Art

Mattel® has always understood the power of a character—not just Barbie® and Hot Wheels® (Barbie® and Hot Wheels® are registered trademarks of Mattel, Inc.), but literal brand mascots too. Back in the 1950s, Matty and Sister Belle were Mattel’s cheerful spokes-characters, with Matty appearing in the serrated seal logo (often as a little crowned kid […]

A critical yet under-examined children’s book genre is set for the spotlight at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art from Jan. 17–June 7. CLICK! Photographers Make Picture Books, curated by children’s book historian Leonard Marcus, features more than 90 works from more than 20 rare children’s books dating from the 1890s to now.

How many of you understand the mechanics, no less theory, of cryptocurrency, blockchain and Bitcoin? As hard as I concentrate, I am clueless, other than to say I understand it is not merely a new tool in the accumulation of wealth but a system-language that has already impacted the future of commerce, capitalism and life

After his debut last November with Carminium, Italian artist Federico Vezzaro has returned to New York for his second solo exhibition in the Big Apple, Beyond the Surface, which opened yesterday, April 3, at the Temple Gallery in New York. Once again, he brought with him a medium he himself has described as “new,” one

This week, the Philippe Labaune Gallery introduced “Together” to the art district’s community. Critics and art lovers packed the small gallery to take in the 16 acrylic paintings in Ponzi’s new collection. A traditional medium for a not-so-traditional process. Ponzi’s process began with pen and paper: “I began by writing some diary pages, as if

It’s fair to say that New York City’s modern art scene has seen it all. An Italian artist is on a mission to disrupt this reality with his invention of a brand new medium. Federico Vezzaro spent 15 years developing a way to imprint designs onto metal sheets by exploiting surfaces’s natural oxidation process. The