“What really dismays me … is how three major organizations [Time, Toronto Star & New York Times] could send out three of the best photographers in the business and, within the space of just over two weeks, proudly publish nearly the same photo-story … Is this pure coincidence? Or, does it illustrate (too well, in this case) the acumen of the Pentagon in the mediating of war access?” I want to know who are the people taking risks to document the real war? [BagNewsNotes]
Hrag Vartanian is editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic. More by Hrag Vartanian
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This month: Highlights from El Museo del Barrio’s collection, artworks on book covers, Chinese bird-and-flower paintings, and more.
The Met received two gifts totaling $550K from the now-bankrupt company.
Gary Simmons: Public Enemy surveys the artist’s career in exposing legacies of race and class in US popular culture.
“I deeply desire an understanding of manhood that includes tenderness and open-heartedness that is not in opposition to butchness,” said the Brooklyn-based artist.
The museum was forced to close for nearly three years after suffering extensive damage during the blast of August 4, 2020.
His Mark features a collection of new and recent video installations, including never-before-shown self-portrait work and 3D video.
Mortality has long been a theme for the irreverent artist, but his most recent show at California’s ArtCenter College of Design deals with specific losses and loves.
Reparations of the Heart prompts the question: Where would diaspora Armenians and other SWANA communities be if the Armenian Genocide had never happened?
Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch confronts the challenges of being Indigenous and female in the United States and Canada. On view in NYC.
Welcome to Alchemy, in which artists with famous names mix strange substances together with outcomes of variable interest.
A court ruled that Edizioni Condé Nast used a photograph of Michelangelo’s sculpture “insidiously and maliciously” in a magazine cover.
You would do well to check out the work of Australian photojounalist Stephen DuPont. He is the real deal.
Lynsey Addario is also quite a great photojournalist with (mostly) original visual takes http://www.lynseyaddario.com/
no one has the balls to tell the truth.