Editor's note: This week’s DART Board feature is by sculptor Marco Palli, who also writes on the subject. Who Made LOVE? by Marco Palli There are many versions of “LOVE” around the world, but this particular kind of “LOVE” has been in the making since 1966. The first LOVE sculpture was fabricated out of Cor-Ten steel in 1970 and is currently located at … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, April 9-Sunday, April 12: The IFPDA Print Fair at Park Avenue Armory The “gold standard for fine art print collecting” (ARTnews, April 7, 2025), the IFPDA Print Fair is an annual pilgrimage site for print curators and collectors. This spring, the fair returns to the Park Avenue Armory from April 9 to 12 with 80 exhibitors and an expanded focus on drawings alongside … Read the full Story >>
Closing January 11: Ayiti Toma II: Faith, Family, and Resistance at Luhring Augustine “Ayiti Toma II: Faith, Family, and Resistance” a is an intergenerational show organized by Haitian-born artist Tomm El-Saieh in partnership with El-Saieh Gallery of Port-au-Prince (founded by the artist’s grandfather, musician-composer Issa El-Saieh), and Central Fine gallery of Miami Beach, Fla., where he is also one of the principals. The title … Read the full Story >>
Lorenzo Homar was a pioneering printmaker, poster designer, calligrapher, painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and costume and theatrical set designer. Active from the 1950s through the 1990s, few equal his impact and influence as a teacher of poster design and printmaking in Latin America. This exhibition focuses on his poster output over a thirty year period during which time his work reflected the complex history … Read the full Story >>
When Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) wrote Life imitates art far more than art imitates life, he set of a chain reaction that has reverberated ever since. Adding, “the self-conscious aim of life is to find expression, and art offers it certain beautiful forms through which it may release that energy,” he might well have been speaking of the interesting times in which we now … Read the full Story >>
Friday, March 20: New Museum Re-Opens on The Bowery After a nearly two-year expansion and a delayed reopening, the New Museum in New York City will finally welcome the public again this week. Designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture’s partners Rem Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematsu with Cooper Robertson, the new complex uses laminated glass with metal mesh to create a crystalline facade … Read the full Story >>
Morgan Library & Museum Garden For the first time in its 116-year history, the Morgan Library & Museum in Midtown Manhattan has opened its garden to the public. Part of a six-year $13-million “century renovation “, the garden was originally designed in 1912 by Beatrix Jones. Watch videos of subject experts on the renovation of the building’s exterior, including the bronze doors, night lighting, … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, November 14 · 7 - 11pm at Angel Orensanz Foundation The year's most anticipated networking schmooze-fest celebrating the American Photography 40 and American Illustration 43 winners is just 20 days away—get your tickets here! Once again AI-AP brings the art, photo and design communities together in a one-of-a-kind, trifecta gathering of photographers / illustrators / and creatives to launch the new AP40 … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, October 15 is City of Forest Day! Our Fair City is home to more than 7 million trees, hundreds of acres of woodlands, and miles of trials. A healthy urban forest makes for a healthy city, cleaning our air and water, cooling our neighborhoods, providing critical habitat for wildlife, and improving our environment. Presented by Forest for All NYC in partnership with the Parks … Read the full Story >>
When Earth Day was proclaimed a national celebration in 1970, the words "ecology" and "biosphere" were rarely heard outside of spelling bees. Since then, clean air, clean waterways and clean fuel have become the norm; toxic dumping is a federal offense; and Superfund cleanup stories usually make it to page one of the newspapers. In the last several years, photographers around the globe have … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, November 14 · 7 - 11pm at Angel Orensanz Foundation The year's most anticipated networking schmooze-fest celebrating the American Photography 40 and American Illustration 43 winners is just 20 days away—get your tickets here! Once again AI-AP brings the art, photo and design communities together in a one-of-a-kind, trifecta gathering of photographers / illustrators / and creatives to launch the new AP40 … Read the full Story >>
The Ark at Powerhouse Arts The cavernous, industrial expanse of Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus—a beautifully repurposed former power station—has been transformed into a sprawling, modern-day art sanctuary. Curated by Eric Fischl and Eric Shiner, the venue's main inaugural exhibition gathers over 90 animal sculptures and installations by 51 artists. It is an ambitious, visually stunning exploration of coexistence, vulnerability, and our shared precarity in an … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, February 6: Real Clothes, Real Lives at the Historical Discover the everyday clothing of ordinary women on a gallery tour of Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore, the Smith College Historic Clothing Collection, an exhibition that highlights everything from hard-worn house dresses to psychedelic micro minis and modern suits to fast-food workers' uniforms. Showcasing items from the Smith … Read the full Story >>
As we hit the end of Week Nine of SIP, I’ve noticed that a lot of people in the arts here in NYC are taking a deep breath—and a second look: At their close surroundings and companions; their objectives for getting through the hour, the day, or the week; and what the future beyond that week might hold. By now anyone who had never … Read the full Story >>
Upstate Art Weekend [UPAW] is one of the miraculous outcomes of the Pandemic lockdown. Founded by art world phenom Helen Toomer in 2000, it has grown from a smattering of 23 participating galleries and institutions to more than 145 this year, running from Thursday, July 18 through Sunday, July 21. The opening celebration of the fifth edition takes place at The School | … Read the full Story >>
Last chance—closing today: Pamela Council | A Fountain for Survivors, Duffy Square, Times Square, NYC. Jasmine Weber writes, in Hyperallergic: "Eighteen-feet tall, A Fountain for Survivors is a magnificent protrusion in the middle of Times Square that manages to stand out despite being surrounded by billion-kilowatt billboards advertising the Jolly Green Giant, Coca-Cola, and every other brand in the American capitalist lexicon. … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, June 20 starting 6pm: Solstice Celebration at Noo Arts/Kingsland Wildflower What happens when you cross contemporary choreography with Nintendo’s Pikmin, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and a cutthroat game of The Floor is Lava? You get New York movement artist Karley Wasaff’s newest interactive creation, Growing Takes Time. Until recently, the intersection of performance art and digital subculture has struggled to break … Read the full Story >>
Shiko Munakata: A Way of Seeing, a new presentation of nearly 100 innovative works by the celebrated artist Shiko Munakata (1903–1975), goes on view December 10 at Japan Society. Primarily known for his expressive woodblock prints in black on white paper, this exhibition reveals the breadth of Munakata’s oeuvre, which spanned from prints to calligraphy, sumi ink paintings, watercolors, lithography, and ceramics. … Read the full Story >>
The 2016 Summer Sketchbook Invitational concludes with Edel Rodriguez, who hopped a flight to Europe after sharing his thoughts with DART: I started my travel sketchbooks while I was in college at Pratt Institute. The first time I traveled abroad was at that time, when I went to study in Venice for the summer; I also traveled to Paris, Nice, Barcelona, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rome, … Read the full Story >>
This year the New York Botanical Garden will present a monumental installation of major works by glass sculptor Dale Chihuly. The artist, who began his career as an interior architect, has a lifelong fascination with glasshouses that has evolved into a series of exhibitions within botanical setting that began in 2001. First at the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago, and then the presentation of … Read the full Story >>
