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 >>
Chain Reaction: The Photography of Patrick Nagatani The exhibition features the entire Nuclear Enchantment series, a powerful body of work made between 1988 and 1993, which deals with the history of nuclear weapons development in New Mexico, as well as the effects of this industry on the people and places there. As a Japanese-American whose parents were both put in internment camps during WWII, … Read the full Story >>
As artists and designers continue inventing new ways to navigate the shifting terrain of producing and distributing their work, there seem to be as many success stories as there are disappointments. One such tale of incredible disappointment combined with unexpected delight came in yesterday from artist and Illustrator, Gayle Kabaker. She wrote to say that after spending a restful month in Mexico, she … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, January 28, 6-8 pm: To the Studios at JJ Murphy Gallery See paintings by Elisa Jensen, John Lees, and Liam Murphy-Torres, three generations of artists associated with the New York Studio School, an alternative art school founded in 1963 by Mercedes Matter. The title of the exhibition was suggested by Elisa Jensen [above] and refers to a series of paintings by … Read the full Story >>
Gender fluidity, the subject of a new book by Mariette Pathy Allen, is being celebrated at a pop-up exhibition and book launch at ClampArt next Thursday, December 14th. The event coincides with Aperture magazine's release of "Future Gender," a landmark issue dedicated to the representation of transgender lives, communities, and histories in photography guest-edited by Zackary Drucker, an artist, activist, and … Read the full Story >>
Typographics: A Design Festival for People Who Use Type—the marquee event presented by Type@Cooper—goes on as scheduled, but online for the first time in its six-year run. Speakers include Paula Scher (Pentagram), Julian Alexander (Slang, Inc.), Cybele Grandjean (Area of Practice), Tre Seals (Vocal Type Co.), Javier Viramontes (format.xyz), Nontsikelelo Mutiti (Black Chalk & Co), and Silas Munro (Poly-Mode), among others. The Online … Read the full Story >>
“Art for art’s sake”—the antithesis of noble patronage—was a buzzword in bohemian Paris of the 1820s. But this was anathema to Eugène Delacroix, who was well-born but left an impecunious orphan at age 16. He was talented, ambitious, and competitive, with great plans for his future. Having Théodore Gericault as his mentor, and the diplomat Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, a cohort of his late father an … Read the full Story >>
Between 1972 and 1983, the artist Colette transformed her Lower Manhattan loft into an immersive, ever-evolving installation and invited the public to join her in a dreamlike pastel world. Covering the ceilings and walls with ruched silks, blush satins, mirrors, cascading ropes and light boxes, Colette obsessively created a complete Living Environment in which every surface was a work of art. Now Company Gallery … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, October 10: Flow States | La Trienel 2024 at El Museo El Museo del Barrio announces commissioned projects, exhibition highlights, illustrated catalogue, and opening week programming for Flow States – La Trienal 2024, the museum’s second large-scale triennial of Latinx contemporary art. The exhibition will feature 33 artists working across the United States, Puerto Rico, and—for the first time—geographies that reflect the … Read the full Story >>
April 16, Film Forum, NYC and Laemmle NoHo, LA Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts, a new documentary on the life and art of Bill Traylor, an American artist with a remarkable and unlikely biography, will be released next week, in person and online. Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama. After the Civil War, Traylor continued to farm the land as a sharecropper until … Read the full Story >>
It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.—Elliott Erwitt Elliott Erwit (b. 1928) might have added, “it’s about being there” to his summation of a life in … Read the full Story >>
June 20 & 21, 7:30-10pm: Van Gogh’s Flowers After Dark at NYBG Experience Van Gogh’s Flowers after dark. The exhibition comes aglow for outings that capture the twinkling allure of the artist’s nighttime scenery. Within and around NYBG’s iconic Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, find yourself surrounded by the botanical beauty that inspired Van Gogh. Wander through a breathtaking lawn of sculptural and real … Read the full Story >>
The NYCxDesign festival gives space to artisans, manufacturers and students showing off their latest inventions in architecture, landscape design, interior design, product design and more. This annual, citywide celebration highlights hundreds of events - from exhibits and trade shows to talks and tours - drawing design enthusiasts from around the globe. As the city's most influential design event, the festival provides a dynamic … Read the full Story >>
