Marshall Arisman (1937-2022), longtime chair of the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department at the School of Visual Arts, and a co-founder of American Illustration, will be honored by SVA in an exhibition opening next week at the Gramercy Gallery.Info Arisman began teaching at SVA in 1964 and founded the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program in 1984, of which … Read the full Story >>
Just in time for the season opener of MoMAPS1’s Warm Up music series this weekend, the Young Architects Program (YAP) winning structure opens in the courtyard. Hy-Fi, a circular tower of organic and biodegradable bricks that uses biological technologies combined with cutting-edge computation and engineering, the structure was created through a new method of bio-design conceived by its designer, David Benjamin of the New York-based architects The … Read the full Story >>
Special Events June 23-June 26 Art Hamptons. 900 Lumber Lane, Bridgehampton, NY. Info Talk / Discussion / Screening / and Beyond Wednesday, June 22 Lucy Skaer, Prix Canson and Turner Prize finalist in conversation with Brett Littman, Executive Director, Drawing Center and Prix Canson 2016 Jury, 6 pm. The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, NY, NY. Info Nonprofit Incorporation and Tex Exemption Workshop, … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Perth, Western Australia, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in New York? A: I love the remote beauty and vastness of Western Australia but the energy and excitement of living and working in New York can't be beat. How and when did you first become interested in art and illustration? * I learned about Impressionists and then … Read the full Story >>
This just in from Hyperallergic: An Essential History immortalized in the Archive of Ebony and Jet by Jasmine WeberThe archive of Ebony and Jet is a treasure trove of visual culture; its donation to the National Museum of African American History and Culture and Getty Research Institute will allow unprecedented access to decades of Black American history.Above: 1954 Funmakers Ball participants … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, April 10 Brooklyn: A Decade of Design and Change, 6 pm. The New School, 63 Fifth Avenue, Room UL 102, NY, NY Info Wednesday, April 11 Daniel Belasco | Becoming Al Held: Abstract Expressionist Paintings, Paris & New York, 6:30 pm. New York Studio School, 8 West 8thStreet, NY, NY Info The MFA Design … Read the full Story >>
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes. Even when the people in it do—Andy Warhol Without doubt, Andy Warhol influenced the post-Modern idea of serial repetition more than any other late 20th-century artist. In 1962, he painted a series of Campbell Soup cans, one each of the 32 varieties. Done with a mechanical precision that echoed the mass-produced originals, … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Taiwan, what is your favorite thing about living and working in Paris? A: I am currently doing an Institute Français artist-in-residence program at Cité internationale des Arts, in Paris. I like walking around and observing people in this lovely city. Q: Do you keep a sketchbook? What is the balance between the art you create on paper versus in the computer? A: Yes, I do keep a sketchbook. … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, February 20 Alison Rossiter, artist talk, 7 pm. Penumbra Foundation, 36 East 30th Street, NY, NY Info Wednesday, February 21 Taxes for Artists Workshop, 6 pm. Lower East Side Printshop, 306 West 37th Street, 6th Floor, NY, NY Info Thursday, February 22 Untitled Work for Voice, through February 24th. Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church, … Read the full Story >>
When the winners of American Illustration were announced at the end of March, I received an email from Gayle Kabaker about how her June 25, 2012 cover art for The New Yorker made its way from her painting studio, to Françoise Mouly’s Blown Covers blog, to the magazine itself—and then to AI32. It’s a great story, so I asked Gayle to do the DART Artist … Read the full Story >>
Ishiuchi Miyako, a photographer identified with the Provoke movement in Japan, returned to her childhood home in the mid-1970s and made a large group of black-and-white photographs. As a young woman she explored the city of Yokosuka, which was occupied by U.S. forces after the Japanese surrender in 1945, two years before her birth. She made three series between 1978 and 1981: Apartments, … Read the full Story >>
Donald Judd (1928-1944), an artist who rejected painting for the exploration of space, scale, industrial materials, and primary colors, changed the perception of sculpture through his unadorned, rectilinear works. He rejected the notion that his work was “sculpture,” which he said implied that carving was involved. He also rejected the label “minimalist,” stating that he was an “empiricist.” Once he found his mature style—expressed … Read the full Story >>
City parks and neighborhood green spaces are vital to their residents, offering places to stop for a break in the crush of urban life: lunch away from the desk; coffee and chat with a friend; if you’re lucky, an hour or so to read a book, sketch, or to simply to gaze at some lovingly tended plants. The Elizabeth Street Garden in Nolita is … Read the full Story >>
Forty years after Earth Day was proclaimed a national day of observance, our planet faces greater perils than ever before, according to the Earth Day Action Center. The idea of marking a day on which to take notice, on the most basic level, of what surrounds us began as an "environmental teach-in" in Seattle and launched a worldwide environmental movement. This year's observance … Read the full Story >>
Before beginning his career as a photographer, Marc Riboud worked as a factory engineer until 1951. After a week on holiday, during which he covered the cultural festival of Lyon, Riboud dropped his engineering job for photography and moved to Paris in 1952. He was invited by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa to join Magnum as an associate that same year. Photo above: © Marc Riboud, Darjeeling, India, 1956. Between 1954 … Read the full Story >>
Modern to Contemporary at MoMA Two exhibitions across the hall from each other on the second floor offer a coherent view of two defining moments in art. First, the small, scintillating installation of works by Jackson Pollock from the museum’s collections presents about 50 pieces that encapsulate the artist’s struggle to define his process. Through a selection of paintings, drawings and prints, his movement away … Read the full Story >>
Lions released from a zoo in war-torn Baghdad; the cruel conditions of the sheep industry; an American expatriate searching for her identity in Mexico - serious subject matter for any medium, but particularly so for a new wave of critically acclaimed and commercially successful graphic novels. This weekend, the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts opens "LitGraphic," a major exhibition covering the development of … Read the full Story >>
Monday, October 7-Saturday, October 12Design Week Portland. Information. Events. Venues. Tuesday, October 8, 2013 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Mary Saran | Continuum. Orchard Windows Gallery, 37 Orchards Street, basement, NY, NY. Book launch, 7-9 pm: Studio Life by Sarah Trigg (Princeton Architectural Press). Hotel Particulier, 4-6 Grand Street, NY, NY. RSVP appreciated. Panel discussion, 7-8:30 pm: The Art of Horror | … Read the full Story >>
Japan Today, an exhibition currently on view at Amador Gallery, is profoundly elegiac. It features images by three photographers who have taken divergent views of the country that existed for them before the March 11th earthquake and tsunami. Left to right: Taiji Matsui, JP-22 #16, 2005; Osama Kanemura, from Today’s Japan, 2005; Mikiko Hara, Untitled (Is As It), 1996. Courtesy Amador Gallery. … Read the full Story >>
Saturday is the third and last day for Summer Streets – and the last chance this year for New Yorkers to cycle – carfree – from East 72nd Street to the Brooklyn Bridge, from 7 am to 1 pm. Park Avenue will be closed to traffic; then Lafayette Street picks up the action from Union Square on. It’s a great way to enjoy all … Read the full Story >>
