From woodcut handbills to Xeroxed ‘zines to Risographed comics art to Espresso POD books, DIY multiples are a constant in the ebb and flow of art trends—and usually carry the desirable stain of subversion. Currently on view at the Whitney, Experiments in Electrostatics: Photocopy Art explores the use of the photocopier as a creative tool, from its public emergence in the 1960s to the … Read the full Story >>
The Met’s exhibition, Van Gogh Cypresses, which closes on Sunday, offers a wanted correction to the pop-culture furor generated by the various light and magic shows about Vincent that emerged during the COVID miasma. The artist’s cult status was already in place, given his outsider status, tormented soul, and death by suicide at 37. And for many, the one painting that most fully … Read the full Story >>
Meet the Guerilla Girls—the anonymous militant feminists who put on gorilla masks to tackle sexism, racism and corruption in politics, art and pop culture. Using happenings, humor and subversive imagery, they shed light on things that have been kept hidden or overlooked, about an art system prejudiced against women and artists of color. In Guerilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly, a new … Read the full Story >>
The Herb Lubalin Study Center at The Cooper Union is a comprehensive yet tiny museum of graphic design, one of the few in the world dedicated to communication arts, and available to designers, writers and researchers by appointment. The current exhibition highlights the Center’s unparalleled collection of more than 50,000 pieces of design ephemera to tell the story of its exhibitions, publications, talks and most importantly, its … Read the full Story >>
In two weeks, August 15, 2018 will mark the 49thanniversary of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair—advertised as “three days of peace and music.” For $18, and hours spent in epic traffic jams on roads leading to Bethel, New York, 400,000 and more people gathered on the fields of Max Yasgur’s farm to listen to the best rock music of the era. Jimi … Read the full Story >>
Nightfall in the New Mexico desert. A passing photographer notices the full moon with craters defining a face, illuminating the darkness around a lonely church and graveyard in the village of Hernandez. He stops his car and quickly sets up his 8 x 10 camera, exposing a single negative. There is no time for another setup before the light changes, no time to check his … Read the full Story >>
The seemingly casual views of ordinary structures and almost featureless landscapes that comprise the photographic work of William Christenberry are anything but offhand. Paging through two books published by Aperture almost 25 years apart (Southern Photographs 1983) and William Christenberry (2006) offers an almost clairvoyant view of how this artist has approached his life-long subject: the landscape and the vernacular structures and signs … Read the full Story >>
Fairy Tale Fashion, an exhibition currently on view at The Museum at FIT, offers a view of the fantastical and, for the most part inaccessible, fashions inspired by those unforgettable stories that filled our childhood imaginations. Organized by associate curator Colleen Hill, the show presents a spectrum of beguiling clothing and accessories from the 18th century to the present, with many of the … Read the full Story >>
Endless war and destruction are the themes of a major exhibition of works by Leon Golub that opened yesterday at The Met Breuer. The title, Leon Golub: Raw Nerve, is taken from a 1986 essay in which he wrote, “Artists manage extraordinary balancing acts, not merely of survival or brinkmanship but of analysis and raw nerve.” By that time, Golub (1922-2004) was well … Read the full Story >>
An exhibition of works on paper by Richard Diebenkorn, at Van Doren Waxter Gallery, presents a selective view of the intimate scale at which the artist devoted himself for roughly ten years. Between his early abstractions, made in Berkely, and the commanding Ocean Park series, which continue to be his best-known works, Diebenkorn largely concerned himself with figures, landscapes, and still lifes from 1956 … Read the full Story >>
While China's transformation into a global superpower has been tarnished by shoddy goods, corruption, and pollution, its modernization offers filmmakers plenty of grit and grist to work with. Films such as Jia Zhangke's Still Life, which played in New York last summer along with Li Yu's Lost in Beijing, which was banned in China - more for its portrayal of corruption than … Read the full Story >>
Looking ahead: In October, The Morgan Library & Museum will open the exhibition, David Hockney: Drawing from Life. The show will focus on his portraits on paper as well as an exploration of his drawing practice. Featuring about 100 drawings, the exhibition will trace a trajectory from Hockney’s early works as a student, to his Ingres-like portraits of the 1970s, and his return to … Read the full Story >>
Works by Alighiero Boettie (1940-1994), the Italian conceptual artist whose opus came to a wider view in New York through MoMA’s 2012 retrospective, Game Plan can now be seen in a small show at Gladstone Gallery, uptown. Originating in the Arte Povera ethic that emerged in Europe during the 1960s, he became part of a group of experimental artists that included Michangelo Pistoletto and Fausto Melotti. Complications and ambiguities are written into Boetti’s highly conceptual work, which … Read the full Story >>
Next Monday the Whitney Museum of American Art will open Vida Americana, an exhibition that places the artistic glory of the Mexican Revolution in context with a parallel shift in contemporaneous art in the United States. Years in the making, with loans from museums and private collections both here an there, the show succinctly represents the profound interplay that occurred between los tres … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Thursday, September 10-Sunday, September 13 + beyond Photoville returns to the Brooklyn Bridge Park this week, with more of everything you want from photography. The preview is on Thursday starting at 4 pm, followed by the opening night party at 7 with Down ‘n Dirty, celebrating music photography from over four decades curated by Janette Beckman. Info. More about nights … Read the full Story >>
What is home? Is it a place? An Idea? A state of mind? Ask around and you’ll probably get into the most interesting conversations of your week. Pauline Vermare, curator at Magnum Photos, had the rare opportunity to explore this complex subject through the eyes and minds of 16 photographers who dug deeply into their experiences to convey the inherently intimate and introspective sentiments … Read the full Story >>
Natalie Frank's first museum show, in 2015, presented drawings based on the unexpurgated Brothers Grimms fairy tales as translated by the scholar Jack Zipes. In a series of bold, expressionistic gouache and pastel drawings, she explored subjects present in the original writings including incest, rape, physical violence and other taboo themes that have been suppressed since the Victorian era. More recently Frank has … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, February 27-Sunday, March 2: 2025 Outsider Art Fair The Outsider Art Fair returns again to the Metropolitan Pavilion this year with 66 exhibitors from 40 cities in 9 countries. "The 33rd edition is a testament to the rich diversity of the field and as always embraces art from the fringes,” said Andrew Edlin, the fair’s owner. “As the art world continues to catch on … Read the full Story >>
"What happens when a professional is simply at play, free of assignments and left to their own creative whims? In the case of the legendary late designer and SVA faculty member Ivan Chermayeff, the answer is everything from finger paintings to mixed-media collages filled with a wondrously wacky assortment of collected and found objects". SVA archivist Beth Kleber asks this question as she takes a closer look at … Read the full Story >>
An exhibition of new paintings and collages by Robert Kushner, Portraits & Perennials, opens tonight at DC Moore Gallery. One of the group of Pattern and Decoration [P&D] artists to emerge in the mid-1970s, Kushner has, over the intervening years, deepened and broadened the underpinnings of his highly syncretic work in painting, collage, printmaking, and tapestry. Above: Robert Kushner, Two Old Friends II: Aloe … Read the full Story >>
