Bison are not big, placid, hairy cows. And stopping to photograph one is something you want to think very carefully about, as many people are now no doubt aware, having watched a viral video of a grandfather being tossed eight feet into the air by a rampaging bull bison at Bridge Bay Campground near Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park. The incident was captured … 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 >>
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 >>
