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 >>
I always thought that Paris has the best bookstores until I started the this regular feature in DART, more than 10 years ago. Year after year the evidence that Our Fair City loves books—and the people who put them on our shelves—becomes even more evident. So if it’s August, it’s time for the latest good news! Yu & Me Books is NYC's first … 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 >>
Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? | The Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? features Wangechi Mutu’s new hybrid busts, full-scale figural sculptures, films and collages—mythologies of Afrofuturism, posthumanism and feminism, in dialogue with notable European historical works from antiquity to Impressionism within the Legion of Honor Museum. Photos by Gary Sexton, courtesy of The Fine Arts … Read the full Story >>
Ruins of built environments exert a mysterious allure. For photographer Nadev Kander, the combination of beauty and destruction has been central to his search for an “aesthetics of destruction” that characterizes his work. Above: Loaded Priozersk II, (Tulip in Bloom), Kazakhstan 2011. © Nadav Kander/courtesy Flowers Gallery London and New York. After completing his epic study of the Yangtze River in 2007 Kander began researching the secret military installations from … Read the full Story >>
For the second year running, Steidl takes over Strand Books’ Rare Book Room for a series of presentations, readings and discussions about photo books. As many who attended Gerhard Steidl’s 2015 talk Print is Not Dead will remember, these are go-to events, this year with 40 new books, stage talks and copies of the Fall 2016 catalogue on hand. Also on hand will be: … Read the full Story >>
Closing Sunday, November 14: Maya Lin | Ghost Forest, at Madison Square Park Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest, a towering stand of forty-nine dying white cedar trees, is a newly-commissioned public art work that brings Lin’s artistic vision and her agency as an environmental activist into play. This project, which imbues the park with a collective memory of germination, vegetation, and abundance becomes … Read the full Story >>
It is week six of Covid-19 lockdown and the cracks are beginning to show, over here at least. So instead of going back to bed, I will focus on some of the bright spots of the week so far. Sher Katz, an artist and friend in Montpellier, FR, has been posting videos for at-home dance inspirations on Instagram. Words fail. Look in. It’s … Read the full Story >>
With art lovers hungry for actual experiences and cautiously ready to make plans, it can seem that there are too many possibilities for so little time. Whether you’re a serious art nerd who languishes without frequent interventions, or a casual museum goer who enjoys the occasional culture dip, there is a guide for you: 101 Art Destinations in the US: Where Art Lives Coast … Read the full Story >>
The other day I saw something on Intagram that captures the dilemma: EARTH without ART is EH….. Here’s what’s upin NYC this weekend: David Salle Monoprints at Pace Prints The most convincing works tend to be those in which the thinking is inseparable from the doing.–David Salle Over the course of several months in 2019, David Salle worked at Pace Editions … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, September 15, 5-8 pm: Robert Earle Page | Power to the People at Salon 94 Design first solo exhibition in New York City, curated by Duro Olowu. The show includes Paiges’s textile design, glazed ceramics, collages and etchings. Olowu’s interventions reflect the artist’s myriad of artistic influences and approach to making.Robert Earl Paige (b. 1936) remembers growing up in a city mapped by … Read the full Story >>
Helen Sear, a British artist with strong connections to the landscape and the sublime, is a romantic with an intellectual bent. With Inside the View, her first show at Klompching Gallery two years ago, her images combining landscape with portraiture were constructed by digitally layering in evocations of the traditional needlework of Finland to define a new landscape of the feminine. In … Read the full Story >>
