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Flipboard Wednesday June 4, 2014
You can now access the top MAP posts from May 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 Brooklyn filmmaker Catya Plate’s award-winning animated short Hanging By A Thread,
a selection of the Brooklyn Film Festival, and director Ramtin Nikzad’s short documentary about the lost art of the courtroom artist. Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday January 12, 2010
Last Thursday the deep freeze lifted long enough for lots of New Yorkers, self included, to hit the first gallery openings of the year. Three shows that made my
favorites list are: Timothy Briner: Boonville, photographs on view through February 27 at Daniel Cooney Fine Art. 511 West 25th Street, Suite 506, New York, NY. 212 255 8158. Diane Arbus: The Absence … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 9, 2026
Wednesday, September 9, 6-8pm: Michael Wilkinson | fluorochiaroscuro at P·P·O·W
Combining the optical illusionism of trompe l’oeil with non-representational interventions associated with the readymade, UK-based artist Michael Wilkinson transforms ordinary subject matter into enigmatic visualizations that hover between the seen and the imagined. Updating the still life genre for our contemporary age, Wilkinson explores its innate ties to ephemerality with a … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday June 14, 2013
Saturday, June 15, 6pm-Midnight The 4th annual Lumen Festival returns to Staten Island on Saturday. This year it
takes place at the Lyons Pool, built during the Great Depression, by the WPA, to cool off 5,700 people each day during the summer months. Curated by David C. Terry and Esther Neff, LUMEN 2012
will feature video installations, new media projections, performance art, animation, light and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday September 25, 2018
Talks / Book Events / Open Studios / and Beyond Tuesday, September
25 REGISTER TO VOTE AT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY. On September 25th, across all NYPL branches, you're invited to register to vote as part of the National Day of Voter Registration, and in collaboration with the New York City Campaign
Finance Board. Info Claudia
Rankine, Will Rawls and John Lucas | … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday December 11, 2013
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Peggy Roalf Friday June 8, 2012
Today the Guggenheim Museum opens an
exhibition of mid-century abstract art from its permanent collection, with more than 100 paintings and sculptures installed on the ramps below the rotunda. This breathtaking view of
paintings and sculpture, most of which was acquired by the museum’s second director, James Johnson Sweeney between 1952 and 1960, explores the dramatic transformations that occurred in art
during the post … Read the full Story >>
By Wednesday August 29, 2012
Like our son’s discovery once of a
two-carat gemstone sparkling among the tourist-worn cobbles of Bourbon Street, in New Orleans, our family’s visit to the South Street Seaport Museum was an unexpected delight.
Tucked in among the mall boutiques and gelato carts, this collection of venerable buildings and seacraft in lower Manhattan is an enchanting treasure trove of New York’s
history—well worth braving the tour buses … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday September 1, 2016
The 2016 Summer Sketchbook Invitational concludes with Edel Rodriguez, who hopped a flight to Europe after sharing his thoughts with DART: I started my travel sketchbooks while I was
in college at Pratt Institute. The first time I traveled abroad was at that time, when I went to study in Venice for the summer; I also traveled to Paris, Nice, Barcelona, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rome, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 19, 2020
Art lovers who have been waiting for the live museum experience for
months can now begin to make plans. Governor Cuomo announced last week that cultural institutions can re-open on August 24th, with strict protocols in place. That means plans are necessary, with
advance timed tickets required in order to maintain social distancing mandates. Above: Epic Abstraction at The Met; photo by Marco Palli … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday May 10, 2024
As a huge fan of the French painter, Édouard Manet, I was thrilled to see the famously desecrated portrait of the artist and his [missing] wife by Edgar Degas in the recent show at The Met, Manet/Degas. So when this release from Sotheby’s auction house landed, I felt a glow of happiness for the ultimate recognition Manet’s last body of work deserves, followed … Read the full Story >>
Flipboard Wednesday June 4, 2014
You can now access the top DFLA posts from May 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, Motion Arts Pro, 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: A look at the International Center of Photography’s exhibition “Urbes Mutantes: Latin American Photography 1941–2012,” and a spotlight on a fantastical series of
images of Rio de Janeiro by Brazilian photographer Marcelo Tinoca. Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday March 22, 2018
As we enter a new age of protest—or is it simply a continuum of “I can’t believe I’ve been carrying the same sign for 45 years”—it’s a good time to delve
into photo archives regarding issues of social change. And how photography has foregrounded important landmark causes. At The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, which runs from
April 5th to 8th at Pier … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday February 8, 2012
At an East Side Murder,
1943. (c) Weegee/International Center of Photography. When the image above was missing from last week’s DART feature on Weegee, many subscribers protested by email. So here it is, along
withinformatio about two more exhibitions about the photographer who made mayhem and murder his business. An exhibition based on Weegee's first book, Naked City, is
currently on view at Steven Kasher Gallery, which scheduled the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday October 27, 2021
Thursday, November 4 | Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Woman in LandscapeGarth Greenan Gallery presents recent works in mixed media and in 3D.
Smith paints an America portrayed as maps in saturated color—in one work making each state a different shade of red. Maps have historically been instruments in the exercise of power and territorial expansion. Across the series, Smith hints at the map’s … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday January 24, 2012
Toronto-based artist Gary Taxali (above), a longtime friend of DART/AI-AP, is on a roll. For the year
2011, he scored a triple, with publication of two retrospective books, either one of which would make any artist proud. Not only that, his work was included in the Made In Polaroid exhibition and auction at Phillips de Pury last September.
Since then, he was appointed … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 15, 2019
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the brush or the pen? CS: I
guess it would be the brush. When I was a freshman, I had an instructor who had us keep a sketchbook for painting watercolors only – under no circumstances was drawing allowed! That class
started my life-long interest in painting the world around me. PR: Where do you live and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday November 4, 2026
Thursday, November 5, 6-8pm: Yoshitomo Nara at Davis Zwirner
Spanning David Zwirner Gallery’s 537 West 20th Street and 533 West 19th Street locations in New York, this exhibition will be Nara’s first major solo exhibition in New York in close to a decade The nearly one hundred works on view explore Nara’s multifaceted worldview through his ongoing search to identify what is uniquely his … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday April 6, 2007
Jordin Isip, whose work was featured in the American Illustration 25th Anniversary Timeline, is having his first solo exhibition, opening this Saturday with a reception for the artist
from 7 to 10 pm at the Aidan Savoy Gallery. The show runs through April 28, 2007. Never Been, the exhibition's title, refers to the artist's obsessions, and the
ambiguities and chaos that often shadow … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday March 21, 2012
The Jungle
Journal series has prompted numerous subscriber responses. Here, from Caryl Baron in Sandia, NM, a link to a film
by Louie Schwartzberg, which was shown at the TED Conference last fall. Above: screen shot from The Hidden Beauty of Pollination. Information. Wednesday, March
21 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: On the Threshold of the Senses | New Art from Southeast Asia. Tally Beck Contemporary … Read the full Story >>
