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Catherine Opie
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Catherine Opie on Her First Monograph, “a Map of My Mind”
For Opie, photographing is about “understanding what it is to be inclusive.”
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Channeling the Nuances of Motherhood Into Art
The debut exhibition at New Mexico State University explores the nuances of labor — in birth, in childrearing, and in intergenerational collaboration.
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Cindy Sherman and Catherine Opie Unveil a Joint Project of Wearable Art
The two artists unveiled a new line of shell cameos made into rings, earrings, cufflinks, and pendants at the opening of the Venice Biennale.
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Naima Green Stacks Catherine Opie’s “Dyke Deck” with Images of Queer Contemporaries
The artist has launched a Kickstarter to fund her project, which is partially an homage to Catherine Opie’s “Dyke Deck,” updated to celebrate a wider spectrum of queerness.
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An Eerie Ode to LA Architecture in Catherine Opie’s First Film
Now on view at Regen Projects, Opie’s silent ode to the city is solely told with still, black-and-white images.
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Catherine Opie’s Intimate Photographs of S&M
LOS ANGELES — If you visited LA this summer, it would have been hard for you to ignore the presence of Robert Mapplethorpe.
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Photos of Elizabeth Taylor’s Home Capture Its Beauty and Banality
Like a closed curtain at the beginning of a performance, a red, wavy material with the name “Elizabeth Taylor” emblazoned in white lettering fills the frame.
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A Show of Over 100 Women Artists Offers Redress but No Resolution
MIAMI — The exhibition of over 100 women artists currently on view at the Rubell Family Collection is difficult to review because the works do not all fit into the space and the decision was made to rotate them over the course of the show.
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The Triumph of Revisionism: The Whitney’s American Century
With America Is Hard to See, the exhibition inaugurating its luminous new Renzo Piano building, the Whitney has reclaimed its role among the city’s museums as the engine of the new.
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Photo LA Is Not Art Basel, and That’s OK
LOS ANGELES — Photography is a schizophrenic medium. It has long served documentary, fashion, and scientific purposes, only more recently has it gained mainstream recognition as a fine art. These dichotomies carry over to the Photo LA fair.
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A Talk Show About Art
For its first original web series, Ovation TV has launched a talk show about art called Touching the Art. And why not?