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Peggy Roalf Friday May 22, 2026
ICON The Illustration Conference is the definitive destination for the global illustration community, providing a rare space where commercially driven art meets academic rigor. This unique four-day gathering serves as a vital forum for, professional advocacy, continuing education and pure inspiration. Operating entirely as a non-profit endeavor, the conference migrates to a different U.S. cultural hub every two years, drawing an influential crowd of creators, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday September 26, 2019
Lynda Barry, known
and loved for her zany irreverence and imagination, brought the graphic literature genre onto new terrain with her invention, the graphic memoir. In its first
iteration, Picture This: The Nearsighted Monkey Book (Drawn & Quarterly 2010), she brought back
Marlys and Arna, characters from her previous book, What It Is, and introduced the Near-Sighted Monkey, a cigarette-smoking alter ego from … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday May 11, 2018
The New Museum, now in its 40thyear, is known for presenting confrontational art by living artists—the kind of work that is not easily adopted by traditional art museums. In 1990
it produced the exhibition, Have You Attacked America Today?, Erika Rothenberg’s parody of dissent and freedom of speech, complete with flag-burning kits; in 1998 it mounted the
first solo show of Colombian artist Doris … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday March 23, 2016
To have something that’s beautiful somehow gives
me a feeling that approaches immortality. It’s very similar to the act of creating. So Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) is quoted saying for a magazine article in 1978. By
that time, the artist had established himself as a photographer, having had his first solo show, at New York’s Light Gallery in 1973. His work was shown at Documenta 6/Kassel in … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 29, 2025
Wednesday, January 29, 6pm: Beatriz Cortez x rafa esparza: Earth and Cosmos at Americas
This exhibition inaugurates a series in which Americas Society invites two artists who are friends and collaborators to jointly explore how they influence each other's work. This new approach shares insight into a vital part of artistic production that is seldom the subject of exhibitions: the conversations … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday August 31, 2016
For the last official week of summer, DART looks at the
extraordinary Modernist villa, E 1027, perched on a rocky promontory in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, near Saint-Tropez, France. Built in 1929 by the now-legendary designer/architect Eileen Gray as a love
nest for herself and the Romanian architect and critic Jean Badovici, the house has become something of an icon for Modernist design and preservation; in design … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday December 1, 2009
For photography collectors looking for an auction this week, the place to go is Camera Club of New York's (CCNY) fourth annual benefit. Hosted by Calumet
Photographic, the doors open at 6:00 pm this Wednesday at 22 West 22nd Street, NYC. I stopped by last night for a preview and found all hands on deck. Director John
Stanley; former board member … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday June 4, 2025
The French artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot (1827-1895) left his native France in 1855, moving with his wife to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where his two children were born. He supported his family as an artist and nature illustrator, also working as a lithographer. He soon became active with the local scientific community as a member of the Boston Society of Natural … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday February 9, 2023
A landmark exhibition on slavery in the Dutch colonial era that was first staged at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is going on display at the United Nations in New York starting February 27. The show, titled Slavery: Ten True Stories of Dutch Colonial Slavery, will open in the the U.N. headquarters’ visitors’ lobby, as part of a U.N. outreach program on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 13, 2017
Arte Povera, the primarily Italian art movement that arose during the late 1960s in response to the political turmoil of the time, has remained a force in art that is vividly relevant today. Now a
comprehensive overview of the innovative art is being presented by Hauser & Wirth, shedding light on the ideas and motivations of the group of Italian artists jointly known as … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday March 21, 2019
Tonight, SepiaEYE Gallery
will host a gallery talk with Beatrice Pediconi, in conjunction with her exhibition, Subject to Change. In conversation with Jean Dykstra of Photograph Magazine and Mary-Kay Lombino
of the Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, the artist will discuss the evolution of her work and process. I stopped in to the gallery last week for a preview, and met the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday October 8, 2025
In Our Time: Eleven Artists + W.E.B. Du Bois at Pratt Manhattan
Contemporary artists reflect on the legacy of one of the most profound and influential African American intellectuals of the 20th century and on the impact that Du Bois has had on their work in this new exhibition. Works by a diverse range of artists—from Derrick Adams to Carrie Mae Weems to Theaster Gates—offer aesthetic contributions … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday March 24, 2023
The worlds of Latino/Latinx culture, both high and low, are gaining overdue recognition in museums and art galleries in the US. From no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria, curated by Marcela Guerrero, at the Whitney; to the steady flow of exhibitions and events at Americas Society; to Lives of the Gods: … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday December 20, 2016
“A Man who Stands for Nothing Falls for Anything.” —Malcolm X “Love’s the only engine of
survival,” —Leonard Cohen “When they go low, we go high.”—Michelle O “I will peacefully
resist.”—Anonymous These are just a few of the sentiments posted in the corridors of New York’s subways in the days following the unexpected victory of
president-elect Donald Trump. When it became evident that fewer than … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday October 6, 2016
Flying Couch, Amy Kurzweil’s debut graphic memoir, tells the stories of three unforgettable women. Amy weaves her own coming-of-age as a young Jewish artist into the narrative of her
mother, a therapist, and Bubbe, her grandmother, a World War II survivor who escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto by disguising herself as a gentile. Captivated by Bubbe’s story, Amy turns to
her sketchbooks, teaching … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday April 7, 2010
Spur, the design and illustration studio of Dave Plunkert and Joyce Hesselberth, is re-launching its gallery this weekend with a show of 100 heads by a stellar roster of artists who are
participating by invitation. The idea for the show came about after the January earthquake as a way to raise money for the relief effort. "At a recent production meeting," said Joyce, "Dave … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday May 30, 2025
Tomorrow, The Met re-opens its David C. Rockefeller wing following a complete re-envisioning of its collections of the Arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania. Featuring over 1,800 works spanning five continents and hundreds of cultures, these three major world traditions stand as independent entities in a wing that is in dialogue with neighboring gallery spaces. The galleries have been closed to the public and under … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday January 8, 2007
DART presents an occasional lineup of events related to new work by illustrators. Following is the mid-January installment. Please check contact information for details. NEW YORK, NY David Choe: Gardeners of Eden
Jonathan LeVine Gallery January 6, 2007 - February 3, 2007 Animated Filmmakers, Screening and Discussion
Eastman Kodak Company 360 West 31st Street, New York, NY 10001 (between 8th and 9th Ave.) Tuesday, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday October 3, 2024
Ken Light | American Stories:1969-1995 showcases three decades of work by the acclaimed photographer, highlighting significant moments in American history from 1969 to 1995. Light’s images focus on social issues, human rights, and the lives of overlooked communities, providing a powerful look at the stories of this period. The opening reception is Thursday, October 10, 6:00 pm. The photographer will attend and sign copies … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday March 17, 2017
The Whitney Biennial, delayed a year due to the museum’s new
construction, opens today. By all accounts from those who attended the preview earlier this week, it was worth waiting for. Luckily so, for the opening gala and members’ previews of the
78th installment of the longest-running survey of American art were cancelled due to the Nor’easter that blasted in on Monday night. Above: … Read the full Story >>
