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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 4, 2021
Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? | The Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco
I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? features Wangechi Mutu’s new hybrid busts, full-scale figural sculptures, films and collages—mythologies of Afrofuturism, posthumanism and feminism, in dialogue with notable European historical works from antiquity to Impressionism within the Legion of Honor Museum. Photos by Gary Sexton, courtesy of The Fine Arts … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday April 6, 2016
Ruins of built environments exert a mysterious allure. For
photographer Nadev Kander, the combination of beauty and destruction has been central to his search for an “aesthetics of destruction” that characterizes his work. Above:
Loaded Priozersk II, (Tulip in Bloom), Kazakhstan 2011. © Nadav Kander/courtesy Flowers Gallery London and New York. After completing his epic study of the Yangtze
River in 2007 Kander began researching the secret military installations from … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday October 21, 2016
For the second year running, Steidl takes over Strand Books’ Rare Book Room for a series of presentations, readings and discussions about photo books. As many who attended Gerhard
Steidl’s 2015 talk Print is Not Dead will remember, these are go-to events, this year with 40 new books, stage talks and copies of the Fall 2016 catalogue on hand. Also on hand
will be: … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday November 10, 2021
Closing Sunday, November 14: Maya Lin | Ghost Forest, at Madison Square Park
Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest, a towering stand of forty-nine dying white cedar trees, is a newly-commissioned public art work that brings Lin’s artistic vision and her agency as an environmental activist into play. This project, which imbues the park with a collective memory of germination, vegetation, and abundance becomes … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 6, 2020
It is week six of Covid-19 lockdown and the cracks are beginning to show,
over here at least. So instead of going back to bed, I will focus on some of the bright spots of the week so far. Sher Katz, an artist and friend in Montpellier, FR,
has been posting videos for at-home dance inspirations on Instagram. Words fail. Look in. It’s … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday July 30, 2021
With art lovers hungry for actual experiences and cautiously ready to make plans, it can seem that there are too many possibilities for so little time. Whether you’re a serious art nerd who languishes without frequent interventions, or a casual museum goer who enjoys the occasional culture dip, there is a guide for you: 101 Art Destinations in the US: Where Art Lives Coast … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday October 9, 2020
The other day I saw something on Intagram that
captures the dilemma: EARTH without ART is EH….. Here’s what’s upin NYC this weekend: David Salle Monoprints at Pace Prints The most convincing works tend to be those in which the thinking is inseparable from the
doing.–David Salle Over the course of several months in 2019, David Salle worked at Pace Editions … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 14, 2022
Thursday, September 15, 5-8 pm: Robert Earle Page | Power to the People at Salon 94 Design
first solo exhibition in New York City, curated by Duro Olowu. The show includes Paiges’s textile design, glazed ceramics, collages and etchings. Olowu’s interventions reflect the artist’s myriad of artistic influences and approach to making.Robert Earl Paige (b. 1936) remembers growing up in a city mapped by … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 12, 2010
Helen Sear, a British artist with strong connections to the landscape and the sublime, is a romantic with an intellectual bent. With Inside the View, her first show at
Klompching Gallery two years ago, her images combining landscape with portraiture were constructed by digitally layering in
evocations of the traditional needlework of Finland to define a new landscape of the feminine. In … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday June 12, 2025
The Embedded Stitch | Wen-Jen Deng
Wen-JengDeng’s work will be on view at Manhattan’s Tenri Cultural Institute in the exhibition The Embedded Stitch – Contemporary Fiber Art from Taiwan, which opened last Friday. The title of the show draws inspiration from The Subversive Stitch(1984) by British art historian Rozsika Parker, whose influential study explored the historical relationship between women and embroidery, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday June 14, 2017
Frank Lloyd Wright, visionary designer, intellectual, and educator, was one of the most important architects of the 20th century, whose influence is still felt today. Of the more than
1,000 projects he designed, over 500 were realized—and it was not just the buildings, but usually their interior design, and very often, furniture, textiles, ornamental design, with dinnerware
and objects to complete the architect’s vision … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday October 26, 2022
Since DART: Design Arts Daily launched in September 2006, artist/illustrators and their sketchbooks have been a constant presence, starting with Peter Kuper’s Oaxaca Journal on November 10, 2006. The series continued with another 15 installments, which resulted in the publication of Diario de Oaxaca (Bilingual, PM Press, 2009)—a beautifully produced volume with a linen cover. The book saw some high visibility, and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday December 2, 2020
Friday, December 04 Topographie de l’art presents new work by Bruno Bressolin, Paleosprays, in a group show titled Aérosolthérapie. Inspired by cave paintings at Lascaux, Bruno created these works in spray paint on oversize Kraft paper during a long walking tour of Haute Savoie, Charente and Bretagne, France, this summer. Topographie de l’art, 15, ru de Thorigny, Paris Info
Wednesday, December 02, 6:00 … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday February 19, 2016
Modern to Contemporary at MoMA
Two exhibitions across the hall from each other on the second floor offer a coherent view of two defining moments in art. First, the small, scintillating installation of works by Jackson Pollock
from the museum’s collections presents about 50 pieces that encapsulate the artist’s struggle to define his process. Through a selection of paintings, drawings and prints, his movement
away … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday February 19, 2025
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Peggy Roalf Monday October 1, 2018
Q: Originally from Germany, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in New York City? A: That I can walk down the street and not see anybody who looks like me,
listens to the same music, or reads the same books as I do. It makes you constantly look at your own identity from a new perspective. Q: How and when … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday August 28, 2025
For Beauford Delaney, drawing was both a sanctuary and a space for experimentation. Through his works on paper, he could explore ideas with intimacy and spontaneity, yet this vital area of his oeuvre has been largely overlooked. In the Medium of Life: The Drawings of Beauford Delaney marks New York's first major Delaney museum exhibition in over thirty years and the first … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 25, 2024
Saturday, September 28, 7-10pm: American Punchline at Subliminal Projects
Cartoonist/artist/illustrator Ward Sutton—the creator of the Sick-O cartoonist Stan Kelly, who has been telling people what to think at The Onion for an interminable length of time—is now branching out into the FINE arts, with his debut on Saturday at Shepard Fairy’s gallery, Subliminal Projects, in L.A. [Just stick with me, ok?]. Fairy, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday February 28, 2024
Saturday March 2: Americans I Paris, 1946-1962 at Grey Art Museum
Following World War II, hundreds of artists from the United States flocked to the City of Light, which for centuries had been heralded as an artistic mecca and international cultural capital. This exhibition at the new Grey Art Museum explores a vibrant community of expatriates who lived in France for a year … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday January 27, 2026
The deadline for entering the American Photography 42 juried competition is Feb. 6. All photographers, creative professionals, publishers, agencies, representatives, students and teachers of
photography of any nationality living, working or studying in the Americas (U.S. South, Central America, Mexico, Caribbean and Canada) with work created or published anywhere in the world for any
purpose are eligible. Also eligible are international photographers living abroad … Read the full Story >>
