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 >>
Friday, March 13, 6:30pm: Leanne Shapton and Jason Fulford Talk at Dashwood Dashwood Projects presents In Cars: On Diana, an exhibition of paintings on paper by artist and writer Leanne Shapton. The work is based on photographs of Princess Diana getting out of cars. In Shapton’s hands, Diana is abstracted and turned into shades of grey reducing her to form and motion, exploring … Read the full Story >>
ChatGPT users have discovered that the popular AI chatbot can serve as a reverse-location search too: Show ChatGPT a picture, and it can reliably tell you where it was taken. In fact, says Mashable, it's "scary" good at doing so. OpenAI recently introduced its newest ChatGPT reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, which feature improved visual reasoning, and made its image generator available to free … Read the full Story >>
Hot Times, Summer in the City…..you know the rest. Outdoor sculpture installations, white box summer group shows, workshops in unusual locations, special events on the city’s waterways--even just a ferry ride to the Rockaways, where art installations take over prime beachfronts. Following are some ideas for chilling out. Always check the info link as many galleries are now on summer schedules. Special for … Read the full Story >>
If you’ve ever taken a workshop, a course, attended an exhibition or a lecture, you can’t help but sense that The League, as it’s known, is different. Walking into this historic structure, which is maintained to a high degree of spit and polish, you get that it’s a place that matters to the cultural life of New York City. You also get a … Read the full Story >>
The School of Visual Arts will honor designer and educator Louise Fili with the 28th annual Masters Series Award and Exhibition. “The Masters Series: Louise Fili” will be the first comprehensive retrospective of the designer’s influential career and include her book jacket, branding, food packaging and restaurant identity work. An opening reception takes place October 13, 6-8 pm at the SVA Gramercy Gallery. Louise … Read the full Story >>
Ebb of a Spring Tide by Mary Mattingly explores our relationship to coastal ecosystems and the shifting nature of rivers and water lines. The work features a 65-foot living sculpture titled Water Clock, which was fabricated on-site in response to the Park’s unique waterfront location along the East River. This monumental, scaffold structure, which includes edible vegetation, mirrors the cityscape across the East River, highlighting the … Read the full Story >>
While epoch-defining abstract expressionist artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman hosted photographers shooting their studio actions for features in LIFE magazine during the 1950s and ‘60s, the gallerist who put them on the map, Betty Parsons, stayed home and made paintings. Most of this work never saw light during her lifetime. But yesterday, a major exhibition, Betty Parsons: An Expanded … Read the full Story >>
Just over a year ago, photographer Tracey Baran (1975-2008) was emerging from the category of emerging young photographer to the next rung. Born in rural Western New York State, she came to New York to study at the School of Visual Arts in 1993. Her first one-person exhibition was in 1998 at Liebman Magnan Gallery in New York, followed by six more solo shows … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from the Motor City, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in our favorite 51st State? A: Originally from Detroit, [for me] the best things about Brooklyn are all of the cool bands and shows to see, the other artists who live here, and of course the super cheap rents. Q: Do you keep a sketchbook? What is … Read the full Story >>
