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 >>
Art in and for the garden has a long history in American decorative arts, and the New York Botanical Garden has become a major proponent of this popular combination. In fact, it has come full circle with the recently opened installation of more than 20 works by Seattle glass artist, Dale Chihuly. When the garden first hosted an installation of his work in 2006, … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, January 28, 6-8 pm: To the Studios at JJ Murphy Gallery See paintings by Elisa Jensen, John Lees, and Liam Murphy-Torres, three generations of artists associated with the New York Studio School, an alternative art school founded in 1963 by Mercedes Matter. The title of the exhibition was suggested by Elisa Jensen [above] and refers to a series of paintings by … Read the full Story >>
Yamamoto Masao, Itteki, at Yancey Richardson Gallery through February 8 Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Wednesday, February 5 Nancy Spero | Active Histories, in conversation with Christopher Lyon, 6:30 pm. New York Studio School, 8 West 8th Street, NY, NY Info Yonia Fain’s Map of Refugee Modernism, gallery tour, bilingual Yiddish-English poetry reading, film screening and conversation, 6:30 pm. The James … Read the full Story >>
For Beauford Delaney, drawing was both a sanctuary and a space for experimentation. Through his works on paper, he could explore ideas with intimacy and spontaneity, yet this vital area of his oeuvre has been largely overlooked. In the Medium of Life: The Drawings of Beauford Delaney marks New York's first major Delaney museum exhibition in over thirty years and the first … Read the full Story >>
