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 >>
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 >>
