Wednesday, June 25 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Sargent’s Daughters, 179 East Broadway, NY, NY. Information. Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Joyride. Marlborough Broome Street, 331 Broome Street, NY, NY. Magnum Secrets, 6:30-9 pm: On June 25th, you are invited to pull up a chair, raise a glass, and keep your ears pricked to off-the-cuff stories from legends like Josef Koudelka, Elliott Erwitt, Jim Goldberg … Read the full Story >>
Siberian-born Nikolay Bakharev’s photographs of working class Russians at the beach, which were first seen in the U.S. in the 2012 exhibition Ostoglia, at the New Museum, was shortlisted for the 2015 Deutsche Brse prize. His work is currently on view at The Photographers Gallery, London, with another show opening next week at Julie Saul Gallery, New York. Bakharev began photographing during the Soviet era when it … Read the full Story >>
While the post-war American Dream was being broadcast as Kodak moments through mammoth Coloramas in Grand Central Terminal, starting in the 1950s, the young William Christenberry was exploring the world he knew best, using a little Brownie Box camera. As an artist making paintings and sculptures, he often took snapshots to record the subjects of his concern: tenant farmer shacks; rural churches; graves; roadside stands with fading … Read the full Story >>
“Don’t touch the Duck! It’s bad enough that the Wolf ate her!” “Don’t touch the Wolf, it will eat you!” These are just a couple of the warnings issued by the security guards, in faux-stentorious voices, to the children who swarmed onstage after last Sunday’s performance of Peter & the Wolf, presented by Works and Process at the Guggenheim Museum's Peter B. … Read the full Story >>
There's hardly anything among the plastic arts more unbounded than book arts. A discipline so broad - sometimes arcanely scholarly and sometimes as giddy as a jack-in-the-box - the only thing an artist's book might have in common with a commercially produced volume could be paper; or a printed impression; or neither. This summer's shows at The Center for Book Arts capitalize on the … Read the full Story >>
The craze for “fad magazines” (“fadzines,” we called them) was at its high noon. It was in….1896, and whoever could get possession of a printing press in the United States was helping to burden the newsstands….Art was running amuck through Posterdom. Literature was staggering blindfold, in a drunken spree, and every dog was having his day in journalism.—Getlett Burgess (1886-1951. Sound familiar? Media historians have … Read the full Story >>
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person—perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human … Read the full Story >>
If today's gorgeous summer light got you thinking about those provocative, highly curated group photography shows that have become synonymous with New York's summer gallery scene, you're in luck. Tomorrow evening, In Our Dreams opens at Sasha Wolf Gallery. The keynote image -- Garry Winogrand's Peace Demonstration, Central Park, New York, 1970 -- sets the tone for the idea behind this selection of … Read the full Story >>
A remarkable exhibition of unique Polaroid images opens at Joseph Bellows Gallery on Saturday: Original 4x5 Polaroid Land photographs, created by George Schumacher from the late 1950’s to 1970, and drawn from the artist’s estate. Schumacher, a psychiatrist working in central and northern California, originally considered photography a hobby. He became immersed in the Polaroid medium because of its immediacy as well as its … Read the full Story >>
It's Our War, at Fovea Editions/Beacon Gallery, presents work by Todd Heisler, Chris Hondros, and Suzanne Opton. Their penetrating views of war from different vantage points - inside Iraq and at home -- offer a powerful perspective that is intensified by proximity. The exhibition runs through August, with an opening reception for the photographers on Saturday, July 14 from 4:00 to 8:00 pm. Todd … Read the full Story >>
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 >>
