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 >>
The first DART Board of 2019 is a hybrid: introducing the winners of the last Book Prize Contest of 2018, ahead of must-see museum shows soon to close. Here’s the summary: In the past the Book Prize Contest has involved identifying, from a photo of mine, “Where in New York Am I?” Info But this one is different. It invites DART subscribers to … Read the full Story >>
Art on Paper, this week at Pier 36Talks / Art Fairs / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Wednesday, March 6 Art Talks, Stonewall 50: Love and Resistance | Photographs from the Stonewall Era, 6:30 pm. New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Celeste Auditorium, Fifth Avenue at 42ndStreet, NY, NY Register Friday, March 8-Sunday, March 10 How We See: Photobooks … Read the full Story >>
Adolph Sutro, the self-made San Francisco millionaire who designed Sutro Heights and later the second Cliff House, developed the amazing Sutro Baths in 1894. His dream for the Baths was to provide a healthy, recreational and inexpensive swimming facility for thousands of city dwellers. A classic Greek portal opened to a massive glass enclosure containing seven swimming pools at various temperatures. There were slides, … Read the full Story >>
In March, Mozilla announced its “Firefox Flicks” competition, calling on aspiring filmmakers, animators, and creatives to make short films emphasizing the power of the Web on mobile devices. The non-profit org says that as of now, Europe, Asia, and Africa are beating North America for best entries. There are only two other rounds of judging before the final contest, and the final deadline for entries is July 31. Why not enter and represent Team America? Do you love Firefox and look down at users of Safari, Chrome, and Internet Explorer? Go here for info on how to enter. Read the full Story >>
Dancer Lori Belilove, founding Artistic Director of the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation (IDDF) invites artists to a series of pop-up dance performances and cultural events as part of the multi-year celebration of the birth of the matriarch of modern dance, Isadora Duncan (1877-1927). Presented in the Foundation’s first floor Chelsea gallery space, dancers perform the iconic, flowing moves of Duncan, accompanied by vocalist Amber Evans and her … Read the full Story >>
R. Crumb: Mr. Natural and Drawings from the 1960s "I lived out my youth on paper, basically. I am a bookmaker. I see blank books, I want to fill them—notebooks, sketchbooks, blank pages.... I had ideas for comic strips that I had sketched down."— R. Crumb in conversation with Ted Widmer in The Paris Review, 2010 A search for the source of R. Crumb’s most … Read the full Story >>
After being leaked days ahead of schedule, a new firmware update for the Canon 5D Mark III has been officially released. As NoFilmSchool noted recently, the update—which was previewed at the recent NAB show—enables filmmakers to record high-definition uncompressed video data from the Mark III to an external recorder via the camera’s HDMI port. Along with that great leap forward comes an improved workflow, notes Olivia Tech. NFS also has info on a new firmware hack from Magic Lantern. Read the full Story >>
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Monday, June 4-Friday, June 8, 6 pm EST Freedom | The Magnum Photos Square Print Sale. 1968 was a seismic year of deep societal and political shifts. International issues of freedom from oppression, freedom of speech, political, sexual and religious freedom all came to the fore as student protests racked cities, declarations of independence were … Read the full Story >>
Photojournalist Al Bello had only recently finished rebuilding his house in Merrick, NY: In 2011, Hurricane Irene sent a foot of water through it’s first floor, and months of repair work—mostly self-financed—were required to fix the damage. Then came Hurricane Sandy and another tidal surge that destroyed the house. Bello, who built his career at Getty Images covering major sports events, says he has been overwhelmed by the support he’s received and vows to rebuild his life. The NPPA includes info on a Bello family relief fund. Read the full Story >>
Perhaps you read that Pinterest just raised $100 million of funding and now has a market value of $1.5 billion—half a billion more than Facebook is paying for Instamatic. This comes as Apple upgrades iCloud with photo-sharing features. It’s all part of “an online arms race for control of the world’s snapshots,” explains SmartMoney in an interesting analysis of photography’s future. Social networks value photos highly because they attract and hold viewers with their “stickiness.” There’s also lots of personal info embedded in them thar pictures. Read the full Story >>
As we noted previously, Getty Images is expanding its editorial grant program to include portraiture. The new Contour by Getty Images Portrait Prize aims to recognize excellence in portrait photography by an emerging photographer with fewer than five years of industry experience. The winning photographer will receive a $10,000 grant and have his or her work exhibited at the Polka Galerie in Paris in October, notes the British Journal of Photography. Entries will be accepted from June 13 to August 5—so get your work ready ASAP. Go here for more info. Read the full Story >>
Even if the streets are slippery with snow, here are five reasons—and more—to head out this weekend: Outsider Art Fair 2016 Thursday, January 21-Sunday, January 24 Outsider Art was first defined as the English equivalent of "Art Brut," a term invented by Jean Dubuffet, who championed art created outside the confines of "official" culture. The popularity of this strain of highly individualistic artistic production … Read the full Story >>
The AIPAD Photography Show New York, presented by The Association of International Photography Art Dealers each spring—this year for the last time at the Park Avenue Armory—celebrates the medium’s irresistible alchemy, from its 19th-century origins to its practice by artists around the globe today. I go with a collector’s eye, and after viewing the offerings on Artsy, I head to the opening night … Read the full Story >>
The Eyes In Progress workshop series in Paris, which we have featured previously, has readied its 2013 schedule with a sterling lineup of instructors. Among others: Pep Bonet (“Photojournalism,” Feb. 27-Mar. 2); David Burnett (“News Photography,” Apr. 24-27); Patrick Zachmann (“Documentary,” June 5-8); Ed Kashi (“Visual Storytelling,” (June 26-29); and Richard Dumas (“The Portrait,” Oct. 23-26). Go to the EIP website for more info and to submit your portfolio. Read the full Story >>
Joan Miró (1893-1983), the Catalan artist of biomorphic paintings, prints and sculptures, and Alexander Calder, the American maker of kinetic sculptures, stabiles, and jewelry, met in Paris in 1928 when Calder visited Miró’s studio. They saw in each other’s work influences drawn from the subconscious, from symbolism and a thematic interest in astrology. They immediately forged a transatlantic friendship that saw both artists through … Read the full Story >>
Anyone interested in the history of fashion over the past few decades will want to explore Grace: A Memoir, the new autobiography from Vogue fashion editor Grace Coddington, who has worked with many of the world’s top photogs to create imagery that may or may not be art, but is certainly a serious piece of photo history. “If [Anna] Wintour is the Pope," Time Magazine has written, "Coddington is Michelangelo, trying to paint a fresh version of the Sistine Chapel 12 times a year." Art Info and the Guardian explore Coddington’s life of creativity. Read the full Story >>
Online education platform MasterClass has been accused of using a tracking tool to transmit certain customer information to Meta for the purposes of advertising without users’ consent, notes PetaPixel. The law firm Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, PLLC is currently gathering MasterClass subscribers together in order to take action against Yanka Industries, the owner of the online education platform. MasterClass offers online classes taught by professionals, including photographers Annie Leibovitz and Jimmy Chin. Read the full Story >>
Attention New Yorkers (and others visiting the city this summer): Indiewire notes that the Film Society of Lincoln Center is bringing back its annual free Film Society Talks series. This year’s speakers include visionary writer/director/producer Julie Taymor (Titus, Frida), beloved actor Alan Rickman, and others, including director Matthew Heineman, whose documentary Cartel Land opens this year’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival (see item one). Go here for more info. Read the full Story >>
The DART Book Prize Winner Lauren Kristin, who works at Swann Auction Galleries, wrote: It's a southern view of the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge taken from Roosevelt Island on S Loop Road, just before the Smallpox Memorial Hospital landmark, and further beyond that the FDR Four Freedoms Park. On the righthand side on Coned smokestacks. Across the water in Queens further southeast … Read the full Story >>
