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Peggy Roalf Wednesday February 7, 2024
Thursday, February 8, 6-8 pm: Vernita Nemec | Evil Plastic Blues
Sculptor, performance artist, and curator, Vernita Nemec finds fascination in the weathered beauty of broken and discarded objects, drawing inspiration from the Japanese philosophy Wabi-Sabi, which embraces the value of imperfection and material transience. Evil Plastic Blues features her latest series Eco-Plasticism, which includes vacuum-formed bas relief collages and small sculptures created from … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday December 30, 2024
The past year saw a number of significant developments - in photographic technology, certainly, but also in the worlds of publishing and fine art. This fall PPD noted that Mark Zuckerberg's Meta
unveiled its first pair of augmented reality (AR) glasses, called Orion, which, Zuckerberg predicted, would at last jump start the metaverse. Meanwhile, Apple's new iOS18.1 featured AI capabilities
that the company hoped … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 16, 2019
Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond Wednesday, January 16
The Work is Never Done: Yvonne Ranier and the Judson Dance Theater, discussion with Ana Janevski and Thomas Lax, 7 pm. SVA MA Curatorial Practice, 132 West 21st Street,
10th floor, NY, NY Tickets Above: Yvonne Ranier, “Bach
from Terrain (1962-65). Photo: Al Giese, The Getty Research Institute, courtesy School of Visual … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday March 10, 2014
Originally from Pennsylvania, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in New York? I was born in Philadelphia and grew up in a suburb 30 minutes west of the
city. I moved to New York because I had a suspicion that that's where my job would eventually be (which it now is). If I was working anywhere else, I'd worry … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday November 13, 2020
Baron Wolman never forgot Jerry Garcia's missing finger. Wolman, the first staff photographer of Rolling Stone magazine, died November 2 following a battle with ALS. He was 83. The New York Times
noted that of all the famous rock musicians he photographed, from Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa to Grace Slick and Janis Joplin, his session with Garcia stood out. He photographed Garcia waving, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday October 19, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 7:00 pm: Dear Dave magazine presents a discussion with Susan Bright and Lyle Rexer on the release of Brights' latest book, AUTO FOCUS: The Self
Portrait in Contemporary Photography (Monacelli, 2010) followed by a champagne reception and book signing. SVA
Theater, 333 West 23rd Street, NY, NY. Tuesday, October 19, 6:00-9:00 pm: Opening reception for The Crude and the Rare, … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday January 12, 2024
Using his own images as prompts, Jason Scott Tilley can vividly recall details of covering local and international news stories, as well as capturing celebrities and trips to India exploring his
Anglo-Indian heritage. But the photographer struggles to remember what he has done that morning. At Christmas in 2020, we noted this week, the 55-year-old suffered a series of mini strokes, which had
an … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday July 10, 2019
The San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF)—the three-day event that showcases the Bay Area’s lasting engagement with
everything counterculture, returns next week to Minnesota Street Project (MSP) for its fourth edition. Organized by Colpa, Minnesota Street Project, and Park Life, SFABF presents a spectrum of
publications, from artists’ books, catalogues, monographs, periodicals, zines, to antique ephemera, and multiples, from more 100 publishers, dealers, artists, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday May 5, 2008
This month's issue is loaded with variety, from a flurry of new books arriving on the scene to year-end student art exhibitions, and more. The world of narrative art gets a couple of significant
boosts through the exhibition of a group of Roy Lichtenstein's "Girl" paintings, at the Gagosian Gallery - and a special exhibition of Norman Rockwell's preparatory drawings for his iconic Saturday … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday January 31, 2019
The work of wire service photographers often goes unheralded. "While their work is frequently excellent and regularly wins Pulitzer Prizes and other major awards, for the most part those photographers
are unsung heroes," noted former Associated Press photography director Santiago Lyon at The New York Times this week. Lyon wrote to celebrate the work of wire service photographer Desmond Boyle, who
died in December … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday July 22, 2013
This June the School of Visual Arts launched the new MFA Visual Narrative program, “Story Visualized.” Chaired by illustrator/comic book artist Nathan Fox, the
low residency program brings students to New York City for three summers connected by two years of online study during the fall and spring semesters. The summer sessions concentrate on advanced
writing, digital media and technique-based workshops. Working in tandem, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday May 31, 2016
Talk / Discussion / Screenings / and Beyond Thursday, June 2 Bahar Behbahani in conversation with Dr. Shiva Balaghi, 6 pm Thomas Erben Gallery, 526 West
26thStreet, NY, NY. Info. Friday, June 3-Sunday, June 5
Artist talk with 2015 Workspace Artists-in-Resicence, 6:30 pm. The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, NY, NY. Info Figment NYC |
Art, Interactive Sculpture & Miniature Golf, 10am-5 pm. Governors Island, NYC. … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday November 3, 2021
Is Kali Archibald destined to be the new Vivian Maier? As we noted recently, Kali Archibald, whose real name was Joan Archibald, left two children and a husband in the suburbs of Long Island to create
a new life for herself in Los Angeles, ending up in the bohemian paradise of Malibu in the early 1960s. She eventually took photo classes and became largely … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday March 29, 2019
September 13, 1953 was a quiet Sunday night in New York. The Brooklyn Dodgers had just won the pennant in Milwaukee. The New York Times carried a front-page story on the wedding of Massachusetts
Senator John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island. And at the Open Door, a jazz club on West 3rd Street in Manhattan, four titans of bebop -- … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday July 5, 2017
What is the nature of nostalgia? What triggers those poignant moments when we reflect on a past that we cannot return to, and that may never have existed as we remember it? Those questions are
explored in photographer and filmmaker Marc Lemoine's short film "Sad Heart of Mine," created with home-movie footage sourced from eBay. It is one of the motion pieces we featured … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday June 7, 2016
Special Events Monday, June 13-Sunday June
19 Look3 Photo Festival. Charlottesville, VA. Info Talks / Discussions / Screenings / and Beyond Tuesday, June
7 The Magic Flulte, Part Three: Press Conference, with Michel Auder, Jonathan Berger, Vaginal
Davis, Susanne Sachsse, Jamie Stewart/Xiu Xiu, and Michael Stickrod,6:30 pm. Goethe-Institut New York, 30 Irving Place, NY, NY. Info Also at 80WSE Gallery, NYU. Info Martha Rosler | If you can’t afford to live here, mo-o-ove!!, 6-8
pm. Mitchell-Innes & … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Tuesday January 12, 2016
Talk / Discussion / Performance / and Beyond Tuesday January 12 MFA Art Writing and Criticism presents: Kara Rooney, 6 pm. School of Visual Arts, 133/141 West 21st Street, NY, NY. Info Timothy Morton | And You Might Find Yourself Living in an Age of Mass Extinction, 6:30 pm ISCP, 1040
Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY [Williamsburg] RSVP required Sharon Butler, 6:30 pm. Trestle Gallery, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday June 2, 2011
Shen Wei: No. 1 Beach, Qingdao, Shandong Province, 2010;
Grandma's Table, Shanghai, 2008. Copyright Shen Wei, courtesy Daniel Cooney Fine Art. Thursday, June 2 Opening reception, 6-9 pm, for
Matt and Mark Enger: Streets of Glory. Christopher Henry Gallery, 127 Elizabeth Street, NY, NY. Danny Lyon, in
conversation with Vince Aletti at the book launch, 7pm, for Deep Sea Diver. The Phaidon Store, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday October 5, 2007
Tonight in Brooklyn, Pink Elephant Projects opens an exhibition of work by some of the top established artists and hot emerging artists of the day. I learned from Christopher Silas Neal that the
show's title, "Downright," doesn't seem to reflect a theme running through it. But it would be a downright shame to miss this chance to pick up some exceptional art. Elsewhere across … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday January 29, 2021
So far, the Bernie meme is the meme of the year. (Of course there's a lot of year left.) But as we noted this week, the photographer who took the picture behind the meme rues having taken it. "I am
not crazy about [my photojournalism] becoming memes but I am glad to have eyes on my work," said Brendan Smialowski, who shoots for Agence … Read the full Story >>
