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40 Years Later, Houston's FotoFest Keeps Its Edge
The photography festival’s anniversary retrospective embodies the spirit of freedom and internationalism present since its founding.
Photography
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Joel Meyerowitz on Photographing Giorgio Morandi’s Studio
“He was assembling a force field of geometric objects,” said Meyerowitz, whose book of images exploring the painter's famous still lifes is being rereleased this spring.
Art Review
The African Diaspora Pictures Itself
A new exhibition rejects Western colonialism as a framework for understanding African aesthetic production.
Art Review
Stan Douglas Conjures Histories That Might Have Been
Through his narrative art, Douglas reminds us that every story contains the potential for history to take another course.
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A Love Letter to Manhattan’s Lower East Side
Destiny Mata honors the legacy and spirit of public housing residents from the neighborhood.
Art Review
The Memory of a Nation Finds a Home in Lviv
Amid Russia’s war on Ukraine, The Stammering Circle situates artmaking in a context of violence, resistance, resilience, and fundamental humanity.
Book Review
Sally Mann’s Polarizing Life in Art
The photographer, who has been the subject of controversy at times in her career, discusses her approach to life in her new book, Art Work.
News
Humans of New York Takes Over Grand Central
A monumental project by the artist behind the wildly popular series is now on view at the Manhattan train station, both above and below ground.
Art Review
Sister Corita Kent Found the Sacred in the Profane
An installation of the artist’s never-before-seen photographs accumulates meaning through association rather than argument.
News
Activists Condemn Arrest of NYC Protest Photographer Alexa Wilkinson
Wilkinson was charged with a hate crime for social media posts critical of the New York Times’s executive editor over the publication’s Israel coverage.
Film Review
Bunny Yeager’s Feminist Pin-Up Girls
A new documentary, Naked Ambition, centers the photographer’s woman-forward approach to the nude subject.
Art Review
France Flips the History of Photography Upside Down
Investigating the archive in all its malleable reinvention is at the core of this year’s Rencontres d’Arles festival, held in historic churches and sites across the city.