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Peggy Roalf Wednesday July 11, 2012
This week the Park Avenue median between
52nd and 60th Streets becomes a summer playground for nine super-scaled polyester resin/ceramic sculptures by the French/American artist Niki de
Saint Phalle (1930–2002). The best of these, Serpent Tree, from 1999, is a raucous, colorful take on the mythological representation of women commandeering serpents to
vanquish enemies or to recall Minoan fertility goddesses who tamed serpents to guard against tomb … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday April 12, 2024
When the spring downpours taper off, artists across the tristate open their studio doors. Today, DART offers the first in a rush of opportunities to visit art makers at work and a couple of related programs; these take place this Saturday and Sunday unless noted. Stay tuned for more to come.
Dumbo Open Studios 2024, 1-6pm
Visitors will see work from artists … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday July 1, 2015
With the growing interest in artists books, from concertina fold-outs made by schoolchildren, to punk and no-wave zines that can be found at comics fairs, to one-of-a-kind objects
created by artists such as Ed Ruscha (Twenty-six Gasoline Stations) and Tauba Auerbach (How To Spell the Alphabet), there is also an increasing need for
education, and information about the genre. The Center for Book Arts, which was founded … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday June 22, 2010
The first 100 lots in the Polaroid Collection sale went on the block at noon yesterday, with only four items not sold. Any worries that so many photographs by Ansel Adams being offered together
could have a negative effect on value have, so far, been eased. A mural-sized print of Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park (below, center) went for $722,000, estimated at
$300-500,000 … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 8, 2007
When the DIA Art Foundation opened the Beacon/Riggio Galleries for contemporary art four years ago, the formerly down-at-the-heels Hudson River town quickly began to gain some luster. Second home
buyers soon arrived, followed by artists, then by young professionals commuting to Manhattan a few days a week. Inevitably, new restaurants and contemporary art galleries began moving into the
19th-century brick row houses on Main … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday December 21, 2009
On my way to the Museum of Modern Art the other day, I turned the corner at 53rd and Park and was met with a colossal dose of eye candy. Lever House, one of the city's landmark Modernist
buildings, has been consumed at street level by the riotously colorful art of Richard Woods. Photograph courtesy Perry Rubenstein Gallery The
British artist, known for installations … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday October 25, 2011
Three by Edward Sorel: Robin Hood, illustration from the Washington Post Book World, 1991; The
Washington Shootout, illustration for the Republic, 1972; Tower of Babel, illustration
from the cover of The New Yorker, 1995. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25
Masters Series Artist Talk, 7 pm: A conversation with Edward Sorel and James McMullan. SVA Theater, 333 West 23rd Street, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday June 22, 2009
As two out of America's Big Three automakers continue their downward spiral, our car culture shows little sign of taking a reality check. While many home buyers are seizing on real estate
foreclosures and flipping to a more upscale lifestyle, car buyers are also taking advantage of overcrowded dealership lots for bargains on gas guzzling SUVs. If we are what we drive, and
bigger … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday May 13, 2014
Art Fairs & Special EventsWednesday, May 14-Sunday, May 18 LIC Arts Open / 54 locations across
Long Island City, NY. Over 250 artists are transforming Long Island City into a cultural adventureland of galleries, performance spaces and open studios. With 85-plus exhibitions and
events, and over 160 artists opening their studio doors, LIC Arts Open will likely be the biggest event happening in the five boroughs this … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday February 27, 2019
Margit
Lewczuk, Drums for Connie, 2006 [detail]; poetry reading Saturday at New York Studio School Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and
Beyond Thursday, February 28-Sunday, March 3 ADDA: The Art Show. Park Avenue Armory, Park
Avenue and 67thStreet, NY, NY InfoSaturday, March 2 Brooklyn Rail presents: Poems for Margrit Lewczuk’s Angels, 5-7 pm. New York Studio School, 8 West
8thStreet, NY, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday August 22, 2017
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond Tuesday, August 22
Shelley Hirsch | Book-Bark-Tree-Skin-Line, performance, 1-2:30 pm. Madison Square Park, Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street, NY, NY Info Additional performaces through Saturday, August 26. DRAFT_, Movement & Art | Choreographer: Burr Johnson;
Dancer: Russell Stuart Lillle; Visual artist: Christopher Stout, 6:30-8 pm. MW Proects, 218 West 57th Street, NY, NY Info Thursday, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday December 13, 2018
Self. Family. Memory. Loss. Displacement. Catastrophe. These are subjects
of concern in the visual arts—perhaps never more so than today. As the planet degrades at an accelerating pace; as war, poverty, displacement, tribalism, nationalism and other such human
catastrophes fail to be contained, photographers in particular make these subjects the focus of their work. And with increasing frequency, the self-published photobook is the locus … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday June 21, 2007
Invite a friend to a portrait photography exhibition, and chances are good that you'll go alone. But two group shows opening this week and next prove that there is more to portraiture than meets
the eye. A New American Portrait, at Jen Bekman Gallery, presents work by nine photographers who blend fiction, truth and metaphor to create
highly structured realities. Some are … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday December 20, 2023
Thursday, December 21, 6-8pm: Exposure at Ceres Gallery
Works by Marcy Bernstein, Robert Bunkin, Aliza Driller, Sung Gross, Leigh Jerome, Francine Perlman, Alan Reddick, Jenny Tango
Ceres Gallery is a feminist, not-for-profit, alternative gallery in New York City, dedicated to the promotion of contemporary women in the arts. Over the years Ceres has encouraged not only artists but writers, musicians, dancers, poets and storytellers … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 7, 2019
Film Still from
Magnificent Cake, this week at Socrates Sculpture Park Summer in The City offers a feast of arts-related events—outdoors and in—across the boroughs. This week, for
example: Wednesday, August 7 Screening: Rooftop Films presents: Dark ’Toons, 7
pm; Highlighted by De Swaef and Roels’ masterful This Magnificent Cake!, the films in this program utilize groundbreaking visual innovations, eerie sound design, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday June 12, 2019
Wednesday, June 12,
19 Reading:Harry Dodge | My Meteorite or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing, 7 pm. Callicoon Fine
Arts, 49 Delancey Street, NY, NY Info Art Talk:Seph Rodney on Leonardo Drew’s
City in the Grass, 6 pm. Madison Square Park, at the Farragut Monument, Broadway between 23-24thStreet, NY, NY Info Above: Leonardo Drew Installation, … Read the full Story >>
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Fernanda Cohen Monday December 5, 2011
Miami is popular worldwide thanks to its year-round warm weather, its great beaches and intense nightlife, though Art Basel Miami Beach,
which ended yesterday, has managed to shift the city’s attention more towards the arts in the past decade. Celebrating its tenth anniversary this month, Art Basel
Miami gets enough national and international press to be known by pretty much anyone interested in … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday June 1, 2007
Magnum Photos, the great photographer-owned and directed agency founded 60 years ago at New York's Museum of Modern Art, rings in another decade with a festival that runs through June. In
celebrating the documentary tradition, the festival includes film as well as still photography, in venues all around town.Tonight, Robert Capa: In Love and War kicks off a
month of special screenings at the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday January 12, 2015
Q: Originally from northeastern New Jersey, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Baltimore? A: It's weird, historic and cheap. It's an old industrial
city wrapped around a harbor. There is at least one of everything here and greatseafood; a super nice creative community, perfect for artists to work and not have to chase a buck to make rent. We … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday May 25, 2012
Photographer Danny Lyon became famous for documenting the civil rights struggle and death row inmates in Texas prisons
and riding with bikers in the 60s, To make these affecting, intimate images, Lyon was both a participant and an observer. He got to know his subjects and often
captured their stories in highly descriptive, opinionated texts as well as in photographs. His goal, he said, … Read the full Story >>
