This week The Museum of Modern Art opens a fashion show – its first in 70 years. Items: Is Fashion Modern? asks a question whose answer lands squarely in the sensibility of the know-it-all now-ness that is New York City. While Paris has been the capital of couture, New York is the place where some of the past century’s most culture-defining garments have originated, … Read the full Story >>
Peter Kuper, a charter friend of DART, will be enjoying a career retrospective exhibition opening next Thursday at Scott Eder Gallery, in Brooklyn. As if he didn’t already have enough to do, I sent him a page of questions. Here’s what he wrote: Q: What were you doing immediately before you picked up a pencil to make your first drawing? A: At age four or … Read the full Story >>
Above Ground: Art from the Martin Wong Graffitti Collection, on view at Museum of the City of New York, centers on the many artists who transitioned from illegally writing on subway cars to creating paintings on canvas and exhibiting in galleries and museums. Their works embody an important transitional moment for the movement’s evolution, as it permeated into broader consciousness and significantly influenced global … Read the full Story >>
The exhibition, This Beautiful Light, is presented by White Cube in celebration of the centenary of the birth of Etel Adnan (1925–2021), a leading artistic and literary voice of Arab-American culture. This poet, novelist, journalist, and artist grew up speaking Arabic and Greek at home, and was educated in French and English. She began to paint in the late 1950s, while working as … Read the full Story >>
As an artist, working with what you have can be one of the most subversive—and liberating—enterprises. It is surely the mainstay of the contemporary craft movement, which emerged midcentury and now occupies the interest of galleries, museums and, significantly, the public. Not surprisingly, working with what you have is also freighted with the resounding echo of women’s work. For example, Anni Albers noted that … Read the full Story >>
There's still a lot of winter left -- plenty of time for you to create an viral snowboarding video. In our semi-regular roundup of video tutorials, we feature six tips for getting great GoPro skiing and snowboarding footage. There are also tips for creating memorable travel videos, making your gimbal footage look better, and making your audio sound better. Want to speed up your … Read the full Story >>
Last summer, four students in the School of Visual Arts BFA Interior Design: Built Environments program took on the challenge of COVID-19 by dreaming up hotel-style spaces for the 14-day quarantine experience. The description for Carol Bentel’s course states that these innovative structures, each completely unique, hold up to 20 inhabitants, allowing guests to feel less isolated while still being apart. Above: Quarantine … Read the full Story >>
Above, © Mary Ellen Mark, from Prom (Getty 2012) Wednesday, May 30 Book signing, 6-8 pm: Paul Graham | The Present (Mack 2012). Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street (between Bowery and Lafayette), NY, NY. The Visionaries Series presents, 7 pm: Maya Li., New Museum, 235 Bowery, NY, NY. Tickets $25/$20. Photo talk, 7 pm: Jon Ortner | Sacred Lands, Ancient Traditions. Rubin Museum of Art, … Read the full Story >>
The Metropolitan Museum of Art reopens to the public on Saturday, with member previews that started yesterday. I began my preview yesterday morning with the 2020 Roof Garden Commission: Héctor Zamora, Lattice Detour (above). Zamora (b. Mexico City, 1974) is known for works that engage public spaces and the built environment, and which generate friction between commonly perceived roles of public and private, exterior and interior, … Read the full Story >>
Friday, April 23, 7:00 -8:30pm, DorDor Gallery | InPersonArt Out / curated by Irina ChistikinaWith the arrival of spring, the DorDor Gallery presents the first group exhibition of contemporary artists in this new season, including August Henry, Pranav Sood, Melissa Schainker, Scott Isenbarger, Edgard Rippel, Nate Myers, Laura Michal, Helen Denisevich, Jeanne Verdoux. A performance by Annie Nikunen will be presented at the … Read the full Story >>
Photo-Poetics: An Anthology, on view at the Guggenheim, presents works by 10 contemporary photographers who use the camera as a weapon to make viewers think. Installed in the Tower's 3 main floors, the show offers a close reading of the works in intimately staged solo shows. This might be the most agressively anti-art-fair exhibition to grace a New York winter in recent years. To borrow … Read the full Story >>
Preview: Wednesday-Sunday, April 22-26: AIPAD The Photography Show at the Armory AIPAD: The Photography Show, presented by The Association of International Photography Art Dealers each spring at the Park Avenue Armory, celebrates the medium’s irresistible alchemy, from its 19th-century origins to its practice by artists around the globe today. One of the featured artists is Lynne Saville [above], whose work is presented by … Read the full Story >>
Editor’s note: With ICON9 The Illustration Conference just a week away—four days of art, discussion, performance, and plenty of talk in Austin, TX—the current roster for the Q&A is peopled with many of the exceptional artists making presentations during this biannual artfest. Mark Kaufman will lead a workshop on Collage Improvisation on Wednesday morning. Info Q: Originally from Jersey City, NJ, what are some of … Read the full Story >>
Photographer and filmmaker Gail Mooney recently attended the big NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Show, which, every April, draws over 100,000 people to Las Vegas to see the latest video and filmmaking gear and software. There are also conferences to learn at and be inspired by, and plenty of chances to network with colleagues. Why would a still photographer want to go to a … Read the full Story >>
Could it be that President Donald J. Trump has done society a favor by offering so many reasons to mount protest rallies? “Dump Trump.” “I am a PERSON, not a PUSSY.” “Make America Queer Again.” “Impeach Hate Speech.” In the weeks leading up to the Women’s March on Washington this year, for example, Chicago’s Newberry Library issued a call for Pussy Hats and protest … Read the full Story >>
Continuing: Michael Lin | Pentachrome at The Met Michael Lin’s site-specific installation Pentachrome brings contemporary art to the Museum’s Great Hall Escalator for the first time. Inspired by The Met collection and the building’s architecture, Pentachrome invites visitors to reconsider the Museum’s Great Hall, its Balcony, and the surrounding art from a fresh perspective. For more than a hundred years, Asian art, especially Chinese … Read the full Story >>
Longtime DART contributor Ken Carbone—who, it must be said is also a friend and colleague going back to my participation in writing projects for his agency—has a way of looking at art. As cofounder, with Leslie Smolan, of the Carbone Smolan Agency, in 1977, his branding projects always stood on the foundations of the plastic arts as they have existed since the Sumerians … Read the full Story >>
Live hard. Die young. Leave enough lurid evidence for novelistic retellings of a life cut short at age 28 by the influenza pandemic that swept Europe at the close of WWI. Le Bohème, in this case, is Egon Schiele [1890–1918]. Best known for his emaciated, erotic nudes and self-portraits, he is now the subject of an exhibition of the landscape paintings made throughout his … Read the full Story >>
Q: Where did the legendary gallerist Leo Castelli discover Jasper Johns? Q: Where did Robert Rauschenberg have his mid-career retrospective, at age 39? Q: Where did the following artists have their first solo museum exhibitions: Kenneth Noland (1965), Larry Rivers (1965), Jean Tinguely (1965), Ad Reinhardt (1966) and Yves Klein (1967)? If you have been a New York City art afficionado for fifty … Read the full Story >>
Now at XNA Airport, Bentonville, ArkansasFirst seen in NYC with her seven-story Memphis-style mural for the 2018 NYCxDesign Festival, at Industry City, Camille Walala has since gone even larger and 3-D with her colossal new installation at the XNA Airport in Bentonville, Arkansas. Her now but retro graphics, in brilliant colors and black borders that can be seen from planes coming in … Read the full Story >>
