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Peggy Roalf Friday September 15, 2023
Brooklyn Museum, September 15: María Magdalena Campos-Pons | Behold
Spanning nearly four decades of visually engaging artworks, the exhibition explores Campos-Pons’s prescient and sensorial work—transporting viewers across geographies, mediums, and spiritual practices. In her explorations of migration, diaspora, and memory, Campos-Pons draws on feminism, photoconceptualism, and Yoruba-derived Santería symbolism to weave together personal narratives and global histories.
The first multimedia survey of the artist’s work … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday March 13, 2012
Light-filled, 2,000-square-foot studios renting at $2 per square foot? Nothing like this exists in Brooklyn or Queens, but in Jersey City,
Mana Contemporary is setting a new standard in the arts. This all-inclusive arts compound is
housed in a 100,000-sqare-foot tobacco warehouse, with 23 resident artists; Shen Wei Dance Arts and the Armitage Gone! Dance Company; the Eileen Kaminsky Foundation and
exhibition space; climate controlled art storage; crating and shipping … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday May 8, 2012
Sarah Moon, Suzanne aux Tuilleries, 1974, from the exhibition Delpire & Co. at Howard Greenberg Gallery,
opening Thursday, May 10th. Special this week through May 11: The One Club presents Creative Week | New
York, a celebration of creativity in advertising, design, digital media and all the arts that feed and touch those disciplines. Information. Wednesday, May 9 Opening reception, 6-8 … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday March 1, 2023
Thursday, March 2: Wangechi Mutu | Intertwined at the New Museum
Prolific and visionary, Wangechi Mutu has been transforming visual media for more than 25 years. The New Museum brings together more than 100 works by the artist in a major solo exhibition that connects her current art to the fantastical depictions of contemporary realities and future possibilities she’s been creating for decades.
Representing … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday March 1, 2016
Armory Arts Week Wednesday –
Monday Spring Break Art Show, Skylight at Moynihan Station, 421 Eighth Avenue, NY, NY. Info Wednesday-Sunday The ADAA Art Show. Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, NY, NY. Info Volta NY. Pier 90, West 50th Street and 12th Avenue, NY, NY. Info Thursday-Sunday Art on Paper. Pier 36 at 299
South Street, NY, NY. Info Independent New York 2016. … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday March 30, 2010
William Christenberry is perhaps most widely known for his Southern photographs, shot with an 8 x 10 camera and presented as large-scale digital prints in gallery exhibitions, or in large format,
beautifully printed books. This February, at Hemphill Gallery in Washington D.C., and again, two weeks ago in New York at Hemphill's
installation at AIPAD, The Photography Show, there was a rare opportunity to … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 20, 2016
Ben Shahn (1898-1969) was born in Lithuania, where his family lived in poverty in the small
city of Kovno. Around 1904 they immigrated to New York. He first worked as an apprentice to a commercial lithographer, acquiring skills that would later support him financially while he
pursued his ambition to be a painter. Shahn's initial interest in photography stemmed from his use of the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday June 29, 2012
Is New York becoming the new
Stockholm? Judging from the crowds lined up at the East River Ferry’s 34th Street pier last weekend, it’s not a bad guess. New York is, after
all, an archipelago, with islands of art and culture beckoning. For an art-by cycle-tour of Long Island City and Brooklyn, the ferry company offers an all day hop-on hop-off ticket for $15 … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday June 29, 2009
The heartbreaking story of the young woman brutally shot on June 20th in Tehran continues to inspire Iranians who believe the June 12th election was rigged. Neda Agha-Soltan, whose final
moments were caught by cell phone video and globally circulated on YouTube, had the misfortune of being out during one of
the post-election demonstrations. Tensions were running so high after her death, reported … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday December 19, 2007
This is the second to last in a series of reports on great places to find books on the arts and culture. If you're looking for something special for that someone who's obsessed
with photography, the Aperture Book Center should be on your source list. The annual holiday sale is now on and whatever your budget is, you
can save some real dollars. For … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday September 15, 2016
Sometimes discovering a photograph in an archive leads to an avalanche
of unexpected information worth knowing. This week’s offering began with the cyanotype print of Waiting in the Forest—Cheyenne by Edward S. Curtis, 1910 (above, center) from the
Samuel J. Wagstaff Collection at The Getty Center. The Wagstaff collection was recently celebrated in an exhibition, The Thrill of the Chase, at the Getty. In … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday December 30, 2020
“May you live in interesting times.” This pandemic year has proved, without doubt, that the ancient Chinese curse is ripe for an update. As we exit a year that has left its mark on everyone, reflecting on how we adapt in a world where change is beyond exponential is unavoidable. So I looked at the opening weeks of the Covid-19 lockdown to see how the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 23, 2015
Last weekend, the northwest corner of Bowery and Houston Street turned into an ad
hoc hip hop block party as the legendary graffiti artist Futura (Leonard McGurr) returned to the streets. Known as the Bowery Graffiti Wall, the concrete canvas
became the first street writers’ gallery when Keith Haring bombed it, under cover of darkness, in the summer of 1982. During the last decade, the wall has been maintained … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday July 20, 2011
Left: Luigi Ghirri, Alpe di Suisi, 1979; copyright
the artist, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. Right: Donna J. Wan, At the Edge of the Lake, 2011 (In the Landscape series); copyright the artist, courtesy Klompching Gallery.
Wednesday, July 20 Curators’ talk, 6:30 pm: Alexander Campos and Jen Larsen on Multiple, Limited, Unique, an exhibition from the permanent
collection. The Center for Book … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday April 17, 2012
Above: Don Joint, Blue Machine
Gun, 2011, from Fishing for Knick Knacks, opening Thursday at Pavel Zoubok Gallery. Tuesday, April
17 Opening reception, 7 pm: Archizines | 80 magazines and printed matter designed by \ / | < | \
| (Giancarlo Valle, Isaiah King and Ryan Neiheiser) with graphic work by Benjamin Critton. Storefront for Art and Architecture,
97 Kenmare Street, NY, NY. Wednesday, April 18 Opening … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday December 4, 2025
Friday, December 5, 6-9pm: Eliana Pérez | Ajar at PS109
Join the artist and friends for this pop-up exhibition at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109. This tapestry and book pairing that depicts the parasitic exploitation of migrants passing through El Tapón del Darién, the narrow land bridge connecting the Americas. See this alongside 3 of her other artist books, all detailing intractable challenges affecting her native country … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday July 7, 2016
Next week, the Type Directors Club opens its sixty-second annual
typography exhibit, with selections from the annual typeface design competition. At a special presentation on Tuesday evening, the 29th TDC Medal will be presented to Émigré (Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLans), the design firm/digital type foundry that arrived in Berkeley
at the same moment as the Macintosh computer. Between 1984 and 2005, Émigré published Émigré magazine, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday October 29, 2015
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) lived during an ascendant period of book publishing in France.
It was the height of achievement in letterpress printing and in printed editions of books that combined poetry, literature, and art as a collaborative expression. During his lifetime,
Matisse was engaged in creating art, typographic and layout design, and hand lettering for nearly fifty book illustration projects. A perfectionist and a … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday October 13, 2023
A postage stamp is an important matter. Though it is very small in size it bears a decisive message….The tiny square connects the hearts of the sender and the receiver, reducing the distances. It is a bridge between people and countries. The postage stamp passes all frontiers. It reaches men in prisons, asylums and hospitals. The small postage stamps become big works … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 27, 2023
“Which came first, the pen or the brush?” The first question in our long-running series, In the Studio with… has steadily drawn readers to its pages. This week, DART celebrates artists who have taken up the pen to make their mark; even when much of the art is finished digitally, the artistic impulse for a sharp nib is evident.
We start with … Read the full Story >>
