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 >>
Continuing: Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists at Folk Art Museum This engaging show offers a reminder that the best summer exhibitions often feel like bouquets gathered from many gardens, celebrating the enduring pleasure of stories drawn from everyday experience. Curated with a keen eye for how familiar subjects can continually be renewed through color, composition, and imagination, the show beautifully dismantles the myth … 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 >>
Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, is, like many summer group shows around town, a hodgepodge of “gallery artists”. In this case, the sprawling exhibition showcases works by artists collected, and in a number of instances, commissioned through the museum’s international programs. The best way to see this show is to take the elevator to the top ramp and work your way down. Viewing in … Read the full Story >>
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described….I photograph to find out what the world looks like photographed.—Garry Winogrand Often placed within the “social landscape school,” Garry Winogrand’s photographs turned ideas about documentary photography literally on edge when his work appeared in exhibitions during the 1960s. Self-taught, with Walker Evans’ book American Photographs as his sole reference to the history of the medium, Winogrand operated through a … Read the full Story >>
The month of June belongs to the Third Annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival in DUMBO. On Thursday, June 7, the party begins at powerHouse Arena, which is hosting the Fiftieth Anniversary re-launch of Stax Records, the legendary soul and R&B label. Stax Records was home to artists such as Otis Redding, Booker T. and the MG's, Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, … Read the full Story >>
Note: Many of the links for today’s post were inaccessible due to the effects of the hurricane. Please try again, or try Facebook. Thursday, November 1-Sunday, November 4: 15th Annual Editions | Artist’s Book Fair. Founded in 1998 by Susan Inglett of I.C. Editions and Brooke Alexander Editions, theEditions|Artists Book Fair has grown in size and stature to become the premier showcase for contemporary publishers and dealers, presenting … Read the full Story >>
As political discourse and debate inevitably take over the media during the run-up to the presidential election, relief from the plethora of talking heads can be found in an array of highly relevant art now on display in museums, galleries and alternative spaces around town. The DART picks below include blinding glimpses of the obvious as well as highly conceptual ways of expressing and … Read the full Story >>
On the way to lunch during the AI-AP Big Talk yesterday, I ran into David Sandlin, who was on a break from teaching at the School of Visual Arts, and we had a chance to catch up. Among the many things on his to-do list for this week is to finish producing a limited edition book in time for the Brooklyn Comics & Graphics … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Saturday October 15-Sunday, October 16 Gowanus Open Studios. Various locations. Info Open House New York Weekend. Various locations. Info Books / Talks / Panels / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, October 11 Filip Pagowski | My Father and I, Graphic Arts Across Generations and Oceans, 7 pm. The New School, 66 West 12th Street, Room A510, NY, NY Info Aileen … Read the full Story >>
I first encountered Edward Burtynsky's work back in the mid-1990s when I was dealing with Toronto gallerist Nicholas Metivier on an exhibition project. Back then, the Canadian photographer was shooting mining waste dumps for a series called Tailings. With that project, he launched a sharply focused exploration of the ways in which global industrialization has permanently altered the landscape. Around the same … Read the full Story >>
Tuesday, September 24 Artist talk, 6-8:30 pm: Sijae Byun \ Vaginascope. Tally Beck Contemporary, 42 Rivington Street, NY, NY. RSVP Opening reception, 6-8 pm: John Dunivant | The Expatriate Parade. The Lodge Gallery, 131 Christie Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Regina Bogat | New York Years: 1960-1970. Zurcher Studio, 33 Bleecker Street, NY, NY. Storefront presents, 7 pm: Interrogation Series | Hotel Yeoville. Storefront for Art and Architecture, … Read the full Story >>
The fall season opens with outstanding variety as always - from political art at Museum of the City of New York and Society of Illustrators to dragon subjugation dances hosted by the Rubin Museum of Art to a full-fledged BLAB! retrospective at Kansas State University's Beach Museum of Art. Roberts + Tilton reopens in LA with a new free-standing building designed to accommodate … Read the full Story >>
With controversy swirling throughout the pristine floors of Sotheby’s due to a shakeup following a losing battle with an activist investor, a change in leadership, and a pricey acquisition of an art advisory firm, the spring Photograph auction exhibition is now on view. The highest-ticket item is a photogram, Rayograph by Man Ray, from 1924 (below). The print is annotated in pencil on the reverse, 'Original Rayograph' … Read the full Story >>
Week ten of lockdown began with sunshine, cleaner air, and colder than usual for the unofficial start of summer. In a surreal moment of clarity I realized that all who are working from home are unwittingly participating in a revolution. Stranger still, I realized this is a negative revolution, as if we are shifting from having electricity to not having electricity. It seems that … Read the full Story >>
