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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday December 4, 2012
2012 Miami Art WeekDecember 5-9: Untitled. Information.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 >>
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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 >>
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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 5. Information. 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 >>