Q: Originally from the Northeast, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in the Bay Area A: Now I’m in San Francisco, where I am blissed out by the food, people, politics, and panoramas. Q: Do you keep a sketchbook? What is the balance between art you create on paper [or other analog medium] versus in the computer? A: Yes. … Read the full Story >>
And the Winner IsDebra Ziss of Brooklyn, NY, entered last week's Book Prize Contest, which asked Where In New York Am I?She wrote:That is a view of the cranes at the Red Hook Container Terminal as seen across Buttermilk Channel. Most likely shot either in the waters of Buttermilk Channel or while standing on Kimmel Road or Craig Road South on Governor's Island. Approximate … Read the full Story >>
Yinka Shonibare MBE, left: Addio del Passato Film Still 1, 2011; right: Addio del Passato Film Still 4, 2011; copyright the artist, courtesy James Cohan Gallery. Tuesday, February 14 Opening day, 11 am-6 pm: Glasstress | New Art from the Venice Biennale, featuring work by Jan Fabre, Tony Cragg, Jaime Hayton, Javier Preez, Kiki Smith, and Patricia Urquiola among others. Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, NY, NY. Lecture, 6 … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from outside New York City what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Toronto? A: The pace of life is much nicer and agreeable in Toronto. I lived in Brooklyn for eight years and there are a lot of small sources of stress you become accustomed to, but that in total take their toll. Q: Do you keep … Read the full Story >>
Submissions are now being accepted for American Photographt 38, the prestigious juried competition for professional photography from AI-AP. The contest is open to all photographers, creative professionals, publishers, agencies, representatives, students and teachers of photography of any nationality living, working or studying in North America (U.S. and Canada). International photographers living abroad who have North American citizenship or representation, or have been published or … Read the full Story >>
One of Adrian Tomine’s New Yorker covers that etched itself in my memory is the one in which a boy and a girl, in subway cars headed in opposite directions, look up from their reading toward each other as they pull out of the station. It seemed to epitomize the contrary emotions that enmesh young people looking for meaning in life and love. Hard … Read the full Story >>
“And so, Sira’s book dummies, in their idiosyncratic way, functioned as ventriloquists’ dummies do: as performative stand-ins. They allowed him not only to articulate what intrigued and concerned him, but to explore how the visual forms, language, and parameters of his interests might best be expressed…. "Curious about the ways similar groupings of photographic images that were sized, sequenced, and somewhat differently formatted would … Read the full Story >>
Pimp Your Bookcases continues with Paul Kopeikin, who must have had a sixth sense going when he shuttered his LA Gallery in January. He currently represents his artists from his Echo Park home and storage unit, while looking forward to the new normal of future fairs and pop-ups. Peggy Roalf: What were you involved with when you decided on your career choice? Paul Kopeikin: … Read the full Story >>
While the Rolling Stones have postponed their 50th Anniversary tour, it’s not necessary to wait for iconic images of the band that won’t quit. Tonight an exhibition of photographs by one of rock’s great image-makers, Jim Marshall, opens at Steven Kasher Gallery. And a book of his photographs from the Stones’ 1972 tour is also being launched. The book, The Rolling Stones: 1972 (Chronicle) is … Read the full Story >>
In Museums New Art at The Frick Madison In a bold move that stemmed from a blinding glimpse of the obvious, The Frick Madison has installed new works by contemporary artists alongside the old masters that are the mainstay of the collection. As The Art Newspaper reports, this project came out of a very simple need to fill empty spaces on the … Read the full Story >>
PR: When did you know for sure that your metier would be art and design? JC: I won an art award in high school and one of the members of the jury pulled my Dad aside and told him I should pursue a career in art. But I’ve probably known this was the path for me since I was very young. PR: During your … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Thursday, April 6 App Promotion Summit. Stewart Hotel, 371 7th Avenue, NY, NY Info Saturday, April 8 – Sunday, April 9 Slow Art Day, 11am-6 pm. Gallery tours, activities, audio tours. Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street, NY, NY Info ICP Library Benefit Book Sale, 10 am-6 pm. ICP School, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, at 43rd Street, NY, NY … Read the full Story >>
Famous for his role in New York’s artistic heritage and the Pop Art movement, Andy Warhol believed that everyone had it in them to be a star for fifteen minutes. Through his own art, he defined his identity and shaped the world around him. He once commented that he’d like his tombstone to say only one word: “Figment.” So to all of the unrecognized … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, June 22, 6-7 pm: Art Talk about Landscape and Memory by Cristina Iglesias at Madison Square Park Cristina Iglesias’ installation places five bronze sculptural pools, gently flowing with water arriving in different sequences, into the park’s Oval Lawn, harkening back to when the Cedar Creek—now buried underground—coursed across the land where the park stands today. Building on Iglesias’ practice of unearthing the forgotten and … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / Special Events and Beyond Tuesday, April 18 Tom Watson and His Clients, performance, 7 pm. Swiss Institute, 102 Franklin Street, NY, NY Info Hands Off Our Revolution | The Role of Art and Activism Today, discussion, 7 pm. ICP Museum, 150 Bowery, NY, NY Info Fiction, Trust and Surveillance: A Reading Froup with the Broodthaers Society of … Read the full Story >>
CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions, the title of the new show at Storefront for Art and Architecture, conjured up images of a grim military-industrial state and its massive concrete apartment blocks. What I found instead is a collection of photographs of utopian places for the people, all built during the last 20 years of the Cold War. In his travels through the former Soviet … Read the full Story >>
In a flooded landscape, life is suddenly turned upside down and normality is suspended. With an almost “tracing paper” effect on the societies in which they occur, flood waters often reveal underlying tensions and difficulties as they recede. It is these elements that continue to draw me to flood zoes, evoking many questions about our sense of stability in the world.—Gideon Mendel Drowning … Read the full Story >>
When Steve Brodner emailed to let me know that the Norman Rockwell Museum was giving him "the full Monte," as he put it, I marveled at the timing. The exhibition of over 100 of his political illustrations, as well as his recent animated videos, opens in Stockbridge, Massachusetts this weekend, just a few days after Barack Obama claimed the Democratic party's nomination for the … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs & Special Events June 16-21 Volta Basel. Information. Viaduktstrasse 10, Markthalle, Basel, Switzerland. June 17-22 Design Miami/Basel, Basel Switzerland. Information. Hall 1 Süd, Messe Basel, Messeplatz, Basel, Switzerland June 18-22 The Solo Project Contemporary Art Fair. Information. St. Jakobshalle, Brüglingerstrasse 19-21, Basel, Switzerland. June 19-22 Art Basel. Information. Halls 1 and 2, Messe Basl, Messeplatz 10 Basel, Switzerland. June 19-22 Scope Basel. Information. Scope Pavilion, Uferstrasse 40CH-4057 BaselSwitzerland. Reminder Deadline, June 30: 2014 Photo Review … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Wednesday, February 28 Dancespace Project presents: Dancing Platform Praying Ground | Blackness, Churches, and Downtown Dance, 6:30 pm. The Great Hall, The Cooper Union, 7 West 7th Street, NY, NY Info SVA Alumni Affairs presents: Women in the Creative Industries, 7 pm. SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street, NY, NY Info Steven Cohen | The … Read the full Story >>
