September 17-23: 2012 Brooklyn Book Festival. 280+ Authors; more than 104 panels confirmed for September 23; over 50 Bookend events. Brooklyn Bourough Hall and Plaza, 209 Joralmon Street, Brooklyn, NY. Information. September 19-23: Unseen Photo Fair | Offprint Book Fair. Amsterdam. Highlights of the fair include the Unseen Collection, a curated exhibition of one new photograph from each participating gallery, and the launch of Foam … Read the full Story >>
British photographer Jim Naughten engages with subjects whose backstories and trappings share some of the allure of childhood fantasy. With Re-enactors, it was the war games that many children [and adults as well] get hooked on. With Hereros, it was "dress-up," through the extraordinary colonial and military dress (and its strange history) of the people of Namibia. In an interview with the Telegraph, regarding … Read the full Story >>
I won’t lie: I love libraries—especially art, architecture, and design libraries. When I was 4-and-a-half years old, I ran away from home, heading straight to the public library children’s room—it was full of beautifully illustrated picture books. As a high school student, my first job was as a helper in the town library, which had a great selection of illustrated periodicals. At Cooper Union, … Read the full Story >>
Tuesday, March 19 Opening day, 6 pm: Against the Grain | Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design. Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, NY, NY. Thursday, March 21, 6:30 pm: Curator tour/ Pay what you like. Information. Panel discussion, 6:30-8:30 pm: Celebrating Harvey Kurtzman | with Drew Friedman, Robert Grossman, All Jaffee, and Arnold Roth, moderated by Peter Kuper. Society of Illustrators, … Read the full Story >>
When Jet Set panache gave way to mass tourism and airports began to seem like stockyards, the romance of flight held on through the majesty of the Boeing 747. The swept-back wings of the 4-engine jumbo jet made it an elegant sight, and made it lift off as if by magic. Between now and mid-December, Delta Airlines, the last U.S. passenger carrier to fly … Read the full Story >>
If you're feeling a lack of non-blockbusters to chill out the last days of summer - and you still haven't seen "The Devil Wears Prada" - this one's for you. Not only can you ogle the incredible couture clothes and bags that are everywhere in this fashion microcosm - you can also take part in a photographic scavenger hunt. In an unusual product placement … Read the full Story >>
Through Saturday, December 17: MAYDAY EAARTH | Pop-Up exhibition at Ceres Gallery In this exhibition 13 artists declare a climate emergency. “The whole world is now a flood zone. From Central Park and the basements of Brooklyn to the small towns of Pakistan in the Sindh Valley, we wait in fear of the next flood watch” writes curator and artist M. Annenberg. “Conversely, … Read the full Story >>
In conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity at The Museum of Modern Art, a series of fun design/craft workshops is being offered. When I saw that designer/D.I.Y. guru Ellen Lupton would show participants how to create a tote bag in the Bauhaus style, I was in. Lupton, a designer/writer/curator/educator who has written the book on D.I.Y. (D.I.Y. Design It Yourself … Read the full Story >>
It's time to meet the jury for American Photography 35. Submissions for the latest competition will be judged by a panel including Jessica Dimson, Deputy Photo Editor, The New York Times Magazine; Dustin Drankoski, Creative Director, Mashable; Lea Golis, Freelance Photography Editor and Creative Producer, Apple Media Products; Rosey Lakos, Director of Photography, Godfrey Dadich Partners; Natasha Lunn, Director of Photography & Video, Airbnb … Read the full Story >>
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1996) is said to be the most photographed American artists of all time, having sat for Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, Philippe Halsman, Yousuf Karsh, Todd Webb, Cecil Beaton, Bruce Weber, Annie Leibovitz, and others. A feminist before the term took on its current meaning, she created a persona based on her signature style in dress, using the photo sittings to craft a … Read the full Story >>
Matteo Pericoli, who has drawn Manhattan 360 degrees from a Circle-Line-eye-view (Manhattan Unfurled, 2001) and from a land base inside Central Park (Manhattan Within, 2003), was struck by a thunderbolt when he decamped from the apartment he had lived in for a number of years. "Once all the boxes were almost ready," he says, "I looked out my window … Read the full Story >>
Storytelling In Words and Pictures. Can you name a town in Pennsylvania that was once home to 13 millionaires - more per capita than any other place in America at the time? Do you know where legions of Confederate soldiers were headed when they were ensnared in the Battle of Gettysburg? Or the town that was home to the world's first roller coaster? The … Read the full Story >>
I always travel with a sketchbook because that I love drawing—and it’s always the best souvenir. Even though my final art is digital, I love the act of drawing. There is something mystical and poetic around the smell and the textures of the paper as well as the sound of the different pens and pencils on the paper. You don’t get this when you … Read the full Story >>
Growing up in Misssouri, with its hot humid summers and the beach a thousand miles away, we often made do with swimming in stock tanks. You know, the things cattle drink out of. My aunt Polly even painted the bottom of hers blue to make it seem like a real pool. We spent hours a day as kids in these things, unaware there was any … Read the full Story >>
Closing Sunday, August 12 at Institute of Contemporary Art: Graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister not only tests the boundary between art and design, he often transgresses it through his imaginative implementation of typography. Centered around the designer's ten-year exploration of happiness, The Happy Show (above) offers visitors the experience of walking into the designer's mind as he attempts to increase his happiness via mediation, cognitive therapy, and mood-altering … 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. Rebecca Mock gives a gif workshop on Wednesday, July 6, 2:40 pm. Q: Originally from South Florida, what are some of your favorite … Read the full Story >>
Today, The Metropolitan Museum of Art launches a new public application programming interface [API] for the collection. The Met Collection API. Here, all makers, creators, researchers, and dreamers can now connect to the most up-to-date data and more than 400,000 images of artworks in The Met collection, which represents five thousand years of human history. From the catalog page of The Harvesters, … Read the full Story >>
For narrative art-loving New Yorkers who groove on sequential art and visual antics, your chance for a live dose of BLAB! is near. Tomorrow night, a retrospective culled from the periodic anthology's 24 years in print opens at Society of Illustrators. Left: Cover illustration for Volume 9 copyright 1997 Gary Baseman; right: cover illustration for Volume 12 copyright The Clayton Brothers; courtesy Monte … Read the full Story >>
With more hot weather just around the corner, it’s time to cool off with a good read—better still, a cool afternoon or evening in a welcoming independent bookstore. So this week we are expanding the DART indie bookstore list, a few at a time. The good news is that post-pandemic retail vacancies have made even more room for indies, and the results are … Read the full Story >>
