American Illustration, the leading juried annual and advocate of contemporary illustration in North America and the world, celebrated its 25th anniversary with a special edition and exhibition, which opens on Monday at the Ontario College of Art and Design. The book has a circular jacket illustrated by Yuko Shimizu and features an interpretive timeline of the last 25 years illustrated by 25 of … Read the full Story >>
This week, The Nation, founded by abolitionists in 1865, launched a new series of artistic dispatches from the front lines of resistance. Spearheaded by celebrated artists and illustrators Andrea Arroya, Steve Brodner, and Peter Kuper, OppArt will showcase fresh content daily online as a diverse group of artists take aim and draw. Launched on Monday with art by longtime DART contributor, Peter Kuper, … Read the full Story >>
The pre-Columbian Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead, celebrated the lives of the departed with food- and flower-based celebrations that were so popular that the observance spread beyond Mexico to South America, then to Europe and beyond. The holiday also promotes artistic expression in a nice D.I.Y. mould, with elaborate preparations including the building of alters, the sculpting of goddess-like avatars, and even … Read the full Story >>
This week, "Cutting Edges: Cartoon Art Defining the World," an exhibition of political cartoons from around the globe, opens at the Society of Illustrators and will be on view until October 13. The show features 125 prize-winning pieces from the 2006 Aydin Dogan International Cartoon Competition, held annually since 1983 and sponsored by the Aydin Dogan Foundation of Istanbul, whose mission is to create … Read the full Story >>
As students began streaming back to NYC school yesterday, the lucky youngsters at PS 29, in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, were streaming through a big, bold, colorful mural to reach their classrooms. Created by Max Miller, a New York based artist, and titled Elementary (below), the mural was funded through a grant made by A Beautiful World Foundation, a not-for-profit which seeks to place … Read the full Story >>
The AI Timeline Exhibit, created to mark American Illustration's 25th anniversary, debuted in New York at Angel Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts in 2006 and has since traveled, in the form of large-scale giclee prints, to the Savannah College of Art and Design, Pasons The New School for Design, Argentina's Universidad de Palermo and the Ontario College of Art and Design. Now for … Read the full Story >>
With the political campaign season in New York City getting off to a rumbling, if somewhat stumbling start, I emailed Steve Brodner yesterday to get an update on what makes making fun of politicians such an important part of the social order: Q: The people who inhabit your narratives are primarily alpha-male power-trippers. Why do you find these characters so fascinating? Have you been able to … Read the full Story >>
As political discourse and debate inevitably take over the media during the run-up to the presidential election, relief from the plethora of talking heads can be found in an array of highly relevant art now on display in museums, galleries and alternative spaces around town. The DART picks below include blinding glimpses of the obvious as well as highly conceptual ways of expressing and … Read the full Story >>
American Illustration, the leading juried annuaL and advocate of contemporary illustration in North America and the world, celebrates its 25th anniversary with a special edition that’s been turning heads since the launch party in November. Not only does it have a circular jacket, illustrated by Yuko Shimizu; it also has an interpretive timeline of the last 25 years, illustrated by 25 of today’s top … Read the full Story >>
As the presidential campaign heats up, the subjects of war, politics and religion feature in several exhibitions around the country this month. Artists Against the War, at the Society of Illustrators in New York, brings together work by 60 artists from around the world. In Los Angeles, paintings from David Sandlin's Wonderfool World, which continues his ongoing project, A Sinner's Progress, appear … Read the full Story >>
Tuesday, March 19 Opening day, 6 pm: Against the Grain | Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design. Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, NY, NY. Thursday, March 21, 6:30 pm: Curator tour/ Pay what you like. Information. Panel discussion, 6:30-8:30 pm: Celebrating Harvey Kurtzman | with Drew Friedman, Robert Grossman, All Jaffee, and Arnold Roth, moderated by Peter Kuper. Society of Illustrators, … Read the full Story >>
David Benjamin Sherry, from American Monuments, courtesy of Salon 94 In the current issue of Photograph, Editor Jean Dykstra writes about the exhibition of Isa Leshko’s black-and-white photographs of farm animals, opening this week at ClampArt Gallery, [her] “portraits bring to mind Peter Hujar’s photographs of animals, which similarly captured the particularity of a dog or horse (or goose or goat), a sense of … Read the full Story >>
COMICS RARELY GO LIVE, and this fall seems to be the magical moment for New York aficionados to appreciate the real thing. The Fantagraphics 30-year retrospective exhibition at the Society of Illustrators runs through October 21st. It features over 100 original pieces by dozens of artists published by Fantagraphics over the last three decades. The exquisite beauty of these drawings gave me goose bumps … Read the full Story >>
Spur, the design and illustration studio of Dave Plunkert and Joyce Hesselberth, is re-launching its gallery this weekend with a show of 100 heads by a stellar roster of artists who are participating by invitation. The idea for the show came about after the January earthquake as a way to raise money for the relief effort. "At a recent production meeting," said Joyce, "Dave … Read the full Story >>
Joe Ciardiello is a Western New Jersey-based illustrator best known for his brilliantly-drawn portraits of jazz musicians, authors, politicians, and actors. He received the Society of Illustrators Hamilton King award in 2016 for his portraits for the book On the Snap. Ciardiello's work has appeared in countless magazines and newspapers and isn't limited to just portraits. He creates his illustrations with Rapidograph pen and … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, September 15, 5-8 pm: Robert Earle Page | Power to the People at Salon 94 Design first solo exhibition in New York City, curated by Duro Olowu. The show includes Paiges’s textile design, glazed ceramics, collages and etchings. Olowu’s interventions reflect the artist’s myriad of artistic influences and approach to making.Robert Earl Paige (b. 1936) remembers growing up in a city mapped by … Read the full Story >>
Robert Neubecker is a Park City, Utah-based editorial illustrator and children's book creator. In addition to his prodigious editorial work, Neubecker has written and illustrated dozens of children's books. After many years of creating illustrations with pen and ink and watercolor, he now works in Photoshop, but says "I'm exploring the wonders of digital illustration with one requirement: It can't look digital." Neubecker's latest … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Burgundy, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Paris? A: I grew up among the cows, the changing seasons and good wine. I came to Paris to study graphic arts and it was love at first sight because I love the rain in Paris, the Magritte sky, café terraces, walks along the Seine and so … Read the full Story >>
Scenes at the media preview of New York Photo Festival 2011 last week. Far left, Feastival Director Sam Barzilay with public relations man Blake Zidell. Right: At the entrance to main exhibitions curated by Elisabeth Biondi and Enrico Bossan. Tuesday, May 17 Book signing, 6-8 pm, for John Currin. Gagosian Shop, 988 Madison Avenue, NY, NY. Wednesday, May 18 Talking Books, 7 pm,: … Read the full Story >>
For those of you who still aren't getting enough politics and policy, there is plenty afoot in Our Fair City this week and beyond. Parsons The New School for Design continues its public programs in conjunction with the exhibition, OURS: Democracy in Action, through January. This Saturday, Parsons' annual Illustration Program Symposium jumps in with Picturing Politics, exploring current political and social … Read the full Story >>
