Downtown for Democracy is a political action committee [PAC] that works in art, music, fashion, film, writing, theater, food, media and advertising, and shares a deep commitment to America’s progressive traditions. Their activism utilizes creativity to reach people, to educate and to raise funds—through image, words and music. D4D aims to be the voice of creative people across the USA, raising money that will … Read the full Story >>
Roger Ballen is a photographer who sees before he looks. Having been behind the lens for nearly 50 years, first as a youth, then as a dedicated amateur while working as a geologist in the mineral extraction industry in South Africa, he has had decades to make the craft his own. A footloose New Yorker, he moved there permanently in 1982; he soon began to photograph the different … Read the full Story >>
Friday, December 5, 6-9pm: Eliana Pérez | Ajar at PS109 Join the artist and friends for this pop-up exhibition at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109. This tapestry and book pairing that depicts the parasitic exploitation of migrants passing through El Tapón del Darién, the narrow land bridge connecting the Americas. See this alongside 3 of her other artist books, all detailing intractable challenges affecting her native country … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, June 22, 6-7 pm: Art Talk about Landscape and Memory by Cristina Iglesias at Madison Square Park Cristina Iglesias’ installation places five bronze sculptural pools, gently flowing with water arriving in different sequences, into the park’s Oval Lawn, harkening back to when the Cedar Creek—now buried underground—coursed across the land where the park stands today. Building on Iglesias’ practice of unearthing the forgotten and … Read the full Story >>
If you’re into photography, this is a week to be in New York. The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, with more than 85 of the world’s leading photography art galleries, opens tomorrow at the Park Avenue Armory, with the opening night preview today from five to nine pm. Park Avenue at 67thStreet, NY, NY. Info Public programs run throughout the day on Saturday, and are … Read the full Story >>
Opening February 1: The Black Index at CUNY The artists featured in The Black Index build upon the tradition of Black self-representation as an antidote to colonialist images. Using drawing, performance, printmaking, sculpture, and digital technology to transform the recorded image, they question our reliance on photography as a privileged source for documentary objectivity and understanding. Their works offer an alternative practice—a Black index—that … Read the full Story >>
Editor's note: This week’s “Over the Fold” feature, Object Form: Thomas Stavovy, is adapted from an exhibition review by sculptor Marco Palli. The Box | Thomas Stavovy, the current artist in residency in the Dumbo Sculpture Studio and Gallery of the New York Studio School (NYSS), recently opened his doors for The Dumbo Open Studios. This exhibition (which continues through June … Read the full Story >>
Today, The Metropolitan Museum of Art launches a new public application programming interface [API] for the collection. The Met Collection API. Here, all makers, creators, researchers, and dreamers can now connect to the most up-to-date data and more than 400,000 images of artworks in The Met collection, which represents five thousand years of human history. From the catalog page of The Harvesters, … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, December 6, 6-8pm: The Book Show at SVA An annual exhibition, The Book Show challenges first-year MFA students in the Illustration as Visual Essay program at SVA to conceive, write and illustrate a book—whether a children’s book, graphic novel, self-help book, or visual essay—based on a personal expwerience or subject matter that is meaningful to them. The exhibition of book projects by 19 … Read the full Story >>
Before photography, the only way for scientists to collect information about subjects of their study was, plainly, by pickling them in jars. Or by drying and saving them in little drawers. Or by assembling the skeletons of formerly living creatures, human and otherwise. Starting in the 1830s with the Musée Dupuytren, Paris, this collection of medical specimens that date back to the 17th century … Read the full Story >>
For anyone born after 1996, or new to New York City, prepare yourself for the kind of resourcefulness that rose to the front after 9/11. The kindness and reaching out that seemed to come out of nowhere has become habit, so following is a sample of how people and businesses are carrying on—big time—in the age of COVID-19. Above: Jacob Lawrence, from The … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / Special Events / and Beyond Tuesday, June 26-Wednesday, July 4 Modern Matinees | Hitchcock/Truffaut: Fashionably Late. MoMA, 11 West 53rdStreet, NY, NY Info Wednesday, June 27 Lynn Umlauf in conversation with Michele Cone, 7 pm. Zurcher Gallery, 33 Bleecker Street, NY, NY Info Martin Puryear in conversation with Billy Tsien, 7 pm. The Great Hall, The Cooper … Read the full Story >>
Armory Week Above: Last year at the Independent. Photo © Peggy Roalf Tuesday March 3—Monday, March 9 Spring/Break. “In keeping with the 2020 theme, IN EXCESS, SPRING/BREAK Art Show NYC will move to new quarters, inhabiting an entire 2 floors of 625 Madison Avenue between 58th and 59th Streets.” Info Wednesday, March 4—Sunday, March 8 Volta New York. Metropolitan West, 839 West … 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 >>
Today: 8-1/2—hours, that is, until the New York Studio School’s virtual auction benefit closes. Works still available by Mike Kelly, Dana Schutz, Alex Katz, Lois Dodd, Martin Puryear, Dorothea Rockburne and more. Open to the public. No ticket required. Info Browse Above: Dorothea Rockburne, Shadowed Perimeter, edition 49 of 73, 2004-2008 Halloween: The New York Public is throwing a … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Thursday, March 30-Sunday, April 3 The Affordable Art Fair. The Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, NY, NY. Info Thursday, March 30-Monday, April 4 Art Paris Art Fair. Grand Palais, Paris, France. Info Saturday, April 2-Sunday, April 3 2016 MoCCA Arts Festival, 11am-6 pm. Metropolitan West, 11th Avnue at 46th Street, NY, NY. Info. Philadelphia Art Book Fair. The Annex on Flbert, 830 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, PA. Info Talk … Read the full Story >>
Best known to the general public for his New Yorker covers, artist Peter de Sève has done the public a favor by cleaning out his studio and making many of his originals available. Opening tonight at Philippe Labaune Gallery is a full-on retrospective of his works on paper. The selection on view spans de Sève's career, “providing clear insight into an illustrator who '’draws like a god'’, as Françoise … Read the full Story >>
The Nation, founded by abolitionists in 1865, continues to chronicle the breadth and depth of American political and cultural life since the telegraph brought news to Americans at lightning speed. With the rise of social media, new steps have been taken to continue a spirited discourse on issues of importance to the progressive community. Recently launched, the OppArt blog, curated by Andrea Arroyo, … Read the full Story >>
Once I opened the box containing an eagerly anticipated photobook only to find that the cover was warped. It curved in an arc that radiated from the full length of its spine to its front edge. The book had a chrome yellow cloth cover. It was beautiful. But as an object, it was useless. I always thought the book was warped because the grain of the … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, July 13, 6-8 pm: Power Tools at Candace Madey Power Tools, an exhibition of artists who reference tools in their work, and by extension, explore a history of objects and their symbolic and practical importance for individual and collective agency. The exhibition further considers our dissociated relationship to tools and a consumer culture that has largely relinquished the skills required to make, repair, … Read the full Story >>
