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 >>
Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera, which opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art last week, is a collection-based survey of painting, sculpture, assemblage, and drawing from the 1940s into the 21st century. The show, which was recently trashed by two prominent New York critics, casts a spell on viewers through the stunning effects achieved in the first two galleries, which honor the heady … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, July 19, 6-8pm: ADAA Chelsea Gallery Walk The ADAA's fifth edition of this free, self-guided walk offers a rare opportunity to see participating galleries’ exhibitions after-hours. See some of the most dynamic exhibitions in New York City this summer and a selection of special programming! Following are just a few of the high points: 303 Gallery, 6:00pm: A book signing and … Read the full Story >>
Twitter's latest feature may sound familiar to you. The feature, called Fleets, lets you write text, post photos, videos, or add earlier tweets into a little visual info-nugget that disappears after 24 hours. So really it's a knockoff of Instagram Stories, which itself is a knockoff of Snapchat Stories. And speaking of Snapchat: That social-media platform is launching a new feature called Spotlight that … Read the full Story >>
Ann Rhoney is an artist whose career bridges the worlds of art and design, and whose hand-colored photograph, Silk Dress Coming, became an icon when it was seen in The Met’s 2012 exhibition, Faking It. Now her landscape work can be seen in a solo show at Nailya Alexander Gallery. Above: South of France, 1977; painted 2018. Rhoney’s unique hand-painted photographs, which she … Read the full Story >>
With controversy swirling throughout the pristine floors of Sotheby’s due to a shakeup following a losing battle with an activist investor, a change in leadership, and a pricey acquisition of an art advisory firm, the spring Photograph auction exhibition is now on view. The highest-ticket item is a photogram, Rayograph by Man Ray, from 1924 (below). The print is annotated in pencil on the reverse, 'Original Rayograph' … Read the full Story >>
Friday-Sunday, March 7-9: A Dance for Madalena at Folk Art Museum A Dance for Madalena is a poetic tribute, through movement and performance, to Madalena Santos Reinbolt, a remarkable Black embroiderer and painter renowned for her vivid depictions of urban and rural life in 20th-century Brazil. Choreographer Ana Pi will engage in a dialogue with Santos Reinbolt’s work, responding to the “wool paintings” … Read the full Story >>
A full-page infographic decrying fraudulent practices in the olive oil industry, which ran in The New York Times Sunday Review on January 26th, came under scrutiny. As a writer responsible for my own fact-checking and typos, I sympathize with the artist [Nicholas Blechman], the editor, and he or she who was charged with writing this epic erratum [the longest I’ve ever seen the Paper of Record]—and not least, the … Read the full Story >>
Submissions are now being accepted for American Photographt 38, the prestigious juried competition for professional photography from AI-AP. The contest is open to all photographers, creative professionals, publishers, agencies, representatives, students and teachers of photography of any nationality living, working or studying in North America (U.S. and Canada). International photographers living abroad who have North American citizenship or representation, or have been published or … Read the full Story >>
“And so, Sira’s book dummies, in their idiosyncratic way, functioned as ventriloquists’ dummies do: as performative stand-ins. They allowed him not only to articulate what intrigued and concerned him, but to explore how the visual forms, language, and parameters of his interests might best be expressed…. "Curious about the ways similar groupings of photographic images that were sized, sequenced, and somewhat differently formatted would … Read the full Story >>
Alex Katz (b. 1927), the subject of an eight-decades retrospective, Gathering, currently filling the spiral ramps of the Guggenheim Museum, has had my respect and admiration since his mid-career retrospective at the Whitney, in 1986—and as much for going against the grain of contemporaneous art markets as for his luminous paintings. Katz grew up in a bohemian, first-generation Russian emigrant family in Brooklyn. … Read the full Story >>
