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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 >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday January 25, 2018
Peter Hujar was a leading figure of the downtown New York scene of
the 1970s and ’80s. He is most well-known for his portraits of New York City’s artists, musicians, writers, and performers, featuring personalities such as Susan Sontag, William S.
Burroughs, Fran Lebowitz, David Wojnarowicz, Andy Warhol, Candy Darling, and Ethyl Eachelberger who populated the large gay-disco-drag performance-cruising underground life that has since … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday March 27, 2024
Continuing: Christopher Wool | See Stop Run
This survey exhibition takes place on the entire 19th floor of an unoccupied space in the heart of the financial district. The artist has chosen an independent venue in order to escape the presumed neutrality of the “white cube” as an idealized context. The city permeates the presentation through windows that wrap around the full 18,000 square … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 19, 2022
Hugh Hayden’s Brier Patch is now on view in Madison Square Park. Presented across four separate lawns in the park, Brier Patch will feature a total of one-hundred wooden elementary school-style desks that erupt with tree branches, cohering into tangled assemblies with complex and layered meanings. The accumulations of desks summon the grid arrangement of classroom seating. Referencing folklore traditions around the world, the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday March 24, 2016
If Miami can be described as a social mosaic, it’s also a haven for working artists who give the north side of town a buzz that persists long after Art Basel tourists have disbanded. Among
them is a group of book artists, novelists, poets, and printmakers known as the SWEAT Broadsheet Collaboration, who began producing literary broadsheets in 2009. Their
output—including more than … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday January 27, 2017
Fast Forward: Painting from
the 1980s, opening today at the Whitney Museum of American Art, features works by nearly forty artists, including Carlos Alfonzo, Jean-Michel Basquiat,
Ross Bleckner, Peter Cain, Louisa Chase, Robert Colescott, Moira Dryer, Eric Fischl, Leon Golub, Keith Haring, Sherrie Levine, Joyce Pensato, Susan Rothenberg, David Salle, Kenny Scharf, Julian
Schnabel, Julia Wachtel, Terry Winters, Martin Wong, among others. Often through … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday March 28, 2018
Andrea Modica, a photographer who works in the long-term documentary tradition, is known for her portrayals of people who comprise groups. First with Treadwelll for which she chronicled the
daily life of a girl named Barbara and her family in the eponymous Upstate New York farming town between 1986 and 2001; later with Minor League, for which she photographed the New York Yankees' bush … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday November 25, 2020
The Double All-Seeing Eye, ca.1950s-1960s. Peter Attie "Charlie" Besharo (1898–1969).
Courtesy of American Folk Art Museum. Info
This narrative work formally allies two recurring subjects in Peter Besharo’s visual vocabulary: a winged angel in a tarboosh and a helmeted space figure in liturgical vestments. Radiant light, enhanced by a flame and a rising sun emerging from a blue brick structure, illuminates the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday March 9, 2017
As a fan of the Center for Land Use Interpretation [CLUI] and the haunting
novels of Nobel Laureate, Patrick Modiano, I agree with Lucy Lippard’s assessment in The Lure of the Local that “space combined with memory defines place.” While
Modiano shows a passion for estrangement, his quiet exploration of mood and memory is inextricably founded in his recall of the places where … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday October 28, 2016
A rare art book produced in 1927 by Italian Futurist Fortunato Depero, which many scholars regard as a key work in the field of artist books is expected to be reprinted as a nearly exact facsimile. Depero Futurista (Depero the Futurist), a key work in the history of books as art objects, is a monograph of the artist's works in painting, graphic … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday January 28, 2016
The Romany horse fair at Appleby is the largest and most
important in the history of travellers’ gatherings in England, dating back to 1685, when James II granted a charter granting the right to hold one there, on a site ‘near to the River
Eden’. Since that time, in the month of June, travellers have converged on Appleby, not just from England, but from … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday October 14, 2021
Light and Shadow with Phil Penman at Fotographiska | Workshop, Sunday, October 17, 12-4 pm
Join Professional Photographer, Phil Penman, and the Leica Akademie for an afternoon of discovering light and shadow. Phil will begin the program by showing his photography and talking about various artistic and technical considerations. Following the presentation, Phil will lead participants on a photo walk on the streets of Manhattan. Photographers … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday November 1, 2017
Walker Evans (1903 -1975) is the subject of a major exhibition organized by Clément Chéroux for Centre Pompidou, Paris and currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
where he is now senior curator of photography. Info Throughout his 50-year career, first as an independent photographer, then as a
contract photographer for the Farm Security Administration, later as art director and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday February 21, 2024
In an interview for It’s Nice That, Christoph Niemann (1970) said, “A drawing is like when you describe something to a reader in three sentences.” In a few words, the artist/author/animator, who mainly works from Berlin, captured the essence of what is illustration at its best. On Thursday, February 29, he will be in New York for an exhibition of his Photo Graphics at Janet … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday September 24, 2026
Through Septmber 28: Brooklyn Book Festival, Borough Hall and Plaza
The Brooklyn Book Festival is less of a conventional convention and more of a beautifully chaotic living archive of independent print culture. As the city-wide "Bookend" programs gather steam across the boroughs, the main events happen over the weekend, on the historic steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall [abpve].
Saturday’s Children’s Day kicks off the celebration, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday September 11, 2017
Finding visual reference material can be a source of enjoyment or a well of anxiety for artists, designers and researchers. Many are part-time sleuths with a natural bent for collecting. For
others, the task is just that. But as museums and libraries digitize their collections to make space in their crowded quarters, a great many of them are now offering access at no cost—including … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday April 26, 2017
“Let’s look at the 50’s....That’s where you’ll see a clear polarization of society...to be an artist was to be an outlaw. It wasn’t a pose or a style. You
really were one. Society considered you one. They were ready to put you in jail.” Michael McClure So Beat poet, historian and charter member of the Rat Bastard
Protective Association Michael McClure succinctly characterized the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday March 8, 2023
Wednesday, March 8, 6-8pm: Of Mythic Worlds: Works from the Distant Past through the Present at The Drawing Center
This new show explores the ways in which rituals, myths, traditions, ideologies, and beliefs can intersect across cultures, histories, and time periods. The exhibition brings together fifty-three works by more than thirty artists including Jordan Belson, Lee Bontecou, Cameron, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Walter De Maria, Steffani Jemison, Duane Linklater, Yutaka … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 9, 2020
Best known as an assemblage artist over her long
career, Betye Saar has created a living history about what she calls ‘national racism” through intimately scaled works in which she combines materials scavenged from swap meets, flea
markets, and sidewalk trash bins. The visual dialog she creates challenges viewers to engage with her take on Black icons that were previously figures of fun, … Read the full Story >>
