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Life as Lived: World Press Photo at the United Nations

By Peggy Roalf   Tuesday May 1, 2007

GETTING THE NEWS ONLINE is the choice of many harried people, especially those who need to view the same events through different media. While this can speed things up, readers pay a huge price because the information we usually receive through news photos is largely missing. So if you think you're pretty well-informed, the month of May offers a chance to become extremely well …   Read the full Story >>

Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

By Peggy Roalf   Wednesday November 6, 2019

  In celebration of AI-APs Illustration Week, headlined by The Party tomorrow night Info and studio visits Info, with artists and creative heads streaming into NYC from coast to coast, DART offers a view from Chicago today, and one from the West Coast on Friday. Here, from CHI: Since his death in 1987, at age 58, Andy Warhol’s work has probably been seen …   Read the full Story >>

The DART Board: 07/05/11

By Peggy Roalf   Tuesday July 5, 2011

Left: Carmen and Lupita, 2011, ©Annabel Clark, courtesy Michael Mazzeo Gallery. Right: Water Landscape, ©Paul Bobko, courtesy Alan Klotz. Wednesday, July 6 Opening reception, 6-8 pm, for On Shuffle, featuring work by Billy Childish, Kim Gordon, Kalup Linzy, Ryan McNamara, Tony Oursler, Dave Muller, Dario Robleto and Stephen Vitiello. Lehmann Maupin, 540 West 26th Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 7-9 pm, …   Read the full Story >>

DART Diary: Plein Air Painting NYC

By Peggy Roalf   Tuesday August 20, 2024

Sunday, August 24: Central Park, North Woods This just in from Insiya Pardiwala: I’m the founder of a vibrant group called Plein Air Painters of New York. I began my plein air painting journey in 2022, and after taking a transformative workshop at the Art Students League last September, I connected with a group of passionate women who shared my enthusiasm for painting outdoors. Our small …   Read the full Story >>

Tal Shochat: In Praise of a Dream

By Peggy Roalf   Thursday October 27, 2011

It’s hard to imagine contemporary landscape photography from Israel without a political framework of some sort. There are the fences; the designated roadways; the illegal settlements; inaccessible crops going to ruin in the Occupied Terratories; national parks bristling with non-native species. Powerful images by exceptional photographers portray the realities of this troubled land in ways that escape the often one-shot view of journalism. But …   Read the full Story >>

The DART Board: 01.20.2014

By Peggy Roalf   Tuesday January 20, 2015

Art Fairs & Special Events Wednesday, January 21 Rema Hort Mann Foundation 20th Anniversery Gala & Art Auction6:30 pm on. Tribeca Rooftop, 2 Debrosses Street, NY, NY. Information. Wednesday, January 21- Sunday, January 25  The New York Ceramics & Glass Fair, Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, NY, NY. Information. Thursday, January 22-Sunday, January 25 Metro Curates. The Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, NY, NY. Information …   Read the full Story >>

Waterfalls at The Center for Land Use Interpretation

By Peggy Roalf   Thursday June 19, 2014

As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls. This elegiac line sums up, in my mind, the fate of most urban waterfalls in America. The falls at Wichita Falls, TX, originally rose just five feet; they were eventually washed away in a flood, and later restored in theme-park style as a roadside attraction. The Wichita River was dammed in the 1920s to form several lakes …   Read the full Story >>

Bruno Bressolin: Plat du Jour

By Peggy Roalf   Wednesday July 8, 2020

Bruno Bressolin is a Parisian artist best known for his distinctively dreamlike paintings, his bold illustrations, his imaginative sculptures made of found objects, and his large scale illustrated books. I was intrigued when he began presenting a series of illustrated ceramic plates on Instagram during the Covid-19 confinement, so in April, I contacted him. The following interview took place by email last week. Peggy Roalf: This 20/20 …   Read the full Story >>

The DART List: A Week In New York

By Peggy Roalf   Monday December 13, 2010

Monday, December 13, 5-7 pm: Book Launch and signing for Splendid Settings: The Art + Craft of Entertaining by Jane Korman. Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, NY, NY. Tuesday, December 14, 7 pm: The CCNY Lecture Series in conjunction with SVA's BFA Photography Department, presents Help Me, the Panel Discussion, with Luc Sante, W.M. Hunt, and Leslie Grant; moderated …   Read the full Story >>

Ionut Radulescu's Workspace

By Peggy Roalf   Wednesday February 24, 2021

  I work somewhere in between graphic design, illustration and art direction. For my lettering and illustration work, I enjoy combining digital and analog mediums: markers, brushes, ink, watercolor, and any other materials that can have that human touch quality. There is something special in a handmade detail that can add value to a design or an illustration piece. Since last year in March, when …   Read the full Story >>

Taking the Plunge in Austin, TX

By Peggy Roalf   Friday July 13, 2007

Will Van Overbeek, a native Californian, studied photography with Garry Winogrand at the University of Texas, Austin, in the 1970s. Searching for the subject of an extended documentary project, he looked at a nearby local pool that pulsated with life. "It was the height of the hippie era and about half the women there were topless. I was too shy." Instead, he did a …   Read the full Story >>

Yayoi Kusama's Alice in Wonderland

By Peggy Roalf   Monday September 24, 2012

The topsy-turvy world of fantasy discovered by a bored little girl named Alice after she fell down a rabbit hole remains a draw for artists. Originally illustrated in 1865 by Sir John Tenniel, later by Salvador Dali, Dorothea Tanning, Max Ernst, and John Steadman, and more recently by Kiki Smith, Dan Graham, and Adrian Piper, the fantastical events that Lewis Carroll invented in Alice’s …   Read the full Story >>

Artist Books: March Update

By Peggy Roalf   Wednesday March 15, 2017

Artist books—broadly speaking, artwork conceived and produce along the lines of a book—cover terrain so diverse that it can be difficult to make distinctions between works on paper, sculpture, book, or pure object. This is what makes the subject so appealing, both to artists and to art lovers. Opening recently in San Francsico’s Legion of Honor is the exhibition Letter and Image: Inspired Alphabets …   Read the full Story >>

The DART Board: 07.31.2012

By Peggy Roalf   Tuesday July 31, 2012

Paolo Pellizari, France, Saint Macaire, Tour de France, through August 31 at Anastasia Photo, 166 Orchard Street, NY, NY. Tuesday, July 31, 2012 Book launch and opening reception, 6-9 pm: Kelly Roman | The Art of War. White Box, 329 Broome Street, NY, NY. Information. Wednesday, August 1 Artist talk, 6:30 pm: Shana Agid, Eileen Arnow-Levine, Ana Cordeiro, & Thomas Parker Walker | Tell Me How …   Read the full Story >>

The DART Board: 05.06.2014

By Peggy Roalf   Tuesday May 6, 2014

Art Fairs & Special Events Thursday, May 8-Sunday, May 11 Pulse New York Contemporary Art Fair Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, NY, NY.Information. Thursday, May 8-Sunday, May 11 Cutlog New York 2014, The Clemente, 107 Suffolk Street, NY, NY. Information. Thursday, May 8-Sunday, May 11 Downtown Fair | Modern + Contemporary, Downtown Armory, 68 Lexington Avenue at 25thStreet, NY, NY. Information …   Read the full Story >>

Is Edvard Munch Modern?

By Peggy Roalf   Wednesday November 29, 2017

In his Introduction to the catalogue that accompanies Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed, currently on view at the Met Breuer, Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgård wrote, If you have ever stood in a room in front of a painting by Munch, or Van Gogh or Rembrandt for that matter, you will know that part of the painting’s magic is that …   Read the full Story >>

Getting Out the Vote

By Peggy Roalf   Friday February 10, 2012

In response to Monday’s post about the Voting Day Colorama, I had an email exchange with John Zimmerman of Westhampton, Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Hills. He wrote, I could not help but chuckle at your comment, "Check out that voting booth, on the right." We here in Westhampton, Massachusetts, still use that exact same voting booth! Our machine has those little …   Read the full Story >>

The DART Board: 09.03.2014

By Peggy Roalf   Wednesday September 3, 2014

Wednesday, September 3 Opening day: Ernest Cole | Photographer. Ernest Cole (1940–90), one of South Africa’s first black photojournalists, compassionately but unflinchingly portrayed the lives of black people as they negotiated apartheid’s racist laws and oppression. Ernest Cole: Photographer features over 100 rare black-and-white gelatin silver prints from Cole’s remarkable archive. Organized by the Hasselblad Foundation. Grey Art Gallery. 100 Washington Square …   Read the full Story >>

The DART Board: 06.13.2012

By Peggy Roalf   Wednesday June 13, 2012

Gusmano Cesaretti, from the East LA series, 1974, opening Thursday at Anna Kustera Gallery. Wednesday, June 13 Celebrate Brooklyn 2012 continues, with a Videoblogging Workshop | Brooklyn Center for Media Education. Information. Calendar. Presentation and reception, 6:30 pm: Aperture and the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York present The Dutch Photobook with co-author Fritz Gierstberg. Aperture Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, NY, NY. …   Read the full Story >>

The DART Board: 02.13.2020

By Peggy Roalf   Thursday February 13, 2020

Vida Americana, Whitney Museum of American Art; photo: © Peggy Roalf Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Thursday, February 13 Rafael Domenech | Las Palabras Son Muros [Pavilion for Astoria],  catalogue launch, 5:30-7:30 pm. Hunters Point Library, 47-40 Center Boulevard, Long Island City, NY InfoFriday, February 14 Library After Hours for Book Lovers  | featuring love poems read …   Read the full Story >>

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