Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) was an American street photographer whose massive, unseen body of work came to light when it was purchased from an auction in Chicago in 2007. Born in New York City, Maier spent some of her youth in France and then worked in Chicago as a nanny and caregiver for most of her life. In her leisure, however, Maier ventured … Read the full Story >>
Editor’s note: With ICON9 The Illustration Conference just a month away—four days of art, discussion, performance, and plenty of talk in Austin, TX—the current roster for the Q&A is peopled with many of the exceptional artists making presentations during this biannual artfest. Gina Triplett and Matt Curtius will give a workshop on Personal Work and Work-Work on Thursday, July 7, 9am-noon. Info Q: Originally from the East … Read the full Story >>
Sunday, April 7: Last chance for Going Dark | The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility This exhibition, which fills the Guggenheim’s rotunda, is predicated on a duality: works of art that present the figure, yet obscure it in some way, thus existing at the “edge of visibility.” The exhibition asserts that these experimentations in figuration across media—painting, photography, drawing, prints, sculpture, video, … Read the full Story >>
Friday, April 11: Bravin Lee’s The Golden Thread 2 Bravin Lee Programs, known for their longtime commitment to fine rugs by artists, opens its second major exhibition on the larger subject of textile arts, off-site at South Street Seaport. A practice that encompasses embroidery, tapestry, quilting, carpet design, and much, much more, textile art has undergone a renaissance over the past century. Artists … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, April 11: Haas Brothers | Uncanny Valley at MAD Museum This wildly imaginative mid-career survey will plunge visitors into the exuberant, uncanny worlds of twin artists Nikolai and Simon Haas. Spanning more than fifteen years of collaborative practice, the show brings together approximately 85 works, featuring the surreal hybrid creatures, imaginative environments, and exuberant material experimentation across art, design, craft, and technology the brothers are known for. … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, June 4, 1-10 pm: Opening day / Photoville 2022 at Brooklyn Bridge Park/Pier 1 For the first time in 10 years Photoville is celebrating visual storytelling during the summer!• Over 30+ Exhibitions throughout Brooklyn Bridge Park and DUMBO• @leicacamerausa will once again be with us leading photowalks• @penumbratintypestudio tintype portrait booth• F amily activity with Creatively Wild @cwasdumbo• In-person photography and … Read the full Story >>
February 12-May 8, 2021: Border Cantos | Sonic Border Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Border Cantos | Sonic Borders is a collaboration between photographer Richard Misrach (born in Los Angeles, 1949) and sculptor and composer Guillermo Galindo (born in Mexico City, 1960) that addresses the humanitarian situation at the wall between the US and Mexico. Above: Richard Misrach. Wall, Jacumba, California (El muro, Jacumba, California), … Read the full Story >>
The Armory Show has regrouped following a particularly difficult transition from being live on the Piers to online to its new, permanent home--and live again--at the Jacob Javits Center. It’s open to the public September 10-12, with a VIP opening on September 9. Tickets/Info Above: Michael Rakowitz, Installation view of The invisible enemy should not exist, to be presesnted by Jane Lombard Gallery at The Armory … Read the full Story >>
Continuing through August 20 at Pace Gallery, NYC Alicja Kwade | TransForm Alicja Kwade transforms materials and environs into immersive laboratories where viewers are encouraged to question their understanding of the universe that surrounds them—as she did last summer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Commission. What defines an object in Kwade’s scenarios is based on the subjective interpretation of the viewer, … Read the full Story >>
It's time to "Think_Postive." That's the theme of the American Photography 36 annual, which is now accepting entries. (The deadline is January 24, 2020.) Entries are also being accepted for the International Motion Art Awards 8 competition and the American Illustration 39 competition. All photographers, creative professionals, publishers, agencies, representatives, students and teachers of photography of any nationality living, working or studying in North … Read the full Story >>
As the year comes screaming to a close—likely one of the strangest, if not the worst of the 21st Century—this is a good time to offer the last DART Book Prize Contest of 2018! There have been so many fun entries that the deadline has been extended to Friday, December 21! In the past the Book Prize Contest has involved identifying, from a photo … Read the full Story >>
Gabrielle Munter | Contours of the World at The Guggenheim Gabriele Münter was at the forefront of modern art in early 20th-century Europe. Constantly experimenting, she revitalized landscape, still life, and portrait painting, transforming everyday subjects into bold, original works. Rather than imitating reality, she sought to “convey an essence,” offering an alternative to modernist movements that favored pure abstraction. The artist was a … Read the full Story >>
Gabriele Münter (1877-1962) had everything her male counterparts could look for in a woman: wealth, social standing—and a great figure. Instead of looking for a match and a comfortable bourgeois life, however, Münter set out on a journey of self-discovery that led to her commanding artistry in the fields of painting and printmaking. Above: Gabriele Münter, Self-Portrait (1909–10), detail. Collection of the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, … Read the full Story >>
Just in from the Rubell Museum of Art: The inaugural exhibition for its new museum opening in Washington, DC, What’s Going On, is deducated exclusively to contemporary art. The Rubell Museum DC will reinvigorate the 1906 building of the former Randall Junior High School, a historically Black public school in Southwest DC that ceased operations in 1978. The museum will serve as a … Read the full Story >>
When Jet Set panache gave way to mass tourism and airports began to seem like stockyards, the romance of flight held on through the majesty of the Boeing 747. The swept-back wings of the 4-engine jumbo jet made it an elegant sight, and made it lift off as if by magic. Between now and mid-December, Delta Airlines, the last U.S. passenger carrier to fly … Read the full Story >>
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1996) is said to be the most photographed American artists of all time, having sat for Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, Philippe Halsman, Yousuf Karsh, Todd Webb, Cecil Beaton, Bruce Weber, Annie Leibovitz, and others. A feminist before the term took on its current meaning, she created a persona based on her signature style in dress, using the photo sittings to craft a … Read the full Story >>
Brooklyn’s free pop-up photography village, Photoville, has returned to Brooklyn Bridge Park this week with an impressive lineup of 85 exhibitions featuring more than 600 artists. The festival, now in its eighth year, showcases the work of local, national and international photographers inside repurposed shipping containers beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, as the Brooklyn Eagle reports. It’s the brainchild of DUMBO nonprofit United … Read the full Story >>
Performa 2021 | 8 Commissions for The Streets of New York. October 12-31 Performa, the internationally acclaimed organization dedicated to live interdisciplinary performance by visual artists, is pleased to announce details for the ninth edition of its city-wide biennial. The program will focus on New York City as it re-emerges from the prolonged trauma of the pandemic that has radically altered our way of … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, June 8, 6-8 pm: Geles Cabrera | Museo Escultórico at Americas Society The first solo exhibition in the United States dedicated to Mexican artist Geles Cabrera, one of the most prominent female sculptors of her country, will feature artwork created over 40 years of her career and will be on view through July 30, 2022.Above: Geles Cabrera in the museum of her … Read the full Story >>
As the year comes screaming to a close—likely one of the strangest, if not the worst of the 21st Century—this is a good time to offer the last DART Book Prize Contest of 2018! In the past the Book Prize Contest has involved identifying, from a photo of mine, “Where in New York Am I?” Info But this one is different. It invites DART … Read the full Story >>
