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 >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the pen or the brush? Daniel Baxter: I've always gravitated towards working with lines, and still do today. When painting, I am in currently in love with dry-brush technique. PR: How did you decide on art as your métier? DB: As a teenager, I was a dreamer by nature, and felt comfortable with the idea of being an artist. But this was a … Read the full Story >>
You can now submit entries for American Photography 37. The deadline is February 5, 2021. As always, the juried competition brings together the best photography of the year, and winners receive exposure and promotion through exclusive online showcases as well as the AP book -- a classic resource for top industry professionals. (Entrants get a big discount on the book.) All entries are seen … 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 shifts, no time to check … Read the full Story >>
Lynn Saville continues her exploration of the city at night in her third book, Dark City: Urban America at Night. The urban landscape of dusk and dawn offers a world of transitional spaces largely overlooked in daylight. In the spaces between buildings and rivers, behind billboards and highways, alongside warehouses and empty storefronts, Saville captures a strange palette of artificial light whose colors define a mysterious and … Read the full Story >>
Janine Antoni, Nicole Eisenman, Marilyn Minter, Marlene Dumas, Victoria Sambunaris, Carolee Schneemann…these are just a sampling of the artists whose work will be available at auction next Thursday, November 18th, at P.P.O.W Gallery. At previous RHMF events, like the annual Lower East Side Art Crawl (above), women took the lead presenting art to its supporters. The Foundation raises all the money it … Read the full Story >>
Before the 1960s, when Doris Freedman, the city’s first Cultural Affairs Commissioner came along, public art was limited to the obligatory war memorials and a few dedicated heads like Gertrude Stein’s at the New York Public Library. Today, NYC hosts numerous temporary and permanent installments in the city parks, plazas, and esplanades, organized by a diverse roster of civic-minded groups who arrange for … Read the full Story >>
There’s nothing like backlash to propel a dissed art movement back into the mainstream, and Abstract Expressionism is no exception. In today’s post-Feminist environment, it’s a perfect model: Art by white men to promote an inner being. Art sprung from spiritual—not political—impulses. Art celebrating the individual—not where he came from. Art that is, above all, large. This week an exhibition aimed at correcting that … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, May 16-Sunday, May 17, 11am-6pm: Open Studios by Upstate Art Weekend There is a visceral magic that emanates from an artist’s workspace. The Raw smell of turpentine, the chaotic piles of raw materials, and the quiet weight of ideas still evolving on the easel , the plinth, the monitor often combine with workplace energy to cast a spell. Above: Jim Holl and … Read the full Story >>
It is no exaggeration—and worth repeating—that Mike Kelley (1954-2012) was one of the most influential artists of the past half century. Scan his CV and you will find that he has had a solo exhibition ever year since 1981—most recently the major retrospective that originated at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum in 2012; morphed larger to MoMA PS1 in 2013; then went to both locations of … Read the full Story >>
DART launches the New Year with a celebration of sketchbook art and artists. Jonathan Twingley, whose sketchbook habit was explored during the 2015 Summer Invitational, emailed to tell about a recent project for Amtrak that originated in his sketchbooks. This is what he wrote: We seem to be in the midst of some kind of Global Sketchbook Craze. Everybody from stay-at-home-dads in Des … Read the full Story >>
Every year around now, since 1995, The Cooper Union School of Art presents an exhibition on Art of the Book. The course, designed by Professor Margaret Morton, allows students to immerse themselves in this thorny question: what is an “artists book”? Luckily for the artists, there’s an infinite number of answers. This year’s iteration of the show, which I’ve been following for at … Read the full Story >>
