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Ken Carbone: An Apple a Day

By Peggy Roalf   Thursday February 11, 2016

Last week, Ken Carbone emailed the news that he had completed his apple a day project, which has been unfolding on Instagram and Facebook for the past year. This is what he wrote:  An apple a day. No. 365!!! [above, right] Mission accomplished! It has been a beautifully exhausting journey, in all the right ways. I learned to love the daily challenge of making art. It …   Read the full Story >>

Man Ray: An Artist Designers Could Love

By Ken Carbone   Friday November 20, 2009

MAN RAY has one of the coolest names in the history of art. However, he was born Emmanuel Radnitzky. He rejected his birth name moved to Paris in 1921 and became the sole American in the vanguard of Parisian Modernism. This transformation represented a conflicted identity and his deep desire to escape the limitations of his Russian Jewish past. "Le Violon d'Ingres," 1924. Rosalind …   Read the full Story >>

Ken Carbone's Sketchbooks

By Peggy Roalf   Thursday August 20, 2015

The 2015 Summer Invitational: Pimp Your Sketchbooks, continues with Ken Carbone, who lives and works in New York City. While working on the signage for the I.M Pei expansion at the Louvre in the late 1980’s, I was shown some of Paul Gauguin’s sketchbooks, in the museum’s collection. They contained drawings, personal letters, collages, paintings and were visually spectacular. From that experience, I was inspired to …   Read the full Story >>

A Tapestry Woven by Eight-Legged Artists

By Ken Carbone   Thursday November 5, 2009

What could possibly drive two men to spend $500,000 of their own money over four years, become employers of a million female spiders, and rekindle an indigenous tradition on the island of Madagascar? The answer: To create an incredibly beautiful artifact that is unique in the world. The American Museum of Natural History is currently exhibiting a 11-foot-by-4-foot tapestry made completely of spider silk. …   Read the full Story >>

Ken Carbone: Looking at Rome

By Peggy Roalf   Wednesday August 9, 2023

Ken Carbone is an artist, designer, and Co-Founder of the Carbone Smolan Agency, a design company he built with Leslie Smolan over 40 years ago. Ken is also a long-time subscriber and contributor to DART, which today re-caps his report on a visit to Rome that was recently published in PRINT in slightly different form.  My fascination with Rome may have …   Read the full Story >>

Ken Carbone on Tara Donovan

By 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 >>

Ken Carbone's Bookcases

By Peggy Roalf   Thursday May 21, 2020

“Pimp Your Bookcases” continues with Ken Carbone, founding partner of Carbone Smolan Agency, who currently spends most of his working hours drawing and painting in his sun-drenched studio upstate. PR: How many libraries do you have? How do they differ? Where are they located?  KC: I have three main libraries: my main studio near my home, my bedroom studio, and my living room. My …   Read the full Story >>

Ken Carbone's Workspace

By Peggy Roalf   Thursday May 20, 2021

Much like the rest of humanity, my sense of time being suspended during this pandemic has been both good and bad. Eighteen months ago, I was in Rome at the beginning of a three-month teaching assignment and art residency. On March 9, I fled Italy and arrived back in New York.  My immediate quarantine for fourteen days was unsettling but revealing. Compared to many who …   Read the full Story >>

The DART Board 03.05.2013

By Peggy Roalf   Tuesday March 5, 2013

Attention all illustrators: You can still get into it! You have until 8 pm EST today to enter the American Illustration 32 competition.  Armory Art Week Salon Zürcher, March 4-1033 Bleecker Street, between  Lafayette and Bowery, NY, NY. The Armory Show and The Armory Show-Modern, March 8-11.Celebrating its fifteenth year and paying homage to the 100th anniversary of its namesake, the legendary 1913 Amory Show International Exhibition of …   Read the full Story >>

The DART Board: 02.29.2012

By Peggy Roalf   Wednesday February 29, 2012

CORRECTION: Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Adam Bartos. Gitterman Gallery, 170 East 75th Street, NY, NY. is tonight, Wednesday, February 29th, not Thursday. Left: Mumbai, India; right: Victoria Station, Mumbai, India, both from the series “Metropolis”, by Martin Roemers.umbai, India from the series “Metropolis”, 2007.  Wednesday, February 29 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Adam Bartos. Gitterman Gallery, 170 East 75th Street, NY, NY. …   Read the full Story >>

The DART Board: 12.04.2012

By Peggy Roalf   Tuesday December 4, 2012

2012 Miami Art WeekDecember 5-9: UntitledInformation.December 6-9: Art Basel Miami. Information.Satellite Art Fair Information. Tuesday, December 4-Monday, December 17 The Fertile Crescent presents Panel Discussions about the impact of the Islamic Diaspora. The Fertile Crescent's multi-site exhibitions and events in New Brunswick, Princeton, and other locations in New Jersey, organized by Rutgers University curators, Judith …   Read the full Story >>

The DART Board: 04.05.2016

By Peggy Roalf   Tuesday April 5, 2016

Talk / Screening / and Beyond Tuesday, April 5 Anselm Berrigan and Bob Holman, 7 pm. 192 Books, 192 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY. Info The Artist Lecture Series Presents: Sharon Harper, 7 pm. Penumbra Foundation, 38 East 30th Street, NY, NY. Info Dai Sato and Justin Leach | The State of Japanese Animation in a Post-Miyazaki World, 6:30 pm. Japan Society, 333 West 47thStreet, NY, NY. Info Nadav Kander | …   Read the full Story >>

The DART Board: 11.06.2012

By Peggy Roalf   Tuesday November 6, 2012

Note: Arts organizations and galleries affected by Hurricane Sandy are still juggling their schedules. Please check websites before heading out this week. Deadline extended to midnight Saturday, November 10Call for submissions: NurtureArt Videorover | Season 5Information. All week long: 2012 New York Illustration Week. Information. Tuesday, November 6: Election Night Events Live Election Coverage, 7-9:30 pm: Fifth Annual Political Satire …   Read the full Story >>

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