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Peggy Roalf Thursday July 30, 2026
French artist and composer Céleste Boursier-Mougenot has expanded his monumental sound installation, Clinamen, to its largest iteration to date, now on view at the Park Avenue Armory. For those who track his work—perhaps remembering his smaller, bird-and-guitar installations or an earlier iteration of this piece at SFMOMA, in 2017—the sheer scale here is breathtaking. Spanning 55,000 square feet, the vast, shadowy drill hall has been … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday July 28, 2011
Left: John Goodman, Woman/Phone Booth/Truro, 1980, on view at Rick Wester Fine Art. Right: Harvey Stein, The Hug: Closed Eyes and Smile, 1982, on view
at Alan Klotz Gallery, where Harvey Stein will be on hand tonight to sign copies of Coney Island. Tonight the second annual Chelsea Art Walk is on, with over 125 participating venues keeping extended hours and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday February 11, 2015
The Educational Alliance, founded on the Lower East Side in 1917 and one of New York City’s beacons for equality and social justice, recently reopened following a two-year
gut renovation of its historic building. Tomorrow night, the Educational Alliance Art School celebrates the neighborhood with an opening reception for All | Together |
Different. On view will be paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday August 4, 2022
Thursday, August 4, 6–9pm: Uptown Bounce | Diva Night
Celebrate East Harlem at the top of Museum Mile with the Museum of the City of New York and El Museo del Barrio. On the final night in this series of free summer block parties, pay homage to your favorite divas, from Madonna to Rihanna! Dance to songs from these icons and more, played by DJ … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday September 10, 2024
Continuing: Karin Bruckner | WayWeSeeIt at Carter Burden
In this exhibition, Karin Bruckner presents work that push the medium of printmaking to its limits, straddling the lines between printmaking, drawing, painting, collage, and assemblage. Printmaking became a focus in Bruckner’s work after a career in architecture; Its unique combination of creative flow and process requires a structured, sequenced way of thinking in layers, shapes … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday October 12, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 6:00-8:00 pm: Art and Science Transdisciplinary Lecture with artist Inigo Mangiano-Ovalle. Kellen Audidtorium, Sheila C. Johnson
Design Center, Parsons The New School for Design, 2 West 13th Street at 5th Avenue, NY, NY.
Tuesday, October 12, 6:30 pm: The J-Pop Influence, A Western Obsession. Simone Legno, creator, Tokidoki and Matthew Waldman, CCO & President, Nooka, Inc., in a … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday August 17, 2023
David Butow, a long-time subscriber as well as the author of the AP30 cover image, is currently covering the fires in Hawaii. In his post to IG yesterday, he tells why information has been so slow to emerge from the disaster. David’s coverage for this week's TIME, which focused on the work of being a journalist on the ground, includes the cover … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 23, 2017
The 2017 Summer Invitational: Pimp Your Sketchbook, in which artists show their personal work and open a window onto their creative process, continues with Lisk Feng, who lives and works in Queens,
New York. Sketchbooks play a big role in my daily brainstorming process. I have kept several sketchbooks for different purposes, small ones used mainly for train rides and coffee shop
time, larger … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday February 25, 2016
Roman Vishniac Rediscovered, organized by the International
Center of Photography (ICP), is currently on view at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Vishniac (1897–1990) created the most widely recognized and
reproduced photographic record of Jewish life in eastern Europe between the two World Wars. In fact, it was these photographs that informed the development and filming of
Steven Spielbberg’s film, Schindler’s List. The exhibition is organized by Curator Maya … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 21, 2025
Continuing at El Museo: Candida Alvarez | Circle, Point, Hoop
This exhibition, spanning 48 years of Candida Alvarez’s bold, vibrant practice, is a celebration of color, culture, and artistic vision that highlights her evolution through painting, drawing, and collage. Exploring the interaction between abstraction and figuration, with a focus on her experience as a female artist in a predominantly male environment, it begins with figurative … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 2, 2012
Hugo Brehme, Popocatepelt,
Mexico, ca. 1920s, from Eternal Mexico, continuing through June 9th at Throckmorton Fine Art, 145 East
57th Street, NY, NY. Wednesday, May 2 Opening reception, 6-9
pm: Prabir Purkayastha | Photographs of India’s Ladakh Region. Tally Beck Contemporary, 42 Rivington Street, NY, NY. Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Bruno Cals |
Horizons. 1500 Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, #607, NY, NY. Thursday, May
3 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday September 16, 2014
Sebastião Salgado, The Anavilhanas, Brazil,
2009. © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/nbpictures. From Genesis, opening this week at ICP. Art
Fairs & Special Events Monday, September 15-Sunday, Sept 21 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend
Events. Various locations. Information. Tuesday, September
16-Sunday, September 21 Asia Art Fair New York, Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, NY, NY. Information. Photoville returns to Brooklyn Bridge
Park, September 18, 19, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday October 8, 2019
School of Visual Arts will
honor prolific illustrator and faculty member Steve Brodner with the 31st annual Masters Series Award and Exhibition in 2019. “The Masters Series: Steve Brodner” will be a
comprehensive retrospective of his celebrated career and include never-before-seen political art
and illustration work set along a timeline covering the past five decades. “Brodner’s pen acts as a weapon to challenge the status quo … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday February 11, 2014
Tuesday, February 11 Panel discussion, 6:30 pm: Hall of Femmes | Women in Fashion Photography and Magazine
Culture. Moderator Johanna Lenander will lead a conversation with Swedish photographers Denise Grünstein and Sophie Mörner. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 527 West 27th Street, 5th Floor, NY, NY Book signing, 5-6 pm: Avedon |
Women, with Joan Juliet Buck & China Machado.The Gagosian Shop, 976 Madison Avenue, NY, NY. RSVP. Wednesday, February 12 The SVA MFA … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday November 16, 2010
Shoot for the stars! Never say never! More is better! Too much is never enough! These are words to live by for Kevin O'Callaghan, mad scientist at the School of Visual Arts. As
well as heading up his own design studio, this maverick exhibition designer and artist is chair of the 3-D program at SVA. These words have also become a mantra for his … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday July 11, 2018
Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) was an American street photographer whose massive, unseen body of work came to light when it was purchased from an auction in Chicago in 2007. Born in New York
City, Maier spent some of her youth in France and then worked in Chicago as a nanny and caregiver for most of her life. In her leisure, however, Maier ventured … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday January 2, 2014
Jocelyn Cottencin is an artist in Rennes, France, whose practice brings together photography, video, installation and graphic arts. His work centers around the
transmission and reception of image, sign and symbol. One of his recurring subjects is typography, rendered as large-scale dimensional material, with which he intervenes in public space through
performances and installations. Cottencin often works with dancers. Most recently he created scenic designs for the choreographers Yasmin Rahmani's
and Loïc Touzé’s dance … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday June 13, 2016
Editor’s note: With ICON9 The Illustration Conference just a month away—four days of art, discussion, performance, and plenty of talk in Austin, TX—the current roster for
the Q&A is peopled with many of the exceptional artists making presentations during this biannual artfest. Gina Triplett and Matt Curtius will give a workshop on Personal Work and
Work-Work on Thursday, July 7, 9am-noon. Info Q: Originally from the East … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday December 13, 2016
Books / Talks / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, December 13 Jonathan Anderson and Luis Venegas | Past Present Future, Book signing, 6:30-9 pm. Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, NY, NY Info Three I’s Series presents: Chris Verene, 7 pm. SVA, 136 West 21st Street, NY, NY Info Michael Fried/James Welling | Promesse du Bonheur, reading, 7 pm. 192 Books, 192 Tenth Avenue, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday March 13, 2015
Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and Pioneer Works Center for Art
and Innovation present Under Construction – New Positions in American Photography, a group exhibition featuring ten young American and Canadian photographers. The
opening reception is tonight, with remarks by Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, The New York Times Magazine, at 6:30 pm. The far-reaching digitisation of society exerts an
unparalleled influence on almost every aspect of the medium. … Read the full Story >>
