David Butow, a long-time subscriber as well as the author of the AP30 cover image, is currently covering the fires in Hawaii. In his post to IG yesterday, he tells why information has been so slow to emerge from the disaster. David’s coverage for this week's TIME, which focused on the work of being a journalist on the ground, includes the cover … Read the full Story >>
The 2017 Summer Invitational: Pimp Your Sketchbook, in which artists show their personal work and open a window onto their creative process, continues with Lisk Feng, who lives and works in Queens, New York. Sketchbooks play a big role in my daily brainstorming process. I have kept several sketchbooks for different purposes, small ones used mainly for train rides and coffee shop time, larger … Read the full Story >>
Roman Vishniac Rediscovered, organized by the International Center of Photography (ICP), is currently on view at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Vishniac (1897–1990) created the most widely recognized and reproduced photographic record of Jewish life in eastern Europe between the two World Wars. In fact, it was these photographs that informed the development and filming of Steven Spielbberg’s film, Schindler’s List. The exhibition is organized by Curator Maya … Read the full Story >>
Continuing at El Museo: Candida Alvarez | Circle, Point, Hoop This exhibition, spanning 48 years of Candida Alvarez’s bold, vibrant practice, is a celebration of color, culture, and artistic vision that highlights her evolution through painting, drawing, and collage. Exploring the interaction between abstraction and figuration, with a focus on her experience as a female artist in a predominantly male environment, it begins with figurative … Read the full Story >>
Hugo Brehme, Popocatepelt, Mexico, ca. 1920s, from Eternal Mexico, continuing through June 9th at Throckmorton Fine Art, 145 East 57th Street, NY, NY. Wednesday, May 2 Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Prabir Purkayastha | Photographs of India’s Ladakh Region. Tally Beck Contemporary, 42 Rivington Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Bruno Cals | Horizons. 1500 Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, #607, NY, NY. Thursday, May 3 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: … Read the full Story >>
Sebastião Salgado, The Anavilhanas, Brazil, 2009. © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/nbpictures. From Genesis, opening this week at ICP. Art Fairs & Special Events Monday, September 15-Sunday, Sept 21 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Events. Various locations. Information. Tuesday, September 16-Sunday, September 21 Asia Art Fair New York, Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, NY, NY. Information. Photoville returns to Brooklyn Bridge Park, September 18, 19, … Read the full Story >>
School of Visual Arts will honor prolific illustrator and faculty member Steve Brodner with the 31st annual Masters Series Award and Exhibition in 2019. “The Masters Series: Steve Brodner” will be a comprehensive retrospective of his celebrated career and include never-before-seen political art and illustration work set along a timeline covering the past five decades. “Brodner’s pen acts as a weapon to challenge the status quo … Read the full Story >>
Tuesday, February 11 Panel discussion, 6:30 pm: Hall of Femmes | Women in Fashion Photography and Magazine Culture. Moderator Johanna Lenander will lead a conversation with Swedish photographers Denise Grünstein and Sophie Mörner. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 527 West 27th Street, 5th Floor, NY, NY Book signing, 5-6 pm: Avedon | Women, with Joan Juliet Buck & China Machado.The Gagosian Shop, 976 Madison Avenue, NY, NY. RSVP. Wednesday, February 12 The SVA MFA … Read the full Story >>
Shoot for the stars! Never say never! More is better! Too much is never enough! These are words to live by for Kevin O'Callaghan, mad scientist at the School of Visual Arts. As well as heading up his own design studio, this maverick exhibition designer and artist is chair of the 3-D program at SVA. These words have also become a mantra for his … Read the full Story >>
Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) was an American street photographer whose massive, unseen body of work came to light when it was purchased from an auction in Chicago in 2007. Born in New York City, Maier spent some of her youth in France and then worked in Chicago as a nanny and caregiver for most of her life. In her leisure, however, Maier ventured … Read the full Story >>
Jocelyn Cottencin is an artist in Rennes, France, whose practice brings together photography, video, installation and graphic arts. His work centers around the transmission and reception of image, sign and symbol. One of his recurring subjects is typography, rendered as large-scale dimensional material, with which he intervenes in public space through performances and installations. Cottencin often works with dancers. Most recently he created scenic designs for the choreographers Yasmin Rahmani's and Loïc Touzé’s dance … Read the full Story >>
Editor’s note: With ICON9 The Illustration Conference just a month away—four days of art, discussion, performance, and plenty of talk in Austin, TX—the current roster for the Q&A is peopled with many of the exceptional artists making presentations during this biannual artfest. Gina Triplett and Matt Curtius will give a workshop on Personal Work and Work-Work on Thursday, July 7, 9am-noon. Info Q: Originally from the East … Read the full Story >>
Books / Talks / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, December 13 Jonathan Anderson and Luis Venegas | Past Present Future, Book signing, 6:30-9 pm. Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, NY, NY Info Three I’s Series presents: Chris Verene, 7 pm. SVA, 136 West 21st Street, NY, NY Info Michael Fried/James Welling | Promesse du Bonheur, reading, 7 pm. 192 Books, 192 Tenth Avenue, … Read the full Story >>
Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and Pioneer Works Center for Art and Innovation present Under Construction – New Positions in American Photography, a group exhibition featuring ten young American and Canadian photographers. The opening reception is tonight, with remarks by Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, The New York Times Magazine, at 6:30 pm. The far-reaching digitisation of society exerts an unparalleled influence on almost every aspect of the medium. … Read the full Story >>
A relatively new stream of curatorial gymnastics, in which legendary art exhibitions are either re-created or reimagined in today’s terms, is currently afoot in New York. On my way to meet a friend at a Nolita café last Saturday, I was drawn into the Frosch & Portman gallery, on Stanton Street, by a series of small, colorful, dimensional paintings on the back wall. These four works by … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Hong Kong, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in the UK? A: I was born in a concrete forest and now a place with no trees (the Shetland isles). I feel very exposed in the vastness of the land and sea, the winter is long and harsh, there is nowhere to go, the best thing is … Read the full Story >>
In Picture This: How Pictures Work, illustrator Molly Bang explored a single idea as the central concern of all picture book art: How does the structure of a picture—or any visual art form—affect our emotional response? She takes Red Riding Hood as her experimental subject and proceeds to delineate every possible emotional response to the classic fairy tale, using shapes cut out of construction … Read the full Story >>
Operation Harmony by Dutch artist Fockert de Jong at James Cohan Gallery, 533 West 26th Street, NY, NY. Photos: Peggy Roalf. Wednesday, May 4—Saturday, May 7: Festival of Ideas for the New City - a major new initiative involving 200+ Downtown organizations working together to effect change. The Festival will include a three-day conference; an innovative StreetFest along the Bowery; and more than 100 … Read the full Story >>
The title of Jade Doskow’s recent 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 (celebrating the space … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / Art Fairs / and Beyond Tuesday, February 6 Dashwood Books Sale, through March 4th. Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, NY, NY Info Ken Light | Religion & Resistance, 5-7 pm. Graduate Theolotical Union, 2465 Le Conte Avenue, Berkeley, CA Info Wednesday, February 7 Type@Cooper Workshops | 10 Wednesdays through April 11, 6:30-9:30 pm. Type@Cooper, ooper Union, 41 … Read the full Story >>
