December 25 and January 1: The Jewish Museum is open: New York | 1962-1964 This exhibition explores explores a pivotal three-year period in the history of art and culture in New York City, examining how artists living and working in New York responded to their rapidly changing world. Installed across two floors, the exhibition presents more than 150 works of art—all made or seen in … Read the full Story >>
Friday, April 5, 6-8pm: Paul Sevigny | Recent Work at Freight&Volume The recent paintings of reknown nightlife impresario Paul Sevigny have a sophistication about them that accords well with the artist’s dealings in music and finance, as well as nightlife. The works on view present a colorful motley of textures and patterns, which, however pleasing to the eye, pull no punches when it … Read the full Story >>
Maurizio Cattelan | Sunday at Gagosian In this new installation, Cattelan doubles down on his response to economic inequality in America, using precious metal to deconstruct the country’s relationship to the accessibility of weapons (a condition against which privilege affords no defense). Panels of stainless steel, plated in 24-karat gold, have been “modified” by gunfire. The components’ formerly smooth surfaces are left riddled … Read the full Story >>
Downtime is the perfect title for an exhibition of photographs by Julie Blackmon currently on view at Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles. It implies carefree, lazy summer afternoons with plenty of lemonade and ice cream and nothing but happy days. On the seamless surface of these large-scale images, composed in sunny colors, maybe, but carefree and lazy are the opposite in fact. Blackmon creates … Read the full Story >>
Continuing: Billy Childish | keep the mojave weird at at Lehmann Maupin In his newest series based on a road trip in 2025, British painter, writer, and musician Billy Childish depicts the western United States in scenes from California. Seen together, the works occupy a space that is both contemporary and eternal, where each landscape feels familiar yet remote. From soaring mountain ranges, to arid … Read the full Story >>
“My mother shaped my view of the world and inspired me to embrace spontaneity and capture the unforced. To show with her is such an honor for me and validates my journey as a photographer.” —Mary McCartney Exhibited together for the first time, the photographs of the late Linda McCartney and her daughter Mary explore the connective tissue of family, common experience, and a love … Read the full Story >>
This just in from the Home Office:We’re very excited to bring the creative communities back to celebrate the winners in this year’s launch of the AP38 and AI41 books and the IMAA10 video collection. The PARTY is set for Thursday, November 10. Don’t miss out in this the 28th year of A I-AP hosting this book launch event, where photographers meet illustrators meet photo editors meet art … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, February 9, 6-8 pm: Pat Steir | Monotypes at Pace Pzrints Pat Steir’s five-decade career as a painter has also included extensive explorations and innovative work in various printmaking mediums. Her iconic style, referencing waterfalls, resulted from her in-depth analysis of the application of pigments, s pecifically their relation to gravity, color layering, and density. Many of these monoprints combine a base of … Read the full Story >>
Legacy Russell on #GLITCHFEMINISM: In a society that conditions the public to find discomfort or outright fear in the errors and malfunctions of our socio-cultural mechanics—illicitly and implicitly encouraging an ethos of “Don’t rock the boat!”—a “glitch” becomes an apt metonym. Glitch Feminism, however, embraces the causality of “error”, and turns the gloomy implication of glitch on its ear by acknowledging that an error … Read the full Story >>
Sometimes discovering a photograph in an archive leads to an avalanche of unexpected information worth knowing. This week’s offering began with the cyanotype print of Waiting in the Forest—Cheyenne by Edward S. Curtis, 1910 (above, center) from the Samuel J. Wagstaff Collection at The Getty Center. The Wagstaff collection was recently celebrated in an exhibition, The Thrill of the Chase, at the Getty. In … Read the full Story >>
Friday, April 2, 6-8 pm: Owen James GalleryDavid Sandlin | Belfaust: Paintings, screenprints, books The artist will be in attendance at the gallery Saturday April 3rd (from 2-5 PM) to meet with visitors and discuss his work. The following is a preview. Above: David Sandlin, Belfast Bus, acrylic on canvas. From the late 1960s until 1998, Northern Ireland suffered through The Troubles: an … Read the full Story >>
“May you live in interesting times.” This pandemic year has proved, without doubt, that the ancient Chinese curse is ripe for an update. As we exit a year that has left its mark on everyone, reflecting on how we adapt in a world where change is beyond exponential is unavoidable. So I looked at the opening weeks of the Covid-19 lockdown to see how the … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, February 23, 5:30-7:00pm: Genevieve DeLeon | To Order the Days at Hartford During her tenure as the 2022-23 Koopman Chair in the Painting Department of the Hartford Art School, Genevieve de Leon has produced solo and collaborative artwork focused on the knowledge–intellectual and embodied–that she has received as part of her study of the Maya calendrical cycles. Maya cosmology, mathematics, and mythology are … Read the full Story >>
Continue your summer art escapes into fall with stops across Harlem; then plan some day and weekend trips from Upstate to Long Island. Harlem Sculpture Gardens, NY Harlem Sculpture Gardens is a multi-site exhibition, curated to spread joy and beauty within the Harlem community. The exhibition features two dozen works by artists of color documenting identity, diaspora, and Harlem tradition across local public parks, … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, January 17, 6-8pm: Jennifer Guidi | Rituals at Gagosian This new series of paintings that explore the sublime beauty of mountainscapes and the color spectrum, inspired by the artist’s deep connection to nature and her personal and artistic rituals. Developed through repetitive actions and processes, each painting emerges as if from a meditative journey, manifested through Guidi’s investigations of color, form, texture, and … Read the full Story >>
Seymour Chwast is often referred to as “the legendary graphic designer and co-founder of Push Pin Studios.” But how many legends can you think of who are known by a single name? Shakespeare, Caruso, Elvis, Cher, Madonna, Bono, Jesus...The list goes on, of course, and in the world of art and design it includes Leonardo, Daumier, Hopper, Warhol, Milton, Crumb...and Seymour. Subversive. Personal. Obsessive. Radical. … Read the full Story >>
Among the great artists of mid-century America, Helen Frankenthaler is now receiving a share of recognition long overdue. Currently featured in MoMAs Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, and in a solo show at Gagosian, Paris, two sides of the artist’s formidable output are further explored in exhibitions opening this weekend at The Clark Institute, in Williamstown, Massachusetts. As in Nature: Helen … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, 11am-5 pm: Green Day Soil Jam at Socrates This annual Queens Green Day event is even more special this year because it falls on the 45th anniversary of Earth Day! Celebrate at Socrates Sculpture Park with hands-on activities, sowing seeds for the season. Join artist Mary Mattingly in the art of creating enclosed terrariums. Witness the intricate interplay of light, water, air, soil, and plant life, … Read the full Story >>
Lynn Pauley, a longtime DART subscriber, is having a Pennsylvania moment, with an exhibition of her paintings opening Friday, in Scranton. So I took a moment to catch up. Here is what she wrote: Q: A Pennsylvania native, you recently moved back, to Scranton. What is the draw of your home state? A: I think that is the phrase," draw the home state." I … Read the full Story >>
