Desiccated goat, rat, and turkey; steel, rope, carpet, peach basket, wood, tire scraps, plastic toys, shoes, motor-oil bottle, wire fencing, chains, ironing board, farm and construction tools, wire, paintbrushes, enamel, spray paint, and Splash Zone compound. While this list could understandably be mistaken for items encountered by John McPhee on one of his epic road trips, they are, in fact, the materials … Read the full Story >>
The first Earth Day was celebrated in NYCs Union Square Park on April 22, 1970. Fifth Avenue was closed to traffic between Central Park and Union Square as some 100,000 people gathered to participate in an ecological carnival designed to raise awareness about environmental issues. Air and water pollution, largely from leaded gas and industrial contaminants, were the main concerns about the deteriorating environment … Read the full Story >>
On election day, November 2018, millions of New York City voters showed up at the polls only to be confronted with an almost-three-foot-long, two-sided ballot with print so small it strained the eyes. To cast their vote, they had to fill it out front and back, tear it in half along a perforated line, and then carefully feed both pages into a scanner. The … Read the full Story >>
Called by historian and photo critic A.D. Coleman, "a true photographer's photographer, and one of the most seriously under-recognized senior figures in U.S. photography," the 82 year old master photographer and legendary teacher of photography, Harold Feinstein, is finally celebrating the publication of his first black and white monograph, Harold Feinstein: A Retrospective (Nazraeli 2012). To mark the occasion, Feinstein will share … Read the full Story >>
This just in from ArtNet News: When the Ukrainian painter Volo Bevza left his apartment in Berlin to attend the opening of his solo exhibition in Kyiv last month, he never imagined that he would end up in the middle of a war zone, using his artistic skills not to create sculptures, but to construct anti-tank metal structures known as “hedgehogs.” Above: An artist called Alex … Read the full Story >>
Remember the Frye Festival? It was supposed to be a luxury music festival and glamping experience in the Bahamas but turned out to be a low-end, soggy mess that led to some lawsuits from elite partiers. Because the festival was hyped by some 400 Instagram influencers, the social network also got dragged through the mud, with complaints about how celebs are posting sponsored content … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Nebraska, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in L.A.? A: The variety. There is so much to experience here that it can be completely debilitating—mostly in a good way. But, for instance, I had to give up on checking Yelp for a good waffle house because all of the beautiful options overwhelmed me to the point where … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from [where?] what are some of your favorite things about living and working in [your current locale]? A: I was born in Los Angeles and raised in the SF Bay area. I now live in Seattle, which retains a lot of its natural beauty, with many lush public park systems designed by Olmsted scattered throughout the city. In addition there … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, March 13: Self-Taught Artists at Hirschl & Adler Self-Taught Artists at the Crossroads of Fact and Fiction brings together works that explore the fluidity of truth and imagination, celebrating the unique ways in which these artists craft their own realities through art. Each piece in the exhibition offers a fresh, intimate view of the world, blending fact, myth, and fantasy into a … Read the full Story >>
Performing for the camera has become integral to social media self-marketing, having arrived at the smart phone/Facebook/Instagram nexus. But dramatic portraits go back as far as the arrival of photography itself in the 19th century. With her costume box and props closet, Julia Margaret Cameron is perhaps the best known of Victorian-era photographers for costuming and directing her subjects, who include relatives and the … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, February 1, 6:30-8:00pm: Public Art Fund Talk at Cooper Union Join artists Layqa Nuna Yawar and Karyn Olivier for an artist talk with Nicholas Baume, Artistic & Executive Director of Public Art Fund. The discussion will center on Layqa Nuna Yawar’s Between the Future Past (2021-22) and Karyn Olivier’s Approach (2022), two monumental, site-specific works recently created for the new Terminal … Read the full Story >>
David Hockney, without doubt one of the most beloved artists of our time, was joined by a throng of admirers as he previewed the major retrospective of his work yesterday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the year of his 80th birthday, the artist is being celebrated for the wit and intelligence with which he has examined and captured the perceived world of … Read the full Story >>
Georges Bracque, Pablo Picasso, and Juan Gris are the Modernist stars of Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition, an exhibition opening today at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Featuring more 14 works by these artists from The Met’s Leonard Lauder Collection, together with masterworks from the 17th to the 19thcentury on loan, the show demonstrates the previously overlooked connection between these two forms of … Read the full Story >>
In celebration of Black History Month, Society of Illustrators will open the exhibition, The Art of MARCH: A Civil Rights Masterpiece on February 28th The show presents the story of Congressman John Lewis's experience in the civil rights movement as told in his graphic novel, March, illustrated by Nate Powell and co-written by Andrew Aydin. This exhibition takes visitors on a visceral tour of the … Read the full Story >>
Through Saturday, December 17: MAYDAY EAARTH | Pop-Up exhibition at Ceres Gallery In this exhibition 13 artists declare a climate emergency. “The whole world is now a flood zone. From Central Park and the basements of Brooklyn to the small towns of Pakistan in the Sindh Valley, we wait in fear of the next flood watch” writes curator and artist M. Annenberg. “Conversely, … Read the full Story >>
Anxiety and alienation were the existential problem of early 20th-century Europe, informing the shift from realism to Surrealism, and from representation to abstraction. The sculptor Alberto Giacometti saw himself somewhat apart from current trends: a realist attempting the “impossible task” [his words] of representing the appearance of things as he saw them. Impossible, as for him the foundational quest was to capture the ungraspable essence … Read the full Story >>
With more hot weather just around the corner, it’s time to cool off with a good read—better still, a cool afternoon or evening in a welcoming independent bookstore. So this week we are expanding the DART indie bookstore list, a few at a time. The good news is that post-pandemic retail vacancies have made even more room for indies, and the results are … Read the full Story >>
“There are two things . . . the eye for the vision of nature and the brain for the logic of organized sensations.” —Paul Cezanne, quoted by Emile Bernard, a friend of the artist Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) is widely credited for opening the door on to Modern Art. Looking at his finished oil paintings of subjects that range from portraits to still-life to landscape, … Read the full Story >>
A few years ago I ran out of shelf space. It was critical mass crisis: what could possibly be discarded from my photo-and-art-book library? I had to make room along the tallest shelves, a 5.5-foot run of which was filled with issues of Aperture magazine. I bit the bullet. I still feel the pain. But now the loss has been remedied through the recently … Read the full Story >>
It would be hard to dispute that the second half of 20th century America was defined by the 1960s and ‘70s. There was a counter-culture within every sector of society—it was not just about hippies and flower power. While the post-war American Dream was promoted by the Mad Men in the ‘50s, through the new medium of TV commercials, it was the anything goes … Read the full Story >>
