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 >>
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 >>
Q: Originally from New York City, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in the South? A: I was born in New York, but lived overseas (mostly Southeast Asia) all throughout my childhood, so I’m a third culture kid from essentially nowhere. My favorite thing about living and working in Winston-Salem, North Carolina is the pace of life. No rush, no … Read the full Story >>
Keith Haring became a widely-celebrated artist for his comic-like drawings and paintings in the New York subways in the 1980s. At his lecture at Cranbrook on September 25, 1987, in conjunction with the museum’s commission of his Detroit Notes mural, Haring discussed his intentions in these early subway explorations: “I started making drawings that were figurative after doing abstract work for almost five years, … Read the full Story >>
You couldn't wish for a better reader than Isaac Mizrahi for Sergei Prokofiev's children's classic, Peter and the Wolf. The musical fable, composed in 1936, has become a new standard for the holiday season at the Guggenheim Museum. Now in his third year at the lectern, Mizrachi owns the text and relates the story of the impulsive boy who bags the sinister … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Protestb / Screenings / and Beyond Wednesday, July 19-Sunday, July 23 Comic-Com International San Diego. San Diego Convention Center, CA Info Wednesday, July 19 Exhibition as Image | Art Through the Camera’s Eye, 7 pm. Mini/Goethe-Institut Curatorial, 38 Ludlow Street, NY, NY Info Christian Marclay and Okkyung Lee | Small Sphere and Heavy Sphere, 8 pm. Whitney Museum of … Read the full Story >>
This weekend, Parsons The New School for Design presents its second annual Illustration Symposium. On Saturday, starting at 3:00 pm, "Illustration in the Age of Anxiety" will address how the current cultural climate is affecting the field of illustration, through conversations with noted artists and writers. The program is free and open to the public. I called Parsons Illustration Chair Steven Guarnaccia yesterday to … 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 >>
You are what you eat, how you coif, what you wear might be a subtext of Lorenzo Vitturi’s Dalston Anatomy. One of the most talked about self-published books of 2013, it made most of the year-end top tens and was short-listed for the Paris Photo/Aperture Book Prize. Above: Yellow Chalk #1&2, 2013 (detail), © Lorenzo Vutturi, from the Dalston Anatomy series This is a photo book … Read the full Story >>
Classical ballet inspires romantic dreams of beauty and perfection like no other art form. But what lies behind the vision is years of formal training, starting at a very young age. For anyone who has dreamed of being Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, or the swashbuckling slave in Le Corsaire, the true picture of what preceeds the stage version can be seen in Rachel Papo … Read the full Story >>
I am holding in my hands a copy of the first Pictoplasma magazine, which is now available in stores and online—and am happy to report that it exceeds, in every way, the promise made by the founders of the leading proponent of character design in their email invitation. Lars Denicke and Peter Thaler wrote, “[The] first issue of Pictoplasma’s new magazine for character … Read the full Story >>
Talks | Book Events | Screenings | and Beyond Tuesday, January 30 Cassim Shepard | Citymakers: The Culture and Craft of Practical Urbanism, 6:30 pm. School of Visual Arts, MA Critical Theory and the Arts/Design Research, Writing and Criticism Lewis Mumford Symposium, 136 West 21st Street, 2nd Floor, NY, NY RSVP Wednesday, January 30 Eva Diaz | Copies Have More Fun, lecture on Joseph … Read the full Story >>
