Montpellier, the capital of Languedoc-Rouisson, is France's 8th largest city, with 19th-century boulevards lined with palm trees and the streets of its old town largely turned over to pedestrians. Although it was in economic shambles following WWII—lacking jobs and industry—the city has been turned around due to a continuing urban planning program that has made it the country's fastest growing as well as its youngest … Read the full Story >>
© Joseph Hartman, from Artist Studios, opening tomorrow at Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto. Landscapes from the Collection of Jay McDonald. Continues through November 20 at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs. 962 Park Avenue, NY, NY. August Sander: Prints for the Aperture Monograph. Continues through October 31 at Deborah Bell Photographs, 16 East 71st Street, NY, NY. (below, right) José Picayo. Continues through November 1 … Read the full Story >>
Tallks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, April 11 Go Beyond Design: 2017 MFA Design Thesis Forum, 19 graduating students perfect their pitches as they continue their entrepreneurial journeys, 1pm/doors 12:30 pm. SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street, NY, NY Tickets/free Wednesday, April 12 Animation Nights presents: The Alan Dimension by Jac Clinch, 8 pm. Animation Nights New York, 180 … Read the full Story >>
Ruins of built environments exert a mysterious allure. For photographer Nadev Kander, the combination of beauty and destruction has been central to his search for an “aesthetics of destruction” that characterizes his work. Above: Loaded Priozersk II, (Tulip in Bloom), Kazakhstan 2011. © Nadav Kander/courtesy Flowers Gallery London and New York. After completing his epic study of the Yangtze River in 2007 Kander began researching the secret military installations from … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from the Eternal City, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Spain? A: I’m from Rome but now I live in Barcelona, in the Gracia neighborhood. I relly like it here because there are a lot of small plazas and every weekend there is a festival of some kind, such as food fairs, concerts, street markets, etc. … Read the full Story >>
The DART Book Prize Winner Lauren Kristin, who works at Swann Auction Galleries, wrote: It's a southern view of the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge taken from Roosevelt Island on S Loop Road, just before the Smallpox Memorial Hospital landmark, and further beyond that the FDR Four Freedoms Park. On the righthand side on Coned smokestacks. Across the water in Queens further southeast … Read the full Story >>
Giorgio Morandi – Time Suspended II is among the largest and most significant exhibitions devoted to the artist in the United States in 20 years. Curated by Marilena Pasquali – founder and director of the Giorgio Morandi Study Center, Bologna – and gallerist Mattia De Luca, this once-in—lifetime exhibition brings together approximately 60 works from across Morandi’s career on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the artist’s … Read the full Story >>
Where do you get your news? What makes you pay attention to important events and changes in the world today? What do you even remember about what has happened on any given day a week or two later? Chances are good that an exceptional photo will make you pause to get more information about what is happening and to remember it. And chances are … Read the full Story >>
Combat Outpost (COP) Mizan , Zabul Province, Southern Afghanistan. COP Mizan is a base around 80 km away from Qalat City in Zabul Province. There was a point a few years ago, when Mizan and it’s surrounding valley and villages were considered a success for ISAF and relatively safe. The Taliban seemed to have been driven out. However a Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA) program to eradicate the poppies farmed there along … Read the full Story >>
Kevin Bubriski first began photographing Nepal in 1975, when he was stationed there as a Peace Corps water engineer. In the decades that followed he continued to shoot in Nepal, creating a large documentary record of the country. His images are now on view the Center for Government and International Studies, at Harvard University, in an exhibition titled, Shadows of Shangri-La: Nepal in Photographs. On … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Happy Bastille Day, July 14 Champagne and Chocolate on 60th Street, information. Sunday, July 19 The Rubin Block Party, 1-4 pm. Transform yourself; with Becoming Another: The Power of Masks. The Rubin Art Museum, 150 West 17th Street, NY, NY. Information. Lectures / Discussions / Screenings / Performances Tuesday, July 14Ida Applebroog | The Ethics of Desire, … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, June 19 Nell Painter: Old in Art School | in conversation with Sarah Lewis, 6:30 pm. NYPL, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, NY, NY Info Wednesday, June 20 Getting Basic | Selling Your Art, 7 pm. SOHO20 Gallery, 56 Bogart Street, NY, NY Info Left: Thomas Bayrle in Conversation with … Read the full Story >>
The other day I saw something on Intagram that captures the dilemma: EARTH without ART is EH….. Here’s what’s upin NYC this weekend: David Salle Monoprints at Pace Prints The most convincing works tend to be those in which the thinking is inseparable from the doing.–David Salle Over the course of several months in 2019, David Salle worked at Pace Editions … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Thursday, February 23-Saturday, February 25 BlackLives Matter Pratt Teach-in, 9am on. Pratt Institute, 200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Info Thursday, February 23-Monday, March 6 Japanese Young Artists’ Book Fair, 11 am-8 pm. Printed Matter, 231 Eleventh Avenue, NY, NY Info Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond Wednesday, February 22 Ike Ude | Nollywood Portraits: A radical Beauty, Book … Read the full Story >>
Tomorrow evening, the public is invited to celebrate World Refugee Day at Aperture Gallery. Co-sponsored by The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Aperture Foundation, and FilmAid International, this is one of many celebrations in over a hundred countries to honor the contributions of refugees who have rebuilt their lives. A presentation will be made by documentary photographer Zalmai, who was born in … Read the full Story >>
When Fred Woodward was art director of Texas Monthly the task of supplying photographs for articles sometimes fell into his hands. Shortly before he moved to New York to become the AD of Rolling Stone, he was commissioned by The Atlantic Monthly to accompany a friend, who was a journalist, on a freelance photo assignment. The pictures he made in Canton, Mississippi and Chicago, … Read the full Story >>
Helen Sear, a British artist with strong connections to the landscape and the sublime, is a romantic with an intellectual bent. With Inside the View, her first show at Klompching Gallery two years ago, her images combining landscape with portraiture were constructed by digitally layering in evocations of the traditional needlework of Finland to define a new landscape of the feminine. In … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs Thursday, January 15-Sunday, January 18 PhotoLa 2015. The Reef/LA Mart, 1933 Broadway, Los Angeles, CA. Information. Saturday, January 17-Sunday, January 18 Classic Photographs Los Angeles. Bonhams, 7601 West Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA. Information. Talks / Discussions / Workshops Tuesday, January 13 Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series presents, 7 pm: Valerio Spada | I Am Nothing. School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21st Street, Room 418F, NY, NY. … Read the full Story >>
Photographer Sebastião Salgado, known for his epic views of man’s inhumanity to man, and to the earth, has spent the past decade exploring places that have escaped the human touch. In a 2004 statement, he said, “I conceive this project as a potential path towards humanity's rediscovery of itself in nature. I have named it Genesis because, as far as possible, I want to return to the … Read the full Story >>
The romance of Vivian Maier continues unabated, as images made by a photographer who refused celebrity continue being brought to public view. Last night, at a panel discussion held at HarperCollins BookLab, at the South Street Seaport, the elusive photographer was presented in light of the tremendous popularity that her photographs, but primarily her story, have obtained. Gallerist Howard Greenberg was joined by art historian and journalist … Read the full Story >>
