Since the early 1970s, artist, activist, and scholar Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe (b. 1951, Chicago, IL; lives and works in South Kent, CT) has made photographs that testify to the beauty and complexity of Black life, honoring the rhythms of the everyday and marking important rites of passage for the people who appear in them. In 1977, following an […]
"This special installation celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of Robert A. Caro's The Power Broker, the monumental work that has been called “surely the greatest book ever written about a city.” This groundbreaking book made known for the first time how Robert Moses, over more than four decades and without ever being elected […]
"Framed around the key themes of money, density, diversity, and creativity, New York City’s history and future come alive in this first-of-its-kind exhibition, through the stories of innovation, energy, struggle, and the vision of generations of immigrants, politicians, tycoons, dreamers, master builders, and ordinary New Yorkers. New York at Its Core captures the human energy […]
"The career of photographer Weegee (born Arthur Fellig, 1899-1968) is often divided into two distinct phases, one gritty, the other glamorous. Celebrated for his sensationalist images of crime scenes, fires, car crashes, and the onlookers who witnessed these harrowing events across New York City in the 1930s and ‘40s, Weegee also spent time in his […]
"Drawing from works by more than 40 photographers in the ICP collection, with the addition of exhibition prints from contemporary photographers, American Job: 1940-2011 highlights the collection’s breadth and contemporary relevance by surveying the photographic response to labor organizing and strike activity, race and gender discrimination in labor, organized labor’s role in politics, labor and […]
"And this beauty carries within itself the intimation that the past can never die because it still exists, intact, on some other plane of time, around which we cannot see directly. —Clarence John Laughlin The way we disappear. And reappear. —Robin Coste Lewis Gagosian is pleased to announce Ghost Images, an exhibition of new works […]
"This exhibition of photographs by Denis Piel is an overview of his varied career. It includes his sensual and cinematic photographs for VOGUE and designers such as Donna Karan in the 1980s, and his abstract Padièscapes works, which are inspired by his organic sustainable farm in southwest France. Denis Piel was born in France in […]
"The exhibition Seconds of My Life: Photographs from 1975-2024, by Brooklyn-based photographer Jamel Shabazz, offers a comprehensive look at his work from the 1970s to the early 2000s, including iconic photo albums, early images of his junior high classmates and photography spanning fashion, street and documentary styles. It highlights Shabazz’s talent for capturing powerful stories […]
"The New York Public Library's new major exhibition A Century of The New Yorker draws on NYPL's collections, including the magazine's voluminous archives and the papers of many of its contributors, to bring to life the people, stories, and ideas that made The New Yorker. Over the past 100 years, The New Yorker has created […]
"Baxter St, in partnership with YoungArts, presents Sueños Senos Exhumadas del Cenote Yemaya, a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Coralina Rodriguez Meyer. Engaging sculpture, documentary photography, and video installation, the exhibition space is transformed into an immersive psychic interior womb, tracing the survival of diasporic and integrated, Indigenous knowledge systems that have endured or adapted […]
"S M I L E R S, in its East Village basement, honors the legacy and persistence of the New York City club scene in its second exhibition—BEFORE THE CLEAN-UP. Nick Waplington and Lizzi Bougatsos coexist as foils in this exploration of a clandestine, oft-mythologized subculture—both participants but playing radically different roles, with Bougatsos channeling […]
"Sean Kelly is delighted to announce Alec Soth’s fifth exhibition with the gallery, Advice for Young Artists which presents a curated selection of images from Soth’s recently completed body of work of the same name. Photographed during visits he made to twenty-five undergraduate art programs across the country from 2022 to 2024, the resulting pictures, […]
"Pace is pleased to present an exhibition of recent work by photographer Richard Learoyd at its 508 West 25th Street gallery in New York. On view from March 7 to April 26, the exhibition will feature a selection of photographs Learoyd produced with his custom-built camera obscura between 2018 and 2025. Deeply inspired by Dutch […]
"CLAMP is honored to present Flowers Drink the River, a solo exhibition by Pia Paulina Guilmoth—her first with the gallery. In this deeply personal body of work, Guilmoth documents the first two years of her gender transition while living in a rural, predominantly right-wing town in Maine. Her large-format photographs reflect both beauty and terror […]
"CLAMP is pleased to present “West,” an exhibition of recent photographs and videos by Zack Seckler, continuing his signature aerial perspective, transforming vast landscapes into painterly compositions where land, water, and sky dissolve into near-abstractions. Seckler’s ability to distill the essence of immense terrains into fluid, almost dreamlike visuals, challenges traditional representations of the American […]
"In celebration of The Untitled Space’s 10th anniversary, we are proud to present “UPRISE 2025: The Art of Resistance” an exhibition curated by gallery founder Indira Cesarine, which will take place during Women’s History Month this March 2025. One hundred artists have joined forces for this landmark exhibition, opening on March 8th in honor of […]
Seminal artists Marlene McCarty and Donald Moffett debut a previously unseen photo series from the early 1990s at the Alice Austen House. Marlene McCarty and Donald Moffett’s collaboration began as members of Gran Fury—the AIDS activist collective and graphic arm of ACTUP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). Public interventions were staged using the language of art and advertising to […]
"Andreas Gursky stands out as one of the most important photographers of his generation. His monumentally scaled works have redefined the medium in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, capturing the circumstances of modern-day life in condensed form. Interested in the workings of globalization, consumerism, and social phenomena as they relate to society, Gursky investigates the […]
"The retrospective exhibition Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit presents the work of Consuelo Kanaga (1894–1976), a critical yet overlooked figure in the history of modern photography. Co-organized with and first exhibited at the Fundación MAPFRE in Barcelona and Madrid, Spain, followed by a presentation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the groundbreaking […]
"Edwynn Houk Gallery is delighted to announce New Construction(s), the inaugural exhibition at our new location at 693 Fifth Avenue. This exhibition celebrates artistic innovation and reinvention, mirroring the gallery’s own transformation as we embark on an exciting new chapter. Inspired by our relocation and the complete redesign of our space, New Construction(s) marks a […]
Metropolitan Museum of Art "Nothing in Florida is quite what it seems. A popular tourist destination since the early twentieth century, it is a place where fantasy and reality collide, a subtropical paradise threatened by hurricanes and rising sea levels, a refuge for extremism and eccentricity. This exhibition brings together photographs and paintings of Florida […]
"Reflections marks the first solo exhibition of photographer Rahim Fortune, who hails from Texas. Over the past decade, Rahim has used photography to explore collective history and cultural visual language in the American South by intertwining documentary and personal narratives. This exhibition showcases two bodies of work: I Can't Stand To See You Cry (2021) […]
"Curated by Sara Ickow, Associate Director of Exhibitions, Keisha Scarville Guest Curator, and Elisabeth Sherman, Senior Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections at ICP, To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography brings together the work of seven artists primarily working in photography—Widline Cadet, Koyoltzintli, Tarrah Krajnak, Shala Miller, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Keisha Scarville, and […]
