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 >>
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 >>
In the quiet, limestone-clad reaches of the Upper East Side, a profound conversation is taking place between the two and the three-dimensional. Matisse: The Pursuit of Harmony, which recently opened at Acquavella Galleries, marks the first solo outing for the French artist in New York City in over five decades. But don't expect a mere survey of the master of color. I … 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 >>
