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Robert Newman Thursday September 24, 2015
Jonathon Rosen an illustrator, artist, animator, graphic designer, and bookmaker who creates smart, provocative, engaging imagery with highly original style and accomplished technique. He makes
comics, editorial illustrations, drawings, art projects, animation, exhibits, books and book covers, and much more, and his work appears in a wide array of publications, galleries, performance spaces,
and other venues. Rosen also teaches illustration, cartooning, and visual narrative … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday September 15, 2015
Special Events
Friday, September 18 Greenpoint Gallery Night. Various locations, including Dusk Editions, 7-10
pm. Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Information. Friday, September 18-Sunday, September
20 Printed Matter Presents the 10th Annual NY Art Book FairFree and open to the public, the NY Art Book Fair is the world’s premier event
for artists’ books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines.This year, the fair features over 370 booksellers, antiquarians, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday April 3, 2025
Lorenzo Homar was a pioneering printmaker, poster designer, calligrapher, painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and costume and theatrical set designer. Active from the 1950s through the 1990s, few equal his impact and influence as a teacher of poster design and printmaking in Latin America.
This exhibition focuses on his poster output over a thirty year period during which time his work reflected the complex history … Read the full Story >>
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Robert Newman Thursday March 26, 2015
Harry Campbell creates illustrations that are super smart, highly stylish, consistently modern, and very cool looking. His brilliantly executed and designed vector drawings have become a mainstay in
countless magazines and newspapers, most notably in The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He always amazes with his ability to illustrate and explain deep, complex stories with simples lines
and colors. Harry's illustrations … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday December 8, 2021
Last chance—closing today: Pamela Council | A Fountain for Survivors, Duffy Square, Times Square, NYC.
Jasmine Weber writes, in Hyperallergic: "Eighteen-feet tall, A Fountain for Survivors is a magnificent protrusion in the middle of Times Square that manages to stand out despite being surrounded by billion-kilowatt billboards advertising the Jolly Green Giant, Coca-Cola, and every other brand in the American capitalist lexicon. … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday March 21, 2013
Originally published in installments between 1844 and 1846 by photographer and inventor William Henry Fox Talbot, The Pencil of Nature was the first book to be
illustrated entirely with photographs. Some scholars consider its importance in the history of photography to be comparable to that of the Gutenberg Bible in the history of
printing. Talbot invented the Calotype process and his photographs transformed everyday subjects into … Read the full Story >>
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Eric Meola Wednesday September 14, 2016
"I have always felt better taking a risk than an easier route for what I believe in," said photographer Ernst Haas, who died 30 years ago, in September, 1986. All this week we have been paying tribute
to Haas, whose color work revolutionized photography and whose teaching influenced a generation of artists. Throughout the past summer photographer Eric Meola collected reminiscences of many of … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 28, 2014
The first installment of Jade Doskow's long-term photographic exploration of World Fair sites goes on view tonight at Onishi Project Gallery, in New York City. Having been following the
progress of this work with interest, I invited the artist to do a Q&A for DART. Here is what she wrote:Q: How did your interest in architectural subjects take hold? A: I
spent my … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday February 28, 2019
Whitney Sherman: Post Typography Lettering & Type book launch / MICA Falvey Hall / Baltimore: F is a Four-Letter Word At last count, I
found Whitney Sherman [a long-time DART subscriber] wearing five hats: Director of the MFA in Illustration Practice and Co-Director of Dolphin Press & Print at MICA; Illustrator, Designer and
Proprietor, Pbodydsign.com; Co-editor/Contributing author, History of Illustration (Bloomsbury/Fairchild 2018); and … Read the full Story >>
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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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Robert Newman Thursday July 16, 2015
Ross MacDonald is an illustrator, designer, book artist, letterpress operator, graphic artist, cartoonist, and more. He has created retro-styled illustrations in multiple styles and formats for an
extensive list of magazines and newspapers. MacDonald is also a brilliant comic artist; his illustrated graphics have graced the pages of numerous publications and several books. And he has had a very
successful second career creating what … Read the full Story >>
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Robert Newman Thursday May 25, 2017
Lauren Simkin Berke is a Brooklyn-based illustrator, artist, and zine creator. In addition to regular editorial illustration, Berke's artwork has graced book covers, and appeared in gallery exhibits,
and is available on a wide variety of merchandise via the Etsy and Brooklyn Collective. Berke has also been an active comic artist and writer. Most of Berke's illustrations are created pen, ink and
watercolor, with … Read the full Story >>
