Last chance, Sunday, January 7: Manet/Degas at The Met While it was tighter than elbow to elbow yesterday, unless you know you’ll get to Paris soon, this show is a must. Two of the most adventurous artists of the 19th Century, Édouard Manet (1832–1883) and Edgar Degas (1834–1917), and ones who maintained a fierce rivalry streaked with deep respect for the art of the other, are presented … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, November 23, 11am-6pm: Chelsea Art Fair Platform, a click-and-buy offshoot of David Zwirner, and the historic Chelsea Hotel invite art lovers to a one-day, free art fair this weekend. Founded during the Pandemic shutdowns, Platform started out by offering around 100 one-of-a-kind works per month presented by about 12 independent international galleries with prices currently under $2,500. In an interview with … Read the full Story >>
Last week, Viktor Koen invited me to a walkthrough of an exhibition of his students' work at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) Gramercy Gallery. A member of the faculty in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program, Viktor teaches the first semester of the first year of this two-year program. Each student receives the same assignment: to illustrate a short story by creating a body … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, December 13, 6-8pm: Holiday Caroling and Art Crawl, DUMBO This inaugural event features 5 musical acts, large-scale holiday projections, free drinks, DUMBO Dollars and indie businesses open late. Pick up your Stamp Card at Susan Smith McKinney Park, collect your stamps at seven stops, and redeem them for free drinks. Enjoy live music by Vertrees and the Mistletoes, and watch holiday animations, designed … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, May 23, 6-8pm: Trang M Uyen | The Theory of Color at Fremin Trang M Uyen (TMU) is an artistic collaboration between Mary “Trang” Nguyen and Denise “M Uyen” Nguyen. Depicted in this series is the pastoral landscape of the Hamptons, imagery that remains etched in memory from summers spent on Long Island, where Mary recalls wandering the idyllic shores and … Read the full Story >>
Friday, April 26, 6-8pm: Diedrick Brackens | blood compass at Shainman In this show, which occupies the gallery's two locations on Friday and Saturday, the weavings by Diedrick Brackens map an imagined place — visualizing the internal mechanisms and symbols that animate his work while removing the anchor of direct narrative. The scenes depicted in each weaving exist out of time, suspended between a … Read the full Story >>
Now Open: Sixties Surreal at the Whitney Sixties Surreal is an ambitious, scholarly reappraisal of American art from 1958 to 1972, encompassing the work of more than 100 artists focused on the era’s most fundamental, if underrecognized, aesthetic current—an efflorescence of psychosexual, fantastical, and revolutionary tendencies, undergirded by the imprint of historical Surrealism and its broad dissemination. In the 60s, many of these artists sought … Read the full Story >>
Up On The Roof: Petrit Halilaj | Abetare (Spider) at The Met The Kosovo-born artist draws intricate, goofy, figures in space against the Manhattan skyline—birds, flowers, Batman—in metal for the latest Rooftop Commission, which opened yesterday. But look a little closer and fearsome shapes emerge: a hammer and sickle, an ominous spider, indecipherable characters with no linguistic heritage. Halilaj brings to his work images from childhood … Read the full Story >>
October 18-20: Open House New York Open House New York 2024 is an annual weekend-long, free event during which historic buildings, architectural masterpieces, landmarks and top New York attractions welcome the public to expl0re more deeply. This weekend, OHNY celebrates 22 years of "unlocking" the city. Above: EverGreene Architectural Arts, the largest specialty contractor in the nation specializing in historic restoration and conservation … Read the full Story >>
Self. Family. Memory. Loss. Displacement. Catastrophe. These are subjects of concern in the visual arts—perhaps never more so than today. As the planet degrades at an accelerating pace; as war, poverty, displacement, tribalism, nationalism and other such human catastrophes fail to be contained, photographers in particular make these subjects the focus of their work. And with increasing frequency, the self-published photobook is the locus … Read the full Story >>
The seven self-portraits of Max Beckmann (Germany, 1884-1950 New York) currently on view at The Met present the horrors he experienced at the front during World War I—and a sense of foreboding that preoccupied him for the rest of his life. He wrote in a 1918 manifesto for his art, “We are on our way to very difficult times.” In one of the highlights … Read the full Story >>
December 1, 12-7 pm: World AIDS Day | Open Community Circle at The Drawing CenterA quiet time for remembrance and contemplation is offerend in the galleries—followed at 6pm by a public film screening, held in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition Ecce Homo: The Drawings of General Idea. Founded in Toronto in 1969 by AA Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal, General Idea is recognized … Read the full Story >>
Sunday August 13, 1-4 pm: Life Drawing in the 6 & B Community Garden, East Village Life drawing with a clothed model, in a sheltered pavilion, is one of the many events offered by this legacy community garden. Originating under the city’s Operation Green Thum, in 1984 the garden, with it’s hundred-some members, has flourished over the years, often against considerable odds. The Garden … Read the full Story >>
“The limits of photography cannot be determined. Everything is so new here that even the search leads to creative results... It is not the person ignorant of writing but the one ignorant of photography who will be the illiterate of the future." --László Moholy-Nagy This maxim of László Moholy-Nagy, made famous by Walter Benjamin in his writings, is rooted in the artist’s search for new art forms for … Read the full Story >>
Conversational use of the word “genius” often conveys opposite sides of the spectrum, from schoolyard taunts to recipients of the MacArthur Fellowships (referred to as the “genius grants”) and, of course, Albert Einstein. And “self-taught” usually infers a somewhat lowly status, especially where art is concerned—think clunky wood knick knacks found at craft fairs. But when the two words combine to name an exhibition … Read the full Story >>
The next couple of weeks brings a deluge of photography book events covering terrain that ranges from sequencing and laying out a book on a Mac to starting a library, with advice from publishers, photographers, and booksellers. A batch of new spring books is also flowing in, with photographers on hand to talk about how they came to light. Please check links for more … Read the full Story >>
With The Fourth quickly approaching, thousands will be escaping the urban scene for a long holiday weekend or week. Given a choice between seashore and hillside, more New Yorkers than ever are choosing the Berkshires—weekendspeak for Berkshire County, in Western Massachusetts. The region has been known for its liberal leanings since early times—with Shay’s Rebellion, a violent uprising during the late 1780s in protest … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, October 19: Linda Troeller | Self Power / Self Play at Museum of Sex Half a century of erotic portraiture by Linda Troeller comes to light in this solo show. Now in her 70s, DART subscriber Troeller continues to produce dynamic, provocative portraits that assert the right to control the pleasures and potentials of her own body. Since 1973, when she first … Read the full Story >>
This interview is extracted from the one he did with curator Sarah Howgate in September 2019 when David Hockney: Drawing from Life was showing at the National portrait Gallery, London. The exhibition opens at The Morgan Library & Museum on Thursday, October 2, and continues through January 17, 2017. Info. Above: David Hockney. My Parents and Myself, 1976. Copyright David Hockney The artist and … Read the full Story >>
Continuing: Calder’s Circus at 100 at The Whitney High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100 celebrates the centennial of one of the most cherished and storied works in the Whitney’s collection. In 1926, Calder began constructing his miniature multi-act spectacle while living in Paris, using commonplace materials—wire, fabric, cork, wood, string, and found objects—to create a cast of acrobats, animals, and other circus performers, … Read the full Story >>
