In her six-decade career, Graciela Iturbide has chronicled Mexican fiestas, including the Day of the Dead, which she returns to year after year; made a series of mysterious portraits of mask-wearing…
"Long Light" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the first solo museum exhibition for David Lebe (b. 1948), frames him as an experimentalist less interested in capturing the real than in freeing his…
Nene Humphrey became interested in the practice of Victorian mourning braiding—in which jewelry and keepsakes were made using the hair of departed loved ones—when coping with the death of her…
What this body of paintings adds up to is a kind of peinture noire in the sense that we apply the term to the film-noir genre of the '40s and early '50s—a stark, disabused, pessimistic vision of…