Continuing: Designing Motherhood at MAD Mudeum “Arguably the most ubiquitous design object governing parenthood in the United States today, [the breast pump] is a contested object, for some representing freedom of choice and for others manifesting the unrelenting pressure to breastfeed at all costs,” historians Amber Winick and Michelle Millar Fisher Fisher wrote in their book. Designing Motherhood. “By its very existence … Read the full Story >>
DART Partners with the Arts at Museum of the City of New YorkTuesday, December 7, 6:30 pmThe New York City Subway Map - Form v. Function in the Public Realm Massimo Vignelli's 1972 New York City subway map, produced by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, was considered a design triumph - earning itself a place in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art … Read the full Story >>
Gauguin: Metamorphoses opens Saturday, March 8 at the Museum of Modern Art. From the press release: This exhibition focuses on Paul Gauguin’s rare and extraordinary prints and transfer drawings, and their relationship to his better-known paintings and his sculptures in wood and ceramic. Created in several bursts of activity from 1889 until his death in 1903, these remarkable works on paper reflect Gauguin’s experiments with a … Read the full Story >>
For photography collectors looking for an auction this week, the place to go is Camera Club of New York's (CCNY) fourth annual benefit. Hosted by Calumet Photographic, the doors open at 6:00 pm this Wednesday at 22 West 22nd Street, NYC. I stopped by last night for a preview and found all hands on deck. Director John Stanley; former board member … Read the full Story >>
Today DART launches the 2014 Summer Invitational: Pimp Your Photobookcases, in which publishers, educators, and a librarian show their stuff. The matter that directs their lives, inspires dreams, and the occasional nightmare—photobooks—requires considerable effort to wrangle into order. Today Bruno Ceschel, founder of Self Publish, Be Happy, opens the doors to his office and home. Q: How you organize your photobooks? Do you have a system? A: … Read the full Story >>
DART Partners with the Arts at Museum of the City of New York Thursday, December 8 at 6:30 pm Urban by Nature: Healing the Landscape/Architecture Divide in NYC Nowhere is the divide between nature and culture, country and city seemingly more stark than in New York City, where concrete, glass, and steel long ago tamped down the native flora and fauna of Manhattan. How … Read the full Story >>
The exhibition of photographs by Caio Reisewitz that recently opened at the International Center of Photography offers a window on a visual culture of great fascination and complexity. On the surface these large-format landscapes, many of lush tropical forests, seem to pay homage to the shrinking Atlantic Forest of Brazil, which has been savagely cleared for farming and industry—a subject notably documented by another Brazilian photographer, Sebastião Salgado. In … Read the full Story >>
DART Partners with the Arts at Museum of the City of New York Monday, September 19 at 6:30 pm The World Trade Center Site: Ten Years After National September 11 Memorial, Museum Pavilion. Rendering by Squared Design Lab. With the completion of 7 World Trade Center and the opening of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Ground Zero, the site of the terrorist … Read the full Story >>
DART Partners with the Arts at Museum of the City of New York Wednesday, May 16 at 6:30 pm Under Gridded City Subways, steam pipes, sewers—and even our electrical grid—are part of an underground infrastructure every bit as vital to our lives as the street grid and buildings above. Join Kate Ascher, author of The Works: The Anatomy of a City (Penguin 2007) as … Read the full Story >>
Left: Photograph by Cao Guimaraes from Wonders and Inventions, the inaugural exhibition at Society Contemporary. Right: Min Hyung, Dual Side of Female Hero, on view at Freight + Volume through July 30th. Tuesday, July 12 Opening reception, 6-8 pm, for Alex Morel: Before We Fall Asleep. Caribbean Literacy Cultural Center, Flatbush Library, 22 Linden Blvd., Brooklyn, NY. Directions. Book … Read the full Story >>
New York is full of fun surprises and the weeks in view are no exception. Here are a few items you won’t want to miss: Picasso Black and White opens today at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. An exciting look at an artist you thought you knew so well. By eliminating color from his palette, Picasso stripped bare his work and process to reach another level of … Read the full Story >>
Tonight, the first graduating class of SVA’s MFA Visual Narrative program will celebrate their achievements at a public reception for the artists, from five to eight pm. Curated by department faculty members Jonathan Rosen and Ed Valentine, the exhibition And Then continues through Tuesday, July 28, at the SVA Gramercy Gallery, 209 East 23rd Street, New York City. The MFA Visual Narrative program … Read the full Story >>
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland revolutionized children’s literature by flouting the conventions of its day. It sought neither to educate nor to instruct, but only to delight. It has never been out of print and is translated into over 125 languages. Since copyright expired in 1907 Alice has inspired almost every major illustrator from Arthur Rackham to Ralph Steadman and artists and designers from … Read the full Story >>
The Whitney Museum of American Art has been rising alongside the High Line, in New York City’s Meatpacking District. It opens to the public next week, on Friday, May 1. Advance access: But if you’re a member, or if you become a member soon, its doors will open for you in a special Founding Members Weekend, April 25-26. Information. There is a free … Read the full Story >>
If you’re into photography, this is a week to be in New York. The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, with more than 85 of the world’s leading photography art galleries, opens tomorrow at the Park Avenue Armory, with the opening night preview today from five to nine pm. Park Avenue at 67thStreet, NY, NY. Info Public programs run throughout the day on Saturday, and are … Read the full Story >>
Well readers, you are probably tapping at your iCal distractedly, with September—and piles of things to schedule—just around the corner. But it’s still summer, at least for another ten days. So I invite you to submit, Where in France Am I? Correctly identify my exact location and get into the drawing for the last DART Book Prize Contest of Summer 2015. Hint The more information you … Read the full Story >>
Wave Sky—Summer 2007When the sea spray and humidity collide the air becomes a visible, tangible sheath of fog. Pixels of moisture vibrate and blur the landscape. The senses are lulled and sounds muted by the hypnotic and fluid canvas of a summer day. Green Wave/Horizon—Fall 2007Imperceptibly the season transitions with minute shifts in tides and light. The air sharpens, and … Read the full Story >>
American Illustration, the leading juried annuaL and advocate of contemporary illustration in North America and the world, celebrates its 25th anniversary with a special edition that’s been turning heads since the launch party in November. Not only does it have a circular jacket, illustrated by Yuko Shimizu; it also has an interpretive timeline of the last 25 years, illustrated by 25 of today’s top … Read the full Story >>
For illustration artists, educators, creativies--AND qualified graduate students--sheltering in from the summer heat, here’s an opportunity to consider for next summer, around now: ICON13 The Illustration Conference. To be held in Baltimore, it's being hosted by @marylandinstitutecollegeofart, and now invites abstracts for 20 minute presentations that broaden the understanding of how illustration is changing in the classroom, practice, and research. The deadline is June … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, October 19: Linda Troeller | Self Power / Self Play at Museum of Sex Half a century of erotic portraiture by Linda Troeller comes to light in this solo show. Now in her 70s, DART subscriber Troeller continues to produce dynamic, provocative portraits that assert the right to control the pleasures and potentials of her own body. Since 1973, when she first … Read the full Story >>
