“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 >>
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 >>
