“Museum of the City of New York, the city institution with a celebrated collection of some 750,000 objects and images, shared details about its new exhibition, Collecting New York’s Stories: Stuyvesant to Sid Vicious. The special presentation features highlights from the hundreds of additions to… Read More
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Dora Maar at Tate Modern, through March 15, 2020
The Tate exhibition is the first UK retrospective of the work of Dora Maar (1907–97). Born Henriette Théodora Markovitch, she grew up between Argentina and Paris and studied decorative arts and painting before switching her focus to photography. Her photographs and photomontages became celebrated icons… Read More
Shahidul Alam: Truth to Power at The Rubin Museum of Art, November 8, 2019 – May 4, 2020
“The Rubin Museum of Art is pleased to present Shahidul Alam: Truth to Power, the first comprehensive museum survey in the United States of renowned Bangladeshi photographer, writer, activist, and institution-builder, Shahidul Alam. The exhibition brings together works from his four-decade career, showing the breadth of… Read More
Illusions of the Photographer: Duane Michals at the Morgan, The Morgan Library & Museum, October 25, 2019 – February 2, 2020
“The Morgan Library & Museum proudly presents an exhibition combining a six-decade retrospective of Duane Michals with an artist’s-choice selection of works from all corners of the permanent collection. Michals is known for his picture sequences, inscribed photographs, and, more recently, films that pose emotional,… Read More
JR: Chronicles at Brooklyn Museum, October 4, 2019 – May 3, 2020
“The Brooklyn Museum presents the largest solo museum exhibition to date of the internationally recognized artist JR, featuring some of his most iconic projects from the past fifteen years. JR: Chronicles also marks the debut of a monumental new mural, The Chronicles of New York… Read More
Richard Humann: Ascension at High Line Nine, October 2019 on
Richard Humann creates an alternate universe within our own universe in his location-based augmented reality (AR) multimedia installation, Ascension. The work consists of imaginary constellations suspended in the sky over New York City, Venice, Italy and the city of Seoul, Korea and is viewed on… Read More
Kate Crawford | Trevor Paglen: Training Humans at Osservatorio Fondazione Prada, September 12, 2019 – February 24, 2020
“’Training Humans’” is the first major photography exhibition devoted to training images: the collections of photos used by scientists to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems how to ‘see’ and categorize the world. In this exhibition, Crawford and Paglen reveal the evolution of training image sets from the 1960s… Read More
Todd Gray: Euclidean Gris Gris at Pomona College Museum of Art (PCMA), September 3, 2019 – May 17, 2020
“Todd Gray: Euclidean Gris Gris is a year-long exhibition and residency at Pomona College that includes an evolving selection of new sculptural photographic works derived from Gray’s exploration of the legacies of colonialism in Africa and Europe and a site-specific wall drawing that abstractly evokes a relationship to African… Read More
By the Light of the Silvery Moon: A Century of Lunar Photographs at National Gallery of Art, Washington, July 14, 2019 – January 5, 2020
“The year 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969. From the moment photography was introduced in 1839, photographers dreamt about harnessing the potential of photography together with the telescope. While astronomers had earlier mapped many of the… Read More
Order of Imagination: The Photographs of Olivia Parker at Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), July 13 – November 11, 2019
“For more than 40 years, Olivia Parker (b. 1941) has used photography to explore the relationships between vision, knowledge, and the natural world. From deceptively simple still lifes that transform the commonplace to her most recent work exploring memory loss, Order of Imagination: The Photographs of Olivia Parker… Read More
LIFE: Six Women Photographers at New-York Historical Society, June 28 – October 6, 2019
“The New-York Historical Society is proud to present the work of six prominent women photographers, whose iconic work for LIFE magazine helped create modern photojournalism as it depicted a quickly-evolving world. On view in the Center for Women’s History’s Joyce B. Cowin Women’s History Gallery, the exhibition features… Read More
National Geographic Photo Ark: Joel Sartore at Southampton Arts Center, June 27 – September 8, 2019
“The International Center of Photography (ICP) and the Southampton Arts Center (SAC) are presenting the National Geographic Photo Ark exhibition, featuring the compelling and visually stunning work of National Geographic photographer and Fellow Joel Sartore. The exhibition will highlight Sartore’s images from his work in more than 250… Read More