Talks / Discussions / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday February 23 An Evening with Paul Chan & Claudia La Rocco, 5:30 pm. Danspace Project, 131 East 10th Street, NY, NY. Info Panel: How to Look at Mexican Art, 6:30 pm. The New School, 63 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY. Info Let’s Talk: Curating Your Life in the Arts, with SVA Alums, 7 pm. SVA Theater, 333 West … Read the full Story >>
I've been hearing about Gary Baseman's upcoming carnivalesque exhibition for months now. This is not merely a bunch of paintings grouped together in a gallery but what promises to be an unprecedented explosion of color, spiritual rites, sexy women in costume, live music, performers and sculptures from all over the world. "La Noche de la Fusion" (the night of fusion) is storming into Corey … Read the full Story >>
This just in from Aperture:Friday, April 15, 9pm - midnight Spring Party at Aperture Gallery. DJ sets by Stefan Ruiz and Al-Veez. Live performance by EXP, the reverse-engineered K-pop phenomenon by I’m Making a Boy Band (Bora Kim, Karin Kuroda and Samantha Y. Shao). 547 West 27th Street, NY, NY. Info This just in from David Zwirner:Saturday, April 16, 5-7:30 pm The gallery is hosting a special … Read the full Story >>
This week's respondent is Craig Cohen, Executive Publisher of powerHouse Books, who will serve as a juror for the upcoming American Photography annual competition. Here's what he wrote: Q: What you like most about being creative.A: Freedom to decide what I want to spend my time working on. Four titles executed under Craig Cohen's direction at powerHouse Books: Back in the … Read the full Story >>
Once in a while I see a photograph that is truly revelatory. The one I found yesterday is by Stephen Wilkes and is part of an exhibit of his recent work from China, on view through September 13th at ClampArt Gallery. This is a panoramic view of the backside of the Three Gorges Dam at a tiny village in Hubei province. On the left … Read the full Story >>
‘T’ Space is a visionary arts organization with a focus on education, design and ecology, located on a 30-acre woodland site in the Hudson Valley and founded by renowned international architect Steven Holl. Dedicated to the preservation of its naturally forested habitat, ‘T’ Space offers art and architecture exhibitions united with poetry readings and music performances by international and emerging artists with … Read the full Story >>
With Presenting Shakespeare, Mirko Ilic and Steven Heller have gathered over a thousand posters from around the globe to show why Shakespeare has become the most important writer in the English language. In a lively and entertaining introduction, the two demonstrate the power of branding, from the dawn of the poster to the banner ads that invade today's desktops. While they're at it they explain … Read the full Story >>
Quick! Without thinking, name your favorite designed object. If this question induces a state of panic, take a deep breath and ask yourself, "Why didn't I just say, 'iPhone?'" Never mind that you still have a Palm III, if you live in New York, Design Life Now, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's third triennial, might be the cure. Work by 87 designers across a mind-boggling … Read the full Story >>
The first flash of spring art fairs lights up New York now, with The Art Dealers Association of America’s [ADDA] Art Show opening today—a week ahead of the Armory Show Art Week. The Grand Dame of art fairs, The Art Show’s 30th edition, occupying the Park Avenue Armory’s massive Drill Hall once again, presents 72 galleries, with several presenting solo shows by major woman … Read the full Story >>
If you’re heading to Brooklyn this weekend for the New York Photo Festival, this is an opportunity to catch Northeast Kingdom, an exhibition of black-and-white images by Andrew Frost at United Photo Industries, presented by Conveyor Arts, which continues through Sunday. There will be an artist talk on Saturday at 2 pm. For the past two years, Frost has been making large-format photographs … Read the full Story >>
If you’ve kicked yourself for having missed the exhibition Guadalupe Rosales: Legends Never Die, A Collective Memory, which recently closed at Aperture, the magazine’s online archive might be your next move. The exhibition expanded on a recent article about Rosales’ archive of Chicano life in Los Angeles, which began when she moved from LA to New York City in 2000. For Rosales, “these … Read the full Story >>
Even as the latest round of art fairs converges on New York City this week, there are still opportunities to check out more of the 2018 MFA thesis exhibitions opening, and continuing around town. Closing Saturday, May 5 Hunter College 2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition | 9 artists, 11am-6 pm. 201 Hudson Street, NY, NY Info Continuing NYU MFA 2018 Thesis Exhibition part 2 | … Read the full Story >>
The main exhibition now at Exit Art brings together all you could want in a show depicting the landscape in ruins. Ecoaesthetic: The Tragedy of Beauty presents work by nine photographers for whom terra firma is a battleground, taking the position that the tragic outcome of human actions - environmental degradation through deforestation, industry, and war, for example - becomes the aesthetic of the … Read the full Story >>
How many legends can you think of who are known by a single name? Shakespeare, Caruso, Elvis, Cher, Madonna, Bono, Jesus...The list goes on, of course, and in the world of art and design it includes Leonardo, Daumier, Hopper, Warhol, Milton, Crumb...and Seymour. Â Left to right: Self-Portrait as Map; Hell, Really; Einstein. Copyright Seymour Chwast. Seymour Chwast, who with Milton Glaser and Edward … Read the full Story >>
As part of its sixtieth anniversary celebration, Aperture Foundation presents the exhibition Delpire & Co. featuring a half-century of achievement in the life and work of visionary French publisher, editor, and curator Robert Delpire. The exhibition showcases Delpire’s rise to prominence in the world of photography through his pioneering work in magazine and book publishing, film, curatorship, and advertising. Pursuing a career in medicine, Delpire took a fork in the road and … Read the full Story >>
The High Line opened its new section at the beginning of June, doubling the length of this ribbon of greenery to a mile. It now runs from Gansevoort Street to 30th Street, linking three West Side neighborhoods. The new section, which begins at 20th Street, has a distinctly different character from the southern section: for most of its length, the path is quite narrow, … Read the full Story >>
It’s not a stretch to call New York City the world capital of living large—perhaps to be even more so following Brexit. But ever since the 2012 exhibition, Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers, presented by the Museum of the City of New York in collaboration with Citizens Housing and Planning Council, scaling down has become an increasingly desirable way of life. … Read the full Story >>
Amid visions of global migration, corporate power trips, portraits, camera-less photographs and the influence of Andy Warhol on image makers today, looking at the land and the ways in which people have altered it continues to fascinate. In at least 20 exhibitions, an incredible variety of approaches can be seen in the galleries this month, from the huge, digitally constructed panoramics of Scott McFarland … Read the full Story >>
Inspired by Richard Avedon's portraits from In the American West, New York photographer Coke Wisdom O'Neal took the idea of a neutral backdrop and traveling photo studio to extremes. A selection of images from his new series is on view at Mixed Greens Gallery, with an opening reception for the artist tomorrow night. O'Neal conceived the backdrop for his portraits as a huge … Read the full Story >>
Tales of romance and revenge, and even the everyday stuff of life, have become fodder for artists who take up needle arts to create narrative art. Tonight the Center for Book Arts opens its annual Artist Members Exhibition, with 35 works by 38 artists using threads of different kinds. On display are prints, books, sculptures, installations and videos, that combine texts and textures in … Read the full Story >>
