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Peggy Roalf Tuesday August 30, 2022
The Armory Show at the Javiatz Center, September 8-11
A cornerstone of New York’s cultural landscape since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show brings the world’s leading international contemporary and modern art galleries to New York each year. With over 240 galleries from 30 countries, the 2022 edition features solo exhibitions of international artists at 16 galleries; FOCUS: Landscape Undone, curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates, presenting artists … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday May 27, 2022
A few hours spent browsing art in the townhouse galleries that populate NYCs Upper East Side offers quiet contemplation of great art, mostly not under glass, along with a leisurely stroll along tree-lined streets with numerous choices for an espresso-bar rest stop. Following are my picks from a recent weekday afternoon.
Unnatural Nature: Post Pop Landscapes at Acquavella Gallery
Presenting myriad conceptual and formal … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday June 18, 2021
One of the exhibition casualties of the Corona19 pandemic is the tightly focused, small, gemlike exhibition, Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings, organized by the Princeton Museum of Art. The exhibition, comprised of just 19 paintings, drawings and watercolors by Paul Cézanne [1839-1906], together with a number of black-and-white photographs of the sites where he made the works, opened on March 7, 2020, only … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 31, 2023
Closing June 3: Public Access at Naval Cemetery Memorial Landscape
The Brooklyn Naval Cemetery Landscape is 1.7-acre publicly accessible landscape that now servesas a point of respiteand reflectionalong the length ofa 14-milewaterfront greenway in Brooklyn. As a part of the Navy Yard, the sitehadbeenlargely off-limits and out-of-sightto the public since its use as a cemetery was decommissioned in the 1920’s.
After a recent renovation, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday March 20, 2024
Continuing: Chuck Close | Portraits of Artists at Pace Prints
Chuck Close (1940–2021) was a remarkably versatile and creative printmaker who utilized a wide range of techniques to render images of himself and his friends. In addition to his self portraits, the exhibition presents images in a variety of printing techniques that portray Close’s friends and fellow artists John Chamberlain, Philip Glass, Lyle … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday October 25, 2017
An afternoon of gallery-hopping on the Upper East Side is a perfect cure if you are wishing you were in Europe. With its tree-lined streets, distinctive townhouses, major art museums, and Central
Park defining its western edge, the neighborhood’s many contemporary art galleries offer a bracing view of some of the most compelling art of the past 50 years. Yesterday I grabbed an
umbrella … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday July 9, 2025
Wednesday July 10, 3-5pm: Sculptors Alliance Meetup | Thaddeus Moseley in City Hall Park
Grab a friend and your sketchbook and join this fun, free Sculptors Alliance event. Meet in City Hall Park for a close look at Thaddeus Mosley’s new works in bronze, above, presented by the Public Art Fund. Accessible entrances are on the West side on the Broadway and Park … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday January 18, 2016
Getting calendars and to-do lists organized so you have everything at your fingertips, anywhere, can seem like a big job. But there's a way, and nomadic illustrator Magoz has
figured it out. If you follow his point-by-point method, you can work anywhere. Or play anywhere while keeping tabs on your projects. Here's a start: My Productivity
System. How I Use a Calendar and a To-Do List … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday January 5, 2016
Talk / Discussion / Performance Wednesday, January 6
Gallery Walkthrough with Wm. Hunt | Hunt's Three Ring Circus, 5:15 pm. 1235 Ave of the Americas Gallery/UBS Building, between 51st-52nd Streets, NY, NY. Also on Friday,
January 8 at 10 am. Info. Thursday, January 7 Rochelle Feinstein Book Party, 6-8 pm. On Stellar Rays, 1 Rivington Street, NY, NY. Bartholomew Ryan on "Jim Shaw: … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday January 19, 2017
Neither Here Nor There, currently on view at RadiatorArts, in Long Island City, presents work by eight artists born in France who have made a home in New York City. Through mixed
media, sculpture, photography and painting, the artists of Neither Here Nor There examine a state of being slightly “out of tune” and how their experience may have impacted their
work over … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday October 10, 2024
There are still some sunny days ahead to enjoy drawing and painting in the wild—as wild as it gets in the city. Following are some ideas for plein air painting and drawing and other ways to enjoy our parks and gardens.
Plein Air Painters of NYC [above] is a free meetup founded by muralist and sculptor Insiya Pardiwala to build a community of artists dedicated to … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 2, 2020
Frieze Sculpture
at Rockefeller Center returns to Rockefeller Center—opening this week and continuing through October 2, 2020. Loring Randolph, Director of Frieze NY,
says, “So much has changed since our planned opening of this year’s Frieze Sculpture on the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, April 22nd, but what has not waivered is
Frieze and Rockefeller Center’s commitment to putting the art of our time in the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 31, 2024
Closing Sunday, February 4: Last chance for Frank Webster | Emarkbreen Glaciers
Frank Webster, an artist known for large-scale acrylic landscape paintings that explore ideas of time, distance, and the fragility of the world we inhabit, was awarded an Arctic Circle Residency in 2022. This program brings together international artists of all disciplines, scientists, architects, and educators who collectively explore the high-Arctic Svalbard Archipelago … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday April 7, 2022
Currently on view at The Ukrainian Museum, one of NYCs almost hidden treasures, is Finding Sanctuary During the Pandemic, an installation by Christina Saj.
In the catalog for the exhibition she writes, “At the beginning of the quarantine, glued to news outlets, barraged by images of the virus, feeling vulnerable and confused and stuck at home, as an artist my response was to … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday October 6, 2021
In Museums
New Art at The Frick Madison In a bold move that stemmed from a blinding glimpse of the obvious, The Frick Madison has installed new works by contemporary artists alongside the old masters that are the mainstay of the collection. As The Art Newspaper reports, this project came out of a very simple need to fill empty spaces on the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday July 31, 2017
Q: Originally from South Dakota, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Greenpoint, Brooklyn? A: The number of artists and designers in the neighborhood is
incredible. I live on a busy street that is always bustling with shoppers and deliveries---there are a lot of dollar stores and thrift shops, which are fun to explore. Q: Do you keep a … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 17, 2025
Wednesday, September 17: Coco Fusco | Tomorrow I Will Become an Island at el Museo
The first U.S. survey of the influential Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco covers more than three decades of her groundbreaking career. The exhibition explores central concerns that Fusco has addressed across her practice, including immigration, military power and surveillance, post-revolutionary Cuban history, and the lasting legacies … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday April 18, 2018
The title ofJade Doskow’s
recent work, collected into the 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 … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday July 1, 2021
Editor's note: As Pride Month comes to a close, this essay from subscriber Carol Fabricatore adds a shimmering grace note to a month of freedom, art, fun and fantasy. Happy Fourth!
After the Mermaid Parade was canceled in June 2020 due to the pandemic, I really felt the loss of the day. So I decided to channel all the swirling bright colors and large … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 11, 2019
It is hard to imagine how
New York City as a destination for art could be improved upon, with its wealth of venues offering—in some cases—24/7 access to art of all kinds. But this week ushers in the physical
results of the vision and commitment of two leaders in the field. Photo above, courtesy of Pace Gallery Downtown, the family-owned, commercial Pace Gallery has … Read the full Story >>
