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Peggy Roalf Tuesday December 18, 2012
Lower East Side, Continuing Joshua Neustein. Untitled, 30 Orchard Street, NY, NY. JJ Peet | Defend_Station_ On Stellar Rays, 133 Orchard Street, NY, NY. Ken Buhler | Birdland. Lesley Heller Workspace, 54
Orchard Street, NY, NY. Introduction, featuring photographs by gallery artists Andrew Borowiec, Peter Kayafas, Elinor Carucci, Thomas Holton,
and Katherine Wolkoffamong others. Sasha Wolf Gallery, 70 Orchard Street, NY, NY. Plant-in City. Mark Miller Gallery … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday November 10, 2015
Special Events
Thursday, November 12-Sunday, November 15 Paris Photo. Grand Palais, Paris. Info Offprint Paris. Beaux-arts de Paris, 14 rue Bonaparte, Paris. Info Friday, November
13-Saturday, November 14 Hunter Open Studios 2015. Hunter College MFA Building, 205 Hudson Street, NY, NY. Info ISCP Fall Open Studios, 6-9 pm. International Studio & Curatorial Program, 1040
Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY [Williamsburg] Info Saturday, November 14 … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday May 19, 2016
Alexander Girard (1907–1993) was one of the most influential textile
artists and interior designers of the twentieth century. Raised and educated in Italy and the UK, and trained as an architect, Girard became the director of fabric and textiles at Herman Miller,
a position he held from 1952 to 1975. There he collaborated with Charles and Ray Eames, and with George Nelson, on groundbreaking designs … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday December 10, 2012
The Yugoslavian-born iconoclast designer/illustrator/enfant terrible Mirko Ilic has an unusual theory about design and execution: He believes
that concept is paramount and every step along the way towards the final execution of any design project serves primarily to diminish the original idea. So firmly ingrained is this belief that as a
young independent designer in Zagreb, in the early 1980s, he called his studio SLS … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday July 14, 2009
I've always loved the Socrates Sculpture Park for its hardscrabble, can-do, heavy-lifters-only appeal - to say nothing of its awesome waterfront views of Manhattan's towers and its large-scale
sculptures. Located in Long Island City, the nearly 5-acre site is a study in artist-led community development. Left: Waterfront views
at Socrates Sculpture Park. Right: Remote Arm Wrestle (detail) by William Stone. Photos: Peggy Roalf In … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday August 11, 2016
As art galleries gear down for a summer hiatus,
there are several shows in New York, closing this week and next, that will make for a vibrant weekday art tour—two of the shows on in this list close Friday; most galleries are on a summer
schedule and closed on weekends. Info courtesy Art Forum. Ending August 12 Patricia Cronin’s exhibition “Shrine for
Girls, New … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday November 28, 2017
Today is #GivingTuesday An opportunity to support the arts orgs that nurture you. Here are some to consider, in the
order they appeared in my inbox and whose offerings regularly appear in the DART Board: Society of Illustrators: Sponsor a bus for the Summer Illustration Art Academy here Smack Mellon: Support emerging visual artists in residency programs here Columbia College MOCP: Sponsor exhibitions and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday February 27, 2012
Art and fashion converged at FIAF
Thursday night with the opening of Jean-Philippe Delhomme | Dressed for Art. In conjunction with Fashion at FIAF, the gallery presents a collection of watercolor
drawings, along with three large paintings, that are infused with the artist’s tongue-in-cheek attitude. Delhomme’s illustrations have been featured in magazines
such as Vogue, W, Vanity Fair, GQ, and The New Yorker, among others. In this … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 25, 2024
Saturday, September 28, 7-10pm: American Punchline at Subliminal Projects
Cartoonist/artist/illustrator Ward Sutton—the creator of the Sick-O cartoonist Stan Kelly, who has been telling people what to think at The Onion for an interminable length of time—is now branching out into the FINE arts, with his debut on Saturday at Shepard Fairy’s gallery, Subliminal Projects, in L.A. [Just stick with me, ok?]. Fairy, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday July 13, 2009
Since last Saturday, the subject of racism has figured prominently in my daily news. Between Frank Rich's recent Op-Ed on Sara
Palin (he points out that she stood for the "real America") to the horrific news of the defilement of Emmett Till's coffin at Chicago's Burr Oak Cemetery, racism again surfaces as an essential subject for reflection and debate. And my
DART calendar … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday January 9, 2018
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond Tuesday, January
9 The Beautiful Brain | Curator Eric A. Newman, gallery talk on The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 6:30 pm. Grey Art Gallery at NYU, 100
Washington Square East, NY, NY. Info NYC People’s Hearing on the Repeal of the Clean Power Plan, 2:30 and 6 pm.
The New School – … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday February 7, 2012
Jan Staller: Target, Missouri,
included in exhibition Heavy Duty Landscapes, at ISE Cultural Foundation, through March 2nd. 555 Broadway, NY,
NY. Tuesday, February 7 Happy Birthday, Mr. Dickens! Today, the Morgan Library & Museum offers free admission to everyone who mentions the author’s bicentennial
birthday. (On other days, admission is $15.) The exhibition “Charles Dickens at 200”, which features manuscripts, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday February 11, 2016
Last week, Ken Carbone emailed the news that he had completed his apple a day project, which
has been unfolding on Instagram and Facebook for the past year. This is what he wrote: An apple a day. No. 365!!! [above, right] Mission accomplished! It has
been a beautifully exhausting journey, in all the right ways. I learned to love the daily challenge of making art. It … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday June 15, 2011
Left: Gidropark (#45), 2008; right:
Gidropark (#67), 2008. Copyright Yelena Yemchuk, courtesy Gitterman Gallery. 67 is group; 45 is couple Wednesday, June 15 Book Launch, 6:30 pm,
for Penelope Umbrico (Photographs) along with a reading by poet Rob Fitterman and a conversation with Virginia Rutledge, Vice President and General
Counsel of Creative Commons. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27th Street, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday November 19, 2018
Q: Originally from Costa Rica, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in New York City? A: I was born and raised in San Jose, Costa Rica. I lived among trees
and mountains my whole life so moving to a big city like New York six years ago was a big shock at first. But I’ve learned to enjoy the … Read the full Story >>
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Dart Admin Monday July 9, 2007
Editor's note: To celebrate the release of his new graphic novel, the normally reclusive Peter Kuper agreed to take a few questions about his book, Stop Forgetting To Remember. When we looked to find an appropriate interviewer the obvious choice was cartoonist Walter
Kurtz. After all, Kuper's new book is the autobiography of Mr. Kurtz. -PR Walter Kurtz: Let me start by
asking-where … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday November 14, 2011
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) began making photographs at the age of 48 when given a large-format wet-plate camera by her daughter, in 1863. Mrs. Cameron lived at the center of Britain’s
artistic and intellectual society and counted among her friends (and sitters) Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charles Darwin and Thomas Carlyle. Left to right: A Beautiful Visson, Julia
Duckworth, June 1872; Thomas Carlyle, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday June 12, 2008
The foreword by Lydia Lunch of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks sets the tone for everything that follows in No Wave Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976 - 1980. Written by Thurston Moore of
Sonic Youth and Byron Coley, variously the editor of NY Rocker and underground editor at Spin, the book features photographs by Julia Gorton, Godlis, Laura Levine and others. The
book … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday August 6, 2015
The 2015 Summer Invitational: Pimp Your
Sketchbooks, continues with Vivienne Flesher, who lives and works in San Francisco. Her current sketchbook (above) has a collaged cover. I like to
sketch in ink. I love the medium but I’m not often asked to use it in my work, so it feels like a break from illustration. Usually I don’t enjoy sketching in front of people, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 24, 2022
There are many places to view contemporary art beyond the confines of white cube spaces, so today, DART offers a roundup of several that have special appeal for summer days—including seven community gardens on the Lower East Side:
Continuing through September 30: Seven Gardens, various LES community gardens
Inspired by the history of community gardens in New York City, 7 Gardens explores artistic engagement … Read the full Story >>
