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Peggy Roalf Wednesday July 15, 2015
Tomorrow night, Thursday, July 16, the glitterati of typography will converge live, at Strand Books, for an evening of typographic intrigue. Type Nite, presented by
the Type Directors Club, in collaboration with Princeton Architectural Press, and Designers & Books, will be a star-studded evening, with discussion, signings and prizes. In front of a live
audience, Tobias Frere-Jones, Peter Mendelsund, Abbott Miller, and Ellen Lupton will show us their projects that went … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday March 18, 2016
DART Subscribers in the News Photo
above: John Doe and Exene (X), NYC, © 1982, Photographed by Laura Levine, courtesy the artist. Saturday, March 19 Marcos Chin | Fairies in Wonderland, 4 pm. Artist talk and book signing for Marcos’s new coloring book, published by
Harper Collins. BookCourt, 163 Court Street (between Pacific and Dean Streets), Brooklyn, NY. (Subways: 4/5 to Borough Hall, and F/G to … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday October 16, 2015
The October 1 edition of DART, 150 Years of Wonderland at the
Morgan, found its way to the Marketing Department at the British Library, which wrote yesterday to inform me that the original manuscript of Alice Under Ground has
been digitized and made available for everyone to read by "turning the pages". The story about how the manuscript came into the possession of … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday October 2, 2024
Saturday, October 5, 3pm: Works in Public, Riverside Park North
The Art Students League of New York and The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation present Works in Public 2024, a year-round outdoor public art exhibition at Riverside Park in Manhattan. The exhibition features four new site-specific sculptures by League artists: Patricia Espinosa and Malin Abrahamsson [above] in Riverside Park North … Read the full Story >>
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Dart Admin Friday December 8, 2006
Art Basel Miami Beach went oceanside to celebrate our planet in a happy reunion of
visiting ambassadors from the seven corners of space. The beach was breezy, the skies were blue, the band was brassy and the balloons bodacious. Scion, along with FriendsWithYou, presented
Skywalkers, a parade of giant blimps, on the opening day of North America's biggest art fair. Advertised as Public Art … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday July 5, 2024
With the holiday weekend bringing spare hours that many readers would like to spend reading, today we are updating the long-running DART feature on indie booksellers. If your neighborhood has hosted any more of these most-wanted treasures, please let me know!
Bureau of General Services/Queer Division 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, is a queer cultural center, bookstore, and event space that seeks to … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday November 22, 2017
A bird in hand is something to be thankful for, and here is a beautiful
illustration of the old proverb, courtesy the American Folk Art Museum. Some scholars believe that the saying warns against high-risk enterprises while other readings of the meaning refer to medieval
falconry where a bird in the hand (the falcon) is a valuable asset and arguably worth more than two … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 8, 2014
When recently retired mayor Mike Bloomberg announced his plan for mandatory composting in New York City last June, the idea was met with derisive groans from media outlets and much of the
public. Going from unimaginable mountains of trash to a “Zero Waste to Landfill” metropolis is the proverbial mountain moving problem made real. So when a press release from Simon
Fraser University … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday February 25, 2010
THE HUMAN DESIRE TO ANTHROPOMORPHIZE ANIMALS SEEMS TO BE UNBOUNDED. From doggie dress ups, canine birthday parties and pet cemeteries to the time-honored use of animals as product
spokescritters - I'm thinking of canned tuna here - there seems to be no limit to the imagination and creativity thrown in that direction. Tuesday's DART touched on a more high-minded view of this phenomenon in … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday April 9, 2010
The annual New York destination for alternative sequential art, the MoCCA Festival, arrives early this year - it's on this weekend at the 69th Regiment Armory. Each year artists and
publishers look forward to the event as if it were a love fest, and this one's no exception. Here's the talk from the street: Steven Guarnaccia, Illustration Program Chair at
Parsons the New School … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday April 28, 2010
In just two weeks the photo world will converge on DUMBO, Brooklyn for The New York Photography Festival. Founded by Daniel Power of powerHouse Books and Frank Evers of VII Photo Agency - both
based in the creative media center of DUMBO - the festival has proved to be recession proof: the third annual event has expanded, with more locations, more programming and extended … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday December 10, 2013
Tuesday, December 10 Opening reception, 7-9 pm: Typhoon Haiyan Benefit Auction and Exhibition. The Lodge Gallery, 131 Chrystie Street, NY, NY. Friends of Friends presents, 6-8:30 pm: Friends of Friends Photography
Auction for children’s medical care in Asia. Metropolitan Pavilion, 123 East 18th Street, 2nd Floor, NY, NY. Information. View the catalog. Wednesday, December 11 Panel discussion, 6-8 pm: The Missing Link in Post-War art |
Salvatore Emblema. Bosi Contemporary, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday March 4, 2008
Unsettled weather, the Ides of March, the seesaw election campaigns -- or whatever - have inspired artists and galleries to hang some edgy work this month. Some of the titles are spooky too:
Little Deaths All the Same, at 31 Grand; My Vacation with a Kidnapper, at Envoy; I Am Who I Pretend to Be at Randall Scott Gallery. But there's also … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday May 6, 2016
Frieze New York, through Sunday, May
8. Randall’s Island, NY, NY. Info Tickets: $49/$29 Info Transportation: bus from Guggenheim Museum or Ferry from Pier 11 Info Art New York, through Sunday, May 8. Pier 94, 12th Avenue
at 55th Street, NY, NY. Info Context New York, through Sunday, May
8. Pier 94, 12th Avenue and Westside Highway, NY, NY. Info Tickets:
$75/$40/$25 are good for both Context and Art … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday September 1, 2015
Opening this fall in New York City: Picasso Sculpture at MoMA. The largest museum exhibition of
Picasso’s sculptures to take place in the United States in nearly half a century, the exhibition brings together around 150 sculptures from Picasso’s entire career via loans from major
public and private collections in the U.S. and abroad, with the largest selection of works coming from the Musée national Picasso–Paris. With … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday June 7, 2012
What is ICON7 The Illustration Conference?
In random order, according to friends who have attended, it is: A movable feast of talks, meetups, and fun stuff centered on illustration that happens every
other year in a different location. I guess you could call it an arty rave party. A trip to the bountiful, to catch up with old friends and make some new ones in … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday September 12, 2025
The Noguchi Museum celebrates its 40th anniversary this year with a special exhibition, Against Time, which presents works from the Museum’s original second floor installation of 1988. Curated by Matthew Kirsch, Noguchi Museum Curator and Director of Research, uses as its basis the catalogue The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987), written by Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) as a guide to … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday November 22, 2011
Alison Rossiter, Fuji Gaslight,
exact expireation date unknown, ca. 1920s, processed in 2010. Save the date: November 30, 7 pm, Photographers Lecture Series at ICP. Information. Tuesday, November 22 Opening reception, 6 pm:
Pharmacophore: Architectural Placebo, an installation and dance performance collaboration with HAt and dancer/choreographer Silas Reiner (who will be joined by his Merce
Cunningham colleagues Rashaun Mitchell, Jamie … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday February 25, 2014
News Brief February 24, New York: Mark Lubell, Director of the International Center of Photography, announced the 2014
recipients of the Infinity Awards: Cornell Capa Lifetime Achievement: Jürgen Schadeberg Art: James Welling Fashion: Steven Klein Photojournalism: Stephanie
Sinclair and Jessica Dimmock Publication: Holy Bible by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin (Mack/AMC, 2013) Young Photographer: Samuel A. James The awards will be presented at
the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday November 30, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 6:30 pm: Aperture presents Daniel Gordon on his large color photographs, including Flying Pctures (powerHouse Books, 2009), in the Parsons Lecture
Series. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 546 West 27 Street, 4th floor, NY, NY. Free. Tuesday, November 30: Last chance for
Vogue'ology, an exhibition created by the Ballroom Archive & Oral History Project and the sound art collective Ultra-red, in … Read the full Story >>
