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 >>
The 6th Annual Upstate Art Weekend is Here If you’re ready for an early summer escape, the sixth annual Upstate Art Weekend is here for you. Founded by curator Helen Toomer as a celebration of local and regional creativity hubs, this massive, self-guided art experience breaks down gallery walls entirely. It transforms the pastoral landscape of the Hudson Valley and Catskills into an open-air … 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 >>
A career-spanning retrospective of Irving Penn (1917-2009), one of the great innovators of 20th-century photography, opens on Monday at The Met Fifth Avenue. Trained as a painter, Penn first entered the magazine world as an unpaid editorial assistant to the legendary Harper’s Bazaar at director Alexey Brodovitch, in 1936. While an art director in Saks Fifth Avenue’s advertising department two years later, Penn took … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, June 26, 6-8 pm: John Ahern and Rigoberto Torres at Salon94 Walton Ave & Friends unites nearly three decades of sculpture made both independently and in collaboration between sculptors John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres. In 1979, Ahearn was artist-in-residence at the South Bronx alternative art space Fashion Moda and quickly drew attention for his public life-casting workshop, resulting in The South Bronx … Read the full Story >>
September 12: Mexican Prints at the Vangard at The Met This exhibition explores the rich tradition of printmaking in Mexico—from the 18th to the mid-20th century—through works drawn from the Museum’s collection. Featuring over 130 works, including woodcuts, lithographs, and screen prints, by artists such as Posada, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Elizabeth Catlett, and Leopoldo Méndez, the exhibition explores how prints were … Read the full Story >>
Unfolding political events and breaking news are not generally thought of as subject matter for photographs meant to be seen on gallery walls rather than in the news media. But Simon Roberts, whose background includes university studies in human geography, has pushed the limits of his medium to do just that. The implicit theme of Simon’s work over the last ten years has been … Read the full Story >>
For most folks, Labor Day marks the end of summer. But we still have nearly a month of this season, with the weather rapidly improving. Here are a few ideas for celebrating art, nature and culture in a park or garden Saturday, August 31, 11:59pm: Last Chance for Marco Palli’s Our Gates Bring your own music and dance the night away at Our … Read the full Story >>
Continuing: Lois Dodd | Natural Order at the Bruce One of the eight exhibitions inaugurating the new Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT this week presents almost eighty paintings spanning nearly the entirety of Dodd's artistic production, from the mid-1950s to 2021. For nearly eight decades, Lois Dodd (American, b. 1927) has produced a compelling body of work grounded in direct observation of her immediate surroundings. Working … Read the full Story >>
Opening June 30: Art and Race Matters | The Career of Robert Colescott at The New Museum The bold and richly rendered works of Robert Colescott (1925–2009) plumb art history to discover issues of race, beauty, and American culture that are rife for satire. Often ahead of his time, Colescott explored the ways in which personal and cultural identities are constructed and enacted … Read the full Story >>
Opening April 16: John Divola | Swimmer Drunk The exhibition includes two photographic series that represent the breadth of the artist’s more than 40 year career: Zuma Series (1977-1978), and Daybreak (2015-2020). Both series are a result of Divola’s engagement with abandoned buildings, and his interest in transforming a situation through photography: the photographs do not serve as mere descriptions of the scenes depicted but … Read the full Story >>
