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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 >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday July 2, 2014
A relatively new stream of curatorial gymnastics, in which legendary art exhibitions
are either re-created or reimagined in today’s terms, is currently afoot in New York. On my way to meet a friend at a Nolita café last Saturday, I was drawn
into the Frosch & Portman gallery, on Stanton Street, by a series of small, colorful, dimensional paintings on the back wall. These four works by … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday May 15, 2017
Q: Originally from Hong Kong, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in the UK? A: I was born in a concrete forest and now a place with no trees (the Shetland
isles). I feel very exposed in the vastness of the land and sea, the winter is long and harsh, there is nowhere to go, the best thing is … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday January 21, 2021
In Picture This: How Pictures Work, illustrator Molly Bang explored a single idea as the central concern of all picture book art: How does the structure of a picture—or any visual art form—affect our emotional response?
She takes Red Riding Hood as her experimental subject and proceeds to delineate every possible emotional response to the classic fairy tale, using shapes cut out of construction … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 4, 2011
Operation Harmony by Dutch artist Fockert de Jong at
James Cohan Gallery, 533 West 26th Street, NY, NY. Photos: Peggy Roalf. Wednesday, May 4—Saturday, May 7: Festival of Ideas for the New City - a major new
initiative involving 200+ Downtown organizations working together to effect change. The Festival will include a three-day conference; an innovative StreetFest along the Bowery; and more than 100 … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 25, 2017
The title of Jade Doskow’s recent book, Lost
Utopias, resonates on more than one level, not least of which is the uncommon beauty of her luminous well-observed images. Her photographs of World’s Fair/International Exposition sites,
stateside and worldwide, often portray crumbling artifacts of American technological glory, such as the New York State Pavilion at the New York 1964 World’s Fair (celebrating the space … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday February 6, 2018
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / Art Fairs / and Beyond Tuesday, February
6 Dashwood Books Sale, through March 4th. Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, NY, NY Info
Ken Light | Religion & Resistance, 5-7 pm. Graduate Theolotical Union, 2465 Le Conte Avenue, Berkeley, CA Info Wednesday, February 7 Type@Cooper Workshops | 10 Wednesdays through April 11,
6:30-9:30 pm. Type@Cooper, ooper Union, 41 … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday May 8, 2007
There's nothing like a raging real estate success to inspire...an arts festival! Why not? According to a recent article in New York magazine, the
High Line, New York's "park in the sky," not only got the necessary city approvals in record time but also propelled a gritty industrial neighborhood into the stratosphere several years before
construction even began on the park. Now's the time … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday March 28, 2013
New York City is currently a paradise for artist’s books afficionados. From an installation of Dieter Roth’s Snow, 1964/69 at MoMA to Paperwork: A Brief History of Artists’ Scrapbooks at Andrew Roth, from Books & Co. at Gagosian to the open door at Printed Matter, and the special artist’s books and prints exhibition at MoMA, Abstract Generation: Now in … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 13, 2015
The deadline for the 36th Annual W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography
is May 31, 2014. Considered one of the most honorific awards in photojournalism, the prize grants $30,000 to an individual photographer to complete a current or future documentary
project. An additional $5,000 in fellowship money will be awarded to one or more finalists at the discretion of the jury. Information. The 2014 winner … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday October 20, 2009
Nothing Speaks Louder Than Type was the slogan engraved on the Haberule given me by a Tri Arts Press typesetting rep back in the day. This was pre-Mac prehistory, when
typography was king, Helvetica ruled, and designers actually hand-lettered comps to present their ideas to clients. Among the tasty type treats available were fonts from the Photolettering catalogue,
a legendary collection of hand-drawn typefaces … Read the full Story >>
