A group of contemporary artists re-imagine the African Diaspora through references to the landscape, masks, clothes, and adornments.
Steven Kasher Gallery
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12 Revelatory Exhibitions from 2017
Each of these exhibitions showed me something I had not seen before.
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A Second Look at Teju Cole
Cole’s photographs are sensitive to the brutal dying that is going on everywhere. He knows that looking is not innocent, and that it will never be.
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Teju Cole Has Not Stopped Looking or Thinking
Combining text and photographs, Cole seeks a combination of intuition, context, and moral intelligence.
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Ming Smith’s Necessary Angels
The rich and varied evocation of passing moments, memories, and dreams that we encounter in Ming Smith’s photographs are things that the incoming President will continue to denigrate and do his best to erase.
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Questioning the Idea of Progress in an Exhibition on the Black Panthers
I’m looking at photographs of the Black Panthers: men in formation wearing black leather jackets, with buttons featuring Huey P. Newton’s image fixed to their lapels.
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Butterfly Ovaries and Cockroach Stomachs: Microphotographs as Art
If it hadn’t been for Carl Strüwe, a German graphic designer and self-taught photographer, the world may have never come to appreciate the unlikely beauty of a cockroach’s stomach.
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The Short-lived 1940s NYC Tabloid That “Dared to Tell the Truth”
The New York PM Daily only lasted from 1940 to 1948, but in its short run it served as a vital progressive voice in New York City and promoted groundbreaking photography to accompany its stories.
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Does the Museum of Modern Art Even Know About This Great Photographer?
In November 1955, four days after Robert Frank was arrested, questioned, and released in Arkansas under the suspicion of being a Communist spy, he took a photograph, ‘‘Trolley — New Orleans’’ (1955), that was included with eighty-two others in his justly famous book, The Americans, which – we should remember — was first published in France in 1958.
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In the Vale of Cashmere: Prospect Park’s Hidden World of Gay Cruising
“When I got there, I found the park filled with men in the same horny, hungry state of mind I was in … I can’t remember ever seeing so many gorgeous black men in any one place,” Rory Buchanan wrote in his short story “Summer Chills.”
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Hey Ho Let’s Go! DIY Culture Takes Over 23rd Street
Thirty-five years after the release of The Ramones’ debut album, a punk attitude has erupted on 23rd Street in the heart of Chelsea during the normally bleak and deserted summer gallery months with the Steven Kasher Gallery’s “Rude and Reckless: Punk/Post-Punk Graphics, 1976-1982” and the I-20 Gallery’s “MAKE Skateboards.”