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 >>
For the 9th consecutive year, the Lucie Awards will celebrate the greatest achievements in photography the world over. This year, the gala comes to New York’s Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, on October 24, 2011. Scenes from Lucies past, at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. Courtesy the Lucie Foundation. The Lucie Awards, produced by the Lucie Foundation, a … Read the full Story >>
Rembrandt’s First Masterpiece at the Morgan Library & Museum Before going on to a stellar career in Amsterdam, young Rembrandt van Rijn already had proven his worth. His 1627 painting, Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver, a little know biblical scene that appears in only one of the four gospels, got the attention of a diplomat and art connoisseur named Constantijn Hyygens, who had … Read the full Story >>
Polymath artist Bruno Bressolin, who lives and works in Paris, often begins a project by making notes on disasters reported on the morning radio news. He began Sang d'Encre (which, in English, means "worried sick") following reports on Hurricane Sandy; a year later he had created over 400 large ink drawings which first took shape as a book, then were assembled onto a wall of images … Read the full Story >>
© Thierry Cohen, Notre Dame, from the“Darkened Cities” series; © Thierry Cohen, courtesy Danziger Gallery. Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Wednesday, April 17 MFA Design Thesis Forum | Venture 19: Twenty Years of Design Entrepreneurs, 5:00 pm. SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rdStreet, NY, NY Info Housing Tech City? New York With(out) Amazon, 6:30 pm. Museum of the City of New … Read the full Story >>
Today, the International Center of Photography invites visitors to its new home on the Bowery, with free admission. Much of the first floor of the new space has been designed as a “village square,” a place for conversation on the subject of photography and visual culture. With windows opening onto the sidewalk diagonally across from the New Museum, a café with enough tables for … Read the full Story >>
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The New School Part-time Faculty Strike Update DART has been covering the strike by part-time faculty at The New School, which includes Parsons School of Design, since the Union representing faculty, Act UAW 7902, voted to strike, on December 6th. Yesterday, Ben Davis, National Art Critic for artnet news, updated the situation with a look at the support by prominent artists, writers and … Read the full Story >>
Graphic novels - a genre that originated just 30 years ago - have entered the cultural mainstream with force. Now the subject of a major exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, this sequential art and literature form seems to be everywhere. In an article in today's New York Times about a graphic novel created to teach the history of the Holocaust … Read the full Story >>
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 >>
