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Peggy Roalf Wednesday July 13, 2016
Lucas Samaras, a multi-disciplinary artist known for the strange and often violent transformations he made to ordinary objects in his sculptures, and in the self-portraits that dominate his output,
emerged in the 1960s with confrontational installations and performances. One of the most experimental artist of his generation, Samaras can be described as an avant-gardist
and theoretician who embraced Dada, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism in his work. … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday April 7, 2023
Neo-futurism, the Metaverse, space exploration—combined with a yearning for closer connections with Earth’s natural bounty—are currently prompting renewed interest in the design trends of the 1960s. The rush to exploration and innovation that came with the Space Age gave the Swinging ‘60s an aura of freedom that filtered into every facet of life—especially art, design and fashion. Op Art escaed from galleries and classrooms … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday April 22, 2020
While the work of Austrian sculptor Oliver Laric seems so of the moment as
to dismiss any connection with appropriation, his practice is rooted in works as old as time. Essentially, Laric deals with versions, spurred in part by the tradition, during antiquity, of producing
multiple iterations of master works. Laric inhabits a universe of multiple realities, the lack of distinction between an original … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday June 5, 2025
Desiccated goat, rat, and turkey; steel, rope, carpet, peach basket, wood, tire scraps, plastic toys, shoes, motor-oil bottle, wire fencing, chains, ironing board, farm and construction tools, wire, paintbrushes, enamel, spray paint, and Splash Zone compound. While this list could understandably be mistaken for items encountered by John McPhee on one of his epic road trips, they are, in fact, the materials … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday April 21, 2022
The first Earth Day was celebrated in NYCs Union Square Park on April 22, 1970. Fifth Avenue was closed to traffic between Central Park and Union Square as some 100,000 people gathered to participate in an ecological carnival designed to raise awareness about environmental issues.
Air and water pollution, largely from leaded gas and industrial contaminants, were the main concerns about the deteriorating environment … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday June 17, 2020
On election day, November 2018, millions of New York City voters
showed up at the polls only to be confronted with an almost-three-foot-long, two-sided ballot with print so small it strained the eyes. To cast their vote, they had to fill it out front and back, tear
it in half along a perforated line, and then carefully feed both pages into a scanner. The … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday December 13, 2012
Called by historian and photo critic A.D. Coleman, "a true photographer's photographer, and one of the most seriously under-recognized senior figures in U.S.
photography," the 82 year old master photographer and legendary teacher of photography, Harold Feinstein, is finally
celebrating the publication of his first black and white monograph, Harold Feinstein: A
Retrospective (Nazraeli 2012). To mark the occasion, Feinstein will share … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday March 9, 2022
This just in from ArtNet News: When the Ukrainian painter Volo Bevza left his apartment in Berlin to attend the opening of his solo exhibition in Kyiv last month, he never imagined that he would end up in the middle of a war zone, using his artistic skills not to create sculptures, but to construct anti-tank metal structures known as “hedgehogs.” Above: An artist called Alex … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday June 27, 2017
Remember the Frye Festival? It was supposed to be a luxury music festival and glamping experience in the Bahamas but turned out to be a low-end, soggy mess that led to some lawsuits from elite
partiers. Because the festival was hyped by some 400 Instagram influencers, the social network also got dragged through the mud, with complaints about how celebs are posting sponsored content … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday January 4, 2016
Q: Originally from Nebraska, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in L.A.? A: The variety. There is so much to experience here that it can be
completely debilitating—mostly in a good way. But, for instance, I had to give up on checking Yelp for a good waffle house because all of the beautiful options overwhelmed me to the point where … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday May 14, 2018
Q: Originally from [where?] what are some of your favorite things about living and working in [your current locale]? A: I was born in Los Angeles and raised in the SF Bay area.
I now live in Seattle, which retains a lot of its natural beauty, with many lush public park systems designed by Olmsted scattered throughout the city. In addition there … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday March 12, 2025
Thursday, March 13: Self-Taught Artists at Hirschl & Adler
Self-Taught Artists at the Crossroads of Fact and Fiction brings together works that explore the fluidity of truth and imagination, celebrating the unique ways in which these artists craft their own realities through art. Each piece in the exhibition offers a fresh, intimate view of the world, blending fact, myth, and fantasy into a … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday February 21, 2018
Performing for the camera has become integral to social media self-marketing, having arrived at the smart phone/Facebook/Instagram nexus. But dramatic portraits go back as far as the arrival of
photography itself in the 19th century. With her costume box and props closet, Julia Margaret Cameron is perhaps the best known of Victorian-era photographers for costuming and directing
her subjects, who include relatives and the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday February 1, 2023
Wednesday, February 1, 6:30-8:00pm: Public Art Fund Talk at Cooper Union
Join artists Layqa Nuna Yawar and Karyn Olivier for an artist talk with Nicholas Baume, Artistic & Executive Director of Public Art Fund. The discussion will center on Layqa Nuna Yawar’s Between the Future Past (2021-22) and Karyn Olivier’s Approach (2022), two monumental, site-specific works recently created for the new Terminal … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday November 21, 2017
David Hockney, without doubt one of the most beloved artists of our time, was joined by a throng of admirers as he previewed the major retrospective of his work yesterday at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art. In the year of his 80th birthday, the artist is being celebrated for the wit and intelligence with which he has examined and captured the perceived world of … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday October 20, 2022
Georges Bracque, Pablo Picasso, and Juan Gris are the Modernist stars of Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition, an exhibition opening today at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Featuring more 14 works by these artists from The Met’s Leonard Lauder Collection, together with masterworks from the 17th to the 19thcentury on loan, the show demonstrates the previously overlooked connection between these two forms of … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday February 8, 2018
In celebration of Black History Month, Society of Illustrators will open the exhibition, The Art of MARCH: A Civil Rights Masterpiece on February 28th The show presents the story
of Congressman John Lewis's experience in the civil rights movement as told in his graphic novel, March, illustrated by Nate Powell and co-written by Andrew Aydin. This
exhibition takes visitors on a visceral tour of the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday December 14, 2022
Through Saturday, December 17: MAYDAY EAARTH | Pop-Up exhibition at Ceres Gallery
In this exhibition 13 artists declare a climate emergency. “The whole world is now a flood zone. From Central Park and the basements of Brooklyn to the small towns of Pakistan in the Sindh Valley, we wait in fear of the next flood watch” writes curator and artist M. Annenberg. “Conversely, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday November 15, 2018
Anxiety and alienation were the existential problem of early 20th-century Europe, informing the shift from realism to Surrealism, and from representation to abstraction. The sculptor Alberto Giacometti saw himself somewhat apart from current trends: a realist attempting the “impossible task” [his words] of representing the appearance of things as he saw them. Impossible, as for him the foundational quest was to capture the ungraspable essence … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday August 1, 2025
With more hot weather just around the corner, it’s time to cool off with a good read—better still, a cool afternoon or evening in a welcoming independent bookstore. So this week we are expanding the DART indie bookstore list, a few at a time. The good news is that post-pandemic retail vacancies have made even more room for indies, and the results are … Read the full Story >>
