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.
Photography
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.
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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.
Art
Andy, Andy Everywhere
While the Whitney Museum retrospective celebrates his long career, two smaller New York shows cull from Warhol Factory closets important ephemera that illuminate his body of work and his relationship to art making.
Books
A Book Traces the Evolution of Smooching for the Camera
People Kissing: A Century of Photographs begins in the Victorian era and traces attitudes about kissing from “chaste” to “performance for the camera.”
Art
The Radical, Gender-Bending Photographs of Ulrike Ottinger
In the German artist and filmmaker's work from the '70s and '80s, Glinda the Good Witch becomes a bearded queen in a shopping mall, and that's just the beginning.
Books
Bringing Back from Obscurity a Jamaican Photographer Who Worked with Duchamp
Enacting a posthumous reassessment, the book Percy Rainford: Duchamp’s “Invisible” Photographer has poignantly rescued the neglected artist Percy Rainford from erasure.
Art
Dawoud Bey Enters the Imaginations of Freedom Seekers
The photography in this show imagines what stations of the Underground Railroad might look like, as the act of escaping enslavement is also essentially an act of imagination.
News
Extremely Rare Black Leopard Immortalized in Stunning Photos
For the first time in years — possibly centuries — the elusive black leopard is caught on camera by photographer Will Burrard-Lucas.