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SVA Students Collaborate with NASA for Earthrise Poster Exhibition

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Mingyi Gan BFAI llustration Class of 2025 NASA Poster
Mingyi Gan BFAI Illustration Class of 2025

The School of Visual Arts is reaching for the stars  with an inspiring new collaboration between its BFA Illustration and BFA Design students and NASA. The result? A stunning poster exhibition celebrating next spring’s highly anticipated Artemis II mission, which will send four astronauts on a journey around the Moon and pave the way for future human exploration of Mars.
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Pablo Picasso, Jardin de Paris

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pablo picasso jardin de paris photo by gail worley
Photo By Gail

Located near the Champs–Élysées, the city’s fame tree-lined avenue, Jardin de Paris (1901) was the summer location of the historic dance hall Le Moulin Rouge. A young Pablo Picasso pursued commercial work to sustain a living and produced this design as a speculative bid. The venue’s Catalan manager, Josep Oller, however, did not purchase it. Both the imagery and the style recall that of the iconic Montmartre artist of the 1890s, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, whose work Picasso emulated. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Pablo Picasso, Jardin de Paris →

Design and Innovation

Eye On Design: Unknown Pleasures Album Cover Art

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Unknown Pleasures Cover Art

Photo By Gail

This poster by Peter Savile, who first came to prominence for his designs for Factory Records, was issued to promote Joy Division’s 1979 debut album, Unknown Pleasures.  Band member Bernard Sumner found the image, a rendering of successive waves emitted by a pulsar, in an astronomy textbook.  Saville reversed the image from black-on-white to white-on-black, conjuring the darker atmospherics of the album’s sound. The Cover Art design has attained an iconic status, particularly of late, going so far as to spawn the term “joyplot,“ which refers to a method of data visualization that involves the layering of successive and comparative histograms.

Photographed as Part of the Exhibit, Too Fast To Live Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics at the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC.

Arts and Culture

A Spectacle and Nothing Strange By Eve Fowler at MoMA

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A Spectacle and Nothing Strange
All Photos By Gail

In 2011,  American artist Eve Fowler began A Spectacle and Nothing Strange, which quotes fragments of Gertrude Stein’s groundbreaking feminist prose works Tender Buttons (1914) and How to Write (1931) on twenty–one posters produced by the Colby Poster Printing Company.

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Poster Child By Bruce Pavlow at Shoot The Lobster Gallery

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Marilyn Manson By Bruce Pavlow
Marilyn Manson Poster By Bruce Pavlow (All Photos By Gail)

Here’s a crazy fun exhibit that Geoffrey and I literally stumbled on during our recent fall season-launch art crawl: Poster Child, a series of new photographic works by Bruce Pavlow. Continue reading Poster Child By Bruce Pavlow at Shoot The Lobster Gallery →