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 >>
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 >>
Thursday, July 30, 6-8pm: Summer Invitational at First Street Gallery This just in from long-time subscriber and contributor, Ken Carbone: I'm pleased to be exhibiting five new paintings at First Street Gallery's Summer Invitational. This show features a talented group of artists offering a spectrum of abstract and figurative work. Close to Home, open to literal and metaphorical interpretations, can certainly be … 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 >>
