Randall’s Island’s Frieze New York tent isn’t the only place people can see art on the East River anymore. The East River Ferry, which runs a commuter ferry service along the Queens and Brooklyn waterfronts on runs between Wall Street and Midtown, is launching a new exhibition aboard its boats titled “Drawn To Water.” The shows, which officially set sail on May 13, are co-presented by United Photo Industries — of last summer’s Photoville — and will rotate on a monthly basis. (more…)
Earlier this year Brandon Stanton, the photographer behind the popular street photography blog “Humans of New York,” discovered that DKNY had stolen his images to use in a window display after he had turned down their offer to pay him $16,000 for their use. The clothing company apologized, and Stanton demanded that it donate $100,000 to his local YMCA in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. The company agreed to donate $25,000, so the photographer launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise the rest, eventually bringing the total donation to $128,000. In recognition of his efforts, Stanton was honored at City Hall last week, DNAinfo reports. (more…)
The Florida Museum of Photographic Art in Tampa Bay has hired Jane Simon to be its new director, the Tampa Bay Business Journal reports. Simon comes to the FMPA from the Contemporary Art Museum at the University of South Florida just across town — on whose campus the FMPA started out in 2001. Prior to that she was a curator at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Arts in Wisconsin. (more…)
Yesterday the French art fair Paris Photo recapped the collector and celebrity sightings at its inaugural Paris Photo Los Angeles expansion in Southern California. And though the event attracted the typical set of roving art buyers and museum bigwigs — Eli Broad, Michael and Eileen Cohen, Dan Cameron, Jeffrey Deitch, Timothy Potts, Franklin Sirmans, and so on — its astounding list of celebrity attendees makes Art Basel Miami Beach look like a social backwater. (more…)
When photographer Arne Svenson’s friend, a longtime birdwatcher, passed away away recently, the Tribeca-based artist inherited his birding lens, but instead of looking for airborne wildlife he turned it on his neighbors in a glass-walled condo building across the street from his studio. “The Neighbors don’t know they are being photographed; I carefully shoot from the shadows of my home into theirs,” Svenson explains on his website. “I am not unlike the birder, quietly waiting for hours, watching for the flutter of a hand or the movement of a curtain as an indication that there is life within.” (more…)
William Wegman held down some odd jobs as a youth. In response to our list of art stars’ previous employment yesterday, the artist known for his photographs and videos of his beloved Weimaraner dogs Man Ray and Fay Ray, in costume, responded on Twitter: “WW drew graphs for Timothy Leary #LSD “@artinfodotcom: 30 Unexpected Jobs of Art Stars Before They Were Famous: http://bit.ly/10HjeZI ” (more…)
William Eggleston, who recently prevailed in a legal battle with a collector who sought to limit his ability to create new editions of his own work — which happens to be the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum right now — will be the major honoree at this year’s Sony World Photography Awards. He’ll be receiving the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award during a gala ceremony on April 25 in London. (more…)
Are artists fleeing Fort Greene? Well, that may be an exaggeration, but following recent news that David Salle was selling his $10 million mansion in the picturesque Brooklyn nabe, The Real Deal reports that artist Lorna Simpson and her photographer husband James Casebere have put their home at 206 Vanderbilt Avenue (pictured) on the market for $3.13 million, a handsome markup from the $1.65 million they paid for it in 2007. (more…)
Today marked the debut of Ryan McGinley’s High Line billboard commission, a giant vinyl print of his 2007 photograph “Blue Falling” that will be on view at West 18th Street and Tenth Avenue until April 30. The image features a silhouetted figure floating horizontally against a light blue backdrop that could just as easily be sky or water, and is reminiscent of several of McGinley’s series, especially his lovely photos from the 2010 Olympic Games — which featured many similarly airborne subjects set against bold backdrops of subtle color gradients. Its cool hues are a welcome sight for New Yorkers’ winter-wary eyes. (more…)
The massive online art store Art.com has a plethora of graffiti and street art offerings — many of them featuring Banksy murals and stencils — though proceeds from their sales have only ever benefited the photographers who shot the urban artworks, until now. Mark and Sara Schiller, aka the Wooster Collective, have brokered a deal with the largest online retailer of high-quality wall art to remove images of works by street artists whose work is being sold without their knowledge, and to compensate the others. (more…)
