Art 19 at IFPDA PRINT FAIR 2022 at the Javits Center, NYC, (October 27 - 30).
ART IN THE LIGHT OF CONSCIENCE: ART-19 TO BENEFIT AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, OCTOBER 28TH
With Camille Henrot, Emilia Kabakov, Dr. Burghard Richter, and Kiki Smith. Moderated by Robert Storr (Yale School of Art).
New York -- After two years of virtual-only fairs, the International Fine Print Dealers Association will return in-person this fall to the stunning I.M. Pei-designed River Pavilion at the Javits Center with the 29th edition of the preeminent fair for prints. The IFPDA Print Fair will present 76 new and returning exhibitors, an increase from 2019, selected from the rigorously vetted members of the IFPDA and impressive invitational exhibitors.
The artists were selected through a competitive process, which included requiring finalists to submit site-specific proposals within the terminal. Smith and Kusama’s new commissions won’t be the only flashy below-ground contemporary art in Midtown. Last year, the first elements of a three-part video and mosaic installation by the US artist Nick Cave were installed in the tunnel under 42nd Street connecting Grand Central Terminal to Times Square.
Read MoreWe live in the decaying ruins of the modern and colonial world-system. All around us we encounter the undead institutions that structure systemic inequality, border regimes, and subject forms. To make different futures possible, this undead world—which violently resists change in its refusal to die—must be laid to rest.
Read MoreMTA Arts & Design announced the commissioning of two highly acclaimed artists selected to create permanent artwork for the greatly anticipated Grand Central Madison, a new 700,000-square-foot Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) terminal below Grand Central Terminal, along Madison Avenue between 43 and 48 Streets in Manhattan. The site-specific large-scale installations by Yayoi Kusama and Kiki Smith will be unveiled with the opening of the new terminal later this year.
Read MoreIn collaboration with Circa, Neshat has released a new print with full proceeds benefitting human rights groups. In collaboration with Circa, Neshat is currently selling a limited-edition print titled WOMAN LIFE FREEDOM, which echoes the chants heard in cities across the world and on social media feeds.
Read MoreFor the Birds: The Birdsong Project today releases Volume V, the final volume of its wide-ranging collection of 242 recordings inspired by birdsong and supporting the conservation of birds and their habitats. Yoko Ono said : “There are so many of us in the world who are now awakened, ready to act to save our world. So let’s work together to save this planet. Together. That’s how we will change the world. We change, and the world changes.”
Read MoreKiki Smith has made ample use of bronze and gold throughout her illustrious career. In her figurative depictions of the body and nature, the renowned American artist has mastered age-old casting and mark-making techniques. These bespoke processes—developed over time with dedicated artisans—have allowed her to explore issues surrounding femininity, spirituality, mortality, mysticism, and historiography.
Read MoreDuring the fair IFPDA Print Fair 2022, “550 Years of Print and Printmaking” at the Javits Center, NYC, (October 27 - 30), different conferences will be scheduled. We are pleased to invite you to this event, on Friday, october 28th, with Camille Henrot, Emilia Kabakov, Dr. Burghard Richter, and Kiki Smith. Moderated by Robert Storr (Yale School of Art).
Read MoreIn recent years, a fashion for painting the human figure has preoccupied the art world, with an emphasis on race, gender and other urgent social issues. Yet another pressing topic in America has been curiously absent from art: abortion, which became all the more timely when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. Depictions of abortion are still rare in the art-history canon. Check the walls of museums and flip through the pages of H.W. Janson or other art textbooks, and you are likely to encounter countless images of beatific mothers, dimpled infants and a world in which pregnancies are not terminated.
Read MoreOn September 16, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, died after being detained by the morality police in Tehran for allegedly violating the hijab law which requires that women cover their hair and dress modestly in loose robes. The news of her death while in state custody was met with outrage throughout Iran’s capital and beyond, prompting protesters to take to the streets to decry the hard-line politics of Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi.
Read More“The Ukrainian Museum has been around for 46 years. It started no differently than a lot of museums in New York; the one that comes to mind is the Jewish Museum, which started as an immigrant museum—same thing here—then 30 or 40 years ago they moved beyond that. We started that process a few years ago, and we're moving beyond being an immigrant museum to embrace everything that has to do with Ukrainian art and culture,” says Doroshenko. “Obviously the war has shed a giant spotlight with what that is.”
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