The winter chill won’t let go here in New York City so I looked around for inspiration from artists in the garden. This month, you can warm your spirits and let your imagination soar with six artists whose exhibitions will give you a lift—or scare you into a more enlightened climate awareness. Continuing: Mimi Park | Dawning: dust, seeds, Coplees at Lubov … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, February 4 The International Center of Photography (ICP) opens its winter/spring 2021 exhibition: But Still, It Turns: Recent Photography from the World, guest curated by photographer Paul Graham. The exhibition—on view February 4 through May 9, 2021—comes on the heels of ICP’s reopening of its galleries on October 1 following a six-month closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic and … Read the full Story >>
The third annual West Side Fest—this Friday, Saturday and Sunday—will offer three days of festivities, including free admissions, artmaking activities for all ages, music and performances, special indoor and outdoor programming, and much more. New Yorkers and visitors of all ages are invited to celebrate the vibrant, cultural village along the waterfront of Manhattan’s west side! The complete schedule, with contact info/links is HERE … Read the full Story >>
Maya Lin: A River Is a Drawing, features new works and ambitious site-specific installations that will take over the Hudson River Museum, in Yonkers, both inside and out, all created along the theme of the Hudson River. Using materials such as pins, glass marbles, wire, bamboo, and silver, Lin explores the river's movement in time and space—how it flows, shapes, and is shaped … Read the full Story >>
Experiencing the exquisite artistry of British filmmaker Lynne Ramsay's black-and-white creation made for this summer's London Olympics ... Scorsese, Baldwin, and others call on Iran to release brother of exiled Kurdish-Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi ... the Cairo Film Festival Cancels Awards Amid Egypt turmoil ... director Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty is chosen as the best film of the year by the National Board … Read the full Story >>
Edvard Munch (1863–1944), the Norwegian artist who brought self-scrutiny into the canon of modern art, is the subject of a major exhibition opening today at The Met Breuer. Born and raised in Kristiana (now Oslo), Munch’s career spanned 60 tears and included his ties with European Symbolism, Expressionism, and Modernism in France, Germany as well as in Norway. Largely self-taught, Munch was a prolific … Read the full Story >>
November 2-January 11, 2025: Lorna Simpson. | Earth & Sky at Hauser + Wirth Born in Brooklyn, Lorna Simpson came to prominence in the 1990s with her pioneering approach to conceptual photography. Simpson’s early work—particularly her striking juxtapositions of text and staged images—raised questions about the nature of representation, identity, gender, race and history that continue to drive the artist’s expanding and multi-disciplinary … Read the full Story >>
When we think of propaganda Soviet style, it is usually in the form of mind control through the printed word and public speeches. Pamphlets, fliers and posters, items dropped from planes or pasted onto bus shelters, are the usual vehicles employed for changing the minds of the masses. But in post-Stalin Russia—the Soviet Union—the process of Sovietization was a universal program that touched every … Read the full Story >>
Continuing at Brookfield Place, acclaimed sculptor Jean Shin’s Floating Maze suspended above the grand staircase in the Winter Garden engages its audience in a conversation about plastic waste, dietary choices and environmental stewardship. The installation consists of recyclable green plastic soft drink bottles (above). The Last Straw presents three macro and micro views of plastic waste, featuring different configurations and perspectives of colorful straws … Read the full Story >>
As Lockdown begins to be lifted—here in NYC at least—people are leaving home en masse, with streets so crowded and noisy when I went to the P.O. on Monday it seemed "normal". Now more than ever the urgency of keeping safe is everyone’s task. Artist/creative director Mirko Ilic recently sent info about the Anti-Corona Virus poster he created in conjunction with the Poster House … Read the full Story >>
When is a pigeon not a flying rodent? Hmmm…that’s a tough one for me. But when I read about the new plinth commission for the High Line, it began to make perfect sense. Paris-based Colombian artist Iván Argote told a reporter for Hyperallergic, “As much as you can imagine or see what the reactions of people will be, you will always be surprised, because [creating a … Read the full Story >>
AiPAD The Photography Show | April 23–27 | aipad.com Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan See the preview featured last week in DART Frieze New York | May 7–11 frieze.com/fairs/frieze-new-york Frieze returns to The Shed in May with more than 65 of the world’s leading contemporary art galleries and the acclaimed Focus section led by Lumi Tan The Shed, … Read the full Story >>
In 1963 LIFE Magazine published a photo by Charles Moore of a black man being arrested during a civil rights protest in Birmingham. Howardena Pinell (b. 1943 Philadelphia) proposed a video based on the photo, and others of Civil Rights clashes she saw as a child, to the AIR Gallery, in New York City. The gallery, which is the country’s first female-run, feminist co-op space, … Read the full Story >>
In 1884, Claude Monet was painting along the Mediterranean shore, far from his home in the North, near LeHavre. So much of what he saw—the quality of the sunlight, the character of the vegetation, the changeability of the sky—was new to him, and so unlike what he was accustomed to. He described the challenges of this new visual world in his many letters to … Read the full Story >>
The ongoing interest in photographs of vast and often toxic landscapes can probably be traced to Land and Environmental Art (Phaidon 1998), a book by Brian Wallis and Jeffrey Kastner - whose ideas segued into Ecotopia, the second triennial at the International Center of Photography, in 2006. A new edition of the book will be in stores this Fall. For now, a small … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, October 5, 3pm: Works in Public, Riverside Park North The Art Students League of New York and The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation present Works in Public 2024, a year-round outdoor public art exhibition at Riverside Park in Manhattan. The exhibition features four new site-specific sculptures by League artists: Patricia Espinosa and Malin Abrahamsson [above] in Riverside Park North … Read the full Story >>
The most clicked art world story this week has to be a piece reported by the Guardian and picked up by Hyperallergic, ArtNet, and The Smithsonian among others. People in Brussels suffering from depression, stress or anxiety are now eligible for “museum prescriptions”, free visits with a few friends or family members to discover one or more of Brussels’ cultural institutions. Above: Museum of Fashion and Lace, … Read the full Story >>
With A Boy Named Isamu: A Story of Isamu Noguchi, author and illustrator James Yang has created a window on to what it is to be an artist. In minimalistically rendered spreads that capture the essence of place, with equally minimalistic text, he introduces children to experiences we all share, such as walking on a beach, navigating a crowded outdoor market, exploring a … Read the full Story >>
Photographer Steve James bugs some people. James, who is based in Northampton, UK, was recently named the 2021 Bug Photographer of the Year, but controversy soon erupted online when people began condemning his ethics as a nature photographer. They pointed to a post he shared on Photocrowd in July, in which James described how he keeps his subjects still long enough to create focus-stacked … Read the full Story >>
Beginning in the mid-1950s, the School of Visual Arts [SVA] was in the vanguard of academic institutions in the U.S. to recognize the need for alternative marketing strategies to attract new students. SVA took to the platforms of New York City’s subway with advertising posters that were both thought-provoking and eye-catching, featuring the work of legendary artists like Ivan Chermayeff, Milton Glaser and George … Read the full Story >>
