Thursday, November 16, 6-8 pm; Barbara Nessim | Drawings at Derek Eller Balancing Act: Drawings 1969-1974 brings together a collection of portrait drawings by pioneering artist Barbara Nessim. These depictions of enigmatic female archetypes reflected the zeitgeist of a pivotal moment in women’s history by an artist who broke through the barriers in a male-dominated field and went on to become a … Read the full Story >>
June 11-July 24 | The Whitney Museum of American Art Today, the Whitney Museum announced its lineup of summer public programs featuring a hybrid schedule of digital and in-person events. The diverse range of programs kicks off on June 17 and includes conversations and film screenings hosted virtually and onsite. The Museum will also host a free Pride celebration on June 24 featuring … Read the full Story >>
As an author of books published in the UK who receives royalty payments—not only on book sales but also on fees paid for photocopying pages from my books, in libraries—I was excited to learn about the American Society for Collective Rights Licensing [ASCRL]. ASCRL, a membership organization based in Washington, D.C., is the only 501 C-6 not for profit tax exempt rights … Read the full Story >>
Continuing: Joan Mitchell | Paintings, 1979-1985 at Zwirner This exhibition of works from public and private collections, as well as from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, is presented in conjunction with the career retrospective that opened at SFMOMA, traveled to the Baltimore Museum of Art, and is now on view at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris—concurrent with the exhibition Claude Monet—Joan Mitchell. Mitchell established a singular … Read the full Story >>
The Future Was Then | The Changing Face of Facist Italy at Poster House In a fascist movement inspired by art, how does the fascist government influence the artists living in its grasp? This exhibition explores how Benito Mussolini’s government created a broad-reaching culture that grew with and into the Futurist movement to claw into advertising, propaganda, and the very heart of … Read the full Story >>
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA is an exploration of Latin American and Latino arts in dialogue with Lo Angeles, taking place from September 2017 through January 2018 at over 70 cultural institutions from Santa Barbara to San Diego and from Los Angeles to Palm Springs. Among the Southern California arts rooted in protest is the Chicano movement, which was born out of West Coast handstyle … Read the full Story >>
Taking place across three floors of the museum, this exhibition encapsulates the full range of Theaster Gates’s artistic activities, featuring artworks produced over the past twenty years and site-specific environments created especially for this presentation. Gates has titled the exhibition “Young Lords and Their Traces” in honor of the radical thinkers who have shaped his home city of Chicago and America as a whole. … Read the full Story >>
Artist Mark Todd, a long-time DART subscriber and multiple AI awardee, is presenting a large selection of hand-painted movie posters from Ghana, West Africa. In an email exchange this week he wrote: These wild posters were once the product of a much larger industry known as the Ghanaian Mobile Cinema”. This business started in the late 1980’s when Ghanain entrepreneurs formed video clubs. With a … Read the full Story >>
Closing January 7: Regarding Kimber at Cheim & Read Kimber Smith (1922-1981) had his first exhibition in New York in 1951, where his work was paired with Joan Mitchell’s. Smith’s effortless style [above] anticipates the work of influential artists such as Mary Heilmann, Richard Aldrich, and Joe Bradley The first exhibition of his works in NYC since 2011 was held at Cheim & Read's UES … Read the full Story >>
The biggest week on NYCs art calendar just got bigger. As galleries reopen after their August break, Armory Art Week opens for the first time during the same time slot. So if you throw a dart in any direction, chances are you’ll hit an opening or an artists talk or performance that appeals. Here are just a few things that got my attention. … Read the full Story >>
Continuing through November 6th: Riccardo Veccchio | The 31 Degree Project, Open Studio 31 Degrees project gives visibility to environmental injustice through disparities in tree coverage in prosperous or marginalized neighborhoods in NYC, and sets out to work with city agencies, organizations and communities to plant trees in neighborhoods that need them most. Join Riccardo for the launch of this public, multi-site mapping … Read the full Story >>
David Butow, whose shot from Nelson Mandela’s funeral made the cover of AP30, is a frequent contributor to DART. It must be stated that I have worked with David since our collaboration on China: 50 Years Inside the Peoples Republic back in 1998. Info. As the editor of that book, researched during an exciting—and dangerous—period as a new order was taking shape … Read the full Story >>
On March 3 the Barnes Foundation will open Alexey Brodovitch: Astonish Me, a major exhibition exploring the influence and significance of photographer, designer, and instructor Alexey Brodovitch (1898–1971). Brodovitch is best known for his art direction of the US fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar from 1934 to 1958 and his role in making photography the cornerstone of its visual identity. The first US … Read the full Story >>
I stumbled upon the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) in 2010 when I was looking for images of the West. Not the romantic West that was invented by Carleton Tompkins or Ansel Adams; more like what Robert Adams calls home, but worse. I discovered the CLUI’s residence program at Wendover, Utah, located on the Great Salt Flats, which is home of … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from South Korea what are some of your favorite things about living and working in the New York area? A: I lived in Seoul, South Korea till 2010. In the summer of that year, I came to New York to study art. New York has much to see. I like wandering around the city, especially West Village and Upper East Side, watching … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, March 2: Wangechi Mutu | Intertwined at the New Museum Prolific and visionary, Wangechi Mutu has been transforming visual media for more than 25 years. The New Museum brings together more than 100 works by the artist in a major solo exhibition that connects her current art to the fantastical depictions of contemporary realities and future possibilities she’s been creating for decades. Representing … Read the full Story >>
Opening Friday, October 22: Felix Gonzalez-Torres | inbetweenness at the Judd Foundation. The exhibition comprises “Untitled” (Loverboy) (1989) and “Untitled” (1991 – 1993), works that engage the distinctions between art and architecture, the public and the private, and specificity and indeterminacy. Curated by Flavin Judd, the works were selected with consideration to how they would respond to the architecture of 101 Spring Street. … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, June 19, 6-9pm: Layers of Identity at PS109 Layers of Identity, a site-responsive exhibition in the former school building's lower level, celebrates the idea that human beings are layered, the complexity of our personalities, and individual histories is what makes us interesting. The exhibition explores the layers of societal structures and personal experiences that form how we see ourselves. Above, l-r: Hollie … Read the full Story >>
Saturday June 1-Sunday, 16: Photoville This year Photoville presents 85+ exhibitions in all 5 boroughs of NYC starting with an opening night jam packed with visual storytelling presentations at the Emily Warren Roebling Plaza area. On the Mainstage, We Are Happy To Inspire You presents ceative collaborations, curated explorations of emerging talent, and new and exciting projects from around the world including work from … Read the full Story >>
Continuing: Designing Motherhood at MAD Mudeum “Arguably the most ubiquitous design object governing parenthood in the United States today, [the breast pump] is a contested object, for some representing freedom of choice and for others manifesting the unrelenting pressure to breastfeed at all costs,” historians Amber Winick and Michelle Millar Fisher Fisher wrote in their book. Designing Motherhood. “By its very existence … Read the full Story >>
