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Peggy Roalf Tuesday November 4, 2014
Special Events Wednesday, November 5 & Thursday, November
6 The BIG TALK & The Party. Come celebrate, with AI-AP/DART. Information. [Online registration is closed; tickets for The Party are available at the door.] November 5-9 IFPDA Print Fair 2014. Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, at 67th Street, NY, NY. Information. November 6-9 EAB Editions/Artists’
Books Fair. 306 West 37th … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday April 16, 2025
Special public preview, Thursday, April 17, noon-8pm: Rashid Johnson | A Poem for Deep Thinkers at the Guggenheim
For nearly 30 years, artist Rashid Johnson (b. 1977, Chicago) has cultivated a diverse body of work that draws upon an array of disciplines such as history, philosophy, literature, and music. This major solo exhibition highlights Johnson’s role as a scholar of art history, a … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday December 11, 2012
Tuesday, December 11 Panel, 6-9 pm: Stock Film Footage Today | Creative Uses and
Licensing. Parsons the New School for Design, Theresa Lang Student Center, 55 West 13thStreet, 2nd Floor, NY, NY. Information. The early years at Aperture, 7:00 pm: The Minor White Years | A
Conversation with Peter C. Bunnell and Diana Stoll. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, NY, NY. Information. … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday April 15, 2020
Yesterday Maria Santto, one
of my students in the full-time Photojournalism/Documentary Program at ICP back in the day, wrote in to share her lockdown experience: “A State of Emergency was declared in
Finland on the 18th of March 2020. We haven't had a situation this extreme since the Second World War. I think that since the COVID 19 crisis was declared a pandemic, life has … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 21, 2013
Once—or twice in a lifetime, if you're lucky—you'll find a summer haven with a vibe that dissolves any lingering traces of urban stress. For
me, Roquemengarde, in Languedoc, France,
is such a place. Its fortified towers, situated in the river Hérault, date from the time of the first crusade, in the late
11th century. It is believed to have been a stop for knights … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday July 2, 2025
Thursday July 3, Last Chance: Picasso: Tête-à-tête at Gatosian
You see me here, and yet I’ve already changed, I’m already elsewhere.—Pablo Picasso, 1963
Picasso: Tête-à-tête, presented in partnership with the artist’s daughter Paloma Picasso, offers a unique opportunity to view over fifty rarely seen works. On view are paintings, sculptures, and drawings from the full span of the artist’s career—1896 to … Read the full Story >>
Flipboard Monday January 12, 2015
The top posts from Motion Arts Pro are now on view at Flipboard, the app that brings you content from your favorite websites in a magazine-style format. It’s another great way to keep with
what’s going on in the filmmaking world, whether you’re working on desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone. Also look for Flipboard posts from our sister newsletters, Pro Photo Daily, Dispatches From
Latin America, and DART: Design Arts Daily. (Once you’ve downloaded the app, you must subscribe
to the newsletter to access the MAP content—see button at top.) Among the recent items on Flipboard: Predictions for the motion graphics industry in 2015 and a TV tower climber shot with a
drone. Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday July 12, 2012
Left to
right: Kolobrzg, Poland, July 26, 1992; Coney Island, NY, USA, June 20, 1993; Hilton Head, S.C., USA, June 24, 1992.
From Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective, courtesy the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Reinke Dijkstra, whose
mid-career retrospective opened at the Guggenheim Museum last week, is truly a photographer’s photographer. Driven from a young age to break the mold (her father enrolled her … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday March 27, 2007
"Spring has sprung; the grass is riz; I wonder where the birdies is?" Office bound on the first day of Spring, my mind wandered to an old schoolyard chant. Then I started hearing bells. DART's
office is just a few yards north of the Flatiron District, and the closest church, the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava, doesn't have chimes. A few minutes later, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday November 16, 2011
John Chiara makes large-scale, unique photographs using a camera obscura of his own design. If you were to catch him on the mobile early on a work day, he might say, “Hang on
while I park the camera.” The Big Camera, as it has become known, is roughly the size of a U-Haul, which Chiara drives all over the San Francisco Bay Area, creating … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday November 13, 2015
Brooklyn-based artist Daniel Heidkamp is a figurative painter whose plein-air landscapes are abstract enough to be appreciated as immersive color studies alone.
Having grown up near the North Shore of Boston, he spent summers enjoying the beaches and light of Cape Ann. In a YouTube video made at the Pace Paper studio, he talks about the area as a hub of American art
history, a place … Read the full Story >>
Flipboard Wednesday January 21, 2015
The top posts from Dispatches From Latin America are now on view at Flipboard, the app that brings you content from your favorite websites in a magazine-style format. It’s another great way to
keep with what’s going on in Latin American photography and art, whether you’re working on desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone. 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 PPD content—see button at top.) Among the recent items on Flipboard: a look at the work of
photographer Jim Graham, who has documented a Cuba that may be changing dramatically. Read the full Story >>
Flipboard Friday November 7, 2014
The top MAP posts from October 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, Dispatches From Latin America, and DART: Design Arts Daily. (Once you’ve downloaded the app, you must subscribe to the newsletter to access the MAP
content—see button at top.) Among the posts up this month: an anti-selfie short film starring Kirsten Dunst that really impressed the Internet, and a new twist on the travelog time lapse—a
split-screen comparison of Paris and New York City by French filmmaker Franck Matellini. Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 28, 2022
Type@Cooper offers continuing education post-graduate courses, including certificate programs in type design, public workshops, and exhibitions. The majority of these courses are limited to 16 to 22 students, by registration.
Top industry professionals lead a highly focused and comprehensive study of key typeface design principles: technique, technology, aesthetics, expression, history, and theory. Students explore the foundation of typography in depth by creating their own typefaces … Read the full Story >>
Flipboard Wednesday July 9, 2014
The top DFLA 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, Pro Photo Daily, Motional 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 this month: Brazilian
photographer (and Latin American Fotografía winner) Luiz Maximiano’s portraits of soccer superstar Pele and a profile of Latin American Ilustración winner Walter Vasconcelos. Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday December 22, 2016
Alpine skiing—not the kind you see in World Cup and Olympic events, where athletes look like muscular sausages stuffed into neon lycra casings—has lent itself to a level of style
unusual in recreational sports. I recently came across photos from earlier times, when style was equal to the expertise it takes to navigate off-piste skiing in the Alps. But first, take
a look at … Read the full Story >>
Flipboard Friday November 7, 2014
The top PPD posts from October 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, Motion 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: An opinion piece from photo-industry veteran Paul Melcher on how brands will define photography for the next decade and a spotlight on
how members of Dysturb photo collective are putting their art where everyone will see it—on the walls of NYC buildings. Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday September 7, 2018
Thanks to everyone who entered the last Book Prize Contest of Summer! While everyone got the bridge right, only two were on the Left Bank, or Roosevelt Island, side of the East River. First reply
in gets the prize, Patricia Lindgren of Redding Center, CT. Special thanks to David K. Pearce, who chose the Right Bank tennis bubble, for identifying the presumed location as … Read the full Story >>
Flipboard Thursday September 4, 2014
The top PPD posts from August 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, Motion 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: a look at 26 amazing Instagram accounts that will expand your worldview; some ideas from Andy Warhol that will make you a wiser artist
and person; and a look back at photographer Dorothea Lange, the subject of a recent PBS documentary whose “Migrant Mother” image has become an icon of American history. Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday August 29, 2019
Heading the holiday weekend leader
board—for me, at least—is Portal: Governors Island. The 12thannual art fair organized by 4heads, and formerly known as Governors Island Art Fair, has
been renamed with a view towards more expansive future programming. This year it opens on Summer’s closing moment, and brings 89 artists from New York and abroad for a month-long
stay. Installations, which span the spectrum of … Read the full Story >>