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Peggy Roalf Thursday April 10, 2014
Strange Paradise traverses an ambiguous territory between the peculiar and the familiar as Charlie Rubin creates unexpected combinations with idiosyncratic logic.
Taking perception as his waypoint, the Brooklyn-based artist presents a multifaceted body of work that explores the convergence of the actual and the artificial. He examines perception and the
process by which people take in information thorough highly manipulated photographs that question … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday September 5, 2013
The peripatetic Ivan Vartanian, of GOLIGA, Tokyo, recently remained at home in order to produce his latest project, “a
mega-size poster book on Alec Soth,” which was announced yesterday on Facebook. If you’re not in Tokyo,
you can purchase the limited edition poster-book here. If you are in Tokyo, you can participate in a series of events that started Tuesday with The Cave, photo … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 7, 2016
There is hardly a more recognizable cultural icon than the Victorian house
in Alfred Hitchcock’s genre-bending horror film, Psycho. Known as the Bates Mansion, it stands, along with the film’s shocking 45-second shower scene, as a symbol of a new American
phenomenon, the slasher film. Fast-forward 56 years to The Met’s seasonal installation on the roof garden, where British sculptor Cornelia Parker has created … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday May 10, 2011
The fourth annual New York Photo Festival (NYPH),
which lures photography professionals and creative people from across the globe to the waterfront neighborhood of DUMBO, opens this Wednesday, May 11th and runs through Sunday, May
15th. According to the organizers, it will display over 3,000 photographs, attract over 14,000 attendees, and present over 40 events across 11 venues. This year’s main
exhibitions, PHOTOGRAPHY NOW: … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday May 5, 2016
Lynn Pauley, a longtime DART subscriber, is having a Pennsylvania moment, with an exhibition of her paintings opening Friday, in Scranton. So I took a moment to catch up. Here is what she
wrote: Q: A Pennsylvania native, you recently moved back, to Scranton. What is the draw of your home state? A: I think that is the phrase," draw the home state." I … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday November 1, 2018
Unfolding political events and breaking news are not generally thought of as subject matter for photographs meant to be seen on gallery walls rather than in the news media. But Simon Roberts, whose
background includes university studies in human geography, has pushed the limits of his medium to do just that. The implicit theme of Simon’s work over the last ten years has been … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday July 17, 2009
This weekend the Clayton Brothers, Rob and Christian, will open a show of their new work at Patrick Painter's Bergamot Station gallery. Although they have achieved
an almost cult hero status in Los Angeles, and their work has been recently shown in New York and Beijing, this will be their first show on native turf in more than five years.
Jumbo Fruit … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 6, 2020
It is week six of Covid-19 lockdown and the cracks are beginning to show,
over here at least. So instead of going back to bed, I will focus on some of the bright spots of the week so far. Sher Katz, an artist and friend in Montpellier, FR,
has been posting videos for at-home dance inspirations on Instagram. Words fail. Look in. It’s … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday January 18, 2011
DART picks from shows that opened last week: Eugene Richards: War Is Personal, photographs on view through mid-February at
401 Gallery, 401 West Street (between West 10th and Charles Streets), NY, NY. Stuart
Hawkins: Broken Welcome, photographs on view through February 19th at Zach Feuer Gallery, 548 West 22nd Street, NY, NY.
Marina Abramovic: Volcano Flambee at the Park Avenue Armory, through … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday October 29, 2013
Tuesday, October 29 Film screenings, 8 pm and 9 pm: Invader | Art4Space. Landmark Theater Sunshine Cinema,
143 East Houston Street, NY, NY.Free/Information. Please arrive 30 minutes prior. Wednesday, October 30 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Greg Kwiatek | Recent Works. Lynch Tham, 175 Rivington Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Shirazeh Houshiary | The Eye Fell in
Love with the Ear. Lehmann Maupin, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 26, 2015
The 2015 Summer
Invitational: Pimp Your Sketchbooks, continues with Gayle Kabaker, who lives and works in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. She found her sketchbook chops on a vacation in Bali
(above) I have always tried to be a sketchbook artist. I’ve taken my sketchbook on vacations and it stayed in my suitcase. It just always felt like another thing I SHOULD
do. Scanning … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday November 1, 2024
Thursday, November 14 · 7 - 11pm at Angel Orensanz Foundation
The year's most anticipated networking schmooze-fest celebrating the American Photography 40 and American Illustration 43 winners is just 20 days away—get your tickets here!
Once again AI-AP brings the art, photo and design communities together in a one-of-a-kind, trifecta gathering of photographers / illustrators / and creatives to launch the new AP40 … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday May 7, 2010
If you are marking your calendar for the New York Photo Festival, which kicks off in DUMBO, Brooklyn on Wednesday, May 12th and
continues through Sunday, May 16th, this just came in from Aperture Foundation. Each day at 4:30, Aperture presents a series of
illuminating discussions on career building, as well as discussions with two artists, Eirik Johnson and Jowhara AlSaud, who … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday December 6, 2016
Books / Talks / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, December 6 David Salle | How To See, 7 pm. 192 Books, 192 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY Info
Support and Be Supported | Nonprofits and the Arts, 6:30 pm. SVA, 214 East 21st Street, Room 120, NY, NY. Info Doug Aitken in conversation with Philippe Vergne, 6 pm. Celeste
Auditorium, New York Public Library, Fifth … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday May 2, 2019
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the brush or the pen? Giovanni Alberti: First of all, the pen. That’s how I instinctively give shape to my first thoughts or
feelings. Drawing with the pen allows me to highlight the most important aspects of the image, then I can use a brush to give greater depth, or to better convey the idea of substance. PR: How did … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday February 13, 2018
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, February 13
Gretchen Roehrs, Edible Ensembles, book signing, custom portraits, 6-8 pm. Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway, NY, NY Info Max Farago | Boardwalk, book signing, 6-8 pm. Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, NY, NY Info Thursday, February 15 Def Jam Cey Adams, Maripol and more | A Tribute to Basquiat, 7 pm. Brooklyn Museum, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday February 19, 2020
Peggy Roalf: When did you
realize that you had the ‘artist gene,’ and what caused you to choose illustration? Ignacio Serrano: I have been inclined to draw since I was a kid. Because of my family,
I grew up surrounded by comics, music, and movies, which influenced and educated my taste from a very early stage. I always wanted to replicate my favorite stories in … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 22, 2012
I walked through
the Alighiero Boetti retrospective at MoMA again yesterday with a friend. Many of the artist’s ideas, which on the surface seem simple but are complex explorations by a
profoud intellect, crystallized on second view. In one piece of wall text, he was quoted as saying something to the effect that he liked to take existing systems and impose new visualizations onto
them. This notion … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday May 31, 2016
Talk / Discussion / Screenings / and Beyond Thursday, June 2 Bahar Behbahani in conversation with Dr. Shiva Balaghi, 6 pm Thomas Erben Gallery, 526 West
26thStreet, NY, NY. Info. Friday, June 3-Sunday, June 5
Artist talk with 2015 Workspace Artists-in-Resicence, 6:30 pm. The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, NY, NY. Info Figment NYC |
Art, Interactive Sculpture & Miniature Golf, 10am-5 pm. Governors Island, NYC. … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday January 17, 2013
Experimental typography, at its best, makes our brain do cartwheels around the notion that the medium is the message. Rather than communicating in a straight line from an
original thought contained in a musical phrase, a poetic stanza, a journalistic paragraph, or a literary novel, expressive typography can create a densely packed surface in which an idea is subsumed
into an emotional territory that … Read the full Story >>
