There's nothing like a raging real estate success to inspire...an arts festival! Why not? According to a recent article in New York magazine, the High Line, New York's "park in the sky," not only got the necessary city approvals in record time but also propelled a gritty industrial neighborhood into the stratosphere several years before construction even began on the park. Now's the time … Read the full Story >>
New York City is currently a paradise for artist’s books afficionados. From an installation of Dieter Roth’s Snow, 1964/69 at MoMA to Paperwork: A Brief History of Artists’ Scrapbooks at Andrew Roth, from Books & Co. at Gagosian to the open door at Printed Matter, and the special artist’s books and prints exhibition at MoMA, Abstract Generation: Now in … Read the full Story >>
The deadline for the 36th Annual W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography is May 31, 2014. Considered one of the most honorific awards in photojournalism, the prize grants $30,000 to an individual photographer to complete a current or future documentary project. An additional $5,000 in fellowship money will be awarded to one or more finalists at the discretion of the jury. Information. The 2014 winner … Read the full Story >>
Nothing Speaks Louder Than Type was the slogan engraved on the Haberule given me by a Tri Arts Press typesetting rep back in the day. This was pre-Mac prehistory, when typography was king, Helvetica ruled, and designers actually hand-lettered comps to present their ideas to clients. Among the tasty type treats available were fonts from the Photolettering catalogue, a legendary collection of hand-drawn typefaces … Read the full Story >>
For a weekend of peace and love, art and music (is this beginning to sound familiar?) grab your camping gear and hop the Metro North Harlem Line to the last stop. After just two hours, you’ll emerge in the hamlet of Wassaic, New York (pop. 1,200), just about as far from the urban jungle as you can imagine. The three-day Wassaic Summer Festival — a free, … Read the full Story >>
At UC Riverside Friday, March 22 Artist talk, 7:30 pm: Trevor Paglen | The Last Pictures. Artist Trevor Paglen will discuss his most recent project, The Last Pictures. Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer whose work deliberately blurs lines between social science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us. His most … Read the full Story >>
When Jen Bekman opened her pocket-sized Lower East Side gallery in 2003, her choice of location was destiny. At the time Spring Street west of Bowery was a chic shopping strip where you could indulge a passion for affordable art after you were done buying clothes. But Jen banked on changes that were also destined when the New Museum would open. Future forward: the … Read the full Story >>
Getting a late start on my annual Art By Cycle tour of Queens, I sped over to Socrates Sculpture Park last Sunday for an art workshop with Nick Paparone. This New York-based artist, who was among last year’s emerging artist fellows at Socrates, had set up a silk-screening workshop in the studio pavilion. Step by step, he introduced the assembled group of 20 or so … Read the full Story >>
On October 20, 1991, fine art photographer Richard Misrach was in his Bay Area studio watching television coverage of the largest urban wildfire in United States history destroying thousands of homes in the nearby Oakland and Berkeley hills. A few days later, while driving through some of the affected neighborhoods, he realized the scenes of devastation were perfect examples of the same subject to … Read the full Story >>
Cover and inside pages from SPBH Book Club’s limited edition book of Polaroid images by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. The new book club will be launched on Sunday at La Recontres d’Arles. Photobook publishing has undergone seismic changes over the last decade. First with the advent of trade book printing in China where it seems that any type of binding a designer could imagine is possible, together … Read the full Story >>
Tomorrow, the Fraenkel Gallery, in San Francisco, opens an exhibition of Hiroshi Sugimoto: Acts of God. This exhibition is the first U.S. presentation of the five-panel photograph, which measures more than 24 feet in length. The artist created this work in 1999, from a life-size wax reproduction of Leonardo’s The Last Supper, which he photographed at a museum in Izu, Japan. In 2012, while the photograph was stored … Read the full Story >>
In these tough economic times, even Madison Avenue in the 70's has taken a hit, with "For Rent" signs popping up in shuttered storefronts on every block. But evidence that the tide is turning has just appeared in the form of the Gagosian store, a deluxe art boutique on the corner of Madison and 77th Street. I stopped in yesterday morning and discovered a … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Open Studios / and Beyond Tuesday, October 30 Cecilia Vicuña | An Invented Indigeneity, 7pm. Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, The Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square, NY, NY Info Show at Brooklyn Museum closes November 25 Hiroshi Sugimoto | New Materials, artist talk moderated by Billie Tsien, 7 pm. The Great Hall The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, NY, … Read the full Story >>
On Monday, March 10, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco will host the second annual Bloomberg Businessweek Design Conference. The day-long event will bring together an international crowd of some of the world’s most forward-thinking design professionals spanning the disciplines of architecture, transportation, graphic design, technology, urban design, 3D printing, product manufacturing, data visualization, genetic engineering, corporate branding, and more. Among the presenters … Read the full Story >>
Wilson, the wildly anticipated new graphic novel by Daniel Clowes, has arrived - and so has the artist. Out on a national book tour, he will be at the Strand Book Store in New York tonight and at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival this weekend, then heads to the West Coast next week. The acclaimed author of Ghost World and … Read the full Story >>
Thomas Struth, a leading proponent of large-scale color photography, began his work in photography creating typologies of cities, which stemmed from his studies with Bernd and Hilla Becher. First of his native Dusseldorf; then in 1977, of London. Above: Crosby Street,Soho, New York (1978). © Thomas Struth. That same year he was awarded a scholarship which enabled him to live and work in New York for six months with a studio at … Read the full Story >>
Artist and longtime DART subscriber/contributor Thomas Libetti—a transplant from New York City to Western Massachusetts—is known for his striking line-based art that captures gesture and style in seemingly minimalist strokes. With a one-day pop-up show this weekend and an open studios event opening next weekend, I invited him to this email chat, which just came in. Peggy Roalf: Where do you live … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs & Special Events Through Wednesday, February 11 Codex Foundation Book Fair. Craneway Pavilion, 1414 Harbourway South, Richmond, CA. Information. Wednesday, February 11-Friday, February 14 103rd Annual College Art Association Conference. Hilton New York, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY. Information. Thursday, February 12-Friday, February 13 The New School Center for Public Scholarship presents, Fear of Art, with video keynote by … Read the full Story >>
As the annual Oscar buzz heats up, film buffs have a unique opportunity to enjoy an insider's view of movie making. Seen Behind the Scenes, an exhibition of Mary Ellen Mark's photographs made on location over the last 40 years, is currently on view at New York's Staley-Wise Gallery. But these are not production stills in any sense of the word. Mark, the consumate … Read the full Story >>
Roger Ballen is a photographer who sees before he looks. Having been behind the lens for nearly 50 years, first as a youth, then as a dedicated amateur while working as a geologist in the mineral extraction industry in South Africa, he has had decades to make the craft his own. A footloose New Yorker, he moved there permanently in 1982; he soon began to photograph the different … Read the full Story >>
