Earth Day, for me, has always felt less like a global mandate and more like a quiet, necessary recalibration of the eye. It’s that brief, sharp moment each April where we’re asked to stop simply consuming the landscape and start actually seeing it—the way the light hits a revitalized urban garden or the stark, graphic silhouette of a lone tree against a changing … 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 >>
Thursday, November 6, 6-8pm: Louise Bourgeois | Gathering Wool at Hauser & Wirth The exhibition takes its title from an enigmatic work Bourgeois created in 1990. Gathering wool is an expression signifying rumination, daydreaming, letting the mind wander—a break from conscious, purposive thinking. This was the mental state in which Bourgeois worked as she experimented with forms and processes in her studio. She trusted the … Read the full Story >>
The headline and deck in the New York Times online article reads, “Hands Off the Library’s Picture Collection: Cornell, Spiegelman and Warhol browsed the famous collection of images in the New York Public Library. Now a century of serendipitous discovery will come to an end if the collection is closed off to the public.” Above:Jessica Cline, the current head of the Picture Collection; photo: … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, April 11, 6-7pm: Rose B. Simpson | Seed at Madison Square park Simpson and other artists of her generation are resetting long-entrenched art historical interpretation around the soaring capacity of figuration. With Seed the artist creates sentinels in weathered steel and bronze that lead with angularity and durability; industrial bolts fasten masks forged in bronze to sections cut from ten-foot-long steel sheets. Simpson … Read the full Story >>
Entries are now being accepted for the American Photography 34 competition. All photographers, creative professionals, publishers, agencies, representatives, students and teachers of photography of any nationality living, working or studying in North American (U.S. and Canada) with work created or published anywhere for any purpose are eligible. International photographers living abroad who have North American citizenship or representation or have been published or exhibited … Read the full Story >>
Friday, October 27, 6-8 pm: Bradley Wood | Notes from a Lucid Dream at Jane Lombard "Fantastic as it may sound, I was in full possession of my waking faculties while dreaming and soundly asleep: I could think as clearly as ever, freely remember details of my waking life, and act deliberately upon conscious reflection. Yet none of this diminished the vividness of … Read the full Story >>
Monday, May 10 | Madison Square Park, NYC Maya Lin | Ghost Forest A new installation by American sculptor Maya Lin, Ghost Forest at Madison Square Park, will confront viewers with the devastating impacts of climate change head-on. Starting on May 10 and on view through the fall, visitors to the public square in Manhattan will be able to walk among a thicket of … Read the full Story >>
Life without logos, loud colors, and sharp edges is peaceful and free of distraction—an opportunity to make your own mark for your lifestyle. And that’s the appeal of Muji—an aesthetic that embodies products that are rational, and free of doctrine, and ‘isms’. Based on an extreme form of simplicity and utility, Muji embodies a fantasy of Japanese culture—attributes that lie at the center of the … Read the full Story >>
Q: What are some of your favorite things about living and working in your current locale? A: I’m in love with my city, Tel Aviv, which has the best of what you have in a big city—mixed population, tolerance, culture, many cafes as well as the best things you find in a small places: you can walk or bike anywhere, people are friendly, you … Read the full Story >>
Friday, August 2, Noon-3pm JIMMY! God’s Black Revolutionary Mouth at the Schomburg Join NYPL on James Baldwin’s 100th birthday for the opening reception for our newest exhibition JIMMY! God's Black Revolutionary Mouth. Stay for this public program featuring Yahdon Israel, Senior editor at Simon & Schuster and two-time Grammy Award-winning recording hip-hop artist and humanitarian, Che “Rhymefest” Smith, in a conversation … Read the full Story >>
