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 >>
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 >>
