Steve Brodner, the inimitable social satirist who regularly shoots truth at power through his biting caricatures, original reporting and trenchant commentary, has just published a new book: Living and Dying in America, a Daily Chronicle 2020-2022 (Fantagraphics). Through his six-decade career, his work has appeared in such publications as The Atlantic, Esquire, GQ, Mother Jones, The New York Times … Read the full Story >>
Tomorrow a new gallery opens at The Point, a South Bronx art center, with an exhibition of images from the neighborhood by Martine Fougeron. The French-born photographer, widely known for portraits made for The New Yorker, moved from the West Village to Port Morris, in the South Bronx, in 2011, and began photographing people at work in the neighborhood. Trades/Oficios/Metiers, her continuing project … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / Workshops / and Beyond Tuesday, February 14 Bjarne Melgaard | No Guarantees. No Returns. No Love; the artist hands over his designer and streetware duds from 5-8 pm. Red Bull Arts, 220 West 18th Street, NY, NY Info Icons & Inages | Photographs & Photobooks at Auction, 1:30 pm. Swann Auction Galleries, 104 East 25th … Read the full Story >>
Karin Bruckner, an artist and teacher of printmaking, was recently granted a four-month residency to create a new body of work. The result—an installation comprised of dimensional paintings and structures—is currently on view at the Carter Burden Covello Center for Older Adults, in El Barrio. As one of her students over the past several years, I was intrigued by the variety, scale … Read the full Story >>
Ebb of a Spring Tide by Mary Mattingly explores our relationship to coastal ecosystems and the shifting nature of rivers and water lines. The work features a 65-foot living sculpture titled Water Clock, which was fabricated on-site in response to the Park’s unique waterfront location along the East River. This monumental, scaffold structure, which includes edible vegetation, mirrors the cityscape across the East River, highlighting the … Read the full Story >>
Closing Saturday: The complete drawings for The ACME Novelty Library 20 by Chris Ware, at Adam Baumgold Gallery. This installment of the ongoing series chronicles the life of Jordan Wellington Lint (b.1958) from cradle to grave, with each year of Lint's life illustrated by a few representative seconds of consciousness per page. Exhibition poster, front (l) and back (r). Copyright the artist, courtesy … Read the full Story >>
Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced this week its adoption of a new policy: all images of public-domain artworks in the Museum's collection are now available for free and unrestricted use. The Met's Open Access policy facilitates the use of more than 375,000 images of public-domain artworks for both scholarly and commercial purposes. To maximize the reach … Read the full Story >>
While epoch-defining abstract expressionist artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman hosted photographers shooting their studio actions for features in LIFE magazine during the 1950s and ‘60s, the gallerist who put them on the map, Betty Parsons, stayed home and made paintings. Most of this work never saw light during her lifetime. But yesterday, a major exhibition, Betty Parsons: An Expanded … Read the full Story >>
In describing the world, Caleb Cain Marcus dismantles the building blocks of visual processing by eliminating perspective, scale and implied narrative. Engaging with his work necessitates no prior knowledge which forces the experience to be in the present and compels us to sense, see and feel the world in a new way. Cain Marcus' photographs are combined with layers of paint to create deep, complex and … Read the full Story >>
Art Fair Confidential June 13-16 Art Basel. Founded by gallerists in 1970, Art Basel has been a driving force in supporting the role that galleries play in the nurturing of artists, and the development and promotion of visual arts. Now, over forty years later, Art Basel is recognized as one of the premier international art shows, providing a platform for artists and gallerists from around the world. To take … Read the full Story >>
Just over a year ago, photographer Tracey Baran (1975-2008) was emerging from the category of emerging young photographer to the next rung. Born in rural Western New York State, she came to New York to study at the School of Visual Arts in 1993. Her first one-person exhibition was in 1998 at Liebman Magnan Gallery in New York, followed by six more solo shows … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Tuesday, December 1 Day With(out) Art 2015 presents: Radiant Presence, featuring work by Bill Arning, Ian Alteveer, Chris Vargas, Rae Lewis-Thornton, Mark S. King, Allen Frame, Maria Mejia, Jack Mackenroth, and Kimberly Drew. Online here. Public events/Info Tuesday, December 1-Sunday, December 6 Miami Art Week. Various locations. Info Wednesday, December 2 Publishers Weekly and the Bologna Children's Book Fair present: Global Kids Connect | … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from the Motor City, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in our favorite 51st State? A: Originally from Detroit, [for me] the best things about Brooklyn are all of the cool bands and shows to see, the other artists who live here, and of course the super cheap rents. Q: Do you keep a sketchbook? What is … Read the full Story >>
This weekend, Printed Matter presents the fifth annual LA Art Book Fair at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Downtown LA. Free and open to the public, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair is a unique event for artists’ books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines presented by more than 300 presses, antiquarians, artists, and independent publishers from over 20 countries. Conference sessions include the panel … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from New Jersey, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in NYC?A: I feel much more energized when I’m in the city than back in the suburbs. I feel invigorated by the people and things buzzing around and a lot more excited to make things and engage with the world. Q: Do you keep a sketchbook? What … Read the full Story >>
CorrectionI incorrectly listed Joshua Lutz’s exhibition of photographs from Amsterdam and Hesitating Beauty, at ClampArt, in this week's DART Board. The exhibition has been postponed. Apologies, and more when information becomes available Continuing in Brooklyn Through February 23: En Foco | New Works/Crossing Boundaries. Curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, BRIC’s Director of Contemporary Art, the exhibition highlights the work of seven artists who have received … Read the full Story >>
Architectural photography is having a great moment in Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, which opened last week at MoMA. One of the stand-out images is a mural size print of Ezra Stoller's 1948 photograph of a house by Modernist architect Marcel Breuer installed in MoMA's garden, which was designed by Philip Johnson, with McKim, Mead & White's 1900 super-palazzo, the University Club, … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / Art Fairs / and Beyond Tuesday, October 23 Are We Going Back to Art Autonomy?, 7:30 pm. The Cooper Union, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium at 41 Cooper Square, NY, NY Info Reaction + Action in the Art World, 6:30 pm. Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School Tishman Auditorium, 63 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, March 8, 6-8pm: Of Mythic Worlds: Works from the Distant Past through the Present at The Drawing Center This new show explores the ways in which rituals, myths, traditions, ideologies, and beliefs can intersect across cultures, histories, and time periods. The exhibition brings together fifty-three works by more than thirty artists including Jordan Belson, Lee Bontecou, Cameron, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Walter De Maria, Steffani Jemison, Duane Linklater, Yutaka … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Art Fairs / and Beyond Continuing Times Square Arts Midnight Moment |Chitra Ganesh: The Scorpion Gesture, 11:57 pm-12 am. Times Square, NY, NY Info Wednesday, November 7-Thursday, November 8 Pictoplasma NYC | Coference on Contemporary Character Design and Art. Parsons School of Design, The Auditorium, The New School, 66 West 12th Street, NY, NY. Tickets Thursday, November 8-Sunday, November … Read the full Story >>
