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Robert Newman Thursday May 28, 2015
SooJin Buzelli is an art director who has made a huge impact on the world of illustrators and illustration. As the creative director for business magazines PLANSPONSOR, PLANADVISER, Chief Investment
Officer, and Chief Investment Officer Europe, she assigns over 350 illustrations a year. SooJin is noted for both her art direction talents and her ability to work with and mentor illustrators; her
assignments appear … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday December 23, 2021
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday December 11, 2019
Josef Conrad’s Heart of
Darkness is arguably one of the most significant works of fiction in the modern era. First serialized in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1899, at the height of European imperial wealth and
corruption, the novella, which can be read on a slow evening, set the stage for 20th-century masterpieces such as William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, and later, Francis
Ford … Read the full Story >>
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Jeff Wignall Thursday June 9, 2016
Photographer and writer Jeff Wignall takes the Fujifilm X-T10 on a somewhat spooky and fun test drive. Read the full Story >>
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Jeff Wignall Thursday June 16, 2016
Photographer Jeff Wignall takes the Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM over the river and through the woods to see if this super telephoto lives up to its super reputation. Read the review and find
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Jeff Wignall Thursday November 17, 2016
Can an editing program that promises one-fix solutions for most major photo flaws really work? Our intrepid photographer (and 20+ year Photoshop user) Jeff Wignall puts Vivid-Pix Land & Sea
Picture-Fix to the test--and the results may just surprise you. Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday February 6, 2020
Marco Palli, a New York-based sculptor from Venezuela, opened an exhibition of new work at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture (NYSS) last week. The show honors the Larry Einbender Travel Award, which sponsored his anthropological research in Europe last fall. As a friend and colleague who often writes on the subject, he graciously agreed to meet in the … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday December 24, 2020
The idleness of a holiday morning, sipping good coffee, with thin, zinc-like winter light filtering in, makes me reach for my first art book: Degas, a Skira “Taste of Our Time” edition. It is just the right size—seven by seven inches—for the kind of procrastination I will enjoy. But it has enough pages (104) to make it important enough to hold my attention. The … Read the full Story >>
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Wonderful Machine Thursday February 16, 2023
Creatives spend an increasing amount of time networking and marketing their businesses on social media. And while it feels vital to be involved in your online networks, it can be a drain on your
limited working hours. Social media for photographers is not just about sharing images to grow your following. You need to interact with your newsfeed and reply to comments, which can … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday December 5, 2024
Independent bookstores—the cultural glue that offers shelter from the storm of holiday shopping—are thriving in New York City. These post-Pandemic years have also shown an increase in adventurous, small shops that create niches we wouldn’t have imagined just five years ago (see Pillow Cat and Bungee Space). In fact, New York’s indie bookstores rival what can be found in Paris, Berlin, London and beyond: … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 7, 2026
The new year brings something special to celebrate: the 10th anniversary edition of DART’s continuing feature on NYC’s best indie booksellers. Back in the day, when the big box bookstores loomed large, the future was uncertain for many of our beloved neighborhood booksellers. One such loss, still felt today, was St. Marks Bookstore, opposite Cooper Union’s Foundation Building. Above: Codex, 1 Bleecker … Read the full Story >>
