Photography

Galerie f5,6s Presents presents Nigin Beck Tehrangeles on view through april 9th 2011. Nigin Beck, Galerie f5,6s Tehrangeles – Teheran – Los Angeles; what might appear to be a contradiction or without connection at first is explained by the artists own biographical [Read More]

Festival Images is launching another round of its project competitions! Artists, film-makers and photographers have until April 15th 2011 to enter the 8th Vevey International Photo Award and the 6th European First Film Award. These competitions represent a unique form of support [Read More]

The G2 Gallery presents Boreal Future: Our Last Great Forest and The Threat of The Tar Sands, a solo exhibit of photography by Garth Lenz on view through March 27, 2011. At 1.3 billion acres, the Canadian Boreal Forest is perhaps the [Read More]

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the J. Paul Getty Trust have announced their joint acquisition of art and archival materials by or associated with Robert Mapplethorpe, one of the great photographers of the second half of the twentieth [Read More]

Hauser & Wirth Zurich presents Louise Bourgeois Alex Van Gelder Armed Forces on view through 14 May 2011. Gnarled, sinewy and wrinkled with age, Louise Bourgeois’s hands were fascinating. Her hands are the subjects of portraits taken by the artist Alex Van [Read More]

Galerie Michael Janssen presents Charif Benhelima – Harlem on my Mind on view until March 5, 2011. Galerie Michael Janssen is pleased to present for the first time Belgian photographer Charif Benhelima with the exhibition Harlem on my Mind: I was, I [Read More]

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts presents William Eggleston: Anointing the Overlooked on view through May 1, 2011. William Eggleston: Anointing the Overlooked brings together more than 50 photographs made by the Memphis, Tenn., resident who is one of the most [Read More]

Badischer Kunstverein present the first comprehensive exhibition of Nancy Holt in Europe! Since the late 1960s, Holt has created a far-reaching body of work, including Land art, films, photography, sculpture, site-specific installations, artist’s books, and concrete poetry. Curated by Alena J. Williams, [Read More]

The Nationalgalerie in the Hamburger Bahnhof presents SOME SCENIC VIEWS on view until February 6, 2011. The show comprises eight works by Philipp Lachenmann. The works, from the areas of video, film, photography, sculpture and sound, perfectly demonstrate Lachenmann’s exploration of the [Read More]

The International Center of Photography presents Wang Qingsong: When Worlds Collide on view JANUARY 21–MAY 8, 2011. Wang Qingsong, Competition, 2004. © Wang Qingsong. Courtesy the artist This exhibition will mark the first U.S. solo show of Beijing artist Wang Qingsong, one [Read More]

Between January 27 and April 28, 2011, Hilaneh von Kories Gallery in Hamburg is going to show “Twinkle, twinkle, little star”, an exhibit of more than eighty images by Vivian Maier from the 50’s and 60’s. Maier, who in her life time [Read More]

CAMERA WORK presents “Yangtze – The Long River” by Nadav Kander and “Pripyat and Chernobyl” by Robert Polidori certainly two of the most impressive series of the recent photographic history. Exhibition from January 22 until March 12, 2011 Nadav Kander’s Photo Series, [Read More]

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum announce the implementation of a new curatorial programming schedule that will exclusively present seasons of simultaneous solo artist exhibitions, all linked by one common theme. This new program will debut with Portraiture at The Aldrich—six new solo [Read More]

Religious rituals in America are not often public spectacles. A key exception is the tradition of river baptisms that flourished in the South and Midwest between 1880 and 1930. These outdoor communal rites were public displays of faith, practiced by thousands of [Read More]