Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s, opening today at the Whitney Museum of American Art, features works by nearly forty artists, including Carlos Alfonzo, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ross Bleckner, Peter Cain, Louisa Chase, Robert Colescott, Moira Dryer, Eric Fischl, Leon Golub, Keith Haring, Sherrie Levine, Joyce Pensato, Susan Rothenberg, David Salle, Kenny Scharf, Julian Schnabel, Julia Wachtel, Terry Winters, Martin Wong, among others. Often through … Read the full Story >>
Andrea Modica, a photographer who works in the long-term documentary tradition, is known for her portrayals of people who comprise groups. First with Treadwelll for which she chronicled the daily life of a girl named Barbara and her family in the eponymous Upstate New York farming town between 1986 and 2001; later with Minor League, for which she photographed the New York Yankees' bush … Read the full Story >>
The Double All-Seeing Eye, ca.1950s-1960s. Peter Attie "Charlie" Besharo (1898–1969). Courtesy of American Folk Art Museum. Info This narrative work formally allies two recurring subjects in Peter Besharo’s visual vocabulary: a winged angel in a tarboosh and a helmeted space figure in liturgical vestments. Radiant light, enhanced by a flame and a rising sun emerging from a blue brick structure, illuminates the … Read the full Story >>
As a fan of the Center for Land Use Interpretation [CLUI] and the haunting novels of Nobel Laureate, Patrick Modiano, I agree with Lucy Lippard’s assessment in The Lure of the Local that “space combined with memory defines place.” While Modiano shows a passion for estrangement, his quiet exploration of mood and memory is inextricably founded in his recall of the places where … Read the full Story >>
A rare art book produced in 1927 by Italian Futurist Fortunato Depero, which many scholars regard as a key work in the field of artist books is expected to be reprinted as a nearly exact facsimile. Depero Futurista (Depero the Futurist), a key work in the history of books as art objects, is a monograph of the artist's works in painting, graphic … Read the full Story >>
The Romany horse fair at Appleby is the largest and most important in the history of travellers’ gatherings in England, dating back to 1685, when James II granted a charter granting the right to hold one there, on a site ‘near to the River Eden’. Since that time, in the month of June, travellers have converged on Appleby, not just from England, but from … Read the full Story >>
Light and Shadow with Phil Penman at Fotographiska | Workshop, Sunday, October 17, 12-4 pm Join Professional Photographer, Phil Penman, and the Leica Akademie for an afternoon of discovering light and shadow. Phil will begin the program by showing his photography and talking about various artistic and technical considerations. Following the presentation, Phil will lead participants on a photo walk on the streets of Manhattan. Photographers … Read the full Story >>
Walker Evans (1903 -1975) is the subject of a major exhibition organized by Clément Chéroux for Centre Pompidou, Paris and currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where he is now senior curator of photography. Info Throughout his 50-year career, first as an independent photographer, then as a contract photographer for the Farm Security Administration, later as art director and … Read the full Story >>
In an interview for It’s Nice That, Christoph Niemann (1970) said, “A drawing is like when you describe something to a reader in three sentences.” In a few words, the artist/author/animator, who mainly works from Berlin, captured the essence of what is illustration at its best. On Thursday, February 29, he will be in New York for an exhibition of his Photo Graphics at Janet … Read the full Story >>
Finding visual reference material can be a source of enjoyment or a well of anxiety for artists, designers and researchers. Many are part-time sleuths with a natural bent for collecting. For others, the task is just that. But as museums and libraries digitize their collections to make space in their crowded quarters, a great many of them are now offering access at no cost—including … Read the full Story >>
“Let’s look at the 50’s....That’s where you’ll see a clear polarization of society...to be an artist was to be an outlaw. It wasn’t a pose or a style. You really were one. Society considered you one. They were ready to put you in jail.” Michael McClure So Beat poet, historian and charter member of the Rat Bastard Protective Association Michael McClure succinctly characterized the … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, March 8, 6-8pm: Of Mythic Worlds: Works from the Distant Past through the Present at The Drawing Center This new show explores the ways in which rituals, myths, traditions, ideologies, and beliefs can intersect across cultures, histories, and time periods. The exhibition brings together fifty-three works by more than thirty artists including Jordan Belson, Lee Bontecou, Cameron, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Walter De Maria, Steffani Jemison, Duane Linklater, Yutaka … Read the full Story >>
Best known as an assemblage artist over her long career, Betye Saar has created a living history about what she calls ‘national racism” through intimately scaled works in which she combines materials scavenged from swap meets, flea markets, and sidewalk trash bins. The visual dialog she creates challenges viewers to engage with her take on Black icons that were previously figures of fun, … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, January 11, 6-8pm: Mika Tajima | Energetics at Pace Through her multidisciplinary practice spanning performance, sculpture, painting, and installation, Mika Tajima takes up questions of identity and agency in a world increasingly influenced and mitigated by technology. Drawing on various points of reference—from physics, philosophical writings and biology—the artist imbues her work across mediums with scientific and philosoculturalphical import. The exhibition takes its title … Read the full Story >>
Leading the art news everywhere today is the remarkable story about returning a long-lost painting by Jacob Lawrence from the “American Struggle” series to its family—and to the exhibition of the extant works currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A recent visitor to the show noticed the wall label stating that this piece had been lost; there was no photograph of … Read the full Story >>
Just Opened: Innovation Triangle at Tasteelab Building, Harlem The first arts installation at Innovation Triangle features an enormous fiber rope installation by Tomo Mori @tomomoriart [above] together with works by Rafaela Luna @rafaelalunarl, Paul Deo @planetdeo, and SO HARLEM @soharleminc Activation of the Innovation Triangle, within Manhattanville’s old Factory District, fulfills West Harlem Art Association’s @whaanyc vision to facilitate and develop collaborations through … Read the full Story >>
Media outlets are predicting the Women’s March on Washington, on Saturday, January 21st, could outdraw the Inauguration Day events. Find out more about the march and its sister marches: Info The biggest sister march is the New York City Satellite event, starting at 10:45 am at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, East 48th Street and First Avenue. Info Photo above: © Hennessy Vandheur/Curbed On January 20, … Read the full Story >>
Frank Stella, whose work is currently the subject of a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, hit the New York Art world running, in 1959, with a series known as the Black Paintings. In these 24 pieces, which he diagrammed in advance of picking up a brush, he studied the effects of black house paint on raw canvas, applied in symmetrical … Read the full Story >>
PROTEST May Day, or May 1st, has historically been a day of protest, and 2017 is no exception. On Monday, the Vera List Center for Art and Politics will host a book launch and festive reception with DJs for Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production. The press release states: The refusal to participate in an oppressive system has long been one of the … Read the full Story >>
The Big Holiday Weekend—The Fourth, that is—could be as big as it gets this year. It being on a Wednesday, anyone crafty enough to grab a few vacay-days along with some comp time is looking at an escape. And if you plan to be in New York City, there are some major art destinations under the sun and stars, with women artists leading the … Read the full Story >>
