This just in from Hyperallergic: An Essential History immortalized in the Archive of Ebony and Jet by Jasmine WeberThe archive of Ebony and Jet is a treasure trove of visual culture; its donation to the National Museum of African American History and Culture and Getty Research Institute will allow unprecedented access to decades of Black American history.Above: 1954 Funmakers Ball participants … Read the full Story >>
In just a couple of hours, the Solstice will mark the official start of Summer. And the season’s first heatwave is already on, so it’s a good time to update the DART list of NYC’s Indie Bookstores offering cool escapes, both physical and otherwise. 192 Books, at 192 Tenth Avenue (above), is not a new addition—it somehow slipped off the list during … Read the full Story >>
Artist and filmmaker Joe Gibbons, who robbed a Capital One Bank in Chinatown on December 31, 2014, has been sentenced to a year in prison with time served after pleading guilty to third-degree felony robbery iin Manhattan, reports Art Info. Gibbon had a small video camera with him when he was arrested, and many have called the crime an act of performance art or a part of larger film project. In other legal news: A Manhattan judge has ordered Dinesh D’Souza, best known for documentaries critical of President Obama, to continue four more years of community service, as well as psychological counseling. D’Souza pleaded guilty last year to campaign-finance violations. Read the full Story >>
Talk / Screening / and Beyond Tuesday, April 5 Anselm Berrigan and Bob Holman, 7 pm. 192 Books, 192 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY. Info The Artist Lecture Series Presents: Sharon Harper, 7 pm. Penumbra Foundation, 38 East 30th Street, NY, NY. Info Dai Sato and Justin Leach | The State of Japanese Animation in a Post-Miyazaki World, 6:30 pm. Japan Society, 333 West 47thStreet, NY, NY. Info Nadav Kander | … Read the full Story >>
Gift markets organized by/and for artists are a growing part of the holiday market “seen”—especially what have become known as “small works” shows. Usually organized as open calls for affordable art of all kinds, these shows are not only fun shopping but also a treat for the eyes. Following (in no particular order) are some enticing showings that recently came into view. New … Read the full Story >>
The subject of the German/Egyptian artist Susan Hefuna is people, and all the ways they live, together and apart. This multi-disciplinary, global artist has created drawings composed of the lines and dots produced by dancers moving through crossroads—literally, intersections in London, Stein am Rhein, Switzerland and Istanbul. Video In an exhibition in Manchester, UK last year, her intensely experienced drawing practice resulted in … Read the full Story >>
Eight bridges connect the San Francisco Bay, so it is an apt name for a gallery platform that brings the Bay Area art world together despite restrictions on travel, celebrations and other larger gatherings. For its first iteration, in October 2020, 8-bridges sponsored the Museum of the African Diaspora. Featured galleries in January include: Fraenkel Gallery, Jessica Silverman, Ration 3 and Altman Siegel, in … Read the full Story >>
Friday, May 21: Opening day Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter | The Jewish Museum Bourgeois’s complex and ambivalent relationship with Freudian psychoanalysis forms the core of this exhibition of nearly 50 works from throughout her career, including the Personages of the late 1940s; the organic forms in plaster and latex of the 1960s; the pivotal installation The Destruction of the Father (1974); Passage … Read the full Story >>
When looking for photos of Mastadon in the American Museum of Natural History online archive, I stumbled upon a collection of photographs of African Americans in the South. The photographer, Julian A. Dimock, was a New York financier who left his job at age 31 and with his 62-year-old father, Anthony Weston Dimock, traveled to Florida and the Carolinas in order to photograph and … Read the full Story >>
Isaac Mizrahi's quintessentially New York style—as a designer, an artist and an entrepreneur—is on view in an exhibition of his life’s work, so far, opening Friday at The Jewish Museum. Aptly titled Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History, the show highlights his witty and intelligent mix of high and low, which extends from the runway to stage and television in a mashup of ideas and materials that, in … Read the full Story >>
David Hockney, England’s most celebrated living artist, took New York by storm this spring: first with the major retrospective at The Met [featured in DART]; then with his cover for The New Yorker’s April 23 travel and food issue; and concurrently, a major show of recent work at Pace Gallery, which is closing this Saturday. Info An artist who has made swimming … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Thursday, April 14-Sunday, April 17 The AIPAD Photography Show. Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, NY, NY. Info Saturday, April 16 The AIPAD Public Program | 10 am: The Photobook Today; Noon: Artists Working Today; 2 pm: The Art of Photography on the Internet – Social Media & Blogs; 4 pm: Collecting 101. Info Saturday, April 16 New York Photo Show. New York … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Thursday, November 12-Sunday, November 15 Paris Photo. Grand Palais, Paris. Info Offprint Paris. Beaux-arts de Paris, 14 rue Bonaparte, Paris. Info Friday, November 13-Saturday, November 14 Hunter Open Studios 2015. Hunter College MFA Building, 205 Hudson Street, NY, NY. Info ISCP Fall Open Studios, 6-9 pm. International Studio & Curatorial Program, 1040 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY [Williamsburg] Info Saturday, November 14 … Read the full Story >>
In celebration of AI-APs Illustration Week, headlined by The Party tomorrow night Info and studio visits Info, with artists and creative heads streaming into NYC from coast to coast, DART offers a view from Chicago today, and one from the West Coast on Friday. Here, from CHI: Since his death in 1987, at age 58, Andy Warhol’s work has probably been seen … Read the full Story >>
Special Events January 20-24 ArtPalmBeach, 650 Okeechobee Blvd., Balm Beach County Convention Center, Palm Beach, FL. Info London Art Fair, Business Design Center, 52 Upper Street, London, UK. Info January 21-24 Outsider Art Fair | New York, Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, NY, NY. Info January 21-24 PhotoLA, various locations. Docent Tour with Weston Naef, Thursday January 21, 4:30 pm. Tickets Fair Info January … Read the full Story >>
Ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack, a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in. –Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything, continues through September 8 at The Jewish Museum. One of the highlights of this presentation organized the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC), is Passing Through by George Fok (2017), an immersive compilation … Read the full Story >>
Film editor Genevieve Ip has done it again: Her new Filmography of 2012 clip, a follow-up to her previous filmographies for 2010 and 2011, pulls together footage from 300 movies, weaving them together and exposing the common themes prevalent in cinema this year. “The result is a beautifully cut montage that accurately depicts film's position as a reflection of our cultural attitudes,” notes the Verge. Ip has also published a complete list of the films and music used in the compilation on her blog. Meanwhile, Google has released its annual Zeitgeist video showing what news, issues, people, and other info the world was searching the web for in 2012—the year of daredevil Felix Baumgartner’s world-record skydive … and Honey Boo Boo’s cultural ascendance. Read the full Story >>
Seymour Chwast is always referred to as “the legendary graphic designer and co-founder of Push Pin Studios.” But how many legends can you think of who are known by a single name? Shakespeare, Caruso, Elvis, Cher, Madonna, Bono, Jesus...The list goes on, of course, and in the world of art and design it includes Leonardo, Daumier, Hopper, Warhol, Milton, Crumb...and Seymour. Subversive. Personal. Obsessive. Radical. … Read the full Story >>
"Think Big" might have been the mantra of American school-masters and -'marms in the decades following the "second American Revolution". After the War of 1812, civic leaders and merchants put historical rivalries aside, concentrating instead on expansion and industrialization, and pouring resources into education. Students of the time tested their memory and developed a global perspective by studying geography. This Map of the Animal … Read the full Story >>
Rob Saunders has been in publishing most of his life, and over the past 35 years has amassed an outstanding collection of historically significant design books and periodicals, graphic arts ephemera, and specimens of 20th-century metal typefaces. He founded Picture Book Studio in 1981 which published dozens of award-winning children’s books from authors like Eric Carle and Jane Goodall. He ran Alphabet Press, producing titles … Read the full Story >>
