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Flipboard Monday July 7, 2014
The top PPD posts from June 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, Motional Arts Pro, Dispatches From Latin America, and DART: Design Arts Daily.
(Once you’ve downloaded the app, you must subscribe to the newsletter to access the PPD content—see button at top.) Among the posts up this month: All the news about the new Nikon D810
DSLR, and the story of how photojournalist Ben Lowy struck up a conversation with a homeless man in New York City, only to learn that he was speaking to a former news photographer who had run into
hard times. Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday September 26, 2014
The ninth annual NY Art Book Fair runs from Friday through Sunday at MoMA PS 1. Organized by Printed Matter, the event will bring
together over 230 exhibitors from 29+ countries in high-ceilinged galleries that would otherwise sit empty, awaiting installation of PS 1’s fall exhibitions. Join another 25,000 artists,
book buyers, collectors, dealers, curators, independent publishers, DIY book-makers and other enthusiasts at the fair—to … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday April 19, 2012
Lost moments, missed opportunities, or “a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or reduced in any way”: at a time when not taking a
photograph is equivalent to not chatting on the mobile, for a professional photographer, not taking a photograph is equivalent to allowing the world edit itself, as stated above by Simon Roberts.
Photographer and writer Will Steacy invited 63 others to … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 29, 2018
The DART Summer Invitational, Pimp Your Sketchbook, continues with pages by Catherine Lepp, a Bushwick-based artist who paints in oils and other media. My sketchbooks are visual
diaries full of notes, scribbles and drawings from life. They are where I work out problems, painting ideas and practice my process. I like the 9 x12 hard bound sketchbooks with
smooth Bristol paper that are … Read the full Story >>
Flipboard Tuesday April 8, 2014
You can now access the top PPD posts from March 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 PPD posts—see button at top.) Among the posts up this month are a look at the insanely dangerous selfies made by a Russian daredevil atop skyscrapers and a discussion
about accusations of abuse hurled at photographer Terry Richardson. Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday April 13, 2023
Artist Mark Todd, a long-time DART subscriber and multiple AI awardee, is presenting a large selection of hand-painted movie posters from Ghana, West Africa. In an email exchange this week he wrote:
These wild posters were once the product of a much larger industry known as the Ghanaian Mobile Cinema”. This business started in the late 1980’s when Ghanain entrepreneurs formed video clubs. With a … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday November 2, 2006
IN ALBERS AND MOHOLY-NAGY: FROM THE BAUHAUS TO THE NEW WORLD, opening today at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Modernism meets Postmodernism head-on. Here a posthumous visual dialog between two
artists of the Bauhaus school is placed inside a building designed by a Bauhaus-trained architect in such a way as to be more an art installation than a straightforward art exhibition. Amid the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday December 21, 2015
Q: Originally from Turkey, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in California? A: Originally from Istanbul, I live and work in
Los Angeles. I love LA for there is more to explore than what meets the eye at first read. There are all sorts of stories hidden everywhere, perhaps under the surface of a dingy local bar, or a … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday February 5, 2025
Bringing a major exhibition of work by the great German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in celebration of the artist’s 250th birthday in 2024, is a hard sell. So much so that the German ambassador to the United States, Andreas Michaelis, quietly informed visitors to the media preview on Monday why this artist, revered in Germany and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday September 17, 2020
As the Fall season approaches, more live art events are opening
to the public. Museums are gradually reopening as timed ticked events, and most galleries still require reservations. So this might be good news for art lovers who want to leave their zoom
box. Tonight, 25 galleries on the Lower East Side will stay open from 4 to 8 pm. From Foxy productions, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday November 8, 2016
As I sat down to post this page, it was just 10 hours until the polls
would open here in OFC. And it’s funny how my barely contained revulsion about politics this year has turned into a kind of mild feeling of regret that’s almost-but-not-quite nostalgic. So
I'll plan to hit the polling place early enough to get my authentic “I Voted” sticker. But … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday October 15, 2025
Thursday, October 16, 6-8pm: Opening Rception, Edward Gorey at Society of Illustrators
The Society of Illustrators presents a new exhibition, Something Else Entirely: The Illustration Art of Edward Gorey, celebrating the centenary of the birth of artist and writer Edward Gorey (1925-2000). Known for his obsessively detailed pen and ink drawings, Edward Gorey published more than one hundred titles himself and illustrated hundreds of … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday May 5, 2011
The third annual Creative Week launches Monday, May 9th, with a blizzard of events celebrating creativity in design, advertising, new media, and the arts in general.
Every day until Sunday, May 15th, there will be numerous events to choose from. What makes Creative Week such a feast is that it includes programs of all kinds, from lectures,
presentations, job fairs, and demonstrations to networking … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday December 17, 2014
The DART Artist Q&A, which has been running for over a year and a half, currently includes the question, “What would you have for your last supper?”
Mikel Jaso, an artist living in Barcelona, recently replied, “My mother’s Spanish omelette.” Intrigued, I asked for the recipe and made it last
Sunday. No wonder it’s Mikel's choice for the last tasty morsel on his last … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday July 9, 2014
The Museum of Arts and Design is shaking off a long-running identity crisis with NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial. Celebrating craftsmanship and creativity today, the exhibition
presents work by 100 artists, designers, and artisans from New York City’s five boroughs. The museum has recently focused more on art and design than hands-on craftsmanship in order to
make what was felt to be a … Read the full Story >>
Flipboard Tuesday April 8, 2014
You can now access the top MAP posts from March 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, Pro Photo Daily, 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 the young stars of Vine video, our BTS look at the making of a Mariah Carey music video, and a
guide to what not to do when making a no-budget film. Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday August 31, 2006
New York’s gallery scene is about to launch its new season come September, with First Thursday openings all over town. If the crowds swarming Chelsea’s galleries are anything like
they were last fall, get ready for the biggest peripatetic party of the year.But for now, steal an hour for a quiet visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s small, elegaic
exhibition, “On Photograpy: A … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday June 10, 2013
Lauren Simkin Berke is a hands-on artist from the ground up. What I mean by this is: She draws like a demon [on paper!], and digs
through bins of vintage photos and ephemera at flea markets and elsewhere to find reference material for her art. She recently took time away from her work to do the DART Q&A. Here’s what
she wrote: As an artist, what are … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 22, 2018
Twenty-eighteen
marks the 50thanniversary of a year of world-wide protest. From the March 17thanti-war demonstrations, in London; to the Poor People’s Campaign occupation of the National
Mall in Washington [May-June]; to the violent Events of May, in Paris, which brought all of France to a standstill; to the Columbia University Students for a Democratic Society strike and occupation
of the administration; to the liberalizing … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday March 13, 2014
Given the power and pervasiveness of photography in both art and everyday life, what is the significance of the rapid and fundamental changes that the field is undergoing? How have
social media, digital cameras, and amateur photojournalism altered the way photographs capture the everyday, define current events, and steer social and political movements? How have
photographers responded to these shifting conditions, as well as … Read the full Story >>
