"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 […]

About the Exhibition   In celebration of the centennial of Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008), and in partnership with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) presents Robert Rauschenberg’s New York: Pictures from the Real World, a major exhibition opening on September 12, 2025. This dynamic show explores Rauschenberg’s innovative integration 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 […]

Niyū Yūrk explores the often overlooked history of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) immigration to New York City, from the first waves in the late 19th century to the present. The exhibition highlights how New York City has shaped the lives, identities, and creative practices of MENA communities, artists, and writers. It also emphasizes their […]

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 […]

View the immigrant experience in New York through the faces and places photographers have captured over time. Our new exhibition mines the vast photography collections of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library as a lens to view the immigrant experience in New York through the faces and places photographers have captured over time. Featuring more than […]

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 […]

Paris Photo and Aperture are pleased to announce the 2025 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards Shortlist exhibition at Printed Matter—an annual celebration of the photobook’s enduring role within the evolving narrative of photography. Now in its thirteenth year, the awards recognize excellence in three major categories of photobook publishing: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalog of the Year. For […]

Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to announce Between Order and Chaos: André Kertész and M. C. Escher, an exhibition that brings together two extraordinarily influential artists who each uniquely and independently redefined how visual reality is perceived. Though one worked with the camera and the other with the tools of printmaking, both artists pursued parallel investigations […]

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 […]