Opening June 30: Art and Race Matters | The Career of Robert Colescott at The New Museum The bold and richly rendered works of Robert Colescott (1925–2009) plumb art history to discover issues of race, beauty, and American culture that are rife for satire. Often ahead of his time, Colescott explored the ways in which personal and cultural identities are constructed and enacted … Read the full Story >>
Moyra Davey, Copperhead No. 285; Copperhead No. 295, 2015. Available in Baxter Street/CCNY benefit auction. Special Events Wednesday, October 14 The 36th Annual W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography Awards, 7 pm. SVA Theater, 333 West 23rd Street, NY, NY. Information. Online now: 2015 Photo Auction Benefit | Baxter Street / Camera Club of New York. Information Register. Preview: 2015 Photo … Read the full Story >>
DART honors National Hispanic Heritage Month [September 15-October 15] this week with a feature on Salvadoran-born muralist Josué Rojas. The story of how he found his way in life through painting unfolds in two recent articles about this San Francisco artist, who holds degrees from California College of the Arts and Boston University. Above: Josué Rojas, "Enrique’s Journey" (image courtesy Shane Menez) Rojas … Read the full Story >>
The fall season opens with outstanding variety as always - from political art at Museum of the City of New York and Society of Illustrators to dragon subjugation dances hosted by the Rubin Museum of Art to a full-fledged BLAB! retrospective at Kansas State University's Beach Museum of Art. Roberts + Tilton reopens in LA with a new free-standing building designed to accommodate … Read the full Story >>
EDITOR'S NOTE: THE DEADLINE FOR THE DART OP ED ART CONTEST IS EXTENDED TO MIDNIGHT FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 28! Information. Cheers, Peggy Monday, September 24-Monday, October 1Viewing, Phillips de Pury & Company Photographs Auction (October 2, 10 am & 2 pm) 450 Park Avenue, NY, NY. Information. Thursday, September 27-Sunday, September 30NY Art Book Fair. Free and open to the public, the NY … Read the full Story >>
Marcellus Hall, an illustrator, artist, and musician, recently wrote to tell me that his new children’s book, Everyone Sleeps (Penguin), is being released this month and will make its debut in his home state of Minnesota. I caught up with him last week and here is what he wrote: Q: You live in New York, but where are you from originally? As an artist, what … Read the full Story >>
April has proved to be "the cruelest month" this year, with ice and snow dusting the spring holidays throughout the Northeast and Midwest. But New Yorkers can take shelter at one of the marquee art fairs. The Photography Show 07, which opens this week at the 7th Regiment Armory. AIPAD's annual invitational will offer everything from contemporary to classic, from platinum to digital prints, … Read the full Story >>
Eric Nyquist is a Los Angeles-based illustrator, artist and educator. His illustrations have appeared in many publications, including National Geographic, The New Yorker, Nautilus and Audubon magazines, as well as on a series of covers for The New York Times Book Review section. Nyquist's work has also appeared on book covers, Beck tour merchandise, murals for NASA, and much more. His illustrations are rich … Read the full Story >>
