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David Schonauer Wednesday February 7, 2018
There's still a lot of winter left -- plenty of time for you to create an viral snowboarding video. In our semi-regular roundup of video tutorials, we feature six tips for getting great GoPro skiing
and snowboarding footage. There are also tips for creating memorable travel videos, making your gimbal footage look better, and making your audio sound better. Want to speed up your … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday February 5, 2021
Last summer, four students in the School of Visual Arts BFA Interior Design: Built Environments program took on the challenge of COVID-19 by dreaming up hotel-style spaces for the 14-day quarantine experience. The description for Carol Bentel’s course states that these innovative structures, each completely unique, hold up to 20 inhabitants, allowing guests to feel less isolated while still being apart. Above: Quarantine … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday May 29, 2012
Above, © Mary Ellen Mark, from
Prom (Getty 2012) Wednesday, May 30 Book signing, 6-8 pm: Paul Graham | The
Present (Mack 2012). Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street (between Bowery and
Lafayette), NY, NY. The Visionaries Series presents, 7 pm: Maya Li., New Museum, 235 Bowery, NY, NY. Tickets $25/$20. Photo talk, 7
pm: Jon Ortner | Sacred Lands, Ancient Traditions. Rubin Museum of Art, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday August 28, 2020
The Metropolitan Museum of Art reopens to the public on Saturday,
with member previews that started yesterday. I began my preview yesterday morning with the 2020 Roof Garden Commission: Héctor Zamora, Lattice
Detour (above). Zamora (b. Mexico City, 1974) is known for works that engage public spaces and the built environment, and which generate friction between commonly
perceived roles of public and private, exterior and interior, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday April 21, 2021
Friday, April 23, 7:00 -8:30pm, DorDor Gallery | InPersonArt Out / curated by Irina ChistikinaWith the arrival of spring, the DorDor Gallery presents the first group exhibition of contemporary artists in this new season, including August Henry, Pranav Sood, Melissa Schainker, Scott Isenbarger, Edgard Rippel, Nate Myers, Laura Michal, Helen Denisevich, Jeanne Verdoux. A performance by Annie Nikunen will be presented at the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 6, 2016
Photo-Poetics: An Anthology, on view at the Guggenheim, presents works by 10 contemporary photographers who use the camera as a weapon to make viewers think. Installed in the Tower's
3 main floors, the show offers a close reading of the works in intimately staged solo shows. This might be the most agressively anti-art-fair exhibition to grace a New York winter in recent
years. To borrow … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday June 27, 2016
Editor’s note: With ICON9 The Illustration Conference just a week away—four days of art, discussion, performance, and plenty of talk in Austin, TX—the current roster for the
Q&A is peopled with many of the exceptional artists making presentations during this biannual artfest. Mark Kaufman will lead a workshop on Collage Improvisation on Wednesday
morning. Info Q: Originally from Jersey City, NJ, what are some of … Read the full Story >>
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Gail Mooney Tuesday April 21, 2015
Photographer and filmmaker Gail Mooney recently attended the big NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Show, which, every April, draws over 100,000 people to Las Vegas to see the latest video and
filmmaking gear and software. There are also conferences to learn at and be inspired by, and plenty of chances to network with colleagues. Why would a still photographer want to go to a … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 20, 2017
Could it be that President Donald J. Trump has done society a favor by offering so many reasons to mount protest rallies? “Dump Trump.” “I am a PERSON, not a PUSSY.”
“Make America Queer Again.” “Impeach Hate Speech.” In the weeks leading up to the Women’s March on Washington this year, for example, Chicago’s Newberry
Library issued a call for Pussy Hats and protest … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday August 18, 2022
Continuing: Michael Lin | Pentachrome at The Met
Michael Lin’s site-specific installation Pentachrome brings contemporary art to the Museum’s Great Hall Escalator for the first time. Inspired by The Met collection and the building’s architecture, Pentachrome invites visitors to reconsider the Museum’s Great Hall, its Balcony, and the surrounding art from a fresh perspective.
For more than a hundred years, Asian art, especially Chinese … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday August 19, 2024
Longtime DART contributor Ken Carbone—who, it must be said is also a friend and colleague going back to my participation in writing projects for his agency—has a way of looking at art. As cofounder, with Leslie Smolan, of the Carbone Smolan Agency, in 1977, his branding projects always stood on the foundations of the plastic arts as they have existed since the Sumerians … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday December 4, 2024
Live hard. Die young. Leave enough lurid evidence for novelistic retellings of a life cut short at age 28 by the influenza pandemic that swept Europe at the close of WWI. Le Bohème, in this case, is Egon Schiele [1890–1918]. Best known for his emaciated, erotic nudes and self-portraits, he is now the subject of an exhibition of the landscape paintings made throughout his … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday July 14, 2022
Q: Where did the legendary gallerist Leo Castelli discover Jasper Johns?
Q: Where did Robert Rauschenberg have his mid-career retrospective, at age 39?
Q: Where did the following artists have their first solo museum exhibitions: Kenneth Noland (1965), Larry Rivers (1965), Jean Tinguely (1965), Ad Reinhardt (1966) and Yves Klein (1967)?
If you have been a New York City art afficionado for fifty … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday September 29, 2022
Now at XNA Airport, Bentonville, ArkansasFirst seen in NYC with her seven-story Memphis-style mural for the 2018 NYCxDesign Festival, at Industry City, Camille Walala has since gone even larger and 3-D with her colossal new installation at the XNA Airport in Bentonville, Arkansas. Her now but retro graphics, in brilliant colors and black borders that can be seen from planes coming in … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday June 20, 2018
The expansive exhibition of works by Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) currently on view at the Guggenheim examines the artist's career in its entirety. Spaciously installed throughout the museum’s rotunda, the show features nearly 200 sculptures, paintings and drawings, along with vintage photographs, mural-size photographs of the artist’s Paris studio, and ephemera. The first major museum presentation in over 15 years, it offers visitors a fresh … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday December 27, 2023
The giving season continues with Kwanza, New Year’s, last-minute finds for holiday visits and necessary down time in quiet spots. The final update to this year’s report on indie bookstores will make you want to swear to more analog experiences for the coming year.
Bungee Space[(above], just around the corner from the New Museum, probably epitomizes what it is to be hybrid. With … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday June 18, 2021
How much is your privacy worth to you? This week we learned that a change to TikTok's U.S. privacy policy says the social video app "may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information" from
its users' content, including faceprints and voiceprints. This new section is found under the "Image and Audio Information" heading under "Information we collect automatically" in the company's
updated policy, noted Tech … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday March 8, 2017
Have you ever wanted to get fungus off a lens? The secret is not weird science, as you'll find out in today's collection of photo tips, primers, and DIY projects. Other topics in this edition of our
our semi-regular round-up of how-to articles include a crash course on flying drones; an investigation on the relative merits of zoom and prime lenses; a primer on … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday March 8, 2024
For those who complain, with some reason, that there’s a lack of an avant-garde zeitgeist in contemporary art, The Whitney Museum offers something to argue about every two years. This invitational, which began life as an annual in 1932, has morphed over the years as a survey show alternating between painting and sculpture, becoming a biennial that combined both in 1973. Since then, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday April 14, 2010
Speaking about the Meadowlands in the epilogue of his book of the same title, Joshua Lutz said, "For most people, the Meadowlands is a place to pass through and forget on their way to someplace
else. Not unlike a neglected child, the Meadowlands has grown up without guidance, constantly unsure of what the future holds. It is this loneliness and solitude that continues to … Read the full Story >>
