Saturday, May 15 Ai Weiwei: Trace at the Hirshholrn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Info Created in 2014, when the noted contemporary artist was under house arrest, this monumental display portrays activists, prisoners of conscience, and advocates of free speech from around the world. On view at the Skirball Cultural Center are eighty-three of the work’s original 176 portraits, each one … Read the full Story >>
We continue looking back at the past year in photography, spotlighting stories that featured standout photos, magazines, Instagram images, and Kickstarter campaigns in 2015. Flickr has released its top images of the year, along with information about what cameras they were taken with. Instagram also released a list of its most popular images in 2015. (Yeah, the most viewed was Kylie Jenner's hair.) Adweek … Read the full Story >>
Activism is becoming a necessary way of life for many in the post-truth Trump era. Interference Archive—a people’s center for information and activism—is hosting its annual block party this weekend, in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, to broaden the reach of this organization's programs. Along with food, music, screen printing and other fun and useful stuff, IA is also offering a short drop-in … Read the full Story >>
Daniel Bejar has built a career that bridges art and design, earning honors such as the prestigious New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work, numerous residencies and a steady flow of group and solo exhibitions. In his 2016 DART Q&A, Daniel talked about the art of managing both sides of his practice, saying, “It really comes down to prioritizing my … Read the full Story >>
Artist Katrin Korfmann grew up in Berlin, but has lived and worked in Amsterdam since beginning her studies at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 1995. Her work in photography reveals a new perspective on social dynamics, presenting an abstraction of human interaction framed by the grid of everyday life. This week, Kopeikin Gallery of Los Angeles is presenting her newest work, Back Stages, at Volta/New … Read the full Story >>
Labor Day is so late this year that this summer wind-up could begin and end in different seasons. So I was thrilled to see that the Upstate Art Weekend is on once again this year. Organized by Helen Toomer of Stoneleaf Retreat (above), the three-day event, which runs from August 27th to 29th, brings together dozens of art and cultural spaces, outdoors and indoors, for … Read the full Story >>
A group of 20 School of Visual Arts BFA Design students are making their mark on Madison Avenue, with an exhibition of 14 original fashion ensembles currently dotting a stretch of the luxury shopping strip on the Upper East Side. Each piece is made out of a single material and installed in its own glass case; objects on view range from a flapper-style dress … Read the full Story >>
Sunday, August 4, 3-5:45pm: Summer Celebration | Works in Public, Riverside Park DART Diary continues its look into summer art events in unusual places—this week with an enticing feast for all the senses at Riverside Park North. Join artists Marco Palli and Sophie Kahn for a summer celebration of their sculptures for Art Students League’s [ASL] Works in Public [WiP] 2024 program—together with dance … Read the full Story >>
In a video posted Monday by Frieze, Jordan Carter, curator and co-department at Dia Art Foundation makes a tour of Chelsea galleries and museums—a perfect entry for anyone visiting NYC for the first time, or for anyone venturing out from the cold for the first time this Spring. Starting at the Whitney, he explores the murals of Christine Sun Kim, who uses musical … Read the full Story >>
Anna Atkins (1799–1871) came of age in Victorian England, a fertile environment for learning and discovery. Guided by her father, a prominent scientist, Atkins was inspired to take up photography, and in 1843 began making cyanotypes—a photographic process invented just the year before—in an effort to visualize and distribute information about her collection of seaweeds. With great daring, creativity, and technical skill, she produced … Read the full Story >>
Artist's books take countless forms, their expressive qualities as limitless as the materials that can be considered for use. As to size and shape, artist's books are limited only by the size and shape of the room in which they are to be viewed. The annual exhibition of works by Cooper Union's Art of the Book students opened last night in the 2nd floor … Read the full Story >>
On Monday the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced it will commit an unprecedented $250 million to overhaul historical monuments in the US over the next five years. The “Monuments Project,” as the ambitious initiative is called, is the most substantial effort in the foundation’s history. Above: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. Unveiled in April 2020 and funded in part by the … Read the full Story >>
"Expect the unexpected" might be the mantra for designers, typephiles and artists bound for the 2018 Typographics Festival and Conference at The Cooper Union. Organized by Type@Cooper and The Herb Lubalin Study Center, the 4th edition takes place from June 11 through 21, with an amazing lineup of workshops, tours, demos, interviews and experiments over the 11-day program. Info The highlight of the … Read the full Story >>
“I’m not so interested in the expression of something. I’m more interested in what the material can do. So that’s why I keep exploring,” said artist, educator, and civic leader Ruth Asawa, reflecting on a six-decade-long career. Featuring some 300 artworks, Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective, which opens Sunday, October 19 at the Museum of Modern Art, charts the artist’s … Read the full Story >>
This post was to have been an announcement about the reinstallation of the Noguchi Garden Museum’s second floor to its configuration when the artist lived there, from 1961 to 1988. When looking around for some additional information, however, I came across an intriguing statement by independent curator Glenn Adamson, writing for Hyperallergic: “The Noguchi Museum, in Long Island City, may … Read the full Story >>
ICON The Illustration Conference is the definitive destination for the global illustration community, providing a rare space where commercially driven art meets academic rigor. This unique four-day gathering serves as a vital forum for, professional advocacy, continuing education and pure inspiration. Operating entirely as a non-profit endeavor, the conference migrates to a different U.S. cultural hub every two years, drawing an influential crowd of creators, … Read the full Story >>
Lynda Barry, known and loved for her zany irreverence and imagination, brought the graphic literature genre onto new terrain with her invention, the graphic memoir. In its first iteration, Picture This: The Nearsighted Monkey Book (Drawn & Quarterly 2010), she brought back Marlys and Arna, characters from her previous book, What It Is, and introduced the Near-Sighted Monkey, a cigarette-smoking alter ego from … Read the full Story >>
The New Museum, now in its 40thyear, is known for presenting confrontational art by living artists—the kind of work that is not easily adopted by traditional art museums. In 1990 it produced the exhibition, Have You Attacked America Today?, Erika Rothenberg’s parody of dissent and freedom of speech, complete with flag-burning kits; in 1998 it mounted the first solo show of Colombian artist Doris … Read the full Story >>
To have something that’s beautiful somehow gives me a feeling that approaches immortality. It’s very similar to the act of creating. So Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) is quoted saying for a magazine article in 1978. By that time, the artist had established himself as a photographer, having had his first solo show, at New York’s Light Gallery in 1973. His work was shown at Documenta 6/Kassel in … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, January 29, 6pm: Beatriz Cortez x rafa esparza: Earth and Cosmos at Americas This exhibition inaugurates a series in which Americas Society invites two artists who are friends and collaborators to jointly explore how they influence each other's work. This new approach shares insight into a vital part of artistic production that is seldom the subject of exhibitions: the conversations … Read the full Story >>
