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Robert Newman Thursday July 14, 2016
Michael Byers is an illustrator based in Hamilton, Ontario who creates graphic editorial illustrations and sequential comics. His work has appeared in a wide range of newspapers, magazines and
websites, including Politico, Entertainment Weekly, Fast Company, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Gawker, and many more. Byers says "I've been inspired by comic artists old and new," and the result is work
that is bright, smart, and … Read the full Story >>
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Robert Newman Thursday September 24, 2015
Jonathon Rosen an illustrator, artist, animator, graphic designer, and bookmaker who creates smart, provocative, engaging imagery with highly original style and accomplished technique. He makes
comics, editorial illustrations, drawings, art projects, animation, exhibits, books and book covers, and much more, and his work appears in a wide array of publications, galleries, performance spaces,
and other venues. Rosen also teaches illustration, cartooning, and visual narrative … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 10, 2022
Morgan Library & Museum Garden
For the first time in its 116-year history, the Morgan Library & Museum in Midtown Manhattan has opened its garden to the public. Part of a six-year $13-million “century renovation “, the garden was originally designed in 1912 by Beatrix Jones. Watch videos of subject experts on the renovation of the building’s exterior, including the bronze doors, night lighting, … Read the full Story >>
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Robert Newman Thursday July 21, 2016
Tuna Bora is a Los Angeles-based illustrator, animator, character developer, designer and artist who worked has appeared in commercials, galleries, music videos, book covers and much more. Her work is
elegant and graceful, with stylistic nods to mid-century illustration and animation. Although the bulk of Bora's work is in animation, she says "I've sampled a bit of everything." Bora works in an
eye-popping array … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday November 26, 2012
My dear Noel, I don’t know what to write to you, so I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter. So
wrote Beatrix Potter, in 1893, to Noel Moore, the young son of her former nannie, Annie Moore. This tale of disobedience begins and ends with cozy domestic details and contains a thrilling
adventure … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday March 24, 2014
Q: Originally from Connecticut, what are some of your favorite things about living in New York? A: I grew up in suburban Fairfield, Connecticut, always described, at the time, as a
bedroom community for New York City. I never really understood what that meant, though it sounded slightly licentious. My parents were public school teachers so it was really a bedroom, living room
and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday April 19, 2016
Talk / Screening / Performance / and Beyond Tuesday, April
19 Aperture and Parsons presents: Dru Donovan, 6:30 pm. Aperture Foundation, 547 West 27th Street, NY, NY. Info Design Research, Writing and Criticism presents: Mark Wasiuta | The Making of “Environmental Communications: Contact
High,” 6:30 pm. School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21st Street, NY, NY. Info The Stoop Series presents: Welcome to … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday March 11, 2020
In the interest of public health concerns regarding
COVID-19, this week’s DART Board offers a menu of exhibitions and books to visit and read rather than a list of public events. Many of this week’s events have been canceled or postponed,
especially those presented by educational institutions, so the standard offering would be a hit-or-miss mess. This just in from Printed Matter: We … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday October 9, 2019
When the poet William Butler
Yeats [above, center] had his portrait done by John Singer Sargent in 1908, he said, “I wore a velvet jacket to remind myself how important he is.” Yeats, a lynchpin of the Irish literary
scene, was one of many luminaries in the arts who was awed by Sargent’s gift for capturing the essence of those who withstood his compelling … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday December 29, 2025
This summer we spotlighted two documentaries about mothers, motherhood and photography. In July we previewed photographer Rachel Seed's film "A Photographic Memory," in which she pieced together the
life of a mother and photographer she never knew. Sheila Turner Seed died of a brain aneurysm at the age of 42 in 1978, leaving her husband, photographer Brian Seed, to raise 18-month-old Rachel. It
was … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday February 22, 2016
Q: Originally from Connecticut what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Southern California? A: Pasadena has a massive flea market down
at the Rose Bowl each month. It's like being able to snoop through some stranger's attic that’s the size of a football stadium. I rarely buy anything, rather I just keep my eyes open
and make mental notes on all … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday February 27, 2013
Photographer Michael Falco lives and shoots in the present tense, exposing thousands of digital images per week for a variety of assignments from editorial and institutional
clients. Somewhere along the way he decided to try slowing down the cycle a bit and became immersed in pinhole photography. As a reader of Civil War history, he soon found himself
immersed in a project of his … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday October 8, 2019
School of Visual Arts will
honor prolific illustrator and faculty member Steve Brodner with the 31st annual Masters Series Award and Exhibition in 2019. “The Masters Series: Steve Brodner” will be a
comprehensive retrospective of his celebrated career and include never-before-seen political art
and illustration work set along a timeline covering the past five decades. “Brodner’s pen acts as a weapon to challenge the status quo … Read the full Story >>
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Thomas Lawn Monday September 10, 2018
Tadd Myers, a photographer based just outside of Dallas in the city of Grapevine, Texas, has traveled extensively to document handmade goods and their creators for a series he calls "The American
Craftsman Project." Myers recently completed an assignment in New Zealand for the SH8 Merino farms cooperative that yielded an impressive body of work and a new promotional mailer in the form of … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday October 19, 2007
Next week, the School of Visual Arts Masters Series Award, it's highest honor, will go to one of design's most prodigious talents: Steven Heller, the legendary art director, educator, author,
editor, critic, curator, collaborator, and entrepreneur. Yesterday Steve took time out of his packed schedule to talk with me, in his office at The New York Times. Peggy
Roalf: What qualities do you … 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 Wednesday October 29, 2025
The Future Was Then | The Changing Face of Facist Italy at Poster House
In a fascist movement inspired by art, how does the fascist government influence the artists living in its grasp? This exhibition explores how Benito Mussolini’s government created a broad-reaching culture that grew with and into the Futurist movement to claw into advertising, propaganda, and the very heart of … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday April 17, 2018
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday,
April 17 New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium presents: Cento Lodigiani, 7 pm. The New School, 66 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY Info Mike
Cloud, painting today, 7 pm. The Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, NY, NY Info Marticia Sawin | Playing with Fire: Direct Metal Sculpture in the
1950s, 7:30 … Read the full Story >>
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Robert Newman Thursday October 27, 2016
Benjamin Marra is a Toronto-based illustrator, comic book artist and visual designer. He has published his own comic, Night Business, as well as graphic novels for Fantagraphics. Marra also created,
with art director Matt Dorfman, the cover for the latest edition of American Illustration, AI35. It's a brilliant, apocalyptic, nightmarishishly graphic scene; Marra says, "we wanted the cover
illustration to feel like album covers … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday June 19, 2024
Wednesday, June 19, 6-9pm: Layers of Identity at PS109
Layers of Identity, a site-responsive exhibition in the former school building's lower level, celebrates the idea that human beings are layered, the complexity of our personalities, and individual histories is what makes us interesting. The exhibition explores the layers of societal structures and personal experiences that form how we see ourselves. Above, l-r: Hollie … Read the full Story >>
