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The Photographers Who Captured Love and Longing

An exhibition at the International Center of Photography offers an expansive take on how images can be used to create, sustain, and destroy intimacy.

In Tavares Strachan’s Collages, Double Meanings and Colliding Histories

Strachan speaks of his work in terms of a West African street festival where dance, poetry, music, and the performing arts are jumbled together in an exuberant whole.
Gillian Wearing, Me: Me, 1991

Gillian Wearing Channels a Spiritual History of Photography

In her first major US retrospective, the acclaimed British artist reveals the breadth of her ambition, charting a far-reaching constellation of ideas about social identity and gender performance.
Leslie Hewitt, Riffs on Real Time (3 of 10), 2006–9

In a Bracing Exhibition at the Guggenheim, Artists Challenge the Way History Is Told

Ashley James’s group show “Off the Record” exemplifies how curators with strong vision might reform institutions from within.
Garrett Bradley, Alone, 2017

In Okwui Enwezor’s Final Exhibition, an Urgent Portrait of American Life

The late curator’s visionary project about Black grief and white grievance arrives at an inflection point in US history.

Lecture as Performance

Several Lebanese artists, including Walid Raad, have embraced the artist’s talk to unpack history and the limitations of the photograph.

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Aperture No. 257

Aperture presents “Image Worlds to Come: Photography & AI,” a timely and urgent issue that explores how artificial intelligence is quickly transforming the field of photography and our broader culture of images.

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