The DART Board: 02.19.2025
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The Q&A: Nora Krug
Q: Originally from Germany, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in New York City? A: That I can walk down the street and not see anybody who looks like me, listens to the same music, or reads the same books as I do. It makes you constantly look at your own identity from a new perspective. Q: How and when … Read the full Story >>
Beauford Delaney at The Drawing Center
For Beauford Delaney, drawing was both a sanctuary and a space for experimentation. Through his works on paper, he could explore ideas with intimacy and spontaneity, yet this vital area of his oeuvre has been largely overlooked. In the Medium of Life: The Drawings of Beauford Delaney marks New York's first major Delaney museum exhibition in over thirty years and the first … Read the full Story >>
The DART Board: 09.25.2024
Saturday, September 28, 7-10pm: American Punchline at Subliminal Projects Cartoonist/artist/illustrator Ward Sutton—the creator of the Sick-O cartoonist Stan Kelly, who has been telling people what to think at The Onion for an interminable length of time—is now branching out into the FINE arts, with his debut on Saturday at Shepard Fairy’s gallery, Subliminal Projects, in L.A. [Just stick with me, ok?]. Fairy, … Read the full Story >>
The DART Board: 02.28.2024
Saturday March 2: Americans I Paris, 1946-1962 at Grey Art Museum Following World War II, hundreds of artists from the United States flocked to the City of Light, which for centuries had been heralded as an artistic mecca and international cultural capital. This exhibition at the new Grey Art Museum explores a vibrant community of expatriates who lived in France for a year … Read the full Story >>
Agenda: The Deadline for Entering American Photography 42 is Feb. 6
The deadline for entering the American Photography 42 juried competition is Feb. 6. All photographers, creative professionals, publishers, agencies, representatives, students and teachers of photography of any nationality living, working or studying in the Americas (U.S. South, Central America, Mexico, Caribbean and Canada) with work created or published anywhere in the world for any purpose are eligible. Also eligible are international photographers living abroad … Read the full Story >>
Paul Hoppe's 2018 Travel Sketchbook
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 >>
Susan Wides at Kim Foster Gallery
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 >>
Richard Learoyd: The Art of Looking
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 >>
The DART Board: 02.25.2026
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 >>
The DART Board: 03.22.2023
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 >>
The DART Board: 04.19.2023
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 >>
The DART Board: 01.18.2026
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 >>
NYC's Public Art Fund at 40
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 >>
Nick Brandt in New York
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 >>
DIARY: African-American Quilts at BAMPFA
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 Artist Books
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 >>
Typographics 2017@Cooper Union
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 >>
The Q&A: Ariel Davis
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 >>
Astronomy Before Photography
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 >>