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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 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 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 >>
AI-AP Wednesday January 13, 2016
If you haven’t done so already, prepare your submissions for the American Photography 32 competition. The deadline is January 22. Entering comes with privileges, such as having your work seen by
a jury of top creative professionals, who often make assignments on the spot. Entrants receive a 53-percent discount on the AP annual published in November, as well an an invitation to the AI-AP Big
Talk symposium and The Party that follows. They also receive free subscriptions to PPD, Motion Arts Pro, Profiles, Dispatches from Latin America, and DART: Design Arts Daily. (But you may have already
known that.) Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday May 26, 2011
Special for DART Subscribers: $100 discount for tickets to ABSTRACT: The Future of Design in Media Conference, which will take place on June 10, 2011 in Portland, Maine. It is
organized and hosted by AIGA Maine. The conference will bring together leading graphic designers and innovators to share their views on the changing media
landscape, to inspire and challenge, and to help … 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 >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday October 16, 2012
Thursday October 18-Sunday October 21: Texas Contemporary Art Fair. George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston,
TX.Information. Friday October 19-Sunday October 21: Noon-6
pm: High Line Artists’ Open Studios. Information/Map. Saturday, October
20-Sunday, October 21: The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center presents: Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST) 2012. Information/Map. Tuesday, October 16 Book signing/panel
discussion, 7 pm: Join Francoise Mouley, Nora … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday July 21, 2009
If all that you knew about Isabel Toledo was the elegant lemongrass yellow ensemble that Michelle Obama wore to her husband's inauguration, don't miss the
exhibition of her couture fashions currently on view at The Museum at FIT. Toledo, who is often called "a designer's designer," is something of a cult figure and, very
definitely, an iconoclast. Her last runway show under her … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday September 18, 2018
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / Fairs / and Beyond Thursday, September
20-Sunday, September 23 Photoville 2018, gates 4 pm: Exhibitions, talks, workshops, activities &
tours, special events, and beer garden. Info Brooklyn Bridge Park under the Brooklyn Bridge/Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY Info/ Visit Danspace Project | Times Square. 3 site-specific commissions. Info Thursday, September 20 Allen Hansen … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 11, 2019
It is hard to imagine how
New York City as a destination for art could be improved upon, with its wealth of venues offering—in some cases—24/7 access to art of all kinds. But this week ushers in the physical
results of the vision and commitment of two leaders in the field. Photo above, courtesy of Pace Gallery Downtown, the family-owned, commercial Pace Gallery has … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday May 23, 2024
Woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e (''the floating world'') have had a lasting effect on Western art. Their pictorial and printmaking innovations have reverberated in the works of Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, notably Monet, van Gogh and Whistler—especially the work of Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). This artist, who was of the samurai class, is probably best known for the series, 100 Famous Views of Edo. … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday March 29, 2012
Opening night for The AIPAD Photography Show at the Park Avenue Armory amassed a throng of collectors, art dealers, photographers, and members of the
press – among them, Bill Cunningham of the New York Times (bottom row right). The newly renovated Wade Thompson Drill Hall has never offered a better home for North America's premier
photo show; everything about the setting, from the gorgeous … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday March 21, 2024
“if you can’t make it big, make it red.” A favorite, often misquoted art school saw was best exemplified—at least for this writeropposiin the form of the big, red and shiny 3D piece of typography that once marked the entrance to 9 West 57th Street, NYC—a prime location opposite a luxury retail strip, built in 1974 by developer Sheldon Solow.
A regular commuter to … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday June 7, 2019
PR: Where do you live and how does that place contribute to your creative work? Dasha Tolstikova: I live in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. It’s sort of remote
where I am. It feels like you are in the countryside when you are here. I really like this. I like being close to the city but also having this escape hatch from the insanity of Manhattan. I … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday April 18, 2019
Peggy Roalf: Which came
first, the pen or the brush? Daniel Baxter: I've always gravitated towards working with lines, and still do today. When painting, I am in currently in love with dry-brush
technique. PR: How did you decide on art as your métier? DB: As a teenager, I was a dreamer by nature, and felt comfortable with the idea of being an artist. But this
was a … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday February 12, 2015
As western leaders worked overnight, in Minsk, to negotiate a cease-fire in the
conflict in eastern Ukraine, heavy fighting is said to have escalated. The ceasefire, described as "fragile," goes into effect at midnight [GMT] on Saturday. Information. Meanwhile, in the old city of Kiev, overlooking the shipyards of Podil,
the Izolyatsia Foundation of Donetsk boldly continues its exhibition, education, and outreach programs in … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday August 7, 2015
For the DART Book Prize Contest last week, subscribers were invited to guess where in France I was at the time. And the
winner is: Joy Hecht, of Canada. She wrote: I'd say this photo was taken on the north-west bank of the Bassin de la Villette, looking towards the Passerelle de la
Mosell—Paris, 19ème. Or geocoordinates as shown on the attached satellite image—48 … Read the full Story >>
