"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 Museum of Modern Art announces Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography, the first major exhibition of Hollywood studio portraiture to be drawn from the Museum’s film stills archive since 1993. On view in the Titus and Morita Galleries, the exhibition will offer a revisionist look at the Department of Film’s photographic archive, examining the evolution of […]
Encounter an artist who changed the face of portrait photography. Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens is the most expansive North American exhibition of the legendary Malian photographer’s work to date. Nearly 275 works include iconic prints, never-before-seen portraits, textiles, and Keïta’s personal artifacts, all brought to life with unique insights from his family. Organized by the Brooklyn […]
The world looks different through a camera’s viewfinder—like a picture frame or a windowpane, it redirects the eye. In modern and contemporary photographs from an esteemed private collection, artists use the camera to navigate shifting terrain. Registering and reshaping environments in flux, they look anew at how we traverse them. When Artur Walther began to […]
Can a photographic portrait inspire political imagination? Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination examines how photographers and their sitters contributed to the proliferation of Pan-African solidarity during the mid-20th century. Embracing the international spirit of the time, the exhibition gathers striking pictures by photographers working in Central and West African cities. They created images of everyday […]
The International Center of Photography presents HARD COPY NEW YORK, an expanded iteration of Aaron Stern’s ongoing project exploring the contemporary use of the photocopied image. Following previous iterations, including a 2025 show in Los Angeles, the group exhibition uses the visual language of the copy machine to evoke nostalgia for a time of more deliberate picture making. In our current moment when digital images proliferate, fewer physical copies […]
The International Center of Photography presents Latitudes, an exhibition in partnership with the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès and the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris. In its current iteration, Latitudes highlights new work by two laureate-artists from Côte d’Ivoire– Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré. About Latitudes Launched in 2024, Latitudes is a Fondation d’entreprise Hermès program developed in partnership with the Fondation Henri […]
The International Center of Photography presents Eugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation, curated by ICP’s creative director David Campany. This exhibition takes a new approach to the story of Atget’s career, drawing particular attention to the role that Berenice Abbott played in shaping Atget’s posthumous rise in influence. About Eugène Atget Eugène Atget (1857-1927) was a […]
CURATORS Olivia Casa Clara Prat-Gay The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) is pleased to announce Claudio Perna: Idea como Arte, the first solo exhibition in New York dedicated to the Venezuelan conceptual artist Claudio Perna (1938–1997). Across a complex and prolific practice ranging from photocopies and Polaroids to collaged maps and […]
Can fashion photography be dangerous? Lillian Bassman was told as much when, in 1950, she started making photographs so abstract that you could barely see the clothes. Depicting midcentury style for the pages of magazines, she distilled gowns and girdles to their essential silhouettes; in her photographs, chance gestures and elegant lines convey the sensations […]
CLAMP is pleased to present “Young & Old,” the gallery’s first solo exhibition devoted to the late New York photographer Arlene Gottfried (1950–2017). Drawn from the artist’s archive, “Young & Old” brings together portraits that treat age not as a fixed category, but something elastic—where youth can carry striking wisdom and advanced age can still […]
Pace will present an exhibition of photographs by Emmet Gowin, most of which have never before been seen, at its 508 West 25th Street gallery in New York from March 12 through April 25. The presentation of works from Gowin’s Baldwin Street: Photographs 1966–1994 series will coincide with the release of a new book on […]
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 9, 6:30-9 PM On View: April 9 – June 14, 2026 BDC Annex, 364 E. 151st St, Bronx https://www.bronxdoc.org/bronx-documentary-center/exhibits/upcoming-exhibits/
“Human beings have an ugly face and a beautiful face. They tell you lies, and they tell you truth. They are sweet, and they are violent. All of these things make a person. I want to see everything. Therefore, I always take photos of people standing right in front of them. I never hide myself […]
