For the next month, we’ll highlight a series of animated drawings done in graphite by a selection of internationally recognized artists. Ranging from quick gestures to more elaborate narratives, all
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Capital Revisited
Terry Smith, Plans for Capital Revisited, 2013. Image courtesy of the artist.
Curatorial Assistant Nova Benway shares the scoop on Capital Revisited, a public art project by artist Terry Smith commissioned by The Drawing Center. London-based artist Terry Smith recently visited
Erica Baum
In advance of the second program in The Drawing Center’s Drafts series, Communications Intern Daniel Peacock speaks with artist Erica Baum about her work with vintage books and other archival
Rick Myers & Heide Fasnacht
This installment of Footnotes begins a series of addenda to The Drawing Center’s new program series Drafts, as tributaries of the ongoing conversation around its events and the images that precipitate them.
Drawing Surrealism at The Morgan Library and Museum
Salvador Dalí, Study for “The Image Disappears,” 1938. Pencil on paper. Private Collection. © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2012. Photo: Michael Tropea, © 2012 Museum Associates/ LACMA.
The assemblage of more than 160 works currently on display in Drawing Surrealism at The Morgan Library and Museum serves as a fantastic primer on Surrealism through the evaluation of its
A Trip to Alexandre Singh’s Studio
Curator Claire Gilman offers a glimpse behind Alexandre Singh: The Pledge. Complete with inkjet scans, stenciled pencil dots, and store-bought IKEA frames, Alexandre Singh’s installation at The Drawing Center
Tony Cruz, Animaciones, 2003-2011
For the next month, we’ll highlight a series of animated drawings done strictly in graphite by a selection of internationally recognized artists. Ranging from quick gestures to more elaborate narratives,
Dan Levenson
Dan Levenson, SKZ Student Painting Study (detail), 2013. Oil on aged blotter paper, 23 3/8 x 33 1/8 inches (A1 size).
On a trip to California in January I visited Viewing Program artist Dan Levenson, who recently relocated to Los Angeles from Brooklyn. We had many conversations leading up to this
Drawing Papers 7: The Prinzhorn Collection
Left: August Klett, Portrait of Hans Prinzhorn, 1919. Drawn on a sheet of notes left behind by Prinzhorn on a visit, 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches. Right: August Klett, Untitled, 1915. Pencil, watercolor, and colored pencil on writing paper, 8 3/16 x 6 1/2 inches/
The Prinzhorn Collection: Traces upon the Wunderblock—a show presenting over two hundred works by mentally ill patients in asylums between 1890 and 1900—opened at The Drawing Center in the spring
Xenakis Matters
Lucien Hervé, Philips Pavilion, c. 1958. Archival exhibition print, 18 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches. Image courtesy of Fondation Le Corbusier.
Anticipating the public launch of the anthology Xenakis Matters at The Drawing Center on February 28, 2013, this first installment of The Bottom Line’s new column Retrospect revisits the exhibition Iannis