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Peggy Roalf Tuesday February 4, 2014
Tuesday, February 4 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: The 2014 Benjamin Menschel Fellowship
Exhibition. The Cooper Union, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. 7 East 7th Street, 5th & 6th Floor Galleries, NY,
NY. Information. Wednesday, February
5 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Tom McGrath, Santi Moix, Jackie Saccoccio. 143 Reade Street| Lucien Terras. 143 Reade Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-8
pm: Marta Jovanovi Republika. BOSI Contemporary 48 Orchard Street, NY, NY. In Connecticut Opening reception, 5:30-7 … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday April 22, 2020
While the work of Austrian sculptor Oliver Laric seems so of the moment as
to dismiss any connection with appropriation, his practice is rooted in works as old as time. Essentially, Laric deals with versions, spurred in part by the tradition, during antiquity, of producing
multiple iterations of master works. Laric inhabits a universe of multiple realities, the lack of distinction between an original … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday July 20, 2012
The High Museum of Art
commissioned Martin Parr to document Atlanta as part of its Picturing the South project, which also includes work by Kael Alford and Shane Lavalette. Channeling his
unparalleled ability to converge humor, wit, and curiosity into his highly observant photographs, Parr has again captured the oddities and eccentricities of contemporary American life.
British-born Parr, a Magnum photographer whose career spans … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday July 30, 2012
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of San Francisco in ruins from Lawrence Captive Airship, 2000 feet above San Francisco Bay overlooking waterfront. Geo. R. Lawrence Co, 1906, courtesy Library of
Congress. Miniaturization in photography continues to trend along, with the Tilt Shift Generator for iPhone one of the most popular photo apps available. But it
wasn’t always that way. In fact, soon after the daguerreotype was introduced in 1839, photographers began creating panoramic … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday January 31, 2012
From Broken Manual, by Alec Soth, left:
2008_08zl0031, 2008; right: 2008_08zl0238, 2008, opening Thursday at Sean Kelly Gallery Wednesday, February 1
Opening reception, 7-10 pm: Anti-Oxidant | Promantic, featuring new video curated by Jason Leblond and Gina Medina; limited engagement, through February 5. Christopher Henry Gallery, 127 Elizabeth Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-8 pm:
Hidra, new work by Hirosuke … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday June 25, 2013
And the Winner Is Marcellus Hall, of New York City, entered last week’s Book Prize Contest, which asked Where in New
York Am I? He wrote:That photo is of the Snuff Mill Waterfall not far from Lorillard Snuff Mill (40°51′36″N 73°52′35″W) on the
Bronx River in the New York Botanical Garden in The Bronx. In a subsequent email, he wrote:Actually I am a New … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday April 21, 2009
The dance has inspired writers across the ages to say that it's the only art form that leaves no record behind, just the memory of a fleeting moment. An exhibition currently on view at New York's
AIGA gallery punches holes through this idea in a celebration of 20 years of the magazines Dance Ink and 2wice. The award-winning Dance Ink., founded in … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday August 3, 2012
This week Daylight Magazine announced its
2012 Photo Award Winner. In his project Fort McKay: Sleeping With the Devil, Aaron
Vincent Elkaim, (whose work on Jewish Morrocco was chosen for American Photography last year) shows a profound ambivalence about
what is lost and what is gained as traditional cultures embrace modern materialism. In the New York Times Lens Blog, Matt McCann writes, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday November 3, 2010
It's official: The Honorable Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proclaimed the second week of November Illustration Week, so mark your calendar for
events starting on Thursday - and tell your clients, colleagues, and friends about it. A representative from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs will present the mayor's Proclamation at the
Society of Illustrators on Friday, November 5th at 5:00 pm.
Following is … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday January 7, 2016
Christian Cravo celebrates 25 years of representation by Throckmorton Fine Art,
in New York, with the exhibition and book, Christian Cravo: Twenty Five Years. The opening reception/book launch is Thursday, January 14, from 6 to 8 pm, at 145 East 57th Street, NY,
NY. InfoThe following text and images are from the artist's website.
As a photographer, I seek to understand people through the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday March 19, 2015
As a run-up to the forthcoming exhibition at the Jewish Museum, Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television, DART offers a glimpse into the legendary
identity design of CBS Television. The exhibition, opening on May 1, looks at television’s facility as a promotional platform for modern artists, designers, and critics; its role as a
committed patron of the … Read the full Story >>
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David Butow Tuesday December 17, 2013
December 16, Mthatha, South Africa The dramatic clouds from the Eastern Cape rolled through the hills this evening, bringing rain to the sparsely-populated village
of Qunu, the boyhood home of Nelson Mandela and the place where his body was buried yesterday. Just a day after the service, when thousands arrived in buses, fighter jets flew, and
hundreds of journalists filed stories from satellite trucks … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday October 2, 2020
Colorama: [Formerly] The World’s Largest Photographs George Eastman House announced today that a reproduction of a Colorama image is being installed adjacent to its
new Thomas Tischer Visitor Center, which will open to the public on Saturday, October 10. An image of the Taj Mahal, made by Don Marvin in June 1964 was installed in Grand Central Terminal from
June 2 to July 9, 1986. Billed … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday October 11, 2012
For the next two weeks, a group of artists will hold “office hours” in a storefront on West 37th Street, in which they will offer creative interpretations
of psychotherapeutic consultation to passersby. Visitors are encouraged to drop in or schedule a free, 15-minute “initial intake” session, during which they may discuss, in
complete confidence, any topic they wish. This installation/performance piece is the work of … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday June 28, 2011
Left: Phoebe Washburn, Nunderwater Nort
Lab; courtesy Zach Feuer Gallery. Right: Eva Struble, Night Assembly; courtesy Lombard-Freid Projects. Tuesday, June 28 Opening reception,
6-8 pm, for Photo Camp: The Culture of Now. Aperture Bookstore and Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, 4th floor, NY, NY.
Wednesday, June 29 Opening reception, 6-8 pm, inaugural exhibition at Franklin Parrasch Gallery’s new space:
Peter Alexander, 1969-1972 … Read the full Story >>
By Thursday December 28, 2006
Police NavidadTwas X-mas night in Oaxaca and all through the town,not a teacher was stirring (they're in jail, not around).The graffiti of protest has been covered
with paint and police roam the streets to enforce that it's quaint.All barricades gone, tear gas dissipated,burning buses removed and encampments have faded.It's like nothing has
happened,Gov'nor Ulises pretends, no cheating, nor violence, he'll declare 'til the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 30, 2015
Now that Hurricane Season has
officially moved into action, the DART Summer Invitational, Pimp Your Sketchbook, concludes with Craig Frazier. Your first
sketchbooks. I started keeping a sketchbook several years into my design career—around 1990. It was the first time that I realized you could gather a complete idea in a
thumbnail sketch. I designed a lot of posters and annual reports between … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday August 16, 2016
Talks / Discussions / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, August 16 Takuro Hinokio | Live Painting performance/with Jasmine Lee on Cello, 7-10 pm. Ouchi Gallery, 170 Tillary Streeet, Brooklyn, NY Info Wednesday, August 17 Screening: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner
Herzog, 1972), 7pm/sundown. Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, NY Info Thursday, August 18 Sarah Singh + Rey Paris ? … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday November 28, 2011
Contemporary Korean art is emerging from the shadows this winter with an exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). And starting this Friday, a mini-festival of
Korean anime is being presented in the museum’s recently restored mid-century modern auditorium. Screen shots from A Coffee Vending
Machine and Its Sword, directed by Hyung-Yun Chang. Though Japanese anime has become hugely popular in … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday April 21, 2016
For the first DART Book Prize Essay Contest, students in Dr. Anastasia Aukeman’s Integrative Seminar 2: Visual Culture course at Parsons School of Design, in the School of Art and Design
History and Theory, submitted their critiques of the Beauty –Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial exhibition. First place for the afternoon section goes to Angela Yang. First place for the
morning section as well as runners … Read the full Story >>
