School of Visual Arts will honor prolific illustrator and faculty member Steve Brodner with the 31st annual Masters Series Award and Exhibition in 2019. “The Masters Series: Steve Brodner” will be a comprehensive retrospective of his celebrated career and include never-before-seen political art and illustration work set along a timeline covering the past five decades. “Brodner’s pen acts as a weapon to challenge the status quo … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: As Director of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, you already had a strong connection to Rockefeller Center through a work by Isamu Noguchi commissioned in 1938. How did you become involved as Curator of Frieze Sculpture last year? Above: Red Earth by Andy Goldsworthy; photo courtesy of Frieze and Casey Kelbaugh Brett Littman: I was approached to curate the inaugural Frieze Sculpture … Read the full Story >>
April 23-27: AIPAD | The Photography Show at The Armory The Association of International Photography Art Dealers [AIPAD] was organized in 1979. With members in the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe and Japan, the Association has become a unifying force in the field of photography. AIPAD is dedicated to creating and maintaining high standards in the business of exhibiting, buying, and selling photographic … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday March 20, 6:30 pm: Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya | Raise Your Voice, at MCNY These site-specific murals by Brooklyn-based artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya mixes selections from the public art campaign “We Are More” with original artwork of historical activist figures Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama. Both Harlem-based, these leaders became friends and allies in their campaigns against racism and war, and inspired future generations of activists in … Read the full Story >>
Climate change, environmental degradation, and sustainability are among the most significant topics today and have become important subjects in contemporary art. Artist, activist and curator Vernita Nemec, Director of Viridian Artists, recently curated the online exhibition, "Up-Cycling Detritus" for Sculptors Alliance, Inc. As it turns out, detritus has been the main subject of her art and activism since her formative years as … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: As President of the upcoming ICON11Illustration Conference, would you tell the readers—many of whom are creatives and artists who are hoping to attend—what will set this edition apart from its predecessors? Bri Hermanson: ICON is such a unique conference. Historically, ICON has been committed to providing a diverse forum for an ongoing dialogue that serves the illustration, design, publishing, advertising, and academic … Read the full Story >>
Surrealism, the art movement that originated in Paris around 1924, is widely perceived to be a European model that engaged in playful but often darkly realized takes on dreams and the unconscious as they materialize in daily life. Salvador Dali’s melting watch, or Rene Magritte’s miniature train that shoots out of a fireplace come to mind in this context. A new exhibition, Surrealism Beyond … Read the full Story >>
In a suburb just a stone's throw from Paris lies a town almost as sweet as its name: Joinville-le-Pont. It stretches across both sides of the beautiful Marne river, with its famous bridge (le Pont), which was historically the only way to go from Paris to the eastern provinces of France. Lining the river are proudly kept boats; along the street are beautiful homes, … Read the full Story >>
Jacob Thomas is a New York City-based illustrator and artist whose editorial work has appeared in numerous publications, as well as other venues including a mural in the Empire State Building. Thomas is also a prolific street artist; he says, "I'm making a lot of politically-driven work lately. I'm scared for our country." He creates his work in a variety of styles and mediums, … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: My first impression of your current exhibition, Cloud Architecture, seen from the entrance of Planthouse Gallery, was: This is so much like what you did at Wave Hill, back in 2012. You had done drawings of dead bumble bees, all on small sheets of paper, pinned to the wall in a grid. I remember asking why dead bees interested you as … Read the full Story >>
Years ago, simply having a good website was enough for a photographer. Updating your site once every year was okay, and it basically existed as a digital version of your print portfolio. It was not the primary way that potential clients evaluated you. Today, it's a vastly different landscape. The web now offers savvy and ambitious photographers dozens of possible avenues to make themselves … Read the full Story >>
What we see on the internet is largely determined by what web search engines choose to show us. Be it for the best chili recipes or the best photographers, people frequently start their web browsing journey with a query via Google, Yahoo, or Bing. If you're a photographer and you want people to find your website, you had better optimize it for search engines, … Read the full Story >>
SooJin Buzelli is an art director who has made a huge impact on the world of illustrators and illustration. As the creative director for business magazines PLANSPONSOR, PLANADVISER, Chief Investment Officer, and Chief Investment Officer Europe, she assigns over 350 illustrations a year. SooJin is noted for both her art direction talents and her ability to work with and mentor illustrators; her assignments appear … Read the full Story >>
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Josef Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is arguably one of the most significant works of fiction in the modern era. First serialized in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1899, at the height of European imperial wealth and corruption, the novella, which can be read on a slow evening, set the stage for 20th-century masterpieces such as William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, and later, Francis Ford … Read the full Story >>
Photographer and writer Jeff Wignall takes the Fujifilm X-T10 on a somewhat spooky and fun test drive. Read the full Story >>
Photographer Jeff Wignall takes the Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM over the river and through the woods to see if this super telephoto lives up to its super reputation. Read the review and find out. Read the full Story >>
Can an editing program that promises one-fix solutions for most major photo flaws really work? Our intrepid photographer (and 20+ year Photoshop user) Jeff Wignall puts Vivid-Pix Land & Sea Picture-Fix to the test--and the results may just surprise you. Read the full Story >>
Marco Palli, a New York-based sculptor from Venezuela, opened an exhibition of new work at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture (NYSS) last week. The show honors the Larry Einbender Travel Award, which sponsored his anthropological research in Europe last fall. As a friend and colleague who often writes on the subject, he graciously agreed to meet in the … Read the full Story >>
The idleness of a holiday morning, sipping good coffee, with thin, zinc-like winter light filtering in, makes me reach for my first art book: Degas, a Skira “Taste of Our Time” edition. It is just the right size—seven by seven inches—for the kind of procrastination I will enjoy. But it has enough pages (104) to make it important enough to hold my attention. The … Read the full Story >>
