"HEY" IS A FORM OF GREETING IN 786 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. It's a multipurpose syllable that expresses surprise, exultation or interrogation. It can be used as a greeting, as a meaningless beat marker in music, a goodbye, a protest or a reprimand, as in, Hey! Stop that! Glossolalia, or "speaking in tongues," refers to the babble of children, schizophrenics and idiot savants. Hey! Why … Read the full Story >>
Every year, the announcement of PDN's 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch creates a wide ripple that's always interesting to follow. While the photographers chosen are generally known to the photo world, there are usually a few that seem to have emerged out of nowhere. This year is no exception, as can be seen in the list of names below. To celebrate their accomplishments and … Read the full Story >>
Doing something new in photography isn't easy when you reject digital platforms, collage-like effects obtained by using Photoshop, and other new media devices. But British photographer Richard Learoyd has done something unusual and compelling in his life-size and larger portraits currently on view at the McKee Gallery. The subjects of his portraits, mostly women, are photographed in repose against a neutral background. Beautiful in … 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 Michael Sloan. When he’s not in Hong Kong, Michael lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut, and plays bass guitar with the Halftones, who regularly gig at Sketch Nights at Society of Illustrators. Thanks to my wife's job, our … Read the full Story >>
How to maintain personal connections in an age that relies on accelerated connectedness with people we don’t know, through technology, is the theme of a timely exhibition that opened last Thursday night at Pace/MacGill Gallery in Chelsea. Curated by three faculty members in the School of Visual Arts MFA Photography, Video and Related Media department—Adam Bell, Seth Lambert, and Michelle Leftheris … Read the full Story >>
Closing Sunday, February 4: Last chance for Frank Webster | Emarkbreen Glaciers Frank Webster, an artist known for large-scale acrylic landscape paintings that explore ideas of time, distance, and the fragility of the world we inhabit, was awarded an Arctic Circle Residency in 2022. This program brings together international artists of all disciplines, scientists, architects, and educators who collectively explore the high-Arctic Svalbard Archipelago … Read the full Story >>
Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera, which opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art last week, is a collection-based survey of painting, sculpture, assemblage, and drawing from the 1940s into the 21st century. The show, which was recently trashed by two prominent New York critics, casts a spell on viewers through the stunning effects achieved in the first two galleries, which honor the heady … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, July 19, 6-8pm: ADAA Chelsea Gallery Walk The ADAA's fifth edition of this free, self-guided walk offers a rare opportunity to see participating galleries’ exhibitions after-hours. See some of the most dynamic exhibitions in New York City this summer and a selection of special programming! Following are just a few of the high points: 303 Gallery, 6:00pm: A book signing and … Read the full Story >>
May 1-4 The New Museum presents Ideas City | Workshops, Innovative StreetFest, and Hundreds of projects in Downtown Manhattan. Information. May 1-2The New Museum Presents Ideas City Conference at the Great Hall at Cooper Union. Information. Tuesday, April 30 Aperture presents, 6:30-9:30 pm: Compilation Tokyo: Remix, a launch party for the Self Publish, Be Happy mash-up and the PhotoBook Review 004, edited by … Read the full Story >>
Stefan Ruiz spent close to a decade, off and on, photographing the stars and the up-and-comers in Mexico’s biggest export to world culture – the Telenovela. A phenomenon within Mexico and beyond – notably among its immigrant communities in North America, it is also, surprisingly, an extraordinary implant in Russia and the Balkans. His photographs from this series are collected in Factory of Dreams to … Read the full Story >>
I was fascinated to see that Garth Greenan Gallery is presenting a major show of paintings by Fritz Scholder (1937-2005)—and somewhat puzzled by the critique of Scholder’s work in the New York Times, that reads, in part: “…The irony of Scholder’s colors is that they heighten scenes of moral defeat. He borrows the horror-core of Francis Bacon for two canvases from 1970 that imagine … Read the full Story >>
Born in 1971, the Cambodian sculptor Sopheap Pitch spent his childhood living under the brutal regime of Pol Pot, helping his parents make fish traps in order to survive. Using the same materials—rattan and bamboo—he now makes sinuous, mesh sculptures that are solid and ethereal, representational and abstract. A solo exhibition of his work opens tonight, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at Tyler Rollins Fine Art, … Read the full Story >>
If the faltering economy has caused you to modify your plans to (literally) move up in the world, perhaps a little redecorating will make your home turf more accommodating. But with the loss of Domino magazine, resources for hip decorating ideas are a little harder to come by - and that's where blogging comes to the rescue. The first item I found this morning … Read the full Story >>
It's a nice idea. In theory. But, noted The Verge recently, the new "Deep Nostalgia" tool unveiled by ancestry site My Heritage produces images that are fairly creepy. The AI-powered feature lets you animate family photos -- or any photos. "Using several reference videos around which static photos are mapped, the technology makes eyes dart around, blank expressions turn into smiles, and heads move … Read the full Story >>
The Americn road trip photo essay has been a mainstay in photography that goes back to Walker Evans in the 1930s, with Robert Frank, Stephen Shore, Joel Sternfeld, and more recently, Alec Soth updating the genre. Soul searching through closely observed, but not lived scenes of banality and hardship, combined with an "I drive ergo I exist" ethos, is probably the most American form … Read the full Story >>
If you've never experienced the Seventh Regiment Armory's gargantuan Drill Hall space minus the art and antiques fairs that move in throughout the winter months, you have until Sunday at 6:00 pm to be there. The 200 x 300-foot hall, with a barrel vault roof that soars to a height of 80 feet, is wide open, temporarily housing a 128 x 72-foot painting masterminded … Read the full Story >>
Ann Rhoney is an artist whose career bridges the worlds of art and design, and whose hand-colored photograph, Silk Dress Coming, became an icon when it was seen in The Met’s 2012 exhibition, Faking It. Now her landscape work can be seen in a solo show at Nailya Alexander Gallery. Above: South of France, 1977; painted 2018. Rhoney’s unique hand-painted photographs, which she … Read the full Story >>
For a bracing round of politically incorrect, steamy art – some of which was banned by New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia during the 1940s – head for the Society of Illustrators between now and the end of the month. Pulp Art: The Collection of Robert Lesser continues its run there, with both original art and copies of the pulp magazines for which these … Read the full Story >>
On Tuesday evening, Aperture booked an evening in the gallery for an art/book production performance. Artist Charlie Engman set up studio and created a new zine by remixing COMPILATION TOKYO, a recent Self Publish, Be Happy/Goliga Books publication of work by young Japanese photographers. He cut apart, re-photograph, and digitally modified photographs—as well as shooting still-lifes of an assortment of objects … Read the full Story >>
During the last few months I've been running into Sylvia Plachy at photo events around town. I've always been a fan of her work, so when I saw that she is giving a presentation at the Mid-Manhattan Library tonight I picked up the phone. Peggy Roalf: What led you to the post of photo editor and staff photographer at the Village Voice? Sylvia … Read the full Story >>
