Special EventsThursday, January 28-Sunday, January 31Art Los Angeles Contemporary. Barker Hanger, Santa Monica, CA. Info Talks / Panels / Demonstrations / Screenings / and beyond Tuesday, January 26 Fia Backström | Growth and its Perennials, 7 pm. The Artist's Institute, 205 Hudson Street, NY, NY. Info. Ebecho Muslimova, 7 pm, in conjunction with Hans Schärer: Madonnas and Erotic Watercolors. Swiss Institute / CONTEMPORARY ART, 18 … Read the full Story >>
The Stockland Martel agency’s blog notes that photographer John Offenbach will be swimming the English Channel in August to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Offenbach’s youngest son, Joe, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when he was 4. The photographer crossed the Channel with a group of swimmers in 2009 to raise money for juvenile diabetes research, but this will be his first solo attempt. For more info, go to Offenbach's blog. To contribute to the cause, visit Another Swim at the Just Giving site. Read the full Story >>
After being inundated with hateful rhetoric for months of campaign, I could not get his image out of my head, most disturbingly even in sleep. This portrait is my first attempt to remove him… it works... for awhile… then I make another. “Fool’s Gold” is collaged with assorted debris. The faces are getting progressively more hideous, reflecting the reality through my eyes. I’m in … Read the full Story >>
Josef Koudelka will be on hand for the premier of Koudelka—Shooting Holy Land, a documentary about the legendary Czech photographer premiering in NYC at Anthology Film Archives on June 26, notes PDN. The 72-minute film, by Gilad Baram, follows Koudelka as he photographs in Israel and the West Bank. It is being presented in collaboration with the International Center of Photography as part of the exhibition “Magnum Manifesto,” which celebrates the 70th anniversary of the photo cooperative. Koudleka joined Magnum in 1970. Go here for info on the film. Go here for tickets. Read the full Story >>
Artist Talks / Panels / Screenings / and Beyond For the week Know Wave Radio at Picture Room. 23 Mulberry Street, NY, NY. Info Tuesday, March 15 The Dynamic Library | Organizing Knowledge, 7 pm. Swiss Institute | CONTEMPORARY ART, 18 Wooster Street, NY, NY. RSVP The Invention of Chic: Thérèse Bonney and Paris Moderne, with Lisa Schlankser Kolosek, 6 pm. The New School, University Center, UL 105,63 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY. … Read the full Story >>
Every year, it seems, another woman well beyond “a certain age” emerges from the shadows as a most talked about newcomer to the art world. This year it is surely Rose Wylie, who received an OBE on Queen Elizabeth II’s annual Birthday List. Wylie received the Order of the British Empire medal in recognition of her unique artistic practice, which draws on cultural areas … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Monday, June 13-Sunday June 19 Look3 Photo Festival. Charlottesville, VA. Info Talks / Discussions / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, June 7 The Magic Flulte, Part Three: Press Conference, with Michel Auder, Jonathan Berger, Vaginal Davis, Susanne Sachsse, Jamie Stewart/Xiu Xiu, and Michael Stickrod,6:30 pm. Goethe-Institut New York, 30 Irving Place, NY, NY. Info Also at 80WSE Gallery, NYU. Info Martha Rosler | If you can’t afford to live here, mo-o-ove!!, 6-8 pm. Mitchell-Innes & … Read the full Story >>
Stage 32, a network of more than 70,000 film, television, and theater creatives, represents the merger of production resources and social media, notes NoFilmSchool: It’s a place to access info on new projects, catch up on industry buzz … and to search for work, post proposals for project funding, and share videos, resumes, and screenplays. BTW: The deadline for Stage 32’s 2012 screenwriting competition is tomorrow. (The recipient of last year’s top prize, Steve Atkinson, recently signed an option for his winning screenplay, No Mountain Too High.) Read the full Story >>
The Museum of Modern Art’s announcement this week of a “transformative gift” of African Contemporary Art from collector Jean Pigozzi is reason to celebrate. How Pigozzi, the Italian heir to an automotive fortune who took up photography as a student at Harvard, came to assemble one of the largest—and most comprehensive collections— of sub-Saharan art is a long one; but following is a short … Read the full Story >>
The organizers of the upcoming True/False Film Festival have devised a game show of sorts for attendees, who will have a chance to judge two-minutes films and rank them not for their quality, but for their believability. You can play along by creating the films: The object, notes Filmmaker, is to craft a scenario that is 100-percent false and convince the judges it’s 100-percent true, or vice versa. Three winning filmmakers will receive passes to next year’s festival, and a top-prize winner gets a RED camera rental. Go here for info on how to submit. Read the full Story >>
“Welcome to the new era of Instagram. Brought to you by Facebook,” writes Mike Isaac at All Things D, describing Instagram’s recently launched web profiles, which will make the service's photos accessible via web browsers. In addition to viewing a user’s photos and info, people can also follow, comment, and like images through the web interface. PetaPixel comments that the app’s leap away from the mobile-only world makes the service a lot more like Facebook, which owns Instagram. The design of the new Web profiles is even Facebook-like, notes Isaac. Read the full Story >>
The Pew Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has released its annual report on the state of American journalism. It’s a valuable reality check for anymore working in the media. The good news: Public appetite for news is growing—especially for news delivered on mobile devices. Bad news: The news media, especially struggling newspapers, may not profit from that growing hunger for info. Media blogger Jim Romanesko notes that the newspaper industry has shrunk by 43 percent since 2000. However, as the Huffington Post notes, consumers are still likely to seek out traditional news sites or applications. Read the full Story >>
Frieze Week The eighth edition of Frieze NY opens at Randalls Island Park with a VIP preview on Thursday, from 11am to 7 pm, and runs through Sunday, May 5th. InfoNew this year is a major exhibition of sculpture by 14 international artists at Rockefeller Center. Selected bycuratorBrett Littman (Director of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in Long Island City, New … Read the full Story >>
This past year has not been kind to camera manufacturers, but perhaps Nikon in particular, notes PetaPixel. According to Japanese publication Toyo Keizai and summarized by Digicame-Info, Nikon is in “dire straits” thanks to the deterioration of its main camera business. “In the video business, which includes cameras, sales for the coming financial quarter are expected to decrease by around 40% from the previous term to 140 billion yen (~$1,338,809,640), leaving the company with an operating deficit of 45 billion yen (~$430,331,670),” notes the report. Read the full Story >>
2017 marks a hundred years since the founding of De Stijl (Dutch for “style”), a legendary group of artists and architects that revolved around Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian and Gerrit Rietveld. Museums throughout the Netherlands will be celebrating this special year, headlined by the exhibition 100 Years of De Stijl at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Meanwhile in The Hague, where the world’s largest … Read the full Story >>
The National Press Photographers Association and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection have organized a free webinar focusing on safety for journalists covering wildfires—a major news story these days, and not only in Western states. Chief Issac Sanchez, CAL FIRE battalion chief of communications for the Sacramento and Northern California regions, will be joined by Kent Porter, a photojournalist at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat who has become a go-to source for info on covering fires in California, and Chris Post, the NPPA chair for the Safety & Security Task Force. When: Wednesday, June 15, 3 to 5 pm PT. Read the full Story >>
The fight for global photo supremacy on the web continues: Facebook’s new Graph Search feature is a clear indication that the company sees Google as a social-network competitor, declares SocialTimes. An extremely powerful search engine for finding photos and other info from its data based of one billion members and 240 billion images, Graph Search is hoping to siphon off some of Google’s search traffic. What’s more, when Facebook can’t provide useful results in its Graph Search, it will send users to Microsoft’s Bing. Read the full Story >>
Marco Palli; from The New Herd of Thoughts, closing Thursday at The New York Studio School Last spring I met the sculptor Marco Palli at his MFA thesis exhibition at The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture. Installed in the historic Chester French Studio, this group of towering "figures" made of rusting steel, together with several that reclined … Read the full Story >>
At Photo Attorney, blogger Carolyn E. Wright tells the story of biologist and photographer Alex Wild, who takes “awesome photos of insects” that are often re-published without his permission: “In his efforts to battle copyright infringement, he has sent DMCA Takedown Notices to YouTube via YouTube’s online form. But YouTube has replied that it requires a corporate email address (instead of his gmail address) and a publicly-documented phone number (he has a cell phone).” Wright notes that the DMCA actually does not require such information and explains exactly what is needed for the notice. Read the full Story >>
From resistance to reflection, NYC offers plenty of visual stimulation for weekend wanderers. The tip of the iceberg: Cuban Socialist Posters from the 1970s On January 1, 1959, a now famous poster was created and widely distributed to celebrate the fall of Fulgencio Batista’s army in Cuba. The use of public messaging graphics under the US-backed dictator had up until then been utilized for … Read the full Story >>
