The young Brazilian filmmaker Julia Murat explains that the original idea for Found Memories came to her in 1999, while she was working on a film being shot in a village with a closed cemetery. The coffins of those who …
George Dureau: Black on view at Higher Pictures Gallery, New York City, May 31-July 13, 2012 In 1978, Marcuse Pfeifer organized an exhibition in her uptown New York City gallery entitled The Male Nude: A Survey in Photography. Hung salon …
“Welcome to our little town in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. What once thrived as a bustling harbor has been reborn as the glorious Brooklyn Bridge Park, and the temporary home of Brooklyn’s newest settlement: Photoville. A photographic “village” …
Along with thousands of others, I made the pilgrimage to Kassel, Germany this year, to attend the opening festivities of Documenta 13. There were, of course, obvious reasons to go, first and foremost the chance to see Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev’s impressive …
This is what I wrote in my notebook upon leaving La Triennale 2012: Intense Proximity, curated by Okwui Enwezor (Artistic Director) with Mélanie Bouteloup, Abdellah Karroum, Émile Renard and Claire Staebler, at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris: This exhibition …
On the 13th of May, a group of about twenty photography curators, critics, artists and historians from the Middle East, the United States and Europe met in Abu Dhabi at the Intercontinental Hotel for the first “Photography at the Arab …
This year marked the eighth annual World Voices Festival of International Literature, sponsored by PEN America. The Festival was held in venues all around New York City – in libraries, universities, galleries, museums, cafes, poetry clubs, bookstores and concert halls …
Alexander Gray Associates April 11- May 25, 2012 Lorraine O’Grady has been around a long time. An active and avid feminist, a conceptual artist, photographer, writer, performer and video artist, she has been at the forefront of discussions about African …
Once again, my friend and colleague Rob Perrée, editor of Kunstbeeld in Amsterdam, has stepped up to the plate. He’s been on the road recently, and he’s sending us Blog Post-cards to report on what he has seen: in this …
Paul Graham, The Present (Pace Gallery and Pace/MacGill, February 24-April 21, 2012), by Shelley Rice From my perspective, April 2012 was a momentous photo moment, in a quietly profound sort of way. On 22nd Street in Chelsea last month, …