The 2018 DART Summer Invitational, Pimp Your Sketchbook, in which artists open a window onto their creative processes—and their summer travel experience—begins with Paul Hoppe, who spent July in Europe. This summer I was able to do a month-long trip to Europe, to visit family and friends, and also to have time for further exploring. During this time I kept a simple sketchbook diary … Read the full Story >>
Q: This new body of work, currently on view at Kim Foster Gallery, seems like a departure from your previous projects. For example, the built environment—formerly the armature for your photographic explorations of the landscape we view and inhabit—has been left behind. What was your motivation for turning towards Nature alone for this series? A: this: seasons is fueled by, and reflects on, our … Read the full Story >>
Ricard Learoyd’s large-scale photographs—mainly portraits, nudes and still lifes—encourage a different way of looking. Made using the most basic of methods available, the camera obscura, which by nature produces a unique image, these are studies of individuals or objects captured with such fidelity that surfaces become tactile in a way that is not common to photography. Photo above: Sam Deitch/BFA.com, courtesy Pace Gallery. In the case of … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, February 26, 5-7pm: Film Screening | Remembering Yayai at Grey Fifty years ago, a painting movement emerged at Papunya in Australia’s Central Desert. It arose with such force and conviction that one could be forgiven for thinking it had existed forever, as though etched from the earth by the slow passage of time. In fact, formed in the aftermath of colonization, the … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, March 22, 7pm: Unlocking the Creative Self with Marshall Arisman Tonight, at the SVA Theater, the school’s MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program presents a master-class style documentary directed by faculty member Nada Ray following the work of late artist and MFA program chair Marshall Arisman. Above” Marshall Arisman in his studio circa 2018 Master storyteller and native New Yorker Marshall Arisman … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, April 20, 7:30-10pm: Closing party for no existe un mundo poshuracán at the Whitney A night of Puerto Rican arts and culture will include full access to the renowned exhibition—the first survey of Puerto Rican art by a major U.S. art museum in 50 years, which runs through April 23—as well as dancing, a cash bar, music by DJ Bembona, and a performance and … Read the full Story >>
Robert Kushner: I Still ♥ Matisse at DC Moore This exhibition expands upon Kushner’s series of paintings inspired by Matisse still lifes, first shown in 2021. In the winter of 2024, Robert Kushner began his study of Henri Matisse’s major 1915 painting, “Still Life after Jan Davidsz de Heem's La Desserte.” He became fascinated by the history of this Matisse painting, which is itself a variation … Read the full Story >>
New York City’s Public Art Fund celebrates its 40th anniversary this year with a series of new commissions, beginning this week with Commercial Break, which continues through March 6th. The digital works—by 20 international artists, including Cory Arcangel, Awol Erizku and Casey Jane Ellison—will be shown across all five boroughs of New York City, at sites such as the Barclays Center oculus and … Read the full Story >>
Environmental degradation in East Africa continues at a rate that has effectively outpaced the ability of Kenya’s great beasts to survive. “Evidence suggests that if poaching persists at this level, specific local African elephant populations could disappear in the next decade,” according to a recent report in the UN Chronicle. “Weak governance and corruption have exacerbated the poaching crisis,” the paper continues. “This … Read the full Story >>
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) is home to one of the world's largest collections of African-American quilts — some 3,000 of them. Bequeathed to the museum in 2019 by the estate of the late private collector Eli Leon, the collection is important because of its vast size and because of the detailed records Leon kept about each quilt he acquired. "These … Read the full Story >>
Making Sense of the Senses, the Center for Book Arts’ annual artist members’ exhibition currently on view, demonstrates the vitality and variety to be found in the art of the book. A dizzying platform for experimentation in visual narrative, the discipline of artist books can be described as a multimedia form whose end result is an object. Whether it takes the form of a … Read the full Story >>
Typography has become the essential way of communicating language, but the mechanics involved in crafting elegant typography can sometimes seem mystifying. Professor Alexander Tochilovsky, Co-director of the Typographics festival and conference and Curator of the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, says, “There is always language in graphic design, and typography is what shapes that language, it’s what gives it form. When … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from New Jersey, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Brooklyn? A: I was raised in south Jersey, right outside Philadelphia. They’re close geographically but very different places. People care about art in Brooklyn, which is nice, and there is always something going on. I haven’t been bored once the entire time I’ve lived here. Q: Do … Read the full Story >>
The French artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot (1827-1895) left his native France in 1855, moving with his wife to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where his two children were born. He supported his family as an artist and nature illustrator, also working as a lithographer. He soon became active with the local scientific community as a member of the Boston Society of Natural History. … Read the full Story >>
Because weathervanes, like covered bridges, dotted the rural New Hampshire landscape of my childhood, I never gave them much thought; until I wandered into the exhibition currently on view at the American Folk Art Museum. Organized by Robert Shaw, an independent curator, and Emelie Gevalt, the museum’s curator of folk art, American Weathervanes: The Art of the Wind brings together around 60 examples from … Read the full Story >>
Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, a photographer transplanted from Taiwan to Queens, and now deeply rooted in his adopted environment, is currently preparing for the opening of his new exhibition, Central Park New York – 24 Solar Terms, at Foley Gallery. The title of the show takes its name from the ancient Chinese lunar calendar, which divides the year into 24 segments, each segment given … Read the full Story >>
Couldn’t get tickets for anna Wintour's Met Gala next Monday? No worries, there are two alternative balls, with red carpets waiting to celebrate your look and style. And the NYPL launches its summer rooftop Happy Hour, with tickets available this week. Friday, April 28, 7-11pm: Sneaker Ball at MANA Contemporary The Mana Contemporary and Obsessive Sneaker Disorder present this exclusive experience that celebrates the … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, November 14, 7 - 11pm: The Party 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 and AI43 … Read the full Story >>
I realize that much of California’s romance is passing away, and I intend to see to it that I, at least, shall preserve as much of that romance as it is possible for me.—Jack London, to a Sacramento reporter in 1910 With California Love: A Visual Mixtape, photographer/filmmaker/curator Michael Rababy offers a visual dreamscape, in all its grit and glory, of the place … Read the full Story >>
Brooklyn Museum, September 15: María Magdalena Campos-Pons | Behold Spanning nearly four decades of visually engaging artworks, the exhibition explores Campos-Pons’s prescient and sensorial work—transporting viewers across geographies, mediums, and spiritual practices. In her explorations of migration, diaspora, and memory, Campos-Pons draws on feminism, photoconceptualism, and Yoruba-derived Santería symbolism to weave together personal narratives and global histories. The first multimedia survey of the artist’s work … Read the full Story >>
