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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
