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Peggy Roalf Thursday June 21, 2012
The Fence, a 1000-foot-long photo exhibition
that runs from Pier 1 to Pier 3 along the Brooklyn waterfront, is now being installed. Selected from a juried competition, it includes work by Alejandra Carles-Tolra,
Alejandro Chaskielberg, Anne Berry, Anne-Sophie Stolz, Barry Rosenthal, Bojune Kwon, Brenda Islas, Dirk Anschütz, Elizabeth Herman, Elliot Ross, Emily Schiffer, Erik
Klein Wolterink, Gesche Würfel, Gregg Segal, Ilona Szwarc, Jeffrey Stockbridge, Jens Sundheim, Jonathan Auch, Julia Curtin, Kerry Mansfield,
Landon Nordeman, MASTODON (Massimo Mastrorillo / Donald Weber), Melissa Cacciola, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday January 18, 2013
Gigi Giannuzzi, who died on Christmas Eve at the age of 49, founded Trolley Books in 2001 and, as Sara Rosen writes in a tribute at Le Journal de la Photography, he leaves behind more than a decade of art and photography books dedicated to truth, justice, and beauty. Born Luigi Giannuzzi
in Rome, he was raised in northern Italy. He landed his first … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday June 7, 2016
Special Events Monday, June 13-Sunday June
19 Look3 Photo Festival. Charlottesville, VA. Info Talks / Discussions / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, June
7 The Magic Flulte, Part Three: Press Conference, with Michel Auder, Jonathan Berger, Vaginal
Davis, Susanne Sachsse, Jamie Stewart/Xiu Xiu, and Michael Stickrod,6:30 pm. Goethe-Institut New York, 30 Irving Place, NY, NY. Info Also at 80WSE Gallery, NYU. Info Martha Rosler | If you can’t afford to live here, mo-o-ove!!, 6-8
pm. Mitchell-Innes & … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday January 9, 2025
Above Ground: Art from the Martin Wong Graffitti Collection, on view at Museum of the City of New York, centers on the many artists who transitioned from illegally writing on subway cars to creating paintings on canvas and exhibiting in galleries and museums. Their works embody an important transitional moment for the movement’s evolution, as it permeated into broader consciousness and significantly influenced global … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday January 7, 2010
Last Friday's WeekendArts sections of the
New York Times had opening page collages by Lou Beach that reminded me of Surrealist stage designs done by Christian Berard in the 1950s. The deep perspective and inviting
colors made me want to see a dance performance, go to a flick or read a good book. So I emailed Lou to ask about his art and process. … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday July 29, 2013
Edel Rodriguez is an illustrator whose style can’t be pigeonholed—he reaches into a mental resource bin informed by revolution, consumerism, pop art and
Modernism and in the process, creates something right on every try. But I must confess, his portrait of Chairman Mao for a 2005 TIME magazine cover is an image lodged in my brain. I recently asked Edel to take the DART Artist Q&A, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday October 22, 2018
Q: Originally from [where?] what are some of your favorite things about living and working in [your current locale]? A. I was born in Madrid, Spain, where I grew up,
studied something unrelated to art and started working on corporate stuff everybody else seemed to care more than I did. Right before it was too late I got accepted at the School … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday February 12, 2025
The exhibition, This Beautiful Light, is presented by White Cube in celebration of the centenary of the birth of Etel Adnan (1925–2021), a leading artistic and literary voice of Arab-American culture. This poet, novelist, journalist, and artist grew up speaking Arabic and Greek at home, and was educated in French and English. She began to paint in the late 1950s, while working as … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday April 16, 2018
The LP—or long-playing record—will be 70 years old this June. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, the micro-groove 12-inch vinyl disc, rotating at 33-1/3 revs per minute
revolutionized the music business, and still remains the standard for non-digital sound recording. But it wasn’t until rock and roll took over from pop music that album art became a
design niche. The first record released by … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday March 23, 2022
Wednesday March 20, 6:30 pm: Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya | Raise Your Voice, at MCNY
These site-specific murals by Brooklyn-based artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya mixes selections from the public art campaign “We Are More” with original artwork of historical activist figures Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama. Both Harlem-based, these leaders became friends and allies in their campaigns against racism and war, and inspired future generations of activists in … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday January 27, 2022
As we approach year two of this pandemic, many people are reflecting on how they got through it. Subscriber Matt Hebermehl is no exception: he sent a copy of his self-published book, Covid Calls, and joined me for an email conversation this week about the book and about art in general.
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the pen or the brush?
Matt … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday December 7, 2015
Q: Originally from Ontario, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Maryland? A: I was born and raised in beautiful, cosmopolitan Toronto, Canada,
surrounded by museums, galleries, parks, and countless phenomenal gastro destinations. In 2004 I moved to quaint historic Frederick, Maryland, an hour from both Baltimore and Washington DC.
I absolutely love the friendly, arts-rich character of historic downtown Frederick. I live and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday December 4, 2017
Q: What are some of your favorite things about living and working in London? A: I’ve been here my whole life really, apart from a few years away at university. After graduating
around five years ago I moved to East London. There’s lots of creative people to meet around here, and good galleries too. The galleries and museums in central London are great and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday February 5, 2021
Last summer, four students in the School of Visual Arts BFA Interior Design: Built Environments program took on the challenge of COVID-19 by dreaming up hotel-style spaces for the 14-day quarantine experience. The description for Carol Bentel’s course states that these innovative structures, each completely unique, hold up to 20 inhabitants, allowing guests to feel less isolated while still being apart. Above: Quarantine … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday November 6, 2006
American Illustration's 25th anniversary timeline features 25 illustrations by 25 of today's top artists. Bending time, space, and perspective, these artists push the boundaries of visual
expression, creating an artistic Utopia that is diverse and subversive in both subject and execution. 1997: Hale-Bopp, The Great Comet, by Karen Barbour The great comet approached the earth on March 22nd, not to return until
4397.Karen … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday August 8, 2019
Peggy
Roalf: As President of the upcoming ICON11Illustration Conference, would you tell the readers—many of whom are creatives and artists who
are hoping to attend—what will set this edition apart from its predecessors? Bri Hermanson: ICON is such a unique conference. Historically, ICON has been committed to providing a
diverse forum for an ongoing dialogue that serves the illustration, design, publishing, advertising, and academic … Read the full Story >>
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Matthew Carson Thursday August 21, 2014
By making life more interesting for others, we may indirectly help to alleviate the human condition. We up your aesthetic quality of life, we up your creativity. We celebrate the
ordinary.- N.E.Thing Company Throwing Camera Photographs is a book that I came across a few years ago courtesy of David Senior in the MoMA library.
It was great. I realized that before the Panono camera, there were the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday July 13, 2023
“She always has her nose in a book.” As a kid I got used to hearing this from my grandmother, who really believed that idle hands were the Devil’s workshop. Luckily my parents appreciated my obsession, which has persisted almost undiminished. So today’s post is a a public service for the like-minded—all of you who would take an afternoon in a hammock with a … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday October 26, 2016
As the post-crash-of-08 economic recovery continues to stimulate a freelance sub-economy, lifestyles have changed dramatically. With the best jobs in cities and metros with limited space for
entry-level living, “co” is here to stay. Whether it’s co-living, co-working, or even the most extreme version, nomadic living and working, 20-somethings, unwittingly the most
Darwinian of humans to date, are adapting to—and inventing—ways of living that … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday January 13, 2014
Originally from Hong Kong, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in New York? The Illustration Community, Society of Illustrators, the Food, the
Museums, the Music Scene.etc. The real question is, what’s NOT to love about New York? How and when did you first become interested in art and illustration? As a
kid, I always loved to draw. My parents were very … Read the full Story >>
