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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 30, 2023
Closing September 9: Emma Amos at Ryan Lee
Emma Amos (b. 1937 Atlanta, GA - d. 2020 Bedford, NH) was a pioneering artist, educator, and activist. A dynamic painter and masterful colorist, her work was Influenced by classical antiquity, modern Western European art, Abstract Expressionism, the Civil Rights movement and feminism. In the current exhibition of paintings and prints, Amos displays her deep interest in … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday October 9, 2025
Peggy Roalf: Marco, thanks for taking the time to talk. I just re-read your review of Ana-Marie Morar’s Hide & Seek at Arts for Peace Gallery and was struck by how you managed to be both critical and deeply personal. I wanted to start with something simple: what drew you into Ana Maria Morar’s work initially?Marco Palli: Honestly, I didn’t expect … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 26, 2021
On permanent view |Terminal B commission at LaCuardia Airport
The Public Art Fund celebrates its collaboration with LaGuardia Gateway Partners for the permanent installation of LaGuardia Vistas, a window mural by Sabine Hornig for the new Terminal B. The 42’ h x 268’ w transparent photo-collage fills an expansive glass façade, allowing sunlight to immerse visitors in a kaleidoscopic wash of color, image, and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday March 4, 2015
The question, “Why Draw?” is probably best answered by the question, “Why Not?” But on Monday night, landscape architect Diana Balmori and illustrator Jorge Colombo
took the question by the horns in an entertaining presentation at the New York Public Library's Mid-Manhattan branch "Author at the Library" series. Ms. Balmori offered a capsule history of the art
of landscape design through an artist’s perspective, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday August 1, 2024
Friday, August 2, Noon-3pm JIMMY! God’s Black Revolutionary Mouth at the Schomburg
Join NYPL on James Baldwin’s 100th birthday for the opening reception for our newest exhibition JIMMY! God's Black Revolutionary Mouth. Stay for this public program featuring Yahdon Israel, Senior editor at Simon & Schuster and two-time Grammy Award-winning recording hip-hop artist and humanitarian, Che “Rhymefest” Smith, in a conversation … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday March 30, 2015
Q: What are some of your favorite things about living and working in a small village? A: I lived in Hamburg for 30 years, so I feel like a city
dweller although now I live in a village of about 400 people. It's 10 minutes from the Baltic Sea, with a wild garden and much peacefulness, but close enough to Hamburg to have both city and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Sunday September 7, 2014
This special edition of The DART Board features gallery openings on the Lower East Side on Sunday, September 7th. Most begin at 6 pm, a few start at 5 pm. Map
follows. Adam Helms: Uncanny Valley: Sep 7 - Oct 5, 2014. Boesky East, 20 Clinton Street, NY, NY.
Heather Guertin Development: Sep 7 - Oct 12, 2014. Brennan & Griffin, 55 Delancey Street, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday April 6, 2017
For more than forty years, Chuck Close has explored the art of printmaking in his continuing investigation into the principles of perception. Celebrated as a painter and photographer, he has
mastered the unique artistic language of printmaking, having done editions in etching, aquatint, lithography, direct gravure, silkscreen, traditional Japanese woodcut, and reduction linocut. Close has
said that any innovation that is evident in his … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday November 1, 2011
Two items from the Camera Club of New York benefit
auction, left: Alison Davies, Untitled (Outerland), 2001. Right: Martine Fougeron, Sleepover: Les Crepes, 2008. Copyright the photographers, courtesy
CCNY. Information. Tuesday, November 1 Opening
reception, 6-8 pm: Peter Hujar | Influential Friends. John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 50 1/2 East 64th Street, NY,
NY. Wednesday, November 2 Opening reception and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 8, 2025
Closing January 11: Ayiti Toma II: Faith, Family, and Resistance at Luhring Augustine
“Ayiti Toma II: Faith, Family, and Resistance” a is an intergenerational show organized by Haitian-born artist Tomm El-Saieh in partnership with El-Saieh Gallery of Port-au-Prince (founded by the artist’s grandfather, musician-composer Issa El-Saieh), and Central Fine gallery of Miami Beach, Fla., where he is also one of the principals. The title … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday March 9, 2017
As a fan of the Center for Land Use Interpretation [CLUI] and the haunting
novels of Nobel Laureate, Patrick Modiano, I agree with Lucy Lippard’s assessment in The Lure of the Local that “space combined with memory defines place.” While
Modiano shows a passion for estrangement, his quiet exploration of mood and memory is inextricably founded in his recall of the places where … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday April 13, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 7:00 pm. Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940-1959. Panel Discussion with Vince Aletti, critic and curator;
Deborah Bell, Deborah Bell Gallery; Howard Greenberg, Howard Greenberg Gallery; Brian Wallis, Chief Curator, International Center of Photography; Lisa Hostetler, Curator of Photographs, Milwaukee Art
Museum. Moderator. International Center of Photography, School at ICP, 1114 Avenue of the Americas at … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 9, 2023
Ken Carbone is an artist, designer, and Co-Founder of the Carbone Smolan Agency, a design company he built with Leslie Smolan over 40 years ago. Ken is also a long-time subscriber and contributor to DART, which today re-caps his report on a visit to Rome that was recently published in PRINT in slightly different form.
My fascination with Rome may have … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday December 18, 2014
Urban Sketchers is a global network of artists who enjoy drawing on location. According to
the Seattle chapter the international community of urban sketchers is estimated at over 50,000, with 13 chapters in the US alone. The mission of Urban Sketchers is “to raise the artistic, storytelling and educational value of location drawing, promoting its practice and connecting people
around the world who draw on … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday September 25, 2008
The way things are going in our nation's capitol, the opening this weekend of the new Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) might be the last great museum moment in New York City for a long while. On
Saturday and Sunday, from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, the public is invited, free of charge, to explore the newly renovated building on Columbus Circle and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday February 20, 2014
Toronto-based artist and long-time DART subscriber Gary Taxali has an exhibition opening this Saturday in New York. In his second solo show at the Jonathan
LeVine Gallery, Unforget Me, Gary’s blend of images and media inspired by vintage advertising and animation art and design will again offer his unique
and idiosyncratic view of the human condition. Gary works with multiple mediums and utilizes a variety of … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday November 18, 2011
Taking Tiger Mountain, North Kivu, Eastern
Congo, 2011; copyright and courtesy Richard Mosse. What lies beneath any meaningful perception of the ongoing conflict in the internally colonized Democratic Reputlic of Congo?
Richard Mosse, a photographer armed with an 8 x 10 camera and Kodak’s outdated Aerochrome infrared surveillance film, sought to discover truth beyond journalism in his images of a war
whose nomadic … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday August 13, 2020
The history of printing—from the Bible and religious pamphlets to
electioneering flyers dropped from drones—can be told through the history of illustration—most recently shown in DART through the book, This Is What Democracy Looked Like: A visual History of the Printed
Ballot. So consider the
human body: the physical envelope that encases the mind and spirit of an individual. The flesh that inspires … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday June 2, 2010
Now that it's really hot and summery, a little altitude might help to cool things down. A climb 110 feet above Central Park can be yours for the price of admission to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, where Doug and Mike Starn's Big Bambu is installed in the roof garden. Photo left: Peggy
Roalf. Right: Big Bambú installation view; photos by Doug and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday January 30, 2015
The Outsider Art Fair is back for the third year at Center 548, the clean and well-lit former New York home of DIA. The show, now in its 23rd edition, used to run at the
funky Puck Building across town, and is larger than ever under the direction of Andrew Edlin. The owner of the eponymous Chelsea gallery, which represents Thornton Dial and Henry
Darger among … Read the full Story >>