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Bruce Conner, Bombhead, 2002

A Chilling Exhibition about the Nuclear Threat

For decades, artists have responded to the possibilities of extinction-level destruction. But advances in nuclear science have also led to innovations in art.

Stephen Shore’s American Beauty

Across six decades, Shore has redefined photography—not by picturing life’s deep mysteries, but by capturing something true in the surfaces of the everyday.
Video still of a young girl in a ballet pose

Rineke Dijkstra’s Captivating Videos Portray the Gestures of Youth

In the exhibition “I See You,” the photographer’s work is a study of self-presentation, showing how the camera can be an interlocutor.

Joanna Piotrowska Visualizes the Power of Small Gestures

How does the Polish artist transform seemingly simple movements into significant emblems?

How a Group of Young Italian Artists Redefined Avant-Garde Photography

A landmark exhibition makes the case for the Arte Povera movement’s lasting influence on lens-based conceptual art.

August Sander and the Disquieting Facts of Modern Life

A recent exhibition at the the Pompidou Center reflects on how artists sought to produce new forms of culture amid the tumult of 1920s Germany.

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