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Peggy Roalf Wednesday September 7, 2016
There is hardly a more recognizable cultural icon than the Victorian house
in Alfred Hitchcock’s genre-bending horror film, Psycho. Known as the Bates Mansion, it stands, along with the film’s shocking 45-second shower scene, as a symbol of a new American
phenomenon, the slasher film. Fast-forward 56 years to The Met’s seasonal installation on the roof garden, where British sculptor Cornelia Parker has created … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday January 30, 2018
Talks | Book Events | Screenings | and Beyond Tuesday, January 30
Cassim Shepard | Citymakers: The Culture and Craft of Practical Urbanism, 6:30 pm. School of Visual Arts, MA Critical Theory and the Arts/Design Research, Writing and Criticism Lewis
Mumford Symposium, 136 West 21st Street, 2nd Floor, NY, NY RSVP Wednesday, January
30 Eva Diaz | Copies Have More Fun, lecture on Joseph … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 22, 2020
Luc Tuymans, Me, 2011; talk at The Morgan Library & Museum
Thursday Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Wednesday, January
22 Xiao Quan | In China When It all Began; moderator: Michael Halsband, 6:30 pm. China Institute in America, 40 Rector Street, NY, NY Info January Town Hall | Photograph, with Arian Allensworth and Jehan Jillani, 6:30 pm. Asian
American … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 31, 2017
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / And Beyond Wednesday, May 31
Exploratory Works exhibition walkthrough with anthropologist Katherine McLeod, 6:30 pm. The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, NY, NY Info Hands off Out Revolution | Complicity, 7 pm. International Center of Photography, 250 Bowery, NY, NY Info Jay Maisel and Stephen Wilkes | Photographic Icons, 7 pm. SVA Theater, 333 West 23rd
Street, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday February 18, 2016
The University of California Riverside offers a certificate program in crime scene investigation. In the outline for the Crime Scene Photography Course [info] instructor Steven Staggs includes the following information on what makes a photo admissible as evidence: a. Object
pictured must be material or relevant to the point in issue b. The photograph must not appeal to the emotions or tend … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday April 17, 2019
© Thierry Cohen,
Notre Dame, from the“Darkened Cities” series; © Thierry Cohen, courtesy Danziger Gallery. Talks / Book Events /
Screenings / and Beyond Wednesday, April 17 MFA Design Thesis Forum | Venture 19: Twenty Years of Design
Entrepreneurs, 5:00 pm. SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rdStreet, NY, NY Info Housing Tech City? New York With(out)
Amazon, 6:30 pm. Museum of the City of New … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday January 10, 2017
Special Events January 12-15 Photo L.A. The
Reef/LA Mart, 1933 Broadway, Los Angeles, CA Info FOG Design+Art. Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA Info January 13-15 Untitled, Art: San Francisco. Pier 70, San Francisco, CA Info Talks / Screenings /
and Beyond Wednesday, January 11 Frozen in Time | talk with Sarah C. Butler, Vicki Goldberg; Alison Morley,
moderator. 6:30 pm. New York Public … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday June 14, 2016
Special Events Monday, June 13-Thursday,
June 23 Typographics, an 11-day design festival devoted to contemporary typography, with talks, workshops, and tours focusing on where typography is
today and where its future may lie. It will be held at The Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square and 7 East 7th Street, NY, N. Info June 13-June 19 Look3 Festival of the Photograph. Various
Locations, Charlottesville, VA … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday September 6, 2016
Books / Talks / Screenings Continuing
through September 10 2nd Annual Women’s Film Series, 8 pm. Bronx Documentary Center, Bronx, NY Info Wednesday, September 7 The Public Art Fund Talks
presents: David Shrigley, 6:30 pm. The New School, 12th street Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, NY, NY InfoRoundtable discussion: Sheherzade's
Gift, 6:30 pm. The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday September 18, 2018
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / Fairs / and Beyond Thursday, September
20-Sunday, September 23 Photoville 2018, gates 4 pm: Exhibitions, talks, workshops, activities &
tours, special events, and beer garden. Info Brooklyn Bridge Park under the Brooklyn Bridge/Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY Info/ Visit Danspace Project | Times Square. 3 site-specific commissions. Info Thursday, September 20 Allen Hansen … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday December 15, 2015
Holiday Pop-Ups / Special Events Thursday,
December 17 Book Launch Party / Print Sale | Ceramics Sale, 6-8 pm. White Columns, 320 West 13th Street, NY, NY. Info Friday, December 18 Holiday Book Sale Party, 6-8 pm. Robert Mann Gallery, 525 West 26th Street, NY, NY.Saturday, December 19KARMA Book Market | 6 Decades, Boo-Hooray, Hassla, Harper's Books, Karma, Primary Information, Printed Matter, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday February 7, 2017
East Coast Martin Roemers | Metropolis. Through April 26 at Anastasia Photo, 143 Ludlow Street, NY, NY Info Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change. Through May 7 at the International Center of Photography, 250 Bowery, NY, NY Info Richard Mosse | Heat Maps. Through March 11 at Jack Shainman Gallery, 513 West 20th Street, NY, NY Info Uta Barth. Opening February 9, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday September 5, 2019
Above: Mitch Dobrowner, Road;
opening Saturday at Kopeikin Gallery The first week of September is a tsunami of art events, including the 14th Annual BLAB! Show. Organized by Monte Beauchamp, this year’s edition presents works by
more than 70 artists, including DART subscribers Ana Bagayan, Cathie Bleck,Chris Buzelli, Marc Burckhardt, Matt Duffin, Owen Smith, Ryan Heshka, Travis Lampe, Tim O’Brien, and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday July 19, 2017
Talks / Book Events / Protestb / Screenings / and Beyond Wednesday, July
19-Sunday, July 23 Comic-Com International San Diego. San Diego Convention Center, CA Info Wednesday, July 19 Exhibition as Image | Art Through the Camera’s Eye, 7 pm. Mini/Goethe-Institut Curatorial, 38 Ludlow
Street, NY, NY Info Christian Marclay and Okkyung Lee | Small Sphere and Heavy Sphere, 8 pm. Whitney Museum of … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday October 23, 2018
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / Art Fairs / and Beyond Tuesday, October
23 Are We Going Back to Art Autonomy?, 7:30 pm. The Cooper Union, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium at 41 Cooper Square, NY, NY Info Reaction +
Action in the Art World, 6:30 pm. Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School Tishman Auditorium, 63 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday November 6, 2018
Talks / Book Events / Art Fairs / and Beyond Continuing
Times Square Arts Midnight Moment |Chitra Ganesh: The Scorpion Gesture, 11:57 pm-12 am. Times Square, NY, NY Info Wednesday, November
7-Thursday, November 8 Pictoplasma NYC | Coference on Contemporary Character Design and Art. Parsons School of Design, The Auditorium, The New School, 66 West
12th Street, NY, NY. Tickets Thursday, November 8-Sunday, November … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday March 7, 2017
Special Events March
9-18 Asia Week New York. Various venues. Map Info
March 9-12 NY Antiquarian Book Fair. Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue at 67th Street, NY, NY Info Protest |
Resistance Wednesday, March 8 Collective Thinking, For Freedoms, 6:30 pm:
Collective Thinking/Roundtable. Aperture Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, NY, NY Info Saturday, March
11 Civic Education Workshops, 1-4 pm. The Kitchen, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday October 9, 2018
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / Special Events / and Beyond Tuesday, October
9 Tell Me Something Good | Discussion with Matvey Levenstein, Dana Schutz, Rirkrit Tiravanija, moderated by Jarrett Earnest, 6:30 pm. New York Studio School, 8 West
8th Street, NY, NY Info W. Eugene Smith
Talk | Daniel Castro Garcia, 7 pm. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27th Street, NY, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday October 4, 2016
Books / Talks / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, October 4 Asaf and Tomer Hanuka | How to Tell a Story in 9 Panels or Less, 6:30 pm. Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63rd Street, NY,
NY Info Photographing Politics | Campaigns, Protests, Demonstrations, panel with Sarah
Blesener, Johnny Milano, Cédric von Niederhäusern; Stephanie Keith, Moderator, 6:30 pm. ICP Museum, 250 Bowery, NY, NY … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday June 10, 2016
This weekend marks the beginning of a series of events featuring design at its best: Product Design; Type Design; Graphic Design; Architectural Design; Landscape Design. Conferences, a film series,
a marketplace, and more, all combine to inspire the way we think about the world we live in today. Saturday, June 11, 11am-6 pm
School of Visual Arts Alumni Makers Market. The inaugural market features over 50 vendors … Read the full Story >>