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 >>
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 >>
