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 >>
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 >>
I always thought that Paris has the best bookstores until I started the this regular feature in DART, more than 10 years ago. Year after year the evidence that Our Fair City loves books—and the people who put them on our shelves—becomes even more evident. So if it’s August, it’s time for the latest good news! Yu & Me Books is NYC's first … 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 >>
