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Can Conceptual art speak to activist issues in new ways?
Spanning over eighty years of photographs, an exhibition explores the gender non-conforming potential of the word “they.”
Four exhibitions celebrate feminist artist Ellen Cantor, who explored the subversive potential of female sexuality.
In the era of Black Lives Matter, what is the legacy of the Black Panther Party? Stephen Shames revisits his chronicle of American activism.
In his new memoir, the critic Douglas Crimp revisits the origins of the Pictures Generation, a fabled era of art, sex, and experimentation.
In Cape Verde, a Portuguese photographer documents the trans community with candid intimacy.
In David Goldblatt’s photographs from apartheid to the present, a striking account of South African life.
From modern dance to postwar portraits, here are this fall’s must-see exhibitions in New York.
In film and photography, the genre-defying artist confronted American life in the Atomic Age.
Kaja Silverman revises the history of a deceptive medium.
An exhibition at the Bronx Documentary Center considers the impact of citizen journalism.
In San Francisco, the author of the controversial novel A Little Life stages an exhibition about loneliness and beauty.
A new exhibition at the Met Breuer, featuring previously unseen prints, reveals the early impulses of a modern master.
In the 1960s, East German border troops photographed the entire length of the Berlin Wall. Fifty years later, a new book brings a secret archive to light.
An exhibition in Philadelphia explores African cities through street photography and portraiture.
In a retrospective at LE BAL in Paris, Gerard Petrus Fieret’s subversive images reveal the libertine atmosphere of 1960s Europe.
From dream states to Russian decadence, here are this summer’s must-see photography exhibitions in New York.
In a pioneering new book, Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst document their gender transitions and their lives together.
Aperture’s fall issue, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson, one of the most compelling photographers working today.
