The Getty Museum announced the acquisition of fourteen photographs by famed fashion photographer Hiro (Y. Hiro Wakabayashi), comprising work he created while on assignment for Harper’s Bazaar, French Vogue and Mirabella from the 1960s–1990s. Prominently known in the 1960s and 1970s for [Read More]
Kunstmuseum Bonn presents the first retrospective in a German museum of an American photographer Lewis Baltz, on view through 02.09.2012. Baltz, born 1945 in Newport Beach, California, arrived on the scene with photos that launched him as an essential groundbreaker on the [Read More]
Riflemaker presents Leah Gordon ‘Caste’ a photographs exhibition on view through Saturday 14 July. Leah Gordon’s new photographs investigate the practice of the grading from black to white of skin colour, referred to as Caste, which revealed the extent of racial mixing [Read More]
Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory present I Can’t Work Like This a project exhibition on view through 23 June 2012. The project I Can’t Work Like This at Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory creates a platform [Read More]
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden presents Anton Corbijn. R.E.M. Seen between 1990 – 2010, an exhibition on view through June 10, 2012. Michael Stipe (R.E.M.-Frontmann) @Anton Corbijn The Dutch photographer and film director Anton Corbijn is internationally famous for his portraits of stars, album [Read More]
The Getty Museum presents In Focus. Picturing Landscape, an exhibition on view May 22–October 7, 2012. Sandbars, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1966. William A. Garnett (American, 1916–2006). Cibachrome print. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. © Estate of William A. Garnet In [Read More]
The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum opens second nature: abstract photography then and now, an exhibition on view on view through April 21, 2013. Abstract photography continues to be a catchall genre for the blending of media and disciplines, and a fertile [Read More]
Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF), open 6 September–22 September 2013, is a festival for contemporary art taking place in Lofoten, a cluster of islands located on the North West Coast of Norway, just above the Arctic Circle every second year. The festival [Read More]
For the first time in context of a joint exhibition: M. A. Russ (Germany / USA, *1945), J. J. Dittloff (Germany / Poland, *1951), W. Quilliam (Australia, * 1963) – The exhibition presents artworks by three reputable international artists who use photography [Read More]
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary presents Simon Starling / Superflex Reprototypes, Triangulations and Road Tests, an exhibition on view through–September 23, 2012. Turner Prize winner Simon Starling (born 1967) has been invited to work in collaboration with the Danish artists group Superflex to inaugurate [Read More]
Israeli-born sculptor Sharon Brill works reductively to create her evocative porcelain objects. Working on a pottery wheel, Brill’s process is archaeological. Sharon Brill. Conch 2j After creating a stratified piece, she removes the outer layers, carefully cracking through the surface, digging to [Read More]
Sandra McRae’s multi-layered, highly reflective acrylic-and-paper collages explore the artist’s passion for pattern, rhythm, and the visual flexibility of depth. Working with an almost fragmented kind of composition and a palette that is often limited to one or two contrasting hues, McRae [Read More]
For its 16th edition, Paris Photo will welcome in November, beneath the nave of the Grand Palais, 140 exhibitors (117 galleries and 23 publishers) coming from 23 countries, bearing witness to the vitality of the international photographic scene. This year, 32 new [Read More]
The Parrish Art Museum presents Liminal Ground: Adam Bartos Long Island Photographs, 2009–2011, an exhibition on view June 24-September 4, 2012. The photographs of Adam Bartos convey a wistfulness for the off-grid, the overlooked, and the unremarkable—images of the places in between [Read More]