The American Photographic Artists has elected their new officers that will all take office in calendar year 2013, in a meeting in New York City on Sunday, October 28th, 2012. “It’s quite an honor to have been elected by my fellow photographers as Senior National Vice President of an organization as prestigious as the APA,” […]
Jewish Museum presents Ori Gersht. Two Videos, an installation in the Museum’s Barbara and E. Robert Goodkind Media Center on view through through March 24, 2013. Ori Gersht, Dew, 2001, digital video, 3 min., 17 sec. The Jewish Museum: Purchase: The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies and Fine Arts Acquisitions Committee Funds Ori Gersht makes […]
The International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana is delighted to announce the appointment of Deborah Cullen as a curator of the 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana. The jubilee Biennial will take place from 14 September to 24 November 2013. Deborah Cullen, PhD is Director & Chief Curator of the Miriam and Ira […]
TheLos Angeles County Museum of Art presents Mapplethorpe. XYZ an exhibition of three portfolios created by American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). On view October 21, 2012–March 24, 2013. Robert Mapplethorpe Cedric, N.Y.C., 1978, from X Portfolio, gelatin silver print, jointly acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The J. Paul Getty Trust; […]
The Paris Photo Platform will take place at the Grand Palais in Paris from Thursday 15 November to Sunday 18 November. Structured as an experimental platform for critical exchanges, performances, and interactions, the Platform engages in dynamic presentations about the expanded field and perspectives of photography. It is directed by Roxana Marcoci, Curator of Photography […]
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt opens Gustave Caillebotte An Impressionist and Photography, an exhibition on view October 18, 2012–January 20, 2013. Gustave Caillebotte, Raboteurs de parquet (Floor Scrapers), 1875. Oil on canvas, 102 x 145 cm. © Paris, Musée d’Orsay, gift of the heirs of Gustave Caillebotte, 1894. Photography: © bpk | RMN | Hervé Lewandowski. The […]
The Commissioner of the Russian Pavilion, Stella Kesaeva, announced the appointment of the curator of the Pavilion for the 55th Venice Biennale. The curator of the Russian Pavilion will be Udo Kittelmann, Director of the Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (State Museums in Berlin). Commenting the appointment, Stella Kesaeva said: “It was decided in April […]
Throughout history, follies have been used widely in architecture, visual arts, and literature as a provocation, a frivolous diversion or strategic place of madness and satire freed from the constraints of societal norms. Follies have been employed as a critical medium or object, oscillating between aesthetic autonomy and social-political potential and situated in a field […]
Phoenix Art Museum presents The Big Picture, a special installation of large-scale photography from Phoenix Art Museum’s collection, on view through December 2012. These 15 large-scale photographs, some measuring as big as five feet by seven-and-a-half feet, represent trends in large scale contemporary photography apparent in museums across the country, which are a relatively new […]
