Unlike a Polaroid image that reveals itself at once, the representation of history is not an instantaneous endeavor, but an ongoing pursuit. It looks like we may need to wait longer for multicolored…
Dorothea Lange's photographs speak volumes on their own. She produced many of her most recognizable images for the Farm Security Administration during and after the Great Depression: the last period…
Best known for the pictures she took of Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, and other New York bohemians between 1969 and 1976, she has since produced a body of work that is greatly varied, subtle, and…
You get the sense that Fotografiska is pounding the square peg of the artists’ work through the round hole of the museum’s brand.
The landscape around Chernobyl doesn't look radioactive, but it has been permanently altered. To show this, I developed my own process for making radiographs.
I started thinking about symbols of reproduction and the figure, especially the female figure, as among the earliest forms represented in art.
The title of Wendy Red Star's midcareer survey, "A Scratch on the Earth," comes from the Apsáalooke (Crow) word annúkaxua, which refers to the "scratches" the United States government made on the…
Organized by New York–based art historian and curator Reiko Tomii, "Radicalism in the Wilderness: Japanese Artists in the Global 1960s" surveys experiments with the dematerialization of the art…
Sarah Charlesworth (1947–2013) typically worked in series, defining discrete ideas and exercising them to the point of completion or terminal exhaustion. The richest of these ideas could yield dozens…
Born and raised in New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward, Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick have photographed together for forty years, capturing individuals at home, dancing in second lines, working…
