David Schonauer
ARTnews Wednesday February 8, 2017
At Pro Photo Daily, we recently noted that artist Richard Prince raised concerns among
lawyers and collectors when he disavowed a printed painting he made featuring Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter. Prince also returned the $36,000 commission he received for making the
artwork, calling it an act of protest over Donald Trump’s policies. Now Art News reports that Prince has been tweeting videos shot from a window in his East Harlem studio that show cars running
over giant posters of the president’s face. AN calls the videos “pretty satisfying.” Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Friday March 23, 2018
When Donald J. Trump blasted his way into the White House through the bluster, bravado, and false claims of a used car salesman, he launched a new round of culture wars. In the past 14 months,
which already seems like an eon, he has attempted to vitiate the foundations of what does make America great, from curtailing diversity through a stranglehold on immigration; attempting … Read the full Story >>
artnet news Thursday July 30, 2020
Martin Parr, the renowned photographer of British life, has resigned as artistic director of the Bristol Photo Festival following a student-led protest alleging racial
insensitivity, notes Artnet News. Parr came under fire for contributing an introduction to a 2017 reissue of a book titled London by the late Italian photographer Gian Butturini that has been
accused of featuring racist imagery. The book of black-and-white photographs, taken in late ’60s London, includes a picture of a Black woman on one page, with the facing image presenting a photo
of a gorilla at a zoo. Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Thursday March 30, 2017
New York photographer Brian Rose contributes to the Protest Art page: Saw your piece about protest art the other day, and am happy to see artists responding to what can only be
described as an emergency. I've rarely tried to address current events directly, though much of my landscape work (from the Iron Curtain to the Twin Towers) has incorporated larger
social/political issues. Trump's … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Thursday December 22, 2016
"I'm just back from one of my most powerful experiences as a father yet. At the beginning of November I went to Standing Rock to support the Lakota Nation in their protest of the installation of the
Dakota Access Pipeline," posted Alex Tehrani on Facebook in mid-November. Tehrani, a Los Angeles-based photographer and PPD reader, recently got in touch to tell us about his … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Friday February 20, 2015
This is Touching the Art: the only art talk show in Earth’s History…we’ll have to fact check that…mmmm. No. This is how Casey Jane Ellison,
artist/animator/comedian, usually opens her all-female art talk show, which is now in its second season and has become something of a cult. One of her recent guests said, “You could be the Oprah
of the art world—we need one. … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Thursday March 2, 2017
I was beginning to think that the only way to get a lift out of
the noise and disruption being thrust upon me by the current administration might be to take my paints into the woods, along with a tent. Then I received email from Bay Area artist and illustrator,
long-time DART subscriber [and it must be said, friend], Vivienne Flesher, along with this … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Tuesday October 18, 2022
In 1958, a chemical engineer at Standard Oil in Richmond, California, started taking photos as an escape from his dreary work days. Soon, the camera became the center of Chauncey Hare's life, and a
tool for awakening his political consciousness. The acerbic images Hare made of Americans toiling in offices captured, as he put it, "the dominion of working people by multinational corporations and … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Monday September 24, 2018
The global
arts intelligentsia descended on the NY Art Book Fair over the weekend, proving beyond doubt that printed matter of artistic origins is, more than ever, a viable and visible form of expression. Printed Matter, the organizer, pulled out all the stops, attracting what had to be record-breaking crowds to the twelfth edition of the fair.
This year’s NYABF included an ever-growing … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Friday June 5, 2020
It's a dangerous time out there. Cities are under curfew. Militarized police are using weapons of war against unarmed civilians. Neighborhoods are mobilizing offline. And our highest government
officials are threatening violence on social media. This week we took note of the harassment and violence that photojournalists have faced while covering protests. We also spotlighted some tips from
Wired for staying safe if you're … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Wednesday November 18, 2020
Meet the Guerilla Girls—the anonymous militant feminists who put on gorilla masks to tackle sexism, racism and corruption in politics, art and pop culture. Using happenings, humor and subversive imagery, they shed light on things that have been kept hidden or overlooked, about an art system prejudiced against women and artists of color. In Guerilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly, a new … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Friday August 4, 2017
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA is an exploration of Latin American and Latino arts in dialogue with Lo Angeles, taking place from September 2017 through January 2018 at over 70 cultural institutions
from Santa Barbara to San Diego and from Los Angeles to Palm Springs. Among the Southern California arts rooted in protest is the Chicano movement, which was born out of West Coast
handstyle … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Tuesday March 28, 2017
Special Events Tuesday, March 28-Sunday, April 2
Salon Zürcher Photo. 33 Bleecker Street, NY, NY Info Wednesday, March 29-Sunday, April 2 The Photography Show presented by AIPAD. Vernissage,
Wednesday, March 29. Pier 94, 711 12th Avenue between 52nd-54th Streets, NY, NY. Complimentary shuttles will run every 30 minutes starting Thursday, March
30th at 11 am, at three locations. Info Above: © David Allee, … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Wednesday June 8, 2011
On Monday, a 50-foot-long mural in a distinctively Subway Graffiti style was unveiled at Walton Street and East 150th Street in the East Tremont section of the Bronx. If
you were to catch sight of it on the fly, you’d think that you had slipped into a time warp. It has the authenticity of the spray-can graffiti that literally subsumed most of New York … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Friday February 22, 2019
Just a week away, the first of the
spring art fairs will turn New York City into a destination for globe-trekking art lovers. Starting with The Art Dealers Association of America’s [ADDA] Art Show, now in its 31st edition, once
again takes over the Park Avenue Armory’s massive Drill. Among the public events are an Upper East Side Gallery Walk on Saturday, March 3, … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Monday December 3, 2012
With a shared sensibility and approach to design, graphic designer Paula Scher and illustrator Seymour Chwast have transformed their fields of practice.
Celebrating the achievements of this creative couple, whose work is being shown together for the first time, this exhibition includes images in a wide range of formats, selected and installed
by Chwast (American, born 1931) and Scher (American, born 1948). The exhibition demonstrates Chwast’s deeply personal vision, inspired by sources as diverse … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Friday May 2, 2008
"HEY" IS A FORM OF GREETING IN 786 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. It's a multipurpose syllable that expresses surprise, exultation or interrogation. It can be used as a greeting, as a
meaningless beat marker in music, a goodbye, a protest or a reprimand, as in, Hey! Stop that! Glossolalia, or "speaking in tongues," refers to the babble of children, schizophrenics and idiot savants.
Hey! Why … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Friday January 20, 2017
Media outlets are predicting the
Women’s March on Washington, on Saturday, January 21st, could outdraw the Inauguration Day events. Find out more about the march and its sister marches: Info The biggest sister march is the New York City Satellite event, starting at 10:45 am at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, East 48th Street and
First Avenue. Info Photo above: © Hennessy Vandheur/Curbed On January 20, … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Thursday April 5, 2018
The first time I encountered work by Howardena Pindell was her installation featured in the 2006-07 exhibition High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975, at the National
Academy of Design, New York. Her radical feminism has squarely located her painting and photo-based work in the realm of protest and although she has exhibited widely and regularly since the 1970s,
Pindell has had … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Tuesday July 11, 2017
Talks / Protest / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, July
11 Ánde Somby Art Residency | Yoiking, 12-1 pm. Madison Square Park, 11 Madison Avenue, NY, NY Info Performances all week, hours vary Marlon Riggs & “No Regrets” | Disclosure, Performativity &
Legacy, 6:30 pm.The 8th Floor, 17 West 17th Street, NY, NY Info
Sketch Night at Society of Illustrators, with … Read the full Story >>
