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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 >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday October 15, 2025
Thursday, October 16, 6-8pm: Opening Rception, Edward Gorey at Society of Illustrators
The Society of Illustrators presents a new exhibition, Something Else Entirely: The Illustration Art of Edward Gorey, celebrating the centenary of the birth of artist and writer Edward Gorey (1925-2000). Known for his obsessively detailed pen and ink drawings, Edward Gorey published more than one hundred titles himself and illustrated hundreds of … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday January 23, 2025
Lunar New Year 2025, the year of the Wood Snake, begins January 25 and ends on February 12.
This 15-day festival celebrates the sixth animal in the Chinese zodiac, who is characterized by creativity, adaptability, and long-term planning—all the elements that make for solid artistic practice! Following are some of the places where creativity is happening—and this doesn’t even include any of the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday December 7, 2022
The New School Part-time Faculty Strike Update
DART has been covering the strike by part-time faculty at The New School, which includes Parsons School of Design, since the Union representing faculty, Act UAW 7902, voted to strike, on December 6th. Yesterday, Ben Davis, National Art Critic for artnet news, updated the situation with a look at the support by prominent artists, writers and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday February 10, 2021
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in AmericaThe New Museum, February 17-June 6
Originally conceived by Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) for the New Museum, and presented with curatorial support from advisors Naomi Beckwith, Massimiliano Gioni, Glenn Ligon, and Mark Nash. “Grief and Grievance” addresses the concept of mourning, commemoration, and loss as a direct response to the national emergency of racist violence experienced by … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 1, 2021
The official last weekend of summer 2021 in NYC looks promising, weather-wise—so if you are celebrating by staying, there are some great art escapes on hand. The Riverside Park Conservancy presents its largest art show in the park’s history, RE:GROWTH, A Celebration of Art, Riverside Park, and the New York Spirit, populated with works by 24 contemporary artists. Installed between 64th and 151st Streets. You could … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday April 12, 2018
Alexander Liberman (1912-1999), longtime editorial director of Condé Nast Publications, was given a Kodak pocket camera by his father shortly before being sent to an England boarding school
to avoid the perils the Russian Revolution. His parents, Marxist Jews, subsequently fled to Paris, where he joined them and began his education as a designer and architect. As the Nazi occupation of
France made life … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday July 29, 2016
The winner of the recent DART Book Prize Contest is Benoit Filion,
of Chateaugay, New York. He wrote: You are in front of Galerie Lefebvre (intersection of Quai Voltaire/Pont
du Carrousel) looking at the reflection of the Louvre in the window. Every inch of Paris is worth discovering and you likely have seen a lot already. Louvre, d'Orsay and Pompidou since you like art.
And … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 11, 2023
January 12, 6-8pm: CUT at Foley Gallery’s grand reopening
CUT, an exhibition featuring new work by Bradley Castellanos, Keith Maddy, and Billy Renkl, continues to explore and deepen the gallery's interest in cut, painted, and manipulated paper, which began with a window installation of work by Mia Perlman back in 2015.
Bradley Castellanos' work captures the feeling of coming upon the mysterious and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 29, 2019
Photo
© Vivienne Sassen, from the series Venus & Mercury, 2019 (detail); cover of Orlando, guest edited by Tilda Swinton/Inspired by Virginia Wolf, Aperture issue 235 Info Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond Wednesday, May 29 Selected Shorts: Stonewall at 50, 7:30 pm. 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the riot at Stonewall Inn
that spawned the gay liberation movement, an … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 26, 2022
NoCal is a place all its own, with place names that say so: Grass Valley; Paradise; Eureka; Happy Camp, and the like. Its history as a Gold Rush town called Granite gave it a legacy of wealth overlaid by a free-wheeling spirit. Best known today for the Folsom Prison, it is also home to tech giant, Intel.
So it’s not surprising that … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday September 4, 2025
For those who want to skip town—and NYCs prevailing art fair frenzy—the Hudson Valley and environs beckons. With its proximity to Olana, the spectacular estate of Thomas Cole, Hudson has become the area’s own “Village”, with numerous galleries lining its main drag. But that's just the beginning! There is so much to choose from, the following is a starter. More info here … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 13, 2023
September 14, 6-8pm: Drawing as Practice at the National Academy
After four years of virtual invisibility, following the historic National Academy of Design’s decision to close its museum and school of art, on the Upper East Side, the institution has put its finest foot forward with an historic move. Tomorrow, the Academy opens a gallery space in Chelsea, presenting an exhibition that is likely to … Read the full Story >>
