisioned other … Read the full Story >>
In the Hasselblad House Magazine, Volume 3, 1970, the editors published several reports on the use of Hasselblad cameras in the NASA space program. Starting in 1962, the Swedish camera became the standard and with so many cameras being shipped to NASA, a special technical department was established at the factory in Gothenburg to work on the development of the cameras. Following is the introduction … Read the full Story >>
