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Peggy Roalf Tuesday March 22, 2016
Talk / Discussion / Screening / and Beyond/ Tuesday, March 22
The Griot, The Parrhesiac, The Cannibal, The Oversharer, The Artist, The Realist, with Devin Kenny, 7 pm. The Rose Auditorium, Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square
(Third Avenue between 6-7th Streets), NY, NY. Info John Cyr | Photographic Processes, 7
pm. Penumbra Foundation, 36 East 30th Street, NY, NY. Info
Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel, Studio Job | Monkey Business, Discussion, with Dennis Freedman … Read the full Story >>
Flipboard Wednesday October 15, 2014
The top DFLA posts from September are now on view at Flipboard, the app that brings you content from your favorite websites in a magazine-style format. Also look for Flipboard posts from our sister
newsletters, Pro Photo Daily, Motion Arts Pro, and DART: Design Arts Daily.
(Once you’ve downloaded the app, you must subscribe to the newsletter to access the DFLA content—see button at top.) Among the posts up now: A look at New York City-based photographer
Stefan Falke’s “La Frontiera” project, which looks at artists and the burgeoning cultural movement along the Mexico/United States border. Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday May 10, 2012
Photographer and writer Will Steacy invited 63 others to “abandon the conventional tools needed to make a photograph, and,
instead, make one using words to describe the memories and experiences that didn’t go through the camera lens.” Photographs Not Taken (Daylight 2012) is a collection of essays that “allow us to look directly into the photographer’s mind and eye and
focus on where … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday March 26, 2015
One of the most interesting questions answered in the DART Artist Q&A is, “What do you like best about teaching?” Baltimore-based artist and designer
Whitney Sherman answered the question in January. She wrote, “I teach at the Maryland Institute College of Art. For many years, I taught part-time in illustration and design (then called Visual Communications).
“Through my position as Co-Director of Dolphin Press … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday July 15, 2014
Tuesday, July 15 Opening reception and book launch, 6-8 pm: Brian Rose | Metamorphosis: Meatpacking District
1985-2013. Dillon Gallery 555 West 25thStreet, NY, NY. Information. Wednesday, July 16 Artist talk/demonstration, 6 pm: Rosaire Appell | Book
experiments, asemic writing, abstract comics, mark making and more. Bring a favorite tool to participate. The Center for Book
Arts, 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor, NY, NY. $10/$5. Information. In … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday September 6, 2012
Henry Horenstein has probably taught more photographers and snapshooters than any other person working today (or at any time, for that
matter), between his classes at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and his “basic
manuals” on Black & White and Digital Photography. When he was a student at RISD, the advice given him by his teacher, Harry Callahan, was to photograph people and places that … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday November 24, 2015
Artist, designer and long-time DART subscriber Jeanne Verdoux has a multi-pronged art practice that continues to expand. Widely known for her ink drawings of people on the subway, inscribed onto New Yorker magazine subscription cards, she also makes photography a medium for her narrative
art. [info] Earlier this year, the Paris-born Verdoux created a mural
for a French restaurant, LES Enfants de Bohème, located on the fringes of the Lower … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday November 21, 2014
The other day, I was wondering where the next good idea for something new was hidden when the following message came in from John Cuneo. This is what he
wrote: At an International Summit the President attended last week, Climate Change was on the agenda. At about the same time, Kim Kardashian's ass
was on mine. There is a kind of liberation in pitching … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday July 22, 2013
This June the School of Visual Arts launched the new MFA Visual Narrative program, “Story Visualized.” Chaired by illustrator/comic book artist Nathan Fox, the
low residency program brings students to New York City for three summers connected by two years of online study during the fall and spring semesters. The summer sessions concentrate on advanced
writing, digital media and technique-based workshops. Working in tandem, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday July 10, 2013
Ellen Weinstein is an artist who knows her heroes. In her blog she noted, “Norman Rockwell said, ‘If a picture wasn’t going very well, I’d put a puppy in
it.’ Why stop at one?” The drawing she made in response [below] landed on The Atlantic Magazine’s “Gallery Page.” Ellen recently took time out from art
and teaching to do the DART Q&A. Here’s what … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday August 28, 2015
Wilderness, or wildness, is a mystique. A religion, an intense
philosophy, a dream of ideal society—these are also mystiques. As the fisherman depends upon the river, lakes and seas, and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind …
depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence. —Ansel Adams, from a speech to … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday November 19, 2012
At the AI-AP launch party on November 9th, I ran into Zachary Zezima, the artist who created the multilayered cover art for
the eye that wraps AI31. He agreed to tell DART subscribers how this incredibly intricate piece of art came about: Q: I understand that you landed the AI31 cover assignment because you had created a small edition self-published book on the subject … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday January 19, 2010
Last week DART experienced some technical problems. In the course of retrenching, I overlooked some important information in Thursday's post: Photographer
Beth Dow is represented in New York City by Jen Bekman. Having seen her work myself, I can say that the prints must be seen to be appreciated. Here is a look at Dow's recent series, Ruins, accompanied by an extract … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday July 29, 2010
Just two months ago, Lincoln Center reopened its public plaza, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfrew Architects. Some of the
key features on North Plaza include a new reflecting pool that replaces the original Dan Kiley design, which suffered leaks so serious that, from the outset, the arts complex was known to insiders
as "Leaky Center." The new incarnation seems smaller, if only because … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday December 16, 2015
Last month on my way to LES galleries I ran into an
artist painting a mural on storefront gates at Orchard and Grand. The artist was Marcellus Hall, a DART Q&A featured artist, Book Prize winner and longtime subscriber. Here's his story about the
mural, told in Q&A form this week: What is there about mural painting that engages you? I was [commissioned by … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday September 17, 2013
Art Fair Confidential September 19-22: The NY Art Book Fair 2013. Information. September 19-22: Expo Chicago 2013. Information. September
19-22: Houston Fine Art Fair. Information. September 16-18: Art International Istanbul. Information. September 18-22: Art Moscow. Information. September
19-22: ABC Art Berlin Contemporary. Information. September 19-22: Preview Berlin. InformationEdward Burtynsky, Oil Spill … Read the full Story >>
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David Butow Thursday January 8, 2015
Selma. Little Rock. Fruitvale Station. The crossroads of Florence
& Normandie. These are well known as points on a map and as points of collision where events still carry both cultural and historic resonance. And now Ferguson,
Missouri, a tiny suburb of St. Louis, is such a place. It is a modern Rorschach test in America's social fabric. What happened there in 2014 depends on how you … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday December 30, 2013
I met Mathieu Renard, artist and publisher of LENDROIT Éditions last summer in France, and again this fall at the NYArt Book Fair. Amid the chaos of the NYABF, his cutting-edge limited edition books, prints, and art posters stood out, attracting a steady flow of buyers and browsers during the time I was visiting his booth.
I caught up with Mathieu again, last week, for a Q&A about art … Read the full Story >>
Flipboard Monday May 5, 2014
You can now access the top PPD posts from April at Flipboard, the app that brings you content from your favorite websites in a magazine-style format. As we’ve noted before, Flipboard is a great
way to view this newsletter and our other publications, Motion Arts Pro, Dispatches From Latin America, and DART: Design Arts Daily, on your tablet or smartphone. (Once you’ve downloaded the app, you must subscribe to the
newsletter to access the MAP posts—see button at top.) Among the posts up this month are a look at 101 photo industry leaders to follow on Twitter and 27 talented pro and amateur photographers
to follow on Twitter. Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday June 5, 2015
National trauma is a subject of increasing interest to academics, scientists, scholars, as well as the general public. As zones of civil conflict expand, with borders and fronts often
indefinable; as natural and industrial disasters unfold with increasing frequency; as individuals with unpredictable agendas shoot to kill in unlikely places around the world, news media outlets are
increasingly impacted by the dangers inherent in … Read the full Story >>
