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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 5, 2026
On view at MoMA PS1: Precious Okoyomon | Among Flowers
Artist and poet Precious Okoyomon (Nigerian-American, b. 1993) transforms the MoMA PS1 courtyard into a living forest of plants, interactive sculpture, and sound in the Museum’s inaugural Courtyard Commission. Okoyomon’s largest outdoor installation to date cultivates a world of grasses, flowers, weeds, sedges, pollinators, and vines. This ever-growing woodland brings together species often perceived … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 6, 2025
Wednesday, August 6pm: Sahana Ramakrishnan | Arctic Circle, talk at Fridman
Sahana Ramakrishnan will share her recent experience in The Arctic Circle residency based in the remote Svalbard archipelago. Drawing from underwater recordings of belugas, narwhals, and bearded seals, she’ll explore Arctic ecology, sea ice, noise pollution’s impact on marine life, and reflections on Svalbard’s landscape and deep time.
In her paintings … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday October 18, 2018
For the inaugural LES Art Week, the twenty-four participating galleries are featuring work by woman artists, both established and emerging—offering fuel for the blazing evidence for why there
have been, until now, “no great woman artists.” Linda Nochlin’s dramatic feminist rallying cry of 1971 is being proclaimed in venues from coast to coast,
and around the world, more so than ever this year. And … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday July 15, 2026
Thursday, July 16, 5-8pm: Echoes of Place at Equity
As a prelude to the inevitable vacation gallery closings, Equity Gallery presents works by longtime DART subscriber AI honoree, and SVA faculty member, Carol Fabricatore, together with Susan Greenstein and Janet Pederson. The exhibition explores the landscapes we occupy, whether natural or made, physical or imaginative in a wide-ranging view of the place and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday June 22, 2016
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts…
As the celebration of 400 years of Shakespeare continues, what better way to celebrate the dramas of everyday life than to look at ways in which the Bard’s works have been collected in book … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday August 4, 2016
It’s not a stretch to call New York City the world capital of living large—perhaps to be even more so following Brexit. But ever since the 2012 exhibition, Making Room: New
Models for Housing New Yorkers, presented by the Museum of the City of New York in collaboration with Citizens Housing and Planning Council, scaling down has become an increasingly desirable way
of life. … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 24, 2024
Marshall Arisman (1937-2022), longtime chair of the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department at the School of Visual Arts, and a co-founder of American Illustration, will be honored by SVA in an exhibition, Does that Make Sense?, opening tomorrow at the SVA Gramercy Gallery. Info Arisman began teaching at SVA in 1964 and founded the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday November 30, 2023
Thursday, November 30, 6-8pm: Zain Alam | Sounding a Sacred Space at 8th Floor
As part of the second season of the gallery’s Sight/Geist series, this sound performance by Zain Alam features recitations of the azaan (Islamic call to prayer) distilled into pure tone. With the participation of vocalists Nadine Murshid and Tanaïs, from varying traditions of melody (and ma'qam) inacross the Islamic world, the artist asks … 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 November 22, 2016
In Galleries Philip Guston | Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975, an exhibition devoted to the late
artist’s satirical caricatures of the 37th President of the United States: Richard Nixon. Hauser & Wirth, 548 West 22nd Street, NY, NY. Info Introduced by a mutual acquaintance a couple of years earlier,
[Philip Roth and Philip Guston] shared a love of books and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday April 2, 2021
I am holding in my hands a copy of the first Pictoplasma magazine, which is now available in stores and online—and am happy to report that it exceeds, in every way, the promise made by the founders of the leading proponent of character design in their email invitation. Lars Denicke and Peter Thaler wrote, “[The] first issue of Pictoplasma’s new magazine for character … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 23, 2018
California artist Wayne Thiebaud has eluded categorization throughout his nearly 60-year career, which he came to comparatively late in life. Lumped together with Pop Art stars in the 1960s because
of his subject matter—ordinary objects like lavishly frosted cakes, and hot dogs—his ceaseless inquiry into what is art reveals a deeply philosophical base grounded by keenly observed
still lives, landscapes, and portraits. Nine … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday February 10, 2017
Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, announced this week its adoption of a new policy: all images of public-domain artworks in the Museum's collection are now available for free and unrestricted use. The Met's Open Access policy
facilitates the use of more than 375,000 images of public-domain artworks for both scholarly and commercial purposes. To maximize the reach … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 30, 2023
Closing September 9: Emma Amos at Ryan Lee
Emma Amos (b. 1937 Atlanta, GA - d. 2020 Bedford, NH) was a pioneering artist, educator, and activist. A dynamic painter and masterful colorist, her work was Influenced by classical antiquity, modern Western European art, Abstract Expressionism, the Civil Rights movement and feminism. In the current exhibition of paintings and prints, Amos displays her deep interest in … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 24, 2022
There are many places to view contemporary art beyond the confines of white cube spaces, so today, DART offers a roundup of several that have special appeal for summer days—including seven community gardens on the Lower East Side:
Continuing through September 30: Seven Gardens, various LES community gardens
Inspired by the history of community gardens in New York City, 7 Gardens explores artistic engagement … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday November 1, 2023
Thursday, November 3, 6-8pm: Brice Marden | Let the painting make you at Gagosian
One of the things about art is that it is full of contradictions. The only rule is there are no rules. But everybody works by rules. You set up your own rules. —Brice Marden (1938-2023)
The exhibition features a group of large paintings that Marden made in his studio in … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 25, 2016
Martin Puryear, a distinctly iconoclastic sculptor whose immersion in the craft ethic is entwined in his work, has brought a major work to Madison Square Park and the neighborhood. With Big Bling, a wood and chain link fencing piece that towers 40 feet over the green space, the artist offers a gift of zen-like precision combined with wit and whimsy.
The tall, slender piece, vaguely … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday January 13, 2017
Thanks to subscribers who replied to yesterday's post. Here's the rest:The first 10 amendments to the Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. Written by James
Madison in response to calls from several states for greater constitutional protection for individual liberties, the Bill of Rights lists specific prohibitions on governmental power. Below: Howard
Chandler Christy, Bill of Rights, 1942; courtesy National Endowment for … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday July 1, 2026
Thursday, July 9, 8pm: Doug Aitkins | Lightscape at The Shed.
Doug Aitken’ nsew film installation redefines the boundaries of immersive media, transforming the industrial expanse of The Shed into a hyper-accelerated, seven-screen cinematic ecosystem. Stepping into the 12,000-square-foot gallery feels less like entering an exhibition and more like dissolving into a beautifully fragmented, 65-minute fever dream of modern consciousness. Aitken masterfully juxtaposes … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday March 16, 2017
Jenny Goldstick: This image is created by (top to bottom) Barbara Geoghegan, Alex Beguez, Jenny Goldstick, and Nadia DeLane. We are a group of female art makers who are
diverse in so many ways and yet we unify under the common denominator of visual storytelling. We collaborated together on an exquisite corpse (completed in-person, then scanned and finished
digitally). The resulting image is … Read the full Story >>
