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Peggy Roalf Friday July 24, 2026
July 24, 6pm: Fresh Cut at Bookstein Projects
Summer exhibitions often feel like bouquets gathered from many gardens, and Fresh Cut at Bookstein Projects embraces that spirit with particular charm. Bringing together more than fifty artists from different generations, the exhibition celebrates the enduring pleasures of flowers, still lifes, and scenes drawn from everyday experience. Historic masters and contemporary voices mingle easily, revealing … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday December 3, 2025
Sunday December 1, Continuing on Sundays through December 21:
Join FAD Market for three festive weekends in December, where you’ll discover a completely new lineup of 50+ talented makers, designers, and artisanal food brands each weekend. From jewelry and apparel to bath and body care, home décor, and handmade food items, our curated market has everything you need to find thoughtful, handcrafted gifts … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday July 23, 2025
Wednesday, July 23, 3-5 pm: Sculptors Alliance Meetup | Sam Moyer at Flag Art
Join Sculptors Alliance President Marco Palli [above] for this week’s Meetup at Hill Art Foundation in Chelsea. Bring your sketchbook and a friend to explore sculpture and mixed media works by Sam Moyers, then chill out over cold drinks and casual chat about the art.
This is the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday April 18, 2024
Friday, April 19, 5-6pm: Out of the Jewelry Box Artists Talk at MAD Museum
Expanding the voices represented in MAD’s permanent collection, OUT of the Jewelry Box considers the importance of queer perspectives in the world of studio and contemporary art jewelry. The exhibition showcases an extraordinary gift from Ron Porter and Joe Price, who have collected and worn art jewelry throughout their forty-one-year … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday October 19, 2023
What started as an ad hoc art show organized to fill its temporarily empty galleries in 2020 has become The de Young Open—now officially designated a triennial. Designed for local Bay Area artists, free to enter, and widely supported by local media, The de Young Open is the only exhibition of its kind at a major American museum.
An Open Call lasting less than two weeks … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday January 5, 2024
Last chance, Sunday, January 7: Manet/Degas at The Met
While it was tighter than elbow to elbow yesterday, unless you know you’ll get to Paris soon, this show is a must. Two of the most adventurous artists of the 19th Century, Édouard Manet (1832–1883) and Edgar Degas (1834–1917), and ones who maintained a fierce rivalry streaked with deep respect for the art of the other, are presented … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday November 21, 2024
Saturday, November 23, 11am-6pm: Chelsea Art Fair
Platform, a click-and-buy offshoot of David Zwirner, and the historic Chelsea Hotel invite art lovers to a one-day, free art fair this weekend. Founded during the Pandemic shutdowns, Platform started out by offering around 100 one-of-a-kind works per month presented by about 12 independent international galleries with prices currently under $2,500.
In an interview with … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday February 10, 2016
Last week, Viktor Koen invited me to a walkthrough of an exhibition of his students' work at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) Gramercy Gallery. A member of the faculty in the MFA
Illustration as Visual Essay program, Viktor teaches the first semester of the first year of this two-year program. Each student receives the same assignment: to illustrate a short story by creating a
body … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday December 13, 2023
Wednesday, December 13, 6-8pm: Holiday Caroling and Art Crawl, DUMBO
This inaugural event features 5 musical acts, large-scale holiday projections, free drinks, DUMBO Dollars and indie businesses open late. Pick up your Stamp Card at Susan Smith McKinney Park, collect your stamps at seven stops, and redeem them for free drinks. Enjoy live music by Vertrees and the Mistletoes, and watch holiday animations, designed … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 22, 2024
Thursday, May 23, 6-8pm: Trang M Uyen | The Theory of Color at Fremin
Trang M Uyen (TMU) is an artistic collaboration between Mary “Trang” Nguyen and Denise “M Uyen” Nguyen. Depicted in this series is the pastoral landscape of the Hamptons, imagery that remains etched in memory from summers spent on Long Island, where Mary recalls wandering the idyllic shores and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday April 26, 2024
Friday, April 26, 6-8pm: Diedrick Brackens | blood compass at Shainman
In this show, which occupies the gallery's two locations on Friday and Saturday, the weavings by Diedrick Brackens map an imagined place — visualizing the internal mechanisms and symbols that animate his work while removing the anchor of direct narrative. The scenes depicted in each weaving exist out of time, suspended between a … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 24, 2025
Now Open: Sixties Surreal at the Whitney
Sixties Surreal is an ambitious, scholarly reappraisal of American art from 1958 to 1972, encompassing the work of more than 100 artists focused on the era’s most fundamental, if underrecognized, aesthetic current—an efflorescence of psychosexual, fantastical, and revolutionary tendencies, undergirded by the imprint of historical Surrealism and its broad dissemination. In the 60s, many of these artists sought … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday May 3, 2024
Up On The Roof: Petrit Halilaj | Abetare (Spider) at The Met
The Kosovo-born artist draws intricate, goofy, figures in space against the Manhattan skyline—birds, flowers, Batman—in metal for the latest Rooftop Commission, which opened yesterday. But look a little closer and fearsome shapes emerge: a hammer and sickle, an ominous spider, indecipherable characters with no linguistic heritage. Halilaj brings to his work images from childhood … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday October 16, 2024
October 18-20: Open House New York
Open House New York 2024 is an annual weekend-long, free event during which historic buildings, architectural masterpieces, landmarks and top New York attractions welcome the public to expl0re more deeply. This weekend, OHNY celebrates 22 years of "unlocking" the city. Above: EverGreene Architectural Arts, the largest specialty contractor in the nation specializing in historic restoration and conservation … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday December 13, 2018
Self. Family. Memory. Loss. Displacement. Catastrophe. These are subjects
of concern in the visual arts—perhaps never more so than today. As the planet degrades at an accelerating pace; as war, poverty, displacement, tribalism, nationalism and other such human
catastrophes fail to be contained, photographers in particular make these subjects the focus of their work. And with increasing frequency, the self-published photobook is the locus … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday November 11, 2016
The seven self-portraits of Max Beckmann (Germany, 1884-1950 New
York) currently on view at The Met present the horrors he experienced at the front during World War I—and a sense of foreboding that preoccupied him for the rest of his life. He wrote in a 1918
manifesto for his art, “We are on our way to very difficult times.” In one of the highlights … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday November 30, 2022
December 1, 12-7 pm: World AIDS Day | Open Community Circle at The Drawing CenterA quiet time for remembrance and contemplation is offerend in the galleries—followed at 6pm by a public film screening, held in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition Ecce Homo: The Drawings of General Idea.
Founded in Toronto in 1969 by AA Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal, General Idea is recognized … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday August 4, 2023
Sunday August 13, 1-4 pm: Life Drawing in the 6 & B Community Garden, East Village
Life drawing with a clothed model, in a sheltered pavilion, is one of the many events offered by this legacy community garden. Originating under the city’s Operation Green Thum, in 1984 the garden, with it’s hundred-some members, has flourished over the years, often against considerable odds.
The Garden … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday May 26, 2016
“The limits of photography cannot be determined.
Everything is so new here that even the search leads to creative results... It is not the person ignorant of writing but the one ignorant of photography who will be the illiterate of the future."
--László Moholy-Nagy This maxim of László Moholy-Nagy, made famous by Walter Benjamin in his writings, is rooted in the artist’s
search for new art forms for … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday November 8, 2017
Conversational use of the word “genius” often conveys opposite sides of the spectrum, from schoolyard taunts to recipients of the MacArthur Fellowships (referred to as the “genius
grants”) and, of course, Albert Einstein. And “self-taught” usually infers a somewhat lowly status, especially where art is concerned—think clunky wood knick knacks found at
craft fairs. But when the two words combine to name an exhibition … Read the full Story >>
