Category Archives: Illustration

Into the Void

Entry by Saunders Architecture
Contemplating the Void, Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, opening today at Frank Lloyd Wright’s swirly conch shell up town is an absolutely delightful thought experiment.  Simply put, what would you do to the great cavity within the museum if money were no object?  The answers to that question, submitted by some 189 [...]

We Manifest

Detail of a collage by participating artist Derek Gores
Operating on a template similar to their wildly successful grass roots get-out-the-vote campaign during the run up to the ‘08 election, ManifestEquality is a progressive public art project aimed at raising awareness about the discrepancy in social rights for the LGBT community in America.  A call for [...]

Happy Birthday Norman Rockwell, February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978

Failedrockstar now online

Richard and Robert Phoenix and Andreas Laszlo Konrath, whose portrait of Edmund White will be in Dossier #4, have just launched an online version of their zine failedrockstar. Like the zine, their website features interviews with a wide-range of visual artists, including Mr. Bingo, Richard Ardagh, and Freya Douglas-Morris.

X: The Multiples Exhibition at Glowlab

Tonight Soho’s Glowlab is holding the opening reception for its latest production, X: The Multiples Exhibition, from 7-9. The group show will function as a tapestry, threading together the work of thirteen artists by concept and medium (including photography, screenprinting, sculpture, performance, and publication). As its title suggests, the exhibition examines the intersection of thirteen separate [...]

So much to do. So little Saturday – Fanatic 8

It’s that time again…

The Visual Telling of Stories

Thanks to Erik Hartin for today leading me to the incredible The Visual Telling of Stories.  Compiled and maintained by Dr. Chris Mullin, the site is a labyrinth of old print ads, texts, diagrams, comics, illustrations, quotes, photographs, mannequins, advice, and probably much more that I haven’t discovered yet.  Click “Read More” for a random [...]

Ancient

Our friend Josh Slater curated the current show at C.R.E.A.M. Projects in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Brave the craptastic weather and soak in some art.
For more about Josh: newslaterart.blogspot.com

Ahonen and Lamberg

Before we started Dossier, I’m not sure I really knew what an art director for a magazine does. I can assure you, I do now. What they do is make a magazine look like a magazine. If you think about it, it’s an incredible, particular talent to take a jumble of images and text by different [...]

The Selby Takes Paris

On April 1st, the much-anticipated “The Selby is in your Place” show opened at Colette, Paris’ unrivaled bastion of all things cool. Members of the art, fashion, music and design worlds mixed and mingled while browsing the paintings, photographs and illustrated interviews that comprise the show. Photographer Todd Selby was on-site to sign copies of [...]