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Peggy Roalf Wednesday November 6, 2013
Illustration Week Continues through Friday, November 8Information
Performa 13 Continues through November 24.Information
Wednesday, November 6 Inaugural reception, 6-8 pm: Painting 101, featuring works
by Francesca DiMattio, Dennis Hollingsworth, Jonathan Lasker, Daniel Rios Rodriguez, Sandi Slone. Sargent’s Daughters, 179 East Broadway, NY, NY. Information. Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Amy Casey | Balancing New Growth. Foley Gallery, 97 Allen Street, NY, NY. Book … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday October 20, 2006
AS THE MID-TERM ELECTIONS NEAR, questions about the U.S. occupation of Iraq increase, in both frequency and volume. The war's unpopularity, and why, has been featured in recent television
broadcasts, including this week's Frontline special, The Lost Year in Iraq. The film is based on more than 30 interviews, most of
them with officials charged with rebuilding and bringing democracy to Iraq. The … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday January 10, 2017
Special Events January 12-15 Photo L.A. The
Reef/LA Mart, 1933 Broadway, Los Angeles, CA Info FOG Design+Art. Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA Info January 13-15 Untitled, Art: San Francisco. Pier 70, San Francisco, CA Info Talks / Screenings /
and Beyond Wednesday, January 11 Frozen in Time | talk with Sarah C. Butler, Vicki Goldberg; Alison Morley,
moderator. 6:30 pm. New York Public … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday January 18, 2018
My father told me about a wrestling match he had seen the year before I was born where one of the wrestlers threw [the other one] completely out of the ring….My father said it was a good
thing I wasn’t around then because the wrestler landed…where I might have been sitting had I been born a year or more earlier.—William Wegman Seeming irrelevant to … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday May 31, 2007
Madison Square Park, a 6.2-acre patch of manicured greenery in the Flatiron District, has become one of New York's must-see art
spaces. The current installation of sculptures by the Brooklyn-based artist Roxy Paine brings together thought provoking ideas about art, nature and industry in three colossal pieces: leafless trees and a boulder
fabricated from gleaming stainless steel. On the park's central lawn is … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday July 10, 2008
For designers of consumer products, graphics, environments, furniture, equipment and more, getting into the I.D. Magazine Design Review is like going to Mecca. For the past 54 years, this annual
issue has presented the best in design, selected by a jury of top pros in each discipline. This year, I.D. teamed up with Parsons The New School of Design to host an exhibition of … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday November 29, 2023
Thursday, November 30, noon-6pm: Artists Against the Bomb In Conversation at Judd
A series of conversations organized by Artists Against the Bomb on denuclearization, disarmament and atomic culture with artists Rachel Bronson, Lyndon Burford, Stephanie Dvareckas, Petuuche Gilbert, Adam Jonas Horowitz, Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, Pedro Reyes, and Eric Schlosser. This event is free and open to the public, no reservation required. … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday October 2, 2019
David Benjamin Sherry, from
American Monuments, courtesy of Salon 94 In the current issue of Photograph, Editor Jean Dykstra writes about the exhibition of Isa Leshko’s black-and-white
photographs of farm animals, opening this week at ClampArt Gallery, [her] “portraits bring to mind Peter Hujar’s photographs of
animals, which similarly captured the particularity of a dog or horse (or goose or goat), a sense of … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday October 24, 2008
For anyone who has had to ditch the idea of building their dream house, an intriguing exhibition at The Architectural League might be just the kind of fantasy that's needed for hard times.
13:100 Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos presents scale models, renderings, architectural drawings, and verbal commentary about the process of designing luxury villas for
Kangbashi, a new city in Inner … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday September 23, 2021
Doing hand lettering is like being a flaneur—both involve suspending judgement about place, space and time and just letting things happen. So when a new book from Princeton Architectural Press, Let’s Make Letters! Lettering for Beginners and Beyond thumped against my threshold, my curiosity peaked.
Created by Kelcey Gray, a graphic designer who also teaches at the University of Texas at Austin, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday October 14, 2014
Art Fairs & Special Events Thursday October 17-Saturday, October
19: Gowanus Open Studios.Directory of artists, and special events, here. Various
locations, Gowanus/Park Slope. Thursday October 17-Saturday, October 19: Foley
Gallery Moving Sale and Pop-Up ExhibitionThe gallery is relocating to larger accommodations just a few blocks from where we are now, beginning on November 1 (exact location to be announced
later this month). In order to prepare, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday August 11, 2022
Last night streamed the film, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, set in Bhutan, because I wanted to watch something that was filmed somewhere interesting—not in dark studio-built interiors with actors acting like talking heads. In the process, I learned that Bhutan is a country which has recognized the supremacy of national happiness over national income since the early 1970s and famously adopted the … Read the full Story >>
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Fernanda Cohen Wednesday May 14, 2014
From children's books, to erotic drawings and political propaganda posters, at 82 the Alsatian/French illustrator Tomi Ungerer is still restless, curious and eternally self-taught, with an
insatiable thirst to learn and produce as much as possible as long as his hands and mind allow him. Tomi grew up in Alsace, where he experienced the Nazi occupation of World War II. He
remembers that since … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday December 6, 2018
As an art school student at Cooper Union during the
pre-digital era, I was given a twin-lens reflex camera to play around with. It was medium format and simple to use. One crisp autumn day I spooled in a roll of 120 Tri-X and headed to Washington
Square Park. The camera didn’t have a light meter—and neither did I. All I knew about picture-making … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday October 22, 2015
A growing cadre of young photographers, evidently responding to the Instagrammatic notion that everyone can be a photographer, is digging into the fundamentals of the medium to
visualize ideas about art. Last night a showing of works by Joseph Desler Costa opened at Foley Gallery, on the Lower East Side. Extreme Learning Machine, as the
group of 25 or so images is titled, effectively reverse engineers the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday May 12, 2016
Edel Rodriguez sent email yesterday about creating drawings for Chanel News on the occasion of the house’s first runway show in Havana, Cuba, so I sent back a few
questions. Here is what he wrote: Q: Your drawings are alive with the theme, “Viva Coco Libre”! Could this be one of your most enjoyable assignments in recent months?
A: Thanks, it was great project to be involved with. I’ve … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday December 19, 2016
Q: Originally from Kent, UK what are some of your
favorite things about living and working in nearby London? A: I love London—there is always something going on and it has a great community of illustrators and creative
freelancers. I live and have a studio in South East London so don't have to deal with the hustle and bustle of the centre of town everyday, but … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday June 18, 2025
June 20 & 21, 7:30-10pm: Van Gogh’s Flowers After Dark at NYBG
Experience Van Gogh’s Flowers after dark. The exhibition comes aglow for outings that capture the twinkling allure of the artist’s nighttime scenery. Within and around NYBG’s iconic Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, find yourself surrounded by the botanical beauty that inspired Van Gogh. Wander through a breathtaking lawn of sculptural and real … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday March 18, 2014
Art Fairs Continuing through March 22: Asia Week New York. 47 international gallery shows, 19 museum
exhibitions, 5 auction houses, the featured art ranges over millenniums and vast regions. One common thread this year is the fluidity between periods, with traditional works alongside contemporary
ones. The focus on traditional Asian forms remains, however, and you will see plenty of ceramics, bronzes, textiles and ink. … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday February 9, 2016
Special Events Thursday, February 11 -
Sunday, February 14 LA Art Book Fair. The Geffen Contemporary at MOFA, 152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA. Info Thursday, February 11 - Monday, February 15 Art Wynwood. 3101
NE 1st Avenue, Miami, FL. Info Talks / Discussions / Screenings /
and Beyond Tuesday February 09 Wendy White | On Her Work, 6;30 pm. New York Studio
School, 8 … Read the full Story >>
