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Peggy Roalf Thursday August 7, 2025
Just Opened: Innovation Triangle at Tasteelab Building, Harlem
The first arts installation at Innovation Triangle features an enormous fiber rope installation by Tomo Mori @tomomoriart [above] together with works by Rafaela Luna @rafaelalunarl, Paul Deo @planetdeo, and SO HARLEM @soharleminc
Activation of the Innovation Triangle, within Manhattanville’s old Factory District, fulfills West Harlem Art Association’s @whaanyc vision to facilitate and develop collaborations through … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday March 17, 2021
During the Covid 19 pandemic I was furloughed from the Walt Disney Company as a Disney Imagineer. It was a terrible feeling after I had worked for the company for over 14 years. At the time everybody was optimistic that the furlough would soon end and we’d all be brought back to work!
That didn’t happen. After working so hard to become a … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday July 9, 2012
Journalism in this
age of conflict continues to be biased towards a western and white point of view when, in fact, most of the current conflicts and unrest occur in regions that are non-western and non-white.
Even the terminology for these places has evolved along lines that have little to do with realities. For example, Mao Zedong’s term “the Third World,” coined when he … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday May 16, 2019
As a
young photographer juggling artistic work with commercial assignments, John Goodman always had color slide film loaded in a camera. Beginning in the 1970s and through the late 1980s, he photographed
on the streets of Boston, finding fleeting moments of connection at diners, shops and gas stations. He printed a few images, but packed most of his slides in a cabinet and only … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday October 17, 2006
AS LONG AS MANY OF THEM CAN REMEMBER, TOP CREATIVE DIRECTORS have reached for American Illustration for inspiration, when assigning the top artists for important commissions, and sometimes
just to treat themselves to a little eye candy. To commemorate AI's 25th anniversary, 25 of today's top artists were commissioned by Mark Heflin, Director, to create a new work to represent one
year from the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday October 30, 2006
CREATIVE PEOPLE WHO REGULARLY work with top illustrators have long been vocal fans of American Illustration. Today's issue of DART features three top illustrators who also teach illustration
in New York. And here are a few comments about AI that were overheard in the lunchroom: "AI is one of my most effective teaching tools. It presents the most defiant, experimental, raw,
unbiased, cutting-edge art, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday April 11, 2013
Text Out of Context, an exhibition that recently ran at Marymount Manhattan College in celebration of the art of the book, also heralds
the return of Maddy Rosenberg’s Central Booking to the gallery scene. Central Booking, formerly located at 111 Front Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn, has continued in a nomadic fashion since the
gallery closed last year. When I reached Ms. Rosenberg by … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday January 23, 2015
If you’ve been inspired by recent exhibitions of works on paper [drawings, that is] and want to get your hand into making art for art’s sake, or if you're looking for a drawing
workout apart from your regular studio practice, there are many uninstructed, drop-in figure drawing groups to choose from. Here’s a starter list for New York City. Society of
Illustrators currently offers … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday February 5, 2026
Frank Webster paints landscapes, from delicate, page-size watercolors to works on canvas that span close to ten feet in width. Above: Monacobreen IV, acrylic on canvas, 2024. He seems equally at home painting on a Zodiac in the frozen North—and in the even more frozen South, as he is working the finishing touches In his studio. Based on what he brings in to … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday June 18, 2014
If you’ve been wondering how long it would take for Google to insert arte favela into its home page, your question was answered today. Luckily, The
Independent is covering this global placement—otherwise the artist’s name—Matt Cruickshank—would remain in the
dark. The animated image shows the green ‘l’ in Google kicking a football against a stationary ‘e’ in the middle of the country’s … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday February 2, 2012
Antonio De Luca, who heads a communication design studio in Berlin, has masterminded an art show that brings affordable art to the public and benefits a worthy cause. The 100 $how,
which opens tonight at Wieden + Kennedy, Portland, will feature 100 Illustrators, with more than 100 works to be exhibited and for sale for 100 $. The original art can be purchased directly … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday September 26, 2013
If you missed the 2013 NY Art Book Fair, here are a few views from the halls. Row 1: Bruno Ceschel of Self
Publish Be Happy; in the front row on his table are copies of A Dalston Anatomy, a new release by Lorenzo Vitturi. Subtitled One Pound Have a Look Yam Yam, this is a photobook of still lifes
Vitturi created from objects found in the Ridley Road Market, London, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday April 7, 2022
Currently on view at The Ukrainian Museum, one of NYCs almost hidden treasures, is Finding Sanctuary During the Pandemic, an installation by Christina Saj.
In the catalog for the exhibition she writes, “At the beginning of the quarantine, glued to news outlets, barraged by images of the virus, feeling vulnerable and confused and stuck at home, as an artist my response was to … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday May 16, 2016
Editor’s note: With ICON9 The Illustration Conference on the horizon—four days of art, discussion, performance, and plenty of talk in Austin, TX—the current roster for the
Q&A is peopled with many of the exceptional artists making presentations during this biannual artfest. Alex Mathers will be on the ICON9 Mainstage Saturday, July 9, at 9
am. Info Q: What are some of your favorite things about living and working … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday April 9, 2026
Thursday, April 9-Sunday, April 12: The IFPDA Print Fair at Park Avenue Armory
The “gold standard for fine art print collecting” (ARTnews, April 7, 2025), the IFPDA Print Fair is an annual pilgrimage site for print curators and collectors.
This spring, the fair returns to the Park Avenue Armory from April 9 to 12 with 80 exhibitors and an expanded focus on drawings alongside … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday September 6, 2018
The DART Summer Invitational, Pimp Your Sketchbook, continues with Brooklyn-based artist Dean Monogenis, who is currently on the road with his sketchbook, in Greece. Traveling with a sketchbook is essential. I have
found that what I can accomplish with a camera will take me only so far. In terms of compiling source material for my studio art, it is important to have a … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 28, 2011
W.M. Hunt, art dealer, educator, and collector extraordinaire, began his own photography collection almost 40 years ago as an antidote to depression. In a going-out-of-business
sale, he found what he describes as "a girlie Madonna-like figurine, and it probably was not even a silver print." He paid $40 dollars (which he didn’t have to spare) and took it home, where
"she would come out … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday May 23, 2019
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the
pen or the brush? Kathleen Marcotte: I’d have to say the pen. While I tend to think in shapes rather than lines, I usually have to draw everything out first. It was a real
turning point in finding my style as an illustrator when I started printmaking. It influences my work whether I’m working traditionally or digitally. PR: … Read the full Story >>
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Dart Admin Thursday July 30, 2009
Editor's note: Seth Greenwald's essay accompanies the exhibition Identity Identities, opening tonight at Aperture Gallery. "Who are you?" said the Caterpillar.
This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, "I, I hardly know, sir, just at present...at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must
have been changed several … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday May 25, 2007
IF POP SURREALISM AND LOW-BROW ARTISTS SHARE A SINGLE TRAIT, it might be a talent for shaking things up. Tim Biskup, whose solo exhibition,
Ether, opens Saturday night at Billy Shire Fine Arts, is one who seems to be in constant motion. He moves between mediums, motifs and motives
with acrobatic ease. Known for cheerful, non-figurative abstractions in a mid-century modernista … Read the full Story >>
