Closing June 3: Public Access at Naval Cemetery Memorial Landscape The Brooklyn Naval Cemetery Landscape is 1.7-acre publicly accessible landscape that now servesas a point of respiteand reflectionalong the length ofa 14-milewaterfront greenway in Brooklyn. As a part of the Navy Yard, the sitehadbeenlargely off-limits and out-of-sightto the public since its use as a cemetery was decommissioned in the 1920’s. After a recent renovation, … Read the full Story >>
This is the fifth in a series of reports for holiday book shoppers. After running around all week in search of NYC's best bookshops for arts and culture, I was ready for a break. So I slogged through the sleet yesterday to McNally Robinson, at 52 Prince Street, between Lafayette and Mulberry Streets. One of the city's largest independent booksellers, McR, as it's … Read the full Story >>
MoMA is my preferred HAFH during a heat wave. Cool spacious galleries, social areas with good WiFi and places to roost between views—and the second floor bookstore/café—align for a perfect match. Early to meet a friend the other day, I drifted into the mezzanine bookstore overlooking 54thStreet and began browsing randomly. To my surprise I detected what must be for MoMA a somewhat subversive … Read the full Story >>
The French artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot (1827-1895) left his native France in 1855, moving with his wife to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where his two children were born. He supported his family as an artist and nature illustrator, also working as a lithographer. He soon became active with the local scientific community as a member of the Boston Society of Natural History. … Read the full Story >>
Because weathervanes, like covered bridges, dotted the rural New Hampshire landscape of my childhood, I never gave them much thought; until I wandered into the exhibition currently on view at the American Folk Art Museum. Organized by Robert Shaw, an independent curator, and Emelie Gevalt, the museum’s curator of folk art, American Weathervanes: The Art of the Wind brings together around 60 examples from … Read the full Story >>
Painters and sculptors have made copies of works by past masters to advance their own art since the Renaissance. It’s a way of studying form, gesture, and volume, putting aside the drama of composition, for that part of the job has already been done. But there has never been an artist who copied his own work with the intensity of the great French modernist … Read the full Story >>
Imposters on social media are so commonplace that it makes media reporters yawn. That’s why I’m writing this post about my Instagram imposter—if you can call spilling chronological bullets writing. This will probably happen to you at some point, and this is what I did: Wednesday, November 25, 11:30 am: • A colleague in the arts emailed me with screenshot of an IG communication … Read the full Story >>
If it's time for you to get in touch with your inner Grasshopper, plan to spend Friday evening at the Rubin Museum of Art. Here, as arranged with Aperture Foundation, photographer Justin Guariglia will be joined by Shi De Chao, a monk from the Shaolin Temple - the official birthplace of kung fu - and playwright David Henry Hwang - of M. … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday July 10, 3-5pm: Sculptors Alliance Meetup | Thaddeus Moseley in City Hall Park Grab a friend and your sketchbook and join this fun, free Sculptors Alliance event. Meet in City Hall Park for a close look at Thaddeus Mosley’s new works in bronze, above, presented by the Public Art Fund. Accessible entrances are on the West side on the Broadway and Park … Read the full Story >>
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), widely regarded as one of the most important post-war American artists, was a fierce individualist who swam against the tide her entire life. To read her biography—including the many pages devoted to her in Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel—is to take a ringside seat at a continuous brawl that unfolded in New York's Greenwich Village, where she moved from Chicago … Read the full Story >>
"I’m interested in the people that came to Hollywood full of dreams and hopes which never materialized and now eke out a hard living in the shadows of the 'Dream Factories' without being able to escape their field of gravity." —Michael Dressel Born in 1958, Michael Dressel grew up behind the Iron Curtain obsessed with film and desiring to be a painter. … Read the full Story >>
Mathieu Borysevicz, a visual artist/filmmaker and writer whose photography-based projects often take shape as massive billboards, has lived in China on and off for the last 14 years. Formerly working in Beijing, the country's first contemporary arts center, and now in Shanghai, he has created a photographic index of China's frenzied rush to modernity. He adopted the city of Hangzhou, the heart of the … Read the full Story >>
Closing June 4: Wangetchi Mutu | Intertwined at New Museum Celebrate the closing weekend of Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined with the artist, who will join exhibition co-curators Vivian Crockett and Margot Norton in conversation at the New Museum. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Mutu discuss her multimedia practice that layers mythical narratives and sociohistorical references to confront contemporary realities. Tickets … Read the full Story >>
Typographics 2018 went live on Monday, with Workshops, Tours and Demos on myriad subjects. The fourth annual Festival and Conference takes place primarily at The Cooper Union, in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. The Cooper Union is the alma mater of many notable typographers and lettering artists including Herb Lubalin, Milton Glaser, Seymour Chwast, and Lou Dorfsman. The school is home … Read the full Story >>
The 2015 Summer Invitational: Pimp Your Sketchbooks, continues with Scott Bakal, who lives and works in the Boston area, and makes sketchbooks an important part of his discovery process. The first sketchbooks, really sketch pads, I had were way back in elementary and junior high school. I still have many of them thanks to my Mom. The earliest drawings I've found were from second grade. Those … Read the full Story >>
On a crystal-blue Wednesday morning in June I caught the 10am Governors Island ferry to visit Jeanne Verdoux’s studio at Building 110. This Brooklyn-based artist/illustrator/graphic designer is among the 20 selected by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Commission for the Spring-Summer Artist-in-Residency program, which offers artists daily access to the island for a five-month period. This weekend, the public is invited to the last Open House on … Read the full Story >>
Brea Souders first caught attention a few years ago with a photograph of a sunburn. While the facts of the situation are clear, the delicate coloration and artistic post-production make this image seem like a postcard memory of a day at the beach in Naples. This week a solo show of her recent work opens at Bruce Silverstein Gallery, in New York. The show will feature images … Read the full Story >>
During the last several years, photographer Roger Ballen has created an increasingly fictionalized world. Founded in the documentary photography tradition, Ballen's hybrid view, which New York Times Magazine picture editor Kathy Ryan has called "a one-man school of photography," veers between portraying a remote world shaped by poverty and isolation to an increasingly surreal universe where people have largely retreated from the scene. Ballen, … Read the full Story >>
I realize that much of California’s romance is passing away, and I intend to see to it that I, at least, shall preserve as much of that romance as it is possible for me.—Jack London, to a Sacramento reporter in 1910 With California Love: A Visual Mixtape, photographer/filmmaker/curator Michael Rababy offers a visual dreamscape, in all its grit and glory, of the place … Read the full Story >>
Friday, June 17-Thursday, June 23 National Week of Making. Building on last year’s National Week of Making, this year’s Week will highlight the diversity of Makers big and small, young and old, urban and rural. The Week of Making is an opportunity to for individuals in communities throughout the U.S. to participate in Making activities locally, celebrating the innovation, ingenuity and creativity of … Read the full Story >>
