Special Events Continuing through May 20Parsons Festival 2016. Various Locations. Info, including the international salon of illustration, comics, and animation info Friday, May 20-Sunday, May 22 6th Annual LIC Arts Open Studios 2016, various locations, Long Island City, NY. Info Opening party Thursday, May 19, 6-9 pm. W3 Gallery, 45-43 21st Street, 2nd Floor, LIC, Queens, NY. Friday, May 20 … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / And Beyond Tuesday, May 9 AM at the JM: Adam Pendleton, 8:30-9:30 am. Jewish Museum salon at Think Coffee, 123 4th Avenue, NY, NY. Info Eleni Sikelianos and Will Alexander, poetry reading, 6:30 pm. Dia:Chelsea, 535 West 22nd Street, NY, NY Info Wednesday, May 10 Bookness | Taking Stock of the Book Arts in South Africa, 6:30 … Read the full Story >>
The most popular American illustrator at mid-century, subsequently dismissed by the generation whose times he chronicled as being kitschy and out of touch, is at last being reconsidered in two major exhibitions now touring the country. Norman Rockwell, best known for the covers he created for the Saturday Evening Post, is now being celebrated for the genius of his working methods and … Read the full Story >>
The 2017 Summer Invitational: Pimp Your Sketchbook, in which artists show their personal work and open a window onto their creative process, continues with Cecilia Ruiz, who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. I usually buy several sketchbooks at the same time and always have very high, unrealistic goals for them. I try giving each one a different purpose based on size, format, … Read the full Story >>
Environmental degradation in East Africa continues at a rate that has effectively outpaced the ability of Kenya’s great beasts to survive. “Evidence suggests that if poaching persists at this level, specific local African elephant populations could disappear in the next decade,” according to a recent report in the UN Chronicle. “Weak governance and corruption have exacerbated the poaching crisis,” the paper continues. “This … Read the full Story >>
Parasitic architecture—structures that depend on a host for their very existence—is a concept that has been around since British architect Peter Cook of Archigram fame drew his monumental Plug-in City during the 1960s. As many nomadic Millennials have embraced Tiny Houses and Micro-dwellings here in the US, a number of architects have proposed new takes on the idea of compact, low-cost, energy-efficient dwellings, which … Read the full Story >>
Q: What are some of your favorite things about living and working in Brooklyn? A: My favorite thing about living in New York City is people watching on the street. Q: How and when did you first become interested in art and illustration? A: I always liked to draw. I got into printmaking in the summer of 2008 and saw that my work would … Read the full Story >>
You are what you eat, how you coif, what you wear might be subtext for Lorenzo Vitturi’s Dalston Anatomy. One of the most talked about self-published books of 2013 (SPBH), it made most of the year-end top tens and was short-listed for the 2013 Paris Photo/Aperture Book Prize. This is a photo book as object, from its content—evocations of Vitturi’s gritty east London … Read the full Story >>
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) is home to one of the world's largest collections of African-American quilts — some 3,000 of them. Bequeathed to the museum in 2019 by the estate of the late private collector Eli Leon, the collection is important because of its vast size and because of the detailed records Leon kept about each quilt he acquired. "These … Read the full Story >>
At the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, last September, World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch announced that they have set up a joint initiative to honor the late Tim Hetherington. The deadline for applications is October 15. The first recipient of the Tim Hetherington grant will be announced on 7 November. Left: Battle Company / Afghanistan Fire during an attack … Read the full Story >>
Making Sense of the Senses, the Center for Book Arts’ annual artist members’ exhibition currently on view, demonstrates the vitality and variety to be found in the art of the book. A dizzying platform for experimentation in visual narrative, the discipline of artist books can be described as a multimedia form whose end result is an object. Whether it takes the form of a … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, August 21, 5-9pm: Edel Rodriguez | Worm at Society of Illustrators Join this Museum Mixer celebrating the opening of Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey, showcasing the art of Edel Rodriguez. The night will also feature a screening of Edel’s documentary Freedom is a Verb (2024) at 6:00 pm followed by a Q&A with Edel and his parents, and a book signing. The … Read the full Story >>
Running away from home is a rite of passage as American as the epic road trip. Almost everyone has been a runaway, to some degree or another, at some time in their lives, and this condition permanently inflects the choices they make thereafter. I ran away from home at age 4.5, simply [or not] because I was consumed with jealousy. One day I was aimlessly playing … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, May 23, 6-8pm: Trang M Uyen | The Theory of Color at Fremin Trang M Uyen (TMU) is an artistic collaboration between Mary “Trang” Nguyen and Denise “M Uyen” Nguyen. Depicted in this series is the pastoral landscape of the Hamptons, imagery that remains etched in memory from summers spent on Long Island, where Mary recalls wandering the idyllic shores and … Read the full Story >>
Above: PFC Daniel Anders and SPC Marc Hannah looking busy on a MAXXPRO on FOB Lagman, Zabul Province, Afghanistan. Although Americans are reportedly losing interest in the war in Afghanistan, more than 80,000 U.S. troops continue to fight in this country, dying at a rate of about one a day. Still, the war itself, now in its 11th year, commands little attention in the … Read the full Story >>
Typography has become the essential way of communicating language, but the mechanics involved in crafting elegant typography can sometimes seem mystifying. Professor Alexander Tochilovsky, Co-director of the Typographics festival and conference and Curator of the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, says, “There is always language in graphic design, and typography is what shapes that language, it’s what gives it form. When … Read the full Story >>
With its population of 1.1 billion crammed into a land mass just one-third the size of the United States, India is a country that has proved difficult, if not impossible, for most western photographers to portray. Except for Henri Cartier-Bresson, who chronicled the period leading up to Indian independence in 1949, and Sebastiao Salgado, who photographed the country for both his "Workers" and "Migrations" … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from New Jersey, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Brooklyn? A: I was raised in south Jersey, right outside Philadelphia. They’re close geographically but very different places. People care about art in Brooklyn, which is nice, and there is always something going on. I haven’t been bored once the entire time I’ve lived here. Q: Do … Read the full Story >>
Jamie Oliver, widely known as the Naked Chef for his 20-something sexy-single-guy TV cooking show, has taken on serious matters now that he's in his mid-30s and has a family. For the past seven or so years, he has been campaigning to teach schools - both here and in the UK - how to feed kids good food in a fight against obesity, … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / And Beyond Tuesday, May 15 Digital Materiality in the Age of Design Systems, 1-4:30 pm. The New School, 6 East 16thStreet, room D1103, NY, NY Info Joan Lifton | Water for tears, talk/book launch, 7 pm. Penumbra Foundation, 36 East 30thStreet, NY, NY Info Keltie Ferris, Bob Nickas and Benny Merris,panel, 7 pm. Cleopatra’s 110 Meserole … Read the full Story >>
