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Peggy Roalf Thursday August 14, 2014
The brothers Rob and Christian Clayton, in their upcoming exhibition Open to the Public, examine the mythos, culture, and visual language of an archetypal second-hand store
located near their Los Angeles studio. Hailed as a thrifting mecca for several decades, Sun Thrift Store in Sunland, California, draws its share of both unusual characters
and the commonplace man—all participating in the hunt for trash-turned-treasured objects. Drawing … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday February 12, 2016
“I made a knife to cut fruit, but if others use it to kill, blaming me is unfair,” said Chinese painter Pei-Shen Qian in 2014 when he was indicted on charges of producing 40
worthless fakes that were subsequently sold by the Knoedler & Company gallery for tens of millions of dollars. Info In an interview by Bloomberg News in 2013, Qian said that he was
the innocent victim of … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday January 28, 2008
Puppets, like comics characters, get away with murder. From domestic violence a la Punch and Judy to racism and atonement via William Kentridge's Handspring Puppet Company, to the gleeful exposure
of society's dirty laundry by Kara Walker or the scatological muckraking by the team that brought you "South Park," no subject is off limits. Avatars and sock puppets signify displaced identity and
manipulation, central … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday April 12, 2012
The
POND is a body of work – vintage silver print photographs taken around and away from a muddy pond situated in an unkempt, wooded area behind a shopping
center in Queenstown, Md. It was considered groundbreaking when first published in 1985, and remains one of the most important photobooks of the “New Topographics”
mode, which includes Robert Adams’s The New West, Stephen Shore’s Uncommon Places, and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday November 13, 2014
Everyone who lives in a large city is an end user of public policy, urban design
programs, and large-scale urban development, such as the massive transit hub that accompanies the recent development of the Barclay Center in downtown Brooklyn. Rarely, however, does the
public have a voice in the future of their cities (a notable exception being the defeat of the West Side Stadium … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday August 18, 2022
Continuing: Michael Lin | Pentachrome at The Met
Michael Lin’s site-specific installation Pentachrome brings contemporary art to the Museum’s Great Hall Escalator for the first time. Inspired by The Met collection and the building’s architecture, Pentachrome invites visitors to reconsider the Museum’s Great Hall, its Balcony, and the surrounding art from a fresh perspective.
For more than a hundred years, Asian art, especially Chinese … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday July 16, 2018
Q: Originally from the south of Italy what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Rome? A: I was born in Lecce, a beautiful city in the Salento area, the
southernmost part of the Adriatic coast. I’ve lived in several cities in Italy and abroad but currently I’m in Rome. I love to take long walks in the old city … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday August 27, 2024
For most folks, Labor Day marks the end of summer. But we still have nearly a month of this season, with the weather rapidly improving. Here are a few ideas for celebrating art, nature and culture in a park or garden
Saturday, August 31, 11:59pm: Last Chance for Marco Palli’s Our Gates
Bring your own music and dance the night away at Our … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday November 6, 2009
A week of illustration and celebration is coming up, with events and workshop that will appeal to all the overachievers out there. Each year, the days leading up to the launch party for American Illustration and American Photography brings people from near and far to town - and various
arts organizations respond with fun and inspiring things to do. Here goes: Left to right: … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday November 19, 2020
The Jewish Museum’s public art installation of a building-wide banner by artist Lawrence Weiner went on view yesterday on the building’s façade at Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street. Weiner’s ALL THE STARS IN THE SKY HAVE THE SAME FACE (2011/20) is a two-story graphic that stretches across the Museum’s Fifth Avenue-facing façade at 92nd Street. Celebrating our shared humanity along New York City’s Museum Mile, the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday January 6, 2009
THE WEST itself seems to be the star of current gallery offerings west of the Mississippi, from Carleton Watkins at the Getty to Elger Esser at
Rose Gallery to Hollywood film stills at the David Gallery. Elsewhere, the landscape is viewed from above by Richard Misrach at Seattle's Henry Art Gallery and by
Yiorgos Kordakis at M+B. Bill Owens' California suburbs still provoke double … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday June 26, 2012
Rineke Dijkstra: Vondelpark, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 19, 2005, from the retrospective opening Friday at the Solomon R. Guugenheim Museum. Courtesy the artist and
Jan Mot. © Rineke Dijkstra. Tuesday, June 26 Book launch, 5-7 pm: David Armstrong | Night
and Day. Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, between Lafayette and Bowery, NY,
NY. Opening reception, 7-9 pm: Aesthetics Anesthetics | Architectural Drawings by International … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday April 9, 2012
The School of Visual Arts
Subway Poster program is one of the most time-honored commissions for New York City artists. For close to 60 years, the school has bought ad space in the most hostile surroundings
possible—subway platforms throughout the city, traveled by millions of people each day. But the concept is brilliant: Find future students in places where they can be saturated with … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday January 27, 2015
Note: Please check websites re: weather closings this week Art
Fairs January 29-February 1 The Outsider Art Fair, Center 548, 548 West
22nd Street, NY, NY. Information. Special
Events Tuesday, January 27 Film screening and discussion, 7-9 pm: Tracy Snelling, The Stranger. The Battery, 717 Battery Street, San Francisco, CA. Thursday, January 29-Wednesday,
February 4 The $100 Larry Clark Photograph Sale. Ooga Booga, 943 … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday June 24, 2011
Since making her photographic debut in 2001 with the simultaneous publication of three books in Japan, Rinko Kawauchi has continued to inspire fascination for her portrayal of the
endless cycle of nature. Photographing minute details from everyday moments that might otherwise pass unnoticed, Kawauchi has shaped a new narrative for photobooks. Images that might seem not
so interesting at first glance become an … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday August 19, 2024
Longtime DART contributor Ken Carbone—who, it must be said is also a friend and colleague going back to my participation in writing projects for his agency—has a way of looking at art. As cofounder, with Leslie Smolan, of the Carbone Smolan Agency, in 1977, his branding projects always stood on the foundations of the plastic arts as they have existed since the Sumerians … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday August 6, 2012
Harvey Stein took up photography
in 1970 as an antidote to a suffocating job in the corporate world. Although self-taught, he took classes when he could and his first teacher, Ben Fernandez, advised him to get a Leica
with a 21 mm lens and head to Coney Island. Stein was hooked on his first visit and for more than 40 years he hit the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday October 18, 2016
Special Events October 19-22
Photoplus Expo 2016. Javits Convention Center, NY, NY. Info. Conference: October 19-22. Expo: October 20-22 Info Books / Talks / Panels / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, October 18 Town Hall | Freedom
of Speech, 6:30 pm. ICP Museum, 6:30 pm, 250 Bowery, NY, NY Info Geometric Abstraction in the Americas | Carmen Herrera, 6 pm. Institute of Fine
Arts, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday June 12, 2015
When the publishing world, if not so much the art world, was rocked by news that the hot ticket for spring was: Adult Coloring Books, you could practically hear the fluffering sounds of book dummies of future
titles being made from coast to coast. So it’s no surprise that the next big title in this genre is sure to be: Game of Thrones. Overseen by … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday July 12, 2013
The exhibition tours, book signings, symposia, projections, and awards that make the Rencontres d’Arles a mecca for photographers during the first week of July each
year are finished, although the exhibition venues remain open through mid-September. “Arles in Black” was this year’s theme, and the poster [below, left] and communications
program for the event was designed, as always, by the inimitable Michel Bouvet. It’s a great tribute to … Read the full Story >>
