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Peggy Roalf Tuesday March 11, 2014
March 15-April 27 Fotofest 2014 Biennial. FotoFest's own exhibitions for the
15th International Biennial of Photography and Photo-related Art Biennial will focus on Contemporary Arab Video, Photography and Multi Media art. The Biennial will
showcase 48 contemporary Arab artists using photography and related visual media to address a broad range of aesthetic and cultural values impacting Arab culture. FotoFest has commissioned
one of the world’s leading experts on contemporary … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday March 3, 2015
Art Fairs & Special Events Tuesday, March 3—Thursday,
March 5 Harper’s Books presents Rare Book Room at The Carlyle Hotel. 35 East 76th Street, NY, NY. Information @harpersbooks. Ask for the Harper's Books Suite at the front desk. Wednesday, March 4- Sunday, March 8 ADAA | The Art Show, Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, NY, NY. Information … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday February 3, 2016
Amy Elkins exchanged letters with prisoners on death row, and she interspersed those letters
with images created in an effort to capture the interior landscapes evoked in these correspondences: imagined seascapes; re-creations of items described by prisoners; a prison lunch tray purchased on
eBay. She created color portraits of inmates by pixelating and obscuring their faces according to the amount of time each individual … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday October 1, 2009
The International Center of Photography's third Triennial, Dress Codes, is also the final installment in the ICP's exhibition cycle, A Year in Fashion. A global survey of
photography and video art, the triennial is the only photography exhibition program of its kind in America. This year's edition raises the bar on what has already been a dynamic take on new and
innovative … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday July 10, 2017
Q: Originally from Taiwan, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Queens? A: Working in Queens allows me to conveniently connect to the art community and
resources around Manhattan, but at the same time have more space (physically and mentally) compared to the crowded downtown. Also, the place I live is full of choices of Asian food, which I … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 12, 2021
Last March, the School of Visual Arts, where I teach, switched from in-person to online on the 11th. On March 12, as I waited for my wife to fly back to New York from a trip, I packed the car with art supplies and a portfolio of more than 30 unfinished drawings for my latest print series, as well my graphic novel-in-progress, Belfaust. … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday October 18, 2012
Growth can be slow and hard when you are groping alone. It quickens when you meet other photographers who have worked and thought intensively about their medium.
You listen, and ask, and a phrase sticks in your memory like a barb. You see a photograph that blazes with significance. Suddenly a way of working, dim till then, comes clear before you.—Minor White, 1952. … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday July 18, 2017
Q: Originally from America, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Toronto A: I was born in the States but my parents moved to Canada when I was 3 months
old. I've lived in areas surrounding Toronto all my life and currently I'm located in North York—one of Toronto’s districts which is a little more suburban. I like how … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 11, 2021
Continuing through August 20 at Pace Gallery, NYC
Alicja Kwade | TransForm
Alicja Kwade transforms materials and environs into immersive laboratories where viewers are encouraged to question their understanding of the universe that surrounds them—as she did last summer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Commission. What defines an object in Kwade’s scenarios is based on the subjective interpretation of the viewer, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday July 7, 2015
Art Fairs / Special Events Monday-Sunday, July 6-12
Opening Week | Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles. Information. Friday-Monday, July
9-13 Art Southampton. Nova's Art Project, 60 Millstone Road, Watermill, NY. Information Friday-Sunday, July 9-12 Market Art + Design, Fairview Farm at Mecox, 19 Horsemill Lane, Bridgehampton, NY. Information. Lectures / Discussions / Screenings / Performance Tuesday, July 7 The Lunchtime Lecture Series presents, Chrissie Iles, the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday May 21, 2018
Q: Originally from [where?] what are some of your favorite things about living and working in [your current locale]? A: I live in a fishing village in Sicily, Italy. I
recently left my studio in the city center to work from an old camper van. I have a few favorite spots near my home where I can park my camper van studio. (Think … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday July 8, 2021
Chain Reaction: The Photography of Patrick Nagatani
The exhibition features the entire Nuclear Enchantment series, a powerful body of work made between 1988 and 1993, which deals with the history of nuclear weapons development in New Mexico, as well as the effects of this industry on the people and places there. As a Japanese-American whose parents were both put in internment camps during WWII, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday April 14, 2021
The noted video journalist and TV documentary maker Travis Fox was an early adopter of drone aerial photography, and has since gone on to teach City University of New York's first drone journalism course at the CUNY Newmark Journalism School. His new book, Remains to be Seen (Daylight 2020) explores a disappearing but still tangible American landscape. Amid abandoned industrial sites, amusement parks, and shuttered … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday June 12, 2025
The Embedded Stitch | Wen-Jen Deng
Wen-JengDeng’s work will be on view at Manhattan’s Tenri Cultural Institute in the exhibition The Embedded Stitch – Contemporary Fiber Art from Taiwan, which opened last Friday. The title of the show draws inspiration from The Subversive Stitch(1984) by British art historian Rozsika Parker, whose influential study explored the historical relationship between women and embroidery, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday November 6, 2008
"The term 'Immagini Italian' may evoke the various travels delineated by Goethe, D.H. Lawrence, Mark Twain, and others; or, one might envision Paul Strand's people of Luzzara; the Venice of
Palladio and Canaletto, or Alfred Stieglitz's Venetian boy. Pictures of piazzas articulated by magnificent duomos, packs of tourists with umbrella-waving guides, landscapes - seductive, verdant,
timeless, surreal, Felliniesque - all come to mind. And … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday March 3, 2023
Wangechi Mutu, an artist who divides her time between New York and her native Nairobi, has made her presence felt here since the late 1990s. Once moved in to study at the New School, then earning her BA at Cooper Union School of Art and later an MFA at Yale, she began making art that went against the grain of prevailing trends. She made … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 30, 2018
Painted in Mexico, 1700-1790: Pinxit Mexici, currently on view at The Met, brings a soul-stirring correction to myths that surround the extraordinary art of colonial Mexico. This show
of more than 100 paintings, most of which have never been exhibited or published before, and half of which were restored specifically for this exhibition, was years in the making. Organized
by Los Angeles County Museum … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday August 22, 2016
Q: Originally from Winchester, Indiana, what are some of your favorite things about living and working not far from your old hometown? A: I was born and raised on a small dairy farm
an hour and a half east of Indianapolis, Indana. After Living in Cincinnati and then Los Angles, my wife and I landed back in Indiana 15 years ago to start a … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday April 23, 2009
Left: Shipwreck and salmon fishermen on the Columbia
River between Washington and Oregon, 2007. Right: The road to Forks, Washington, 2006. Both copyright Eirik Johnson, courtesy G. Gibson Gallery. Thursday, April 23, 7:00 pm: Book
signing and reception for Magnum photographers and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and MalariaAccess to Life, photographs by Jonas Bendiksen (Haiti), Jim Goldberg
(India), Alex … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday July 1, 2020
The artistry of Milton Glaser is surely key to the mark
he has left on our ways of looking at, and thinking about, the world we live in. In his seven decades behind a pencil, Milton looked/thought twice about more subjects than there is space here to
mention. But just considering a few ideas that made New York Magazine completely unique when it broke … Read the full Story >>
