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Peggy Roalf Tuesday July 9, 2024
Tuesday, July 9, 6-8pm: Linda Coletta | Scratch and Sniff at Untitled
Linda Colletta explores the dynamic and tactile essence of painting in a manner that dances between poetry and punk rock. This new collection is a sensory adventure designed to immerse viewers in the interplay of chaos and order, silence and noise, action and contemplation. Colletta invites viewers to engage actively with … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 21, 2026
Thursday, January 22: Jasper Johns | Between the Clock and the Bed at Gagosian
Between the Clock and the Bed—an exhibition of historic works by Jasper Johns at Gagosian in partnership with Castelli Gallery—surveys the crosshatch paintings and drawings that dominated his practice from 1973 to 1983 and have reverberated across his subsequent production. Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of this body of … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday February 16, 2022
Boundless: 10 Years of Seeding Black Comic Futures, celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s Black Comic Book Festival, through photographs, memorabilia, creator highlights, comic book reading stations, and clips from past festival programs. Drawn from the Schomburg Center’s archival collections, this exhibition illuminates the long history of Black comics and sequential art creators and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday October 27, 2021
Thursday, November 4 | Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Woman in LandscapeGarth Greenan Gallery presents recent works in mixed media and in 3D.
Smith paints an America portrayed as maps in saturated color—in one work making each state a different shade of red. Maps have historically been instruments in the exercise of power and territorial expansion. Across the series, Smith hints at the map’s … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 8, 2024
Wednesday, May 8, 6-8 pm: Stanley Whitney | By the Love of Those Unloved at Gagosian
By the Love of Those Unloved, the gallery’s first exhibition of work by Stanley Whitney in New York, features new paintings and works on paper. A master colorist, Whitney takes an exploratory and lyrical approach to painting in his canvases, which are structured as loose grids of rectilinear … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 10, 2025
Thursday, September 11–Sunday, September 14 | New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1
This year’s fair makes its long-awaited return to MoMA PS1, with over 250 local and international artists’ book publishers, alongside a full weekend of programs and performances. Hyperallergic says, “This venue partnership exemplifies a shared commitment to creating spaces where audiences can engage with new ideas and perspectives, while reaffirming … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday March 26, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 5-8pm: Edel Rodriguez | Reading and talk at Baruch
Visit Baruch College's Newman Library for an evening of readings and conversation with Spring '25 writer-in-residence Edel Rodriguez, author of the graphic memoir Worm, and this year’s Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College, CUNY. The evening will be hosted by the Harman Program and "Latinx Visions", a podcast that … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday June 25, 2025
Thursday June 26 5-6 pm: Karen Finley | Performance / Let Me Bitch A Little at Freight + Volume
As part of her current exhibition, Karen Finley will perform her spoken word piece, Let Me Bitch A Little followed by a walk-through of the show, More Desperate Than Ever, which closes in two weeks.
The centerpiece of this show is a large ongoing … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday June 14, 2023
June 17: Branching Out: Tree as Community Hosts
Anchored by an exhibition of six site-specific sculptures by emerging New York artists, Power of Trees will be experienced by visitors across the Garden through visual art, performances, and special events as well as simply by walking the grounds. The central art exhibition of this program, Branching Out: Trees as Community Hosts, features six site-specific sculptural … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday December 21, 2022
December 25 and January 1: The Jewish Museum is open: New York | 1962-1964
This exhibition explores explores a pivotal three-year period in the history of art and culture in New York City, examining how artists living and working in New York responded to their rapidly changing world. Installed across two floors, the exhibition presents more than 150 works of art—all made or seen in … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday April 5, 2024
Friday, April 5, 6-8pm: Paul Sevigny | Recent Work at Freight&Volume
The recent paintings of reknown nightlife impresario Paul Sevigny have a sophistication about them that accords well with the artist’s dealings in music and finance, as well as nightlife. The works on view present a colorful motley of textures and patterns, which, however pleasing to the eye, pull no punches when it … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 15, 2024
Maurizio Cattelan | Sunday at Gagosian
In this new installation, Cattelan doubles down on his response to economic inequality in America, using precious metal to deconstruct the country’s relationship to the accessibility of weapons (a condition against which privilege affords no defense). Panels of stainless steel, plated in 24-karat gold, have been “modified” by gunfire. The components’ formerly smooth surfaces are left riddled … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 10, 2016
Downtime is the perfect title for an
exhibition of photographs by Julie Blackmon currently on view at Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles. It implies carefree, lazy summer afternoons with plenty of lemonade and ice cream and nothing but
happy days. On the seamless surface of these large-scale images, composed in sunny colors, maybe, but carefree and lazy are the opposite in fact. Blackmon creates … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday January 15, 2026
Continuing: Billy Childish | keep the mojave weird at at Lehmann Maupin
In his newest series based on a road trip in 2025, British painter, writer, and musician Billy Childish depicts the western United States in scenes from California. Seen together, the works occupy a space that is both contemporary and eternal, where each landscape feels familiar yet remote. From soaring mountain ranges, to arid … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday March 4, 2026
Sunday March 8: Whitney Biennial 2026
The eighty-second edition of the Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States—features work of 56 artists, duos, and collectives that reflects the current moment and examines various forms of relationality, including interspecies kinships, familial relations, geopolitical entanglements, technological affinities, shared mythologies, and infrastructural supports. Above: kekahi wahi (Sancia Miala Shiba Nash and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 19, 2026
Continuing: Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists at Folk Art Museum
This engaging show offers a reminder that the best summer exhibitions often feel like bouquets gathered from many gardens, celebrating the enduring pleasure of stories drawn from everyday experience. Curated with a keen eye for how familiar subjects can continually be renewed through color, composition, and imagination, the show beautifully dismantles the myth … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday April 26, 2023
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Peggy Roalf Friday November 20, 2015
“My mother shaped my view of the world and inspired me to embrace spontaneity
and capture the unforced. To show with her is such an honor for me and validates my journey as a photographer.” —Mary McCartney Exhibited together for the first
time, the photographs of the late Linda McCartney and her daughter Mary explore the connective tissue of family, common experience, and a love … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday November 2, 2022
This just in from the Home Office:We’re very excited to bring the creative communities back to celebrate the winners in this year’s launch of the AP38 and AI41 books and the IMAA10 video collection. The PARTY is set for Thursday, November 10.
Don’t miss out in this the 28th year of A I-AP hosting this book launch event, where photographers meet illustrators meet photo editors meet art … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday February 8, 2023
Thursday, February 9, 6-8 pm: Pat Steir | Monotypes at Pace Pzrints
Pat Steir’s five-decade career as a painter has also included extensive explorations and innovative work in various printmaking mediums. Her iconic style, referencing waterfalls, resulted from her in-depth analysis of the application of pigments, s pecifically their relation to gravity, color layering, and density.
Many of these monoprints combine a base of … Read the full Story >>