Visual Art

The Nuyorican Poets Café, in the Words of Ed Morales, Author, Lecturer, Journalist, Nuyorican

Camilla Webster | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Literature, Miguel Piñero, Nuyorican, Theater, Pedro Pietri, Music, Visual Art, Poetry, Sandra Maria Esteves, The Nuyorican Poets Café, Ed Morales, Miguel Algarín, Papoleto Meléndez, Victor Hernández Cruz, Puerto Rican, New York Natives, NY Around Town, New York News

The Nuyorican Poets Café, the legendary venue that opened first in the mid 1970s, closed in the early '80s and then re-opened in the late '80s, is one of the cultural gems that keep NYC the hotbed of creativity that it has always been.

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The Brucennial 2012: 'Harderer, Betterer, Fasterer, and Strongerer' (VIDEO)

VernissageTV | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Paintings, Opening, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Biennial, Contemporary Art, Brucennial, Art Exhibitions, New York City, Visual Art, Vito Schnabel, Video, Arts News

They did it again: The art collective known as The Bruce High Quality Foundation once more challenges the Whitney Biennial with the Brucennial, and th...

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The Docent

Brian D. Cohen | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Art Appreciation, Museums, Alfred Korzybski, MOCA Los Angeles, Moca, Geffen Contemporary, Visual Art, Arts News

In my experience docents are painfully well intentioned, more or less informed, and extraordinarily tenacious. Yet I confess, I avoid them and have always avoided them.

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Why Artists Aren't Rock Stars

Kristen Hotham Carroll | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Celebrity Culture, Artists, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Visual Art, Celebrities, Arts News

Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Robert Mapplethorpe are all names I remember hearing as I was growing up. I would be hard pressed to find a 12-year-old who could name a living artist today.

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Thank God For an Artist Who Thinks Art Isn't Just About 'Big Power'

Christina Patterson | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Art Market, Frieze Art Fair, Ai Weiwei, Recession, Visual Art, Irony in Art, Art Review, Arts News

Think of the man who has just been picked by Art Review as the most powerful person in "the art world". He isn't in "the art world" to prize bonuses from bankers' pockets.

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The Outer Limits of Visual Experience

Jane Chafin | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Art, Lsd, Zhang Jigang, Visual Art, Louis Wain, Arts News

If you follow the instructions on the screen of this first video, you will experience a brief and very real visual hallucination at the end.

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PHOTOS: Raising Environmental Awareness Through Art

Annie Buckley | Posted 07.14.2011

Read More: John Grade, Buster Simpson, Environmental, Art, Galleries, Environment, Slidepollajax, Los Angeles, Sant Khalsa, Visual Art, Annie Buckley, Samantha Fields, Photography, Sculpture, Ecology, Sustainability, Preservation, Arts News

The four artists included in this edition of "On Seeing" each address ecology and our deepening environmental concerns. Their approaches vary from tem...

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Funding Art Without Compromising the Creative Process

Joan K. Smith | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: New Media, Artists, Business, Alternative, Visual Art, Art Funding, Creative Economy, Arts News

Fewer and fewer artists are creating work that is manifested as a tangible, commercially viable object, but are instead expressing themselves through conceptual works.

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The Art And History Of Title Sequences

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Title Fonts, Pulp Fiction, Fonts, Graphic Design, Title Sequences, Design, Movie-Title-Design, Clockwork Orange, Film, Sxsw, Visual Art, Sxsw 2011, Cinema, Arts News

Designers, visual artists, and art directors alike all know the importance of good fonts; they are crucial, sneakily underestimated, and can repel or ...

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8 Reasons Galleries Work for Your Family

Lenore Moritz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Family Art Outings, Kids and Art, Galleries, Fine Art, Visual Art, Arts News

If you are longing to get your kids interested in pictures that are not necessarily made from pixels, get them to a gallery.

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Highly Specific : Julien Gardair's Installation at the Invisible Dog in Brooklyn

Anne Couillaud | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Julien Gardair, Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, Visual Arts, Art, Nyc Art, Light, Visual Art, Arts News

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Dance and Visual Art on Film: Finite and Infinite Games

Jennifer Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thisiswater Productions, Dance Films, Finite and Infinite Games, Art, NYU Tisch, Mark Morris, Art Films, Katherine Fisher, Dance, Jennifer Edwards, Judson Church, Film, Lucinda Childs, Visual Art, Momix, Murray Spalding, James Carse, Random Bench, Arts News

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EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT: Carol Es' 'It's Mostly About Me and Much Less About You' On View In LA

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dolls, Oil Painting, George-Billis-Gallery, Carol Es, Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Art, Embroidery, Painting, Visual Art, Mixed Media, Slidefullscreen, Arts News

WHO: Carol Es WHAT: It's Mostly About Me and Much Less About You WHEN: October 30, 2010 - December 30th, 2010 WHERE: George Billis Gallery 2716 S. ...

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BLOG WATCH> Rise Of Rebellion On Daily Serving

dailyserving.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Blogs, Rebellious Art, Sculpture, Arts, Daily Serving, Art Installation, Artists, Painting, Film, Rebellion, Visual Art, Blog-Watch, Art Exhibitions, Arts News

Norwegian visual artist and writer Matias Faldbakken is currently exhibiting a new series of works titled Shocked into Abstraction at Ikon Gallery in ...

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BLOG WATCH> Detroit's Street Art Heidelberg Project On Cool Hunting

coolhunting.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blogs, Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Art, Lisa Kereszi, Street Art, Detroit, Graffiti, Cool Hunting, Artists, Art Installation, The Heidelberg Project, Visual Art, Arts News

In a Detroit neighborhood punctuated by little more than defunct traffic lights and abandoned train tracks, Heidelberg Street stands out for its row o...

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Curate NYC Showcases New York City Visual Artists

Anthony Papa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art Gallery, Artists, Nyc Art, Art, Art Exhibitions, NY Culture, Rush Arts Gallery, Curators, Chelsea, Visual Art, NY Events, Arts News

Hundreds of artists descended on Rush Arts Gallery in Chelsea to celebrate the opening of Curate NYC, a new online arts showcase and multi-venue juried exhibition for New York City visual artists.

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You Don't Have to Deny the Arts To Succeed: MS223 in The South Bronx, a 2010 Intel School of Distinction

Richard Kessler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Certified Arts Teacher, Nea, Nga, Arts Specialist, Center for Arts Education, Theater, Special Ed, Testing, Arts Education, Teachers, Arts Ed, Advocacy, Curriculum, Aft, Dance, Grantmakers in the Arts, Parent Engagement, K-12, Nycdoe, Principals, Randi Weingarten, Teaching Artist, Education, Art, Arts Education Policy, Joel Klein, Artsjournal.com, Usdoe, National Endowment for the Arts, Arne Duncan, Ell, Music, Race to the Top, Michael Mulgrew, School Reform, Kill and Drill, Elliott Eisner, Annenberg Foundation, Narrowing of the Curriculum, Diane Ravitch, Bill Gates, Visual Art, Stem, Common Core, Rocco Landesman, Drama, Arts, Creative Sector, Arts Integration, Pta, Esea, Common Core Standards, Arts News

Ramon Gonzalez and his faculty at MS223 have managed to take time from test prep for reading and math to build in exchange for a quality arts program,...

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Waiting for all the Superheroes

Richard Kessler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Media and Film, Center for Arts Education, Theater, Arts Education, Teachers, Advocacy, Curriculum, Dance, Grantmakers in the Arts, Parent Engagement, K-12, Teaching Artist, Michael Bloomberg, Education, Art, Arts Education Policy, ESEA. Common Core Standards, National Endowment for the Arts, Race to the Top, School Reform, Narrowing of the Curriculum, Office of Arts and Special Projects, Art Integration, Visual Art, Stem, Common Core, Drama, Creative Sector, Arts Integration, Education News

The simplicity underscoring much of the present debate belies just how complicated schools can be. The fact of the matter is that educating children is hard, complex, and long-term.

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Michael C. McMillen: Every Dream Is New

John Seed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael McMillen, Filmmaking, LA Louver Gallery, Visual Art, Arts News

Michael McMillen's shifting and overlapping job descriptions -- sculptor, installation artist, printmaker, cultural anthropologist -- reflect the fact that he is a searcher, never quite sure what he is looking for.

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Used Books, New Ideas

Risa Shoup | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Art Galleries, Nyc Culture, Ryan Frank, Winkleman Gallery, Visual Art, Influence, New York News

Used Books at the Winkleman Gallery presents a single piece by artists accompanied by a selection of books that influenced them in the creation of the respective work.

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Converse Welcome, But Not Required

Risa Shoup | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Wassaic Project, Dutchess County, Visual Art, Upstate New York, Performing Arts, New York News

Here's what I really like about The Wassaic Project arts festival: I can wear my beat up chucks and my checked shirt and my cutoffs without irony and still feel like I'm in the middle of a creative swarm.

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Review: Dave Eggers and David Byrne, 'It Is Right to Draw Their Fur,' at SF Electric Works

Cherie Louise Turner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Eggers, SF Electric Works, McSweeney's, San Francisco Art, Visual Art, David Byrne, Arts News

The first, and last, impression of this show is delight, with a dose of idiosyncrasy. It's a good summer offering: light and witty, even quirky hip.

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ART AND DANCE: Jenny Holzer And Miguel Guitierrez In An Artistic Marriage

nytimes.com | CLAUDIA LA ROCCO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jenny Holzer, Choreographers, Dance, Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts, Visual Art, Summer Stage Concert Series, Miguel Guitierrez, Arts News

AFTER years of invitations the visual artist Jenny Holzer finally agreed to participate in Summer Stages Dance, thrilling Richard Colton, who founded ...

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What Not to Miss at Bushwick Open Studios 2010

Risa Shoup | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bushwick, Art, New York News, Visual Art, Brooklyn, Performing Arts, New York News

There are 275 registered shows in Bushwick Open Studios this year. And there are only a mere three days, from June 4 - 6, to see them all.

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Previewing Bushwick Open Studios 2010

Risa Shoup | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bushwick, Development, Visual Art, Brooklyn, New York News

In the future, BOS will continue to grow. They hope to offer more and different networking opportunities for participating artists and to continue to be a powerful force in the community.

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