Art
Photographs Enliven the Public and Historic Spaces of an Indian City
This year's Chennai Photo Biennale is spread across the city, with many heritage sites providing layered historical contexts and compelling physical backdrops.
Photography
Art
Documenting the Horrors of America's Opioid Crisis in One of the Hardest-Hit Cities
"I basically went from photographing abandoned houses to photographing abandoned people," artist Jeffrey Stockbridge says about his Kensington Blues series in Philadelphia.
Art
How Stonewall Broke Through Barriers with Love and Resistance
A New York Public Library exhibition shows how so many people at the time of Stonewall — and after — have been able to live more wholly integrated lives.
Art
A Probing Look at How We Perform and Present the Self
Show Me As I Want to Be Seen resists imposed and idealized models of being by probing the self — the unstable, performative essence of humanity — and bringing it to life with art.
Art
Candida Höfer Takes Her Expansive Lens to Mexico
In Mexico foregrounds Höfer's images as records of a site’s architectural and sociopolitical history.
In Brief
The "Queen of Elephants" Photographed in Kenya
Will Burrard-Lucas, the photographer famous for his recent black leopard photos, has captured a series of stunning photos of a big tusker elephant in Kenya.
Art
A Photography Exhibition Corrects a Mainstream Museum's Failure
Our Land, mounted as a reply to a controversial show at the Brooklyn Museum, features contributing artists from North Africa and West Asia and their diasporic communities.
Art
Contemporary Artists Contextualize the Work of Black Panther Photographers
Vanguard Revisited: Poetic Politics & Black Futures highlights Bay Area artists and artist collectives whose work contextualizes the lasting impact of BPP ideology and activism, and the photographs of Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones.
Announcement
Apply for Columbia University Summer Intensives in Painting, Photography, and Printmaking
Admission to Summer courses at Columbia Art School is open to all, no degrees required. Classes run from May 28 to July 5, 2019.
Art
A Photographer's Portrait of Addiction and Recovery
Jeffrey Stockbridge's images reinsert those with opioid addictions into public discourses, picking up where mass media has failed.
News
Shahidul Alam Discussion at Photo Festival Threatened by Bangladeshi Government Censorship
Dhaka Metropolitan Police tried to cancel the talk between prominent figures Arundhati Roy and Shahidul Alam for unexplained "unavoidable circumstances."
Art
The Stunning Images Nominated for the 2019 World Press Photo Contest
There were 78,801 submissions to the annual contest, and judges chose 43 impressive photographs.