The New School part-time faculty have voted against the wages and benefits package offered by the University following the strike authorized by A.C.T.-U.A.W. Local 7902—the Union representing the faculty members. The vote was overwhelmingly NO, with a request by the Union that a mediator from the Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service be engaged in subsequent negotiations. The University has agreed to this, stating:
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There’s hardly a golden leaf in view but it’s Fall and so it’s time to mark your calendar for two big events the first week of November: The Party and the Big Talk, hosted by AI-AP. This year the Big Talk celebrates animation art in all its forms in a presentation on Wednesday, November 2 from 7-9 pm. Held once again at the SVA … Read the full Story >>
W.M. (Bill) Hunt, a self-described “champion of photography,” will give a one-day workshop at Aperture on Saturday, for people who love photography. Called “Talking Pictures,” this promises attendees a day of self-discovery as much as a chance to refine their taste and intentions—about collecting, making, enjoying photographs. I invited Bill to do a Q&A and here is how it went: Like you I am … Read the full Story >>
Stephen Shore, the American photographer whose spare, elemental, constructed images have informed the work of so many who have followed, is the subject of a major retrospective opening this week at the Museum of Modern Art. The expansive show, curated by Quentin Bajac, with Kristen Gaylord, occupies the entirety of the newly renovated third floor galleries, and presents a chronological view of this protean … Read the full Story >>
Tucked into the sweeping budget bill recently passed by the House of Representatives is a proposal that will radically change how artificial intelligence develops in the U.S.: The provision would ban states from regulating AI for the next decade. But, as CNN noted this week, more than 100 organizations are raising alarms about the provision. States have enacted an increasing number of laws governing … Read the full Story >>
Marco Palli, a New York-based artist who hails from Venezuela, recently completed a major sculpture commission in Malaga, Spain, which will open to the public next summer. He is currently engaged in an independent studies program at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, where he received his MFA in June. Following the NYSS Open Studios, two weeks ago, we sat down … Read the full Story >>
This weekend the MoCCA Arts Festival takes over Metropolitan West for two days of art, entertainment and enriching talks with artists and publishers of comics, graphic novels and more. Guests of Honor for the 2018 edition are:Roz Chast, who needs no introduction, will participate in panels both days and be on hand to sign books as well. Liniers, the Argentine comic … Read the full Story >>
Unfixed—ideas, methods, materials—is what can be said to characterize the extraordinary output of Robert Rauschenberg. In a sweeping retrospective of his six-decade-long career, opening this week at the Museum of Modern Art, this restless innovator’s contributions to the art of our own time registers in full. Visitors will experience the moment when Modern art made its exit, rules were swept aside, and friendships became … Read the full Story >>
This week we learned a number of things about the power of photography: We learned that macro shots of cannabis buds are awesome, but not as mind blowing as photos of volcanos erupting. We learned that you can have your portrait taken by Sebastiao Salgado, though it will cost you $25,000. We learned who won the grand prize in the world's biggest photo contest. … Read the full Story >>
Artificial intelligence technology has shaken the trust that people once had that photos represented reality: There's no putting that genie back in the bottle. But as we noted this week. Apple and Google are making some steps toward genie containment, or at least user transparency. Apple's newly introduced iOS 18.1, which includes the company's Apple Intelligence AI system, features a "Clean Up" tool that … Read the full Story >>
With the political campaign season in New York City getting off to a rumbling, if somewhat stumbling start, I emailed Steve Brodner yesterday to get an update on what makes making fun of politicians such an important part of the social order: Q: The people who inhabit your narratives are primarily alpha-male power-trippers. Why do you find these characters so fascinating? Have you been able to … Read the full Story >>
I was fascinated to see that Garth Greenan Gallery is presenting a major show of paintings by Fritz Scholder (1937-2005)—and somewhat puzzled by the critique of Scholder’s work in the New York Times, that reads, in part: “…The irony of Scholder’s colors is that they heighten scenes of moral defeat. He borrows the horror-core of Francis Bacon for two canvases from 1970 that imagine … Read the full Story >>
New York’s premier fall photo event—the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant awards ceremony—takes place on October 17th at the SVA Theatre. This hotly anticipated program, which draws entries from the best photojournalists worldwide, includes two firsts this year. Finalists vying for the 39th annual Smith Grant and the 22nd annual Howard Chapnick Grant have been announced prior to the event. And 2018 marks … Read the full Story >>
To say that the photography of Wayne Sorce (1946-2015) flies under the radar is hyperbole. This master of color photography, who worked at a time when anything not black-and-white guaranteed exclusion from the discussion of “fine art photography,” embraced urban chaos as his métier—in extraordinarily measured views of Chicago and New York. Mainly taken during the late 1970s and early 1980s, these vibrant, large-scale … Read the full Story >>
Week ten of lockdown began with sunshine, cleaner air, and colder than usual for the unofficial start of summer. In a surreal moment of clarity I realized that all who are working from home are unwittingly participating in a revolution. Stranger still, I realized this is a negative revolution, as if we are shifting from having electricity to not having electricity. It seems that … Read the full Story >>
Today, the International Center of Photography invites visitors to its new home on the Bowery, with free admission. Much of the first floor of the new space has been designed as a “village square,” a place for conversation on the subject of photography and visual culture. With windows opening onto the sidewalk diagonally across from the New Museum, a café with enough tables for … Read the full Story >>
Marshall Arisman (1937-2022), longtime chair of the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department at the School of Visual Arts, and a co-founder of American Illustration, will be honored by SVA in an exhibition opening next week at the Gramercy Gallery.Info Arisman began teaching at SVA in 1964 and founded the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program in 1984, of which … Read the full Story >>
One day, after gazing at a pattern of red flowers on the table cloth, I looked up to see that the ceiling, the windows, and the columns seemed to be plastered with the same red floral pattern. I saw the entire room, my entire body, and the entire universe covered with red flowers, and in that instant my soul was obliterated and I was … Read the full Story >>
Launched by artist-activist Mirko Ilic, The Tolerance Project seeks to raise awareness of intolerance and to foster positive change among people everywhere. Cooper Union is now showcasing a selection of posters by contributing artists from around the globe in the colonnade windows of Cooper’s Foundation Building. Mirko joined me this week for a conversation about this ongoing project that so far has placed 130 shows … Read the full Story >>
Photokina, the imaging trade show in Cologne, Germany, is ending. The biennial event's organizers at the Koelnmesse say the show has been cancelled (after 70 years) "for the time being" because of the "massive decline in markets for imaging products" -- a downward trend made worse by the covid-19 pandemic. "The trend in this industry, with which we have always had a close and … Read the full Story >>
