For the inaugural LES Art Week, the twenty-four participating galleries are featuring work by woman artists, both established and emerging—offering fuel for the blazing evidence for why there have been, until now, “no great woman artists.” Linda Nochlin’s dramatic feminist rallying cry of 1971 is being proclaimed in venues from coast to coast, and around the world, more so than ever this year. And … Read the full Story >>
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts… As the celebration of 400 years of Shakespeare continues, what better way to celebrate the dramas of everyday life than to look at ways in which the Bard’s works have been collected in book … Read the full Story >>
It’s not a stretch to call New York City the world capital of living large—perhaps to be even more so following Brexit. But ever since the 2012 exhibition, Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers, presented by the Museum of the City of New York in collaboration with Citizens Housing and Planning Council, scaling down has become an increasingly desirable way of life. … Read the full Story >>
Marshall Arisman (1937-2022), longtime chair of the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department at the School of Visual Arts, and a co-founder of American Illustration, will be honored by SVA in an exhibition, Does that Make Sense?, opening tomorrow at the SVA Gramercy Gallery. Info Arisman began teaching at SVA in 1964 and founded the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, November 30, 6-8pm: Zain Alam | Sounding a Sacred Space at 8th Floor As part of the second season of the gallery’s Sight/Geist series, this sound performance by Zain Alam features recitations of the azaan (Islamic call to prayer) distilled into pure tone. With the participation of vocalists Nadine Murshid and Tanaïs, from varying traditions of melody (and ma'qam) inacross the Islamic world, the artist asks … Read the full Story >>
The title of Jade Doskow’s recent book, Lost Utopias, resonates on more than one level, not least of which is the uncommon beauty of her luminous well-observed images. Her photographs of World’s Fair/International Exposition sites, stateside and worldwide, often portray crumbling artifacts of American technological glory, such as the New York State Pavilion at the New York 1964 World’s Fair (celebrating the space … Read the full Story >>
In Galleries Philip Guston | Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975, an exhibition devoted to the late artist’s satirical caricatures of the 37th President of the United States: Richard Nixon. Hauser & Wirth, 548 West 22nd Street, NY, NY. Info Introduced by a mutual acquaintance a couple of years earlier, [Philip Roth and Philip Guston] shared a love of books and … Read the full Story >>
I am holding in my hands a copy of the first Pictoplasma magazine, which is now available in stores and online—and am happy to report that it exceeds, in every way, the promise made by the founders of the leading proponent of character design in their email invitation. Lars Denicke and Peter Thaler wrote, “[The] first issue of Pictoplasma’s new magazine for character … Read the full Story >>
California artist Wayne Thiebaud has eluded categorization throughout his nearly 60-year career, which he came to comparatively late in life. Lumped together with Pop Art stars in the 1960s because of his subject matter—ordinary objects like lavishly frosted cakes, and hot dogs—his ceaseless inquiry into what is art reveals a deeply philosophical base grounded by keenly observed still lives, landscapes, and portraits. Nine … Read the full Story >>
Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced this week its adoption of a new policy: all images of public-domain artworks in the Museum's collection are now available for free and unrestricted use. The Met's Open Access policy facilitates the use of more than 375,000 images of public-domain artworks for both scholarly and commercial purposes. To maximize the reach … Read the full Story >>
Closing September 9: Emma Amos at Ryan Lee Emma Amos (b. 1937 Atlanta, GA - d. 2020 Bedford, NH) was a pioneering artist, educator, and activist. A dynamic painter and masterful colorist, her work was Influenced by classical antiquity, modern Western European art, Abstract Expressionism, the Civil Rights movement and feminism. In the current exhibition of paintings and prints, Amos displays her deep interest in … Read the full Story >>
There are many places to view contemporary art beyond the confines of white cube spaces, so today, DART offers a roundup of several that have special appeal for summer days—including seven community gardens on the Lower East Side: Continuing through September 30: Seven Gardens, various LES community gardens Inspired by the history of community gardens in New York City, 7 Gardens explores artistic engagement … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, November 3, 6-8pm: Brice Marden | Let the painting make you at Gagosian One of the things about art is that it is full of contradictions. The only rule is there are no rules. But everybody works by rules. You set up your own rules. —Brice Marden (1938-2023) The exhibition features a group of large paintings that Marden made in his studio in … Read the full Story >>
Martin Puryear, a distinctly iconoclastic sculptor whose immersion in the craft ethic is entwined in his work, has brought a major work to Madison Square Park and the neighborhood. With Big Bling, a wood and chain link fencing piece that towers 40 feet over the green space, the artist offers a gift of zen-like precision combined with wit and whimsy. The tall, slender piece, vaguely … Read the full Story >>
Thanks to subscribers who replied to yesterday's post. Here's the rest:The first 10 amendments to the Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. Written by James Madison in response to calls from several states for greater constitutional protection for individual liberties, the Bill of Rights lists specific prohibitions on governmental power. Below: Howard Chandler Christy, Bill of Rights, 1942; courtesy National Endowment for … Read the full Story >>
Jenny Goldstick: This image is created by (top to bottom) Barbara Geoghegan, Alex Beguez, Jenny Goldstick, and Nadia DeLane. We are a group of female art makers who are diverse in so many ways and yet we unify under the common denominator of visual storytelling. We collaborated together on an exquisite corpse (completed in-person, then scanned and finished digitally). The resulting image is … Read the full Story >>
Peter Hujar was a leading figure of the downtown New York scene of the 1970s and ’80s. He is most well-known for his portraits of New York City’s artists, musicians, writers, and performers, featuring personalities such as Susan Sontag, William S. Burroughs, Fran Lebowitz, David Wojnarowicz, Andy Warhol, Candy Darling, and Ethyl Eachelberger who populated the large gay-disco-drag performance-cruising underground life that has since … Read the full Story >>
Continuing: Christopher Wool | See Stop Run This survey exhibition takes place on the entire 19th floor of an unoccupied space in the heart of the financial district. The artist has chosen an independent venue in order to escape the presumed neutrality of the “white cube” as an idealized context. The city permeates the presentation through windows that wrap around the full 18,000 square … Read the full Story >>
Hugh Hayden’s Brier Patch is now on view in Madison Square Park. Presented across four separate lawns in the park, Brier Patch will feature a total of one-hundred wooden elementary school-style desks that erupt with tree branches, cohering into tangled assemblies with complex and layered meanings. The accumulations of desks summon the grid arrangement of classroom seating. Referencing folklore traditions around the world, the … Read the full Story >>
If Miami can be described as a social mosaic, it’s also a haven for working artists who give the north side of town a buzz that persists long after Art Basel tourists have disbanded. Among them is a group of book artists, novelists, poets, and printmakers known as the SWEAT Broadsheet Collaboration, who began producing literary broadsheets in 2009. Their output—including more than … Read the full Story >>
