"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 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 […]

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 […]

Soft Spaces is a series of installations featuring works by alumni of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Fellowship. The Fellowship is an international and intergenerational program of mentorship and collective learning that has centered LGBTQIA+ artists of color since its inception in 2017. Through professional development workshops and critical seminars by artists and theorists, the Fellowship […]

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 […]

MoMA, Floor 3, 3 South “Love is the key that takes cultures from oppression to joy. As a political unifier, the contract—love—takes on a liberating force,” artist Sabelo Mlangeni has said. Marking the 40th anniversary of New Photography, this exhibition brings together 13 artists and collectives who explore sites of belonging and forms of interconnectedness. Some of the artists […]

Location: The Met Fifth Avenue, Floor 1, Gallery 199 The Met to Present First Major Exhibition on Man Ray’s Media-Crossing Experimentation and his Radical Reinvention of Art through the Rayograph Featuring 160 rayographs, paintings, objects, prints, drawings, films, and photographs, Man Ray: When Objects Dream will highlight the principal place of the rayograph—a type of cameraless photograph—within […]

“Art and life are intertwined for me and my thoughts have often turned to the notion of beauty as understood in both Western and Japanese contexts. Encounters with Noh masks sparked a deep curiosity in their human expressions, a fascination that intensified with time. The gaze of the masks seemed to penetrate one’s inner being, […]

Galician photographer Xan Padrón (Ourense, Spain, 1969) received his first camera at the hands of the photojournalist Enrique Reza, who awoke in him a passion for the photography of the everyday, just as his father, the journalist Luís Padrón, awoke in him the patience to listen and observe stories. After diverse street photography projects in […]

During his first trip to France in 1978, David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) was keen to immerse himself in the Parisian environs where a century earlier poet Arthur Rimbaud had tried to live as a runaway teenager in the hopes of becoming a poet. Rimbaud’s short and peripatetic youth was memorialized in two volumes of poetry that, […]

Casa Susanna brings together photographs and publications created by and for a community of cross-dressers who met regularly in New York City and the Catskill Mountains throughout the 1960s. Two modest resorts run by Susanna Valenti and her wife, Marie Tornell, provided safe spaces for guests to freely cross-dress en femme during an era of strictly defined gender […]

Ken Ohara: CONTACTS is artist Ken Ohara's (b. 1942) first U.S. institutional solo exhibition. Featuring twenty-two photographs and four accompanying documents from his groundbreaking series CONTACTS (1974–76), this exhibition showcases Ohara’s innovative photographic experiment, where he mailed a preloaded camera to strangers across the U.S., instructing them to document their own lives before passing the camera along. During this […]