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 >>
Friday-Sunday, July 10-12: West Side Fest Manhattan’s western edge takes on an electric charge all its own when West Side Fest transforms the concrete corridor into a living gallery and the boundaries between public space and art dissolve. As you walk from the industrial framewirj of Chelsea over to the waterfront, the weekend offers a masterclass in visual storytelling—whether you drop in for a … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, August 24, 7pm until late: Last Frontire at Kingsland Wildflowers NOoSPHERE Arts is pleased to present the winner of this year’s Residency Award @MothershipNYC: Faith XLVII, a multidisciplinary street artist from South Africa. Complementing Faith’s talk on her residency project on a nearby rooftop, we’ll also feature the current batch of Mothershippers: Clown provocateur Anna Thomson (Australia) on the … Read the full Story >>
October 19: Edward Hopper’s New York at the Whitney The exhibition charts this iconic artist’s enduring fascination with the city he called home for nearly six decades through more than 200 paintings, watercolors, prints, and drawings. Although Hopper aspired to recognition as a painter, his first successes came in print through his illustrations and etchings, an important history featured in a section of the … Read the full Story >>
My father told me about a wrestling match he had seen the year before I was born where one of the wrestlers threw [the other one] completely out of the ring….My father said it was a good thing I wasn’t around then because the wrestler landed…where I might have been sitting had I been born a year or more earlier.—William Wegman Seeming irrelevant to … Read the full Story >>
Seventy years ago in February, at the Museum on Modern Art, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David “Chim” Seymour formed a cooperative photo agency conjured out of the ashes of post-war Europe. With a champagne toast, they proclaimed “Magnum.” The agency was unique for its time in that each member owned the rights to their photographs and could determine conditions for their … Read the full Story >>
This fall, the Dallas Museum of Art will present the first solo museum exhibition of works by Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe and the most comprehensive survey of the artist’s work to date. Ida O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadow will bring together approximately 40 paintings, watercolors, prints, and drawings for the first time, including six of the artist’s seven lighthouse paintings, whose previously unknown locations were … Read the full Story >>
The DART Summer Invitational, Pimp Your Sketchbook, continues with West Coast artist Malado Baldwin’s epic sketchbook projects. Grenoble self-portrait with African masks, Modigliani, 1995 / 2015. On view at Hackett Mill Gallery, San Francisco: August 23rd- October 19th 2018. Looking back, I’ve been working with the sketchbook format for more than twenty-five years. As a teenager, sketchbooks were a sacred, private place to reflect … Read the full Story >>
As an art school student at Cooper Union during the pre-digital era, I was given a twin-lens reflex camera to play around with. It was medium format and simple to use. One crisp autumn day I spooled in a roll of 120 Tri-X and headed to Washington Square Park. The camera didn’t have a light meter—and neither did I. All I knew about picture-making … Read the full Story >>
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 >>
