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The DART Board: 08.30.2023

By 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 >>

DIARY: The Quiet Radicalism of Care

By 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 >>

The DART Board: 05.26.2021

By 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 >>

Ask an Artist: Why Draw?

By 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 >>

The DART Board: 07.31.2024

By 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 >>

The DART Q&A: Birgit Schossow

By 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 >>

Lower East Side Gallery Openings

By 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 >>

Chuck Close at Pace Prints

By 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 >>

The DART Board: 11.01.2011

By 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 >>

The DART Board: 01.08.2025

By 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 >>

Design Omnibus: Placiness, Georgia-Style

By 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 >>

The DART List: A Week in Pictures

By 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 >>

Ken Carbone: Looking at Rome

By 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 >>

Urban Sketchers NYC

By 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 >>

MAD About Art and Design

By 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 >>

Gary Taxali at Jonathan LeVine

By 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 >>

Richard Mosse: Infra

By 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 >>

Archive Fever: Dream Anatomy

By 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 >>

Climbing Big Bambu At the Met

By 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 >>

The Outsider Art Fair

By 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 >>

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