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 >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / And Beyond Wednesday, April 26 Martha Wilson | The Intersectional Self: Activist History Teach-in, 6 pm. The 8th Floor, 17 West 17th Street, NY, NY Info Dread Scott | Making American Great: The Illusion of Greatness, 7 pm. ICP School, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY Info MFA Spring Open Studios, 5-9 pm. SVA, 133/141 West … Read the full Story >>
Before photography, the only way for scientists to collect information about subjects of their study was, plainly, by pickling them in jars. Or by drying and saving them in little drawers. Or by assembling the skeletons of formerly living creatures, human and otherwise. Starting in the 1830s with the Musée Dupuytren, Paris, this collection of medical specimens that date back to the 17th century … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Gallery Walks / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, October 2 Harry Potter | A History of Magic public events begin. The New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, NY, NY Info Studio Swine | On the Future of Technology, Art and Design, 6:30-9 pm. A/D/O/, 29 Norman Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Info [Greenpoint] Wednesday, October 3-Monday, October 8 New York ComiCon. … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, June 12 Susan Lipper | Domesticated Land, 6-8 pm. Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, NY, NY Info Museum Mile 2018, 6-9 pm.Free admission to nine Fifth Avenue museums between 82ndand 105th Streets. Info Wednesday, June 13 John Suler onn Photography, Psychology, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, 6:30 pm. ICP Museum, 250 Bowery, NY, NY Info … Read the full Story >>
I walk into Jonathan Levine Gallery last Friday night and the first thing I see is a tall woman in a white fur hat. She's somewhat intimidating I must confess, but extravagance is always a good sign at an art opening. It is Camille Rose Garcia who, to my surprise, turns out to be open, positive and friendly. This seems a little contradictory given … Read the full Story >>
The Matthew Marks Gallery is sponsoring a limited-edition sale of 20 portraits of world leaders by Platon, staff photographer at The New Yorker and contributor of iconic covers to Time Magazine and other publications around the globe. On September 15 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m, Platon and Carroll Bogert, deputy director of Human Rights Watch for external relations, will present the work with a … Read the full Story >>
"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 >>
