One of the highlights of the New York gallery scene is the city's other art fair, an annual showing of student work. The exhibitions and open studios present work in all media, often some yet to be named. While the exhibitions are sometimes a hodge-podge of style and substance, they offer risk-taking work that won't be a bore. Second-rate artists rarely make it through … Read the full Story >>
Artist books—broadly speaking, artwork conceived and produce along the lines of a book—cover terrain so diverse that it can be difficult to make distinctions between works on paper, sculpture, book, or pure object. This is what makes the subject so appealing, both to artists and to art lovers. Opening recently in San Francsico’s Legion of Honor is the exhibition Letter and Image: Inspired Alphabets … Read the full Story >>
Q: Who was Mona Lisa? Editor’s note: Leonardo da Vinci [1452-1519] himself never wrote on the subject, but scholars have pieced together the following narrative from accounts by one of his supporters, Niccolò Machiavelli [The Prince], and Giorgio Vasari [The Lives of the Artists] as follows. Above left: the Isleworth Mona Lisa [now called “the Earlier Mona Lisa” Info; … Read the full Story >>
Polymath artist Bruno Bressolin, who lives and works in Paris, often begins a project by making notes on disasters reported on the morning radio news. He began Sang d'Encre (which, in English, means "worried sick") following reports on Hurricane Sandy; a year later he had created over 400 large ink drawings which first took shape as a book, then were assembled onto a wall of images … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Saturday, November 21-Sunday November 22 American Fine Craft Show at the Brooklyn Museum. 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY. Info Designer Con 2015 | Collectible toys, designer goods, urban, underground and pop art. Pasadena Convention Center Exhibit Hll, 300 East Green Street, Pasadena, CA. Info Talks / Screenings / Beyond Tuesday, November 17 SPD presents: Richard Baker on Barak Obama | … Read the full Story >>
Woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e (''the floating world'') have had a lasting effect on Western art. Their pictorial and printmaking innovations have reverberated in the works of Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, notably Monet, van Gogh and Whistler—especially the work of Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). This artist, who was of the samurai class, is probably best known for the series, 100 Famous Views of Edo. … Read the full Story >>
The Jewish Museum’s public art installation of a building-wide banner by artist Lawrence Weiner went on view yesterday on the building’s façade at Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street. Weiner’s ALL THE STARS IN THE SKY HAVE THE SAME FACE (2011/20) is a two-story graphic that stretches across the Museum’s Fifth Avenue-facing façade at 92nd Street. Celebrating our shared humanity along New York City’s Museum Mile, the … Read the full Story >>
Donald Judd (1928-1944), an artist who rejected painting for the exploration of space, scale, industrial materials, and primary colors, changed the perception of sculpture through his unadorned, rectilinear works. He rejected the notion that his work was “sculpture,” which he said implied that carving was involved. He also rejected the label “minimalist,” stating that he was an “empiricist.” Once he found his mature style—expressed … Read the full Story >>
In the interest of public health concerns regarding COVID-19, this week’s DART Board offers a menu of exhibitions and books to visit and read rather than a list of public events. Many of this week’s events have been canceled or postponed, especially those presented by educational institutions, so the standard offering would be a hit-or-miss mess. This just in from Printed Matter: We … Read the full Story >>
Continuing: Gillian Wearing | Wearing Masks at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Featuring more than a hundred pieces, the first retrospective of Wearing’s work in North America traces the development of the British conceptual artist’s practice. Over her three-decade career, Wearing has focused equally on her own self-portraiture and on the depictions of others, testing the boundaries between the private and public, questioning … Read the full Story >>
A major exhibition that explores the connections made by Bay Area artist Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) with Henri Matisse (1869-1954) opened last week at SFMOMA, organized in collaboration with the Baltimore Museum of Art [BMA]. Diebenkorn, known more for the large abstractions through which he sought to convey the emotive qualities of California light and space, began to study the works of Matisse in museum … Read the full Story >>
Downtown has much to offer for an autumn Saturday gallery walk—with so many places along the way for lunch, ice cream, and really good coffee. Here’s a selection of shows to bring some vivid hues into play. Graham Nickson, Red Lightning Sunset I, 2005 Graham Nickson: Cumulus, Monumental Trees and Transient Skies, through October 21 at New York Studio School. This show … Read the full Story >>
The latest incarnation of the Gowanus Canal as a Superfund site, with a cleanup pricetag of over $500 million, has provoked a real estate bubble in Brooklyn before remediation has even begun. The prospect of a waterfront promenade with cafes, bars and bookstores has prompted real estate grabs of buildings and empty lots along the two-mile stretch of “black mayonnaise.” A 2012 report compiled by the city’s Department … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, September 21-Sunday, September 24 Photoville Week 2, gates open at noon. Brooklyn Bridge Plaza, Dumbo, NY.On Friday, Photoville offers a workshop under the Brooklyn Bridge on shooting in low light settings on a photo walk with Matt Rick, at 5:30Nancy Borowick will be leading a Walking Tour of her exhibition, THE FAMILY IMPRINT, on Saturday and Sunday. She'll also be joining Daniella Zalcman, Glenna … Read the full Story >>
Every three-day weekend counts and the continuing cold snap might tempt us to stay in. But consider hitting some exhibitions instead. This idea, thanks to MAD Museum (above), inspired a look at what’s happening around town. Museum of Arts & Design [MAD Museum] is offering a range of shows and activities across the long weekend: • Explore the creative rewards of collaborative … Read the full Story >>
One of the most interesting art exhibitions currently on view in New York arrived with so little fanfare that it’s not even present on its museum’s home page. Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until mid-January, presents 45 of the French artist’s extant 60 paintings, including all of those in the collection of the Louvre. Valentin (1591-1632) spent … Read the full Story >>
My Neighbors’ Garden | Lunchtime Tours at Madison Square Park Bring your lunch on any Wednesday at noon for a tour of the Park’s summer installation Info Created by Sheila Pepe, this art piece in Madison Square Park brings colorful and unexpected materials that she croched into the green of the park. Sheila’s canopies and webs of string and cable ties, shoelaces, outsize sustainable … Read the full Story >>
Social Distancing, working apart from the workplace, and AI —all features rising to the front of the Covid-19 crisis—will probably alter society in ways that we have yet begun to imagine. As one accustomed to working from my home studio, and understanding its pitfalls as well as its benefits, I have been following these trends as I look for stories to bring to DART … Read the full Story >>
Imposters on social media are so commonplace that it makes media reporters yawn. That’s why I’m writing this post about my Instagram imposter—if you can call spilling chronological bullets writing. This will probably happen to you at some point, and this is what I did: Wednesday, November 25, 11:30 am: • A colleague in the arts emailed me with screenshot of an IG communication … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, August 6pm: Sahana Ramakrishnan | Arctic Circle, talk at Fridman Sahana Ramakrishnan will share her recent experience in The Arctic Circle residency based in the remote Svalbard archipelago. Drawing from underwater recordings of belugas, narwhals, and bearded seals, she’ll explore Arctic ecology, sea ice, noise pollution’s impact on marine life, and reflections on Svalbard’s landscape and deep time. In her paintings … Read the full Story >>
