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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 10, 2024
Thursday, January 11, 6-8pm: Mika Tajima | Energetics at Pace
Through her multidisciplinary practice spanning performance, sculpture, painting, and installation, Mika Tajima takes up questions of identity and agency in a world increasingly influenced and mitigated by technology. Drawing on various points of reference—from physics, philosophical writings and biology—the artist imbues her work across mediums with scientific and philosoculturalphical import.
The exhibition takes its title … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday October 22, 2020
Leading the art news everywhere today is the remarkable story about
returning a long-lost painting by Jacob Lawrence from the “American Struggle” series to its family—and to the exhibition of the extant works currently on view at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. A recent visitor to the show noticed the wall label stating that this piece had been lost; there was no photograph of … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday August 7, 2025
Just Opened: Innovation Triangle at Tasteelab Building, Harlem
The first arts installation at Innovation Triangle features an enormous fiber rope installation by Tomo Mori @tomomoriart [above] together with works by Rafaela Luna @rafaelalunarl, Paul Deo @planetdeo, and SO HARLEM @soharleminc
Activation of the Innovation Triangle, within Manhattanville’s old Factory District, fulfills West Harlem Art Association’s @whaanyc vision to facilitate and develop collaborations through … Read the full Story >>
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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 >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday November 11, 2015
Frank Stella, whose work is currently the subject of a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, hit the New York Art world running, in 1959, with a series known as the Black
Paintings. In these 24 pieces, which he diagrammed in advance of picking up a brush, he studied the effects of black house paint on raw canvas, applied in symmetrical … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday April 27, 2017
PROTEST May Day, or May 1st, has historically been a day of protest, and 2017 is no exception. On Monday, the Vera List Center for Art and Politics will host a book
launch and festive reception with DJs for Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production. The press release states: The refusal to participate in an
oppressive system has long been one of the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday July 3, 2018
The Big Holiday Weekend—The Fourth, that is—could be as big as it gets this year. It being on a Wednesday, anyone crafty enough to grab a few vacay-days along with some comp time is
looking at an escape. And if you plan to be in New York City, there are some major art destinations under the sun and stars, with women artists leading the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday November 9, 2023
Continuing through November 26: Phyllidia Barlow | Prank at City Hall Park
Phyllida Barlow (British, 1944–2023) created PRANK, a new series of seven steel and fiberglass sculptures, for City Hall Park, all based on a familiar object that might be found at home. These recreations have been rotated, repeated, and stacked to create awkward, improbable structures. PRANK was completed before Barlow’s untimely death … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday September 27, 2024
Earlier this year, Meta decided to add a notification to images uploaded to its platforms that were made with AI. That rollout went poorly: Meta labeled images as "Made with AI" even if only small
adjustments had been made to a photo with editing tools that incorporated AI, angering many creators..Meta later changed the label to 'AI Info.' Now the company is rethinking the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday November 6, 2025
Fernand Léger was born in 1881 to a family of cattle farmers in Normandy, France. His parents discouraged his interest in art so he initially apprenticed to an architect, in Caen, before moving to Paris in 1900 to pursue his art studies. Although he didn’t get in to the École des Beaux-Artes, he studied classical drawing and painting independently. Influenced by Modernist painters of the time, including … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday February 22, 2018
Since the NYC Ferry system went into service last year, close to 3 million people have emerged from darkness to travel the city’s outer boroughs. Commuting to work or finding summertime bliss
at the local beaches, they have come to appreciate the city as a vast archipelago. Well before the ferry service began, photographer Susannah Ray, a resident of Rockaway Beach, would
cross New … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 20, 2021
I’m a documentary photographer, and have been documenting tables for a few years now, without realizing that one day I’d have my own worktable where I could sit for hours and draw whatever comes to mind.
Drawing takes time and patience, just the opposite of photography, yet something about it keeps drawing me in, pun intended:) The desire to illustrate little bits of my … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday March 10, 2023
Continuing: Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) at N-YHS
Kara Walker’s work, in which a silhouette becomes far more than a figure, has stirred controversy for its use of exaggerated caricatures that reflect long-standing racialized and gendered stereotypes and for its lurid depictions of history. In this new exhibition, a series of 15 prints based on the two-volume anthology published … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday August 5, 2016
Google celebrates opening day of the 2016 Rio Olympics with a wacky game
you can play on your iPhone or Android—the 2016 Fruit Games. Play The opening day game
features a race along the famed Copacabana promenade, designed by the great Brazilian modernist Roberto Burle Marx. One of the most influential landscape architects of the twentieth century, Marx is
not a familiar figure outside … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 2, 2023
Wednesday, August 9, 6-10pm: We Out Here | Hip Hop at Lincoln Center Plaza
Celebrate 50 years of Hip Hop at this dance battle and silent disco. Different street and club styles will be on display as the invited Top 8 competitors will go toe to toe for a cash prize. Hosted by Rokafella and TDK Zone with DJs KS 360 and DP One, the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday July 27, 2018
Yesterday an announcement came in from BravinLee programs about their newest rug edition, with an artist well known to DART subscribers: Jason Polan. Author of Every Person in New York
(Chronicle Books 2015, Info) and founder of the Taco
Bell Drawing Club, Jason created Life-Size King Kong, working with BravinLee programs [BLp] to produce a work in a medium new to … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday February 7, 2024
Thursday, February 8, 6-8 pm: Vernita Nemec | Evil Plastic Blues
Sculptor, performance artist, and curator, Vernita Nemec finds fascination in the weathered beauty of broken and discarded objects, drawing inspiration from the Japanese philosophy Wabi-Sabi, which embraces the value of imperfection and material transience. Evil Plastic Blues features her latest series Eco-Plasticism, which includes vacuum-formed bas relief collages and small sculptures created from … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday November 7, 2018
Since his death in 1987, at age 58, Andy Warhol’s work has probably been seen in more exhibitions than any other artist. But it’s been 30 years since the seminal MoMA
retrospective—and in the ensuing years Warhol’s predictions about art, culture, and life have been largely realized. Today anyone with a smartphone celebrates themselves through selfies
distributed via online platforms. The artist as a … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday September 6, 2024
Fall 2024 Open Studios Planner
Starting Thursday, September 5: Downtown Artists: Neighborhood Tour
Although the New Museum is closed during its expansion, it is still offering art programs IRL. This week marks the first of four guided walks exploring the artistic history of NoHo, NoLita and SoHo. On September 5, 14, 19, and 28, teaching artist will lead a tour of the homes, stuidos … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday October 28, 2020
Madison Square Park opened its
40th public art installation yesterday with a work by Bronx native, Abigale DeVille (American, b. 1981). The Light of Freedom, an assemblage consisting of found
objects, refers to both Lady Liberty’s torch, which was on view in the park from 1876 to 1882, and to the legacy of enslaved peoples in America. Photo above: Andy Romer
Photography for Madison … Read the full Story >>
