Drawing All the Buildings in New York
James Gulliver Hancock's “Orchard Street” (detail) (all images from allthebuildingsinnewyork.blogspot.com)Your day in poetically impossible tasks: New York-based illustrator James Gulliver Hancock...
View ArticleAt MoMA, Drawing as the Politics of Living
“I Am Still Alive” installation shot (all photos by author)Sometimes an exhibition reminds you of why exhibitions exist, those surprising moments when usually dull curatorial exercises become...
View ArticleThe Venice Biennale in Pencil Sketches
Christoph Neimann in Venice's Piazza San Marco (image via nytimes.com)New York Times visual columnist and famed designer Christoph Niemann is at the 2011 Venice Biennale, documenting his experiencing...
View ArticleDoing The Doodle Drag
Flier by Jamie Bruno for Doodle DragNew Jersey’s Doodle Drag is at it again! This Sunday, July 17, the drawing collective will be hosting “Joy Rider,” a drawing party on the subway.Doodle Drag is known...
View ArticleTonight’s State of Drawing Panel and Amy Sillman’s iPhone Animation
Views of presentations by (clockwise from top) Ryan McGinness, Carter Foster and Terry Winters. (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic)Hyperallergic attended tonight’s invite-only symposium on the...
View ArticleThe Uses of Dismemberment: MoMA’s Exquisite Corpses
Installation view of "Exquisite Corpses," featuring, (left) Carlos Rojas, “Apolo 0.9” (1966) and (right) Hans Bellmer, “Doll” (1936, cast 1965), painted aluminum (all photos by the author for...
View ArticleLucian Freud’s Wrong Turn
Lucian Freud, "Boy on a Sofa" (1944). Pencil, charcoal and chalk on paper,15 x 17 in. (38 x 43.2 cm). Private Collection, courtesy of Susannah Pollen Ltd. (© The Lucian Freud Archive. Photo ©...
View ArticleFlying Blind: de Kooning’s “Closed-Eye” Drawings
Willem de Kooning, “Untitled” (1966). Charcoal on paper, 10 x 8 inches. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Jan Christiaan Braun in honor of Rudi Fuchs. (click to enlarge; courtesy the Museum of...
View ArticleOne Paints, the Other Doesn’t
Installation view, “Eugen Schönebeck: Paintings and Drawings: 1957–1966,” including, from left, “Mayakovsky” (1966) and two untitled drawings from 1963 (all images courtesy David Nolan Gallery, New...
View ArticleEmbracing the Personality of Paper
Installation view of Ben Berlow at Rawson Projects (All photos by the author for Hyperallergic)Rawson Projects is a miraculously bright spot in the neighborhood of Greenpoint, where many first-floor...
View ArticleBridge to Nowhere: Matthew Barney’s Drawings
Matthew Barney, “RIVER ROUGE: Crown Victoria” (2011), ink on paper in painted steel frame. 11 3/8 x 14 3/8 x 1 1/2 in (Julia Reyes Taubman and Robert Taubman, © Matthew Barney) (all images courtesy the...
View ArticleReading in the Dark: Drawings from Australia
Janene Eaton, “Whatever” (n.d.), acrylic on paper (courtesy of Black Projects, Melbourne) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic)There’s something in the air about reading, writing and art. In...
View ArticleAbstracting Daily Experience
Richard Garrison, “Product Packaging/Square Color Schemes (Garrison Household, December 2012-August 2013),” detail, (2013), Product packaging cardboard and graphite on paper, 38″ x 38″ (All images...
View ArticleA Nightmarish History of Spanish Drawings
Eugenio Lucas, “Death Reading from a Human Lectern, Congregation in Background” (c. 1850), black chalk and brown wash (courtesy Morgan Library & Museum, purchased by Pierpont Morgan) (all photos by...
View ArticleDrawing Across Five Centuries
Otto Dix, “Old Woman” (c. 1923), Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection (© 2014 Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York / VG...
View ArticleStudy Suggests Children’s Drawings Reveal How Smart They Are
Children’s drawing from Twins Early Development Study, King’s College London (all images courtesy King’s College London) Think your four-year-old might be an artistic prodigy? While early drawing...
View ArticleArtists Redraw Their Own Books
Shirin Neshat, “Untitled” (published in 2013, modified 2014) (all photos by author for Hyperallergic) Some unique artist books are currently on view at Christie’s in New York. Artists were given a book...
View ArticleThe Dystopian Possibilities of a Drawing Machine
Saurabh Datta’s Teacher (all images courtesy Saurabh Datta) For all those who could never quite manage a straight line in Drawing 101, Saurabh Datta may have an answer. For his thesis at Copenhagen’s...
View ArticleCentury-Old School Chalkboard Drawings Offer a History Lesson
1917 chalkboard drawings of pilgrims discovered at Emerson High School, Oklahoma City (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) OKLAHOMA CITY — Century-old chalkboard drawings were revealed earlier...
View ArticleDrawing the Vast and Invisible Dark Matter of Our Universe
Time lapse of the installation of “Representation of Dark Matter” at the Drawing Center (GIF by the author, images courtesy Drawing Center) The majority of our universe is energy and matter that we...
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