Peggy Roalf: When did you get the idea that art and design would be your life’s work? Elisa Talentino: I have been drawing since I was a child. I was born and raised in Castellamonte, a city famous for its ceramics, in the province of Turin. My primary school was next to the Institute of Art, and I was always admiring the girls and boys with their … Read the full Story >>
The latest incarnation of the Gowanus Canal as a Superfund site, with a cleanup pricetag of over $500 million, has provoked a real estate bubble in Brooklyn before remediation has even begun. The prospect of a waterfront promenade with cafes, bars and bookstores has prompted real estate grabs of buildings and empty lots along the two-mile stretch of “black mayonnaise.” A 2012 report compiled by the city’s Department … Read the full Story >>
Ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack, a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in. –Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything, continues through September 8 at The Jewish Museum. One of the highlights of this presentation organized the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC), is Passing Through by George Fok (2017), an immersive compilation … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, December 12 William Corbett on John Walker, 630 pm. New York Studio School, 8 West 8th Street, NY, NY Info Stephen Gill | Night Procession, book signing, 6-8 pm. Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, NY, NY Info Amy Whitaker on Art Thinking, 6:30 pm. SVA, 133/141 West 21st Street, NY, NY Info Dana Lixenberg … Read the full Story >>
New York City’s most prominent design and architecture schools, among them Parsons, Columbia GSAPP, the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), Pratt and the School of Visual Arts (SVA), are fueling the city’s creative economy, according to a report released on March 18th by the think tank The Center for an Urban Future. Through interviews and survey responses from over 300 academics, design professionals … Read the full Story >>
When Mao Zedong proclaimed the Peoples’ Republic of China, on October 1, 1949, he said, “This is how a free and democratic New China will be. All governments at various levels all the way to the central government will be elected through popular, fair and anonymous voting. They will be responsible to the people that elected them. It will be a fulfillment of Sun Yat-Sen's Three … Read the full Story >>
Ricard Learoyd’s large-scale photographs—mainly portraits, nudes and still lifes—encourage a different way of looking. Made using the most basic of methods available, the camera obscura, which by nature produces a unique image, these are studies of individuals or objects captured with such fidelity that surfaces become tactile in a way that is not common to photography. Photo above: Sam Deitch/BFA.com, courtesy Pace Gallery. In the case of … Read the full Story >>
November looms large in the New York art world and the first night of the month is tagged for Aperture Foundation's annual benefit and auction. This year's installment is bigger than ever -- with two new features tailored to young collectors. First, an emerging artist category has been added to the auction for the first time to acknowledge Aperture's commitment to supporting the artistic … Read the full Story >>
Tracking a trend, 2010-2018 May 22, 2010 10:03 PM Question: I saw Pearl Jam the other night in Boston (incredible show!), and as we spent 45 minutes waiting to get out of the garage, we saw the bootleg shirt sellers drop prices to the point that one guy just gave them away. It got me wondering about the actual process and distribution system of … Read the full Story >>
If you’ve ever taken a workshop, a course, attended an exhibition or a lecture, you can’t help but sense that The League, as it’s known, is different. Walking into this historic structure, which is maintained to a high degree of spit and polish, you get that it’s a place that matters to the cultural life of New York City. You also get a … Read the full Story >>
“Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” With that in mind, the theme of ICON8, The Illustration Conference, is Work+Play.In a further riff on that notion, the organizers just announced Damial Kulash as one of the keynote speakers for the conference being held this summer. Best known as the singer for the band OK Go, tagged “the first post-internet band,” Kulash is … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / And Beyond Wednesday, May 31 Exploratory Works exhibition walkthrough with anthropologist Katherine McLeod, 6:30 pm. The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, NY, NY Info Hands off Out Revolution | Complicity, 7 pm. International Center of Photography, 250 Bowery, NY, NY Info Jay Maisel and Stephen Wilkes | Photographic Icons, 7 pm. SVA Theater, 333 West 23rd Street, … Read the full Story >>
One of the most interesting art exhibitions currently on view in New York arrived with so little fanfare that it’s not even present on its museum’s home page. Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until mid-January, presents 45 of the French artist’s extant 60 paintings, including all of those in the collection of the Louvre. Valentin (1591-1632) spent … Read the full Story >>
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, with its soaring new addition designed by the Miami-based architectural firm Arquitectonica, is one of New York's leaders in supporting and presenting emerging artists. This Sunday, the museum will host an open house for Here and Elsewhere, an exhibition featuring 36 artists who live and work in the New York metropolitan area. The exhibition celebrates the … Read the full Story >>
The best way to see the exhibition Albert Oehlen: Home & Garden, at the New Museum, is (in my opinion) in reverse order. In other words, take in the nine painting on the fourth floor first, then get the “back story” from the [mostly] earlier works on three. The large paintings upstairs bristle with an energy whose effect is to make the surfaces seem to be escaping their … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Georgia, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in New York? A: I like the fact that you can walk everywhere. I don't like driving so it's ideal for me. I also like being able to go to galleries and shows. Everything here is clustered and within easy reach, whether it's museums, galleries, events, etc. There always … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday night, Chinese authorities released dissident artist Ai Weiwei on bail, and on condition that he not speak publicly about his 81-day detention at an undisclosed location. The state news agency, Xinhua, said police had released him "because of his good attitude in confessing his crimes" and a chronic illness. In an interview before he was incarcerated, Mr. Ai said that his father, … Read the full Story >>
New York City’s Public Art Fund celebrates its 40th anniversary this year with a series of new commissions, beginning this week with Commercial Break, which continues through March 6th. The digital works—by 20 international artists, including Cory Arcangel, Awol Erizku and Casey Jane Ellison—will be shown across all five boroughs of New York City, at sites such as the Barclays Center oculus and … Read the full Story >>
One hundred and twenty years ago in August, Adolph S. Ochs purchased The New-York Times, a paper with a daily circulation of 9,000 and a regional audience. By 1996, it had a circulation of over 1,150,000 and was widely regarded “the newspaper of record,” here and abroad. On the occasion of it’s 100th anniversary, The Museum of Modern Art [MoMA] joined the centennial … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from [where?] what are some of your favorite things about living and working in your current locale? A: I’m originally from Rochester, New York, but I currently live in Cleveland, Ohio. One of the great things about living and working in Cleveland is how affordable it is. I used to live in New York City, but here in Cleveland, I can finally … Read the full Story >>
