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Mona Kuhn Curates The Billboard Creative in Los Angeles
33 artworks displayed on billboards throughout the city 1 December 2015 Mona Kuhn curated The Billboard Creative's Q4 2015 show, selecting 33 artworks for billboards throughout the streets of Los Angeles. Read more -
Les photographes de Vogue à Paris Photo 2015
Herb Ritts in Vogue 14 November 2015 Herb Ritts, Tatjana with Black Sand, 1987 à la Galerie Edwynn Houk © Herb Ritts Foundation/Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery Read more -
Matthew Pillsbury's Mesmerizing Summer
Matthew Pillsbury in The New Yorker 6 September 2015 Matthew Pillsbury’s 2013 book “City Stages” collected a decade’s worth of his stunning large-format black-and-white photographs of urban life and... Read more -
A Photographer Used to Looking Out Looks Into Her Space
Gail Albert Halaban in the New York Times Style Magazine 21 May 2015 Artist Gail Albert Halaban gives T Magazine a tour of her home and explains how it inspires her work. Read more
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See the Top Ten Booths at Photo London 2015
Edwynn Houk Gallery in artnet news 21 May 2015 Edwynn Houk Gallery championed an extravaganza of beautiful classics: iconic portraits of Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford by Herb Ritts, a slew of images by Bill Brandt, Man Ray, Vik Muniz, Weston, Stephen Shore… For photography lovers, this booth will surely be an affair to remember. Read more -
At LA Museum, A Powerful And Provocative Look At 'Islamic Art Now'
Lalla Essaydi on NPR 5 May 2015 Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middle East is indeed about beauty. It's also about values, religion and a clash of cultures. And its provocative, dramatic, powerful images linger in the mind. Read more -
Sally Mann's Exposure
Artist writes article in the New York Times Magazine 16 April 2015 What an artist captures, what a mother knows and what the public sees can be dangerously different things. Read more -
Herb Ritts Exhibition at MFA Boston Revisits Iconic Photographer
14 March - 8 November 2015 13 March 2015 The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), flashes back to the ‘90s this spring with an evocative exhibition dedicated to the photography of Herb Ritts (1952-2002). Read more
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Herb Ritts: old-school glamour's last stand
Two Herb Ritts' Exhibitions in the Guardian 13 March 2015 Two exhibitions of the photographer’s work allow the viewer to bask in sun-dappled visions of megawatt celebrity in an era when stars were still remote Read more -
Sacred Space: Massimo Vitali at Home in a 14th-Century Church
6 March 2015 Photographer Massimo Vitali in his renovated home inside an historic Italian church. Read more -
Finding Community in the Picture Windows of Paris
Gail Albert Halaban in Hyperallergic 10 November 2014 Gail Albert Halaban's series VIS-à-VIS, Paris, which features cinematic scenes of domestic life frozen within the city’s bright window frames, finds connections in a new city. Read more -
Cinematic Views of Parisian Architecture
Gail Albert Halaban in Architectural Digest 31 October 2014 Photographer Gail Albert Halaban releases a new book of striking images taken in the City of Light Read more
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"Robert Heinecken: Object Matter" at Hammer Museum
3 October 2014 - 18 January 2015 3 October 2014 Robert Heinecken (1931–2006) was a pioneer in the postwar Los Angeles art scene. Describing himself as a “para-photographer,” because his work stood “beside” or “beyond” traditional ideas associated with photography, Heinecken worked across multiple mediums, including photography, sculpture, video, printmaking, and collage. Read more -
Robert Heinecken: Object Matter at MoMA
Summer exhibition on view from 15 March - 7 September 2014 1 March 2014 The Museum of Modern Art, New York's 2014 exhibition was the first retrospective of the groundbreaking work of Robert Heinecken since the artist's death in 2006. Read more -
Proving That the Medium Really Is the Message
Robert Heinecken in the New York Times 30 October 2013 In the ’70s and ’80s, Robert Heinecken used found imagery to explore themes that still feel urgent today, like the profusion of advertising messages in our lives and the manufacturing of news authorities. Read more -
A Survey of Photographer Abelardo Morell's Optic Experiments at the Getty Museum
Morell's Getty retrospective in Architectural Digest 30 September 2013 A retrospective at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles pays homage to 25 years of the photographer's innovative techniques, featured in Architectural Digest. Read more
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Bill Brandt: A Twist of Perception
“Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light" in The New York Review 7 September 2013 “I believe this power of seeing the world as fresh and strange lies hidden in every human being,” the photographer Bill Brandt wrote. “In most of us it is dormant. Yet it is there, even if it is no more than a vague desire, an unsatisfied appetite that cannot discover its own nourishment.” Read more -
A Show of Strength by Middle Eastern Women Photographers
"She Who Tells a Story" at the MFA Boston in the New York Times 26 August 2013 “She Who Tells a Story,” which includes work by women artists from the Middle Eastern region including by Lalla Essaydi, opens at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston this week. Read more -
Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door
Major exhibition announced at the Art Institute of Chicago 1 June 2013 The Art Institute of Chicago plans a major retrospective of more than 100 works made by Abelardo Morell, revealing how this persistently creative artist has returned to a photographic vocabulary as a source of great inspiration. Read more -
Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light at MoMA
Summer exhibition on view from 6 March to 12 August 2013 1 March 2013 Bill Brandt is a founding figure in photography’s modernist traditions, and the artist's summer exhibition at MoMA represents a major critical reevaluation of his heralded career. Read more
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“My work is really my history”
Lalla Essaydi at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art (Washington Post) 9 May 2012 “My message would be: Arab women are not so much oppressed as the Western World thinks. We are women incredibly engaged in our lives, to have a better life,”artist Lalla Essaydi said Tuesday, as she toured her exhibit, “Lalla Essaydi: Revisions,” which opened Wednesday at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. Read more -
National Museum of African Art Presents “Lalla Essaydi: Revisions”
Boundary-Pushing New Works by Lalla Essaydi Featured in Exhibition 10 April 2012 Lalla Essaydi, one of today’s most provocative and engaging visual artists, is the focus of a multimedia exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. Read more -
The Eye of Beauty, Revisited
Herb Ritts Exhibition at the Getty Museum Reviewed in the New York Times 21 March 2012 More simply, you cannot imagine the 1980s and ’90s in America without the photographs of Herb Ritts. Read more -
A Life Fashioning Art
Lillian Bassman in The New York Times 15 February 2012 In her lifetime, Lillian Bassman's photographs went from fashion to fine art. Yet Ms. Bassman - who died on Monday... Read more
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The Body Beautiful: Arno Rafael Minkkinen's Self-Portraits
TIME Magazine 5 December 2011 For Arno Rafael Minkkinen, nudity is akin to spirituality. “I don’t want to be seen as a nudist,” he says.... Read more -
Picture This: “Herb Ritts” at the Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York
Exhibition review in Vogue 29 April 2011 In 2002, Vogue lost of one of its most significant contributors when the photographer Herb Ritts passed away, but his legacy has lived on in photography and film, both of which will be showcased in the Edwynn Houk Gallery’s first Herb Ritts show, which opens today, after being feted last night, opens today. Read more -
Vik Muniz: Waste Land
19 April 2011 Filmed over nearly three years, Waste Land follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Read more -
Where Art Meets Trash and Transforms Life
Vik Muniz in the New York Times 21 October 2010 As the star of “Waste Land,“ a touching documentary that won numerous film festival awards, Vik Muniz seems on the verge of exceeding his celebrity in his home country of Brazil and reaching a broad audience in the United States, too. Read more
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Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography
MoMA Exhibition Celebrates Female Photographers 7 May 2010 For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. Pictures... Read more -
Reviving the Exotic to Critique Exoticism
Lalla Essaydi in the New York Times 5 March 2010 “Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc,” an exhibition at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, draws attention to one of the most interesting if puzzling developments in contemporary art: a revival of exotic, often historical imagery of people from faraway places in the name of a critique of exoticism. Read more -
Femininity, Salvaged
Lillian Bassman in The New York Times 16 July 2009 In the early 1970s Lillian Bassman, among the most important fashion photographers of the 20th century, made the decision to... Read more -
Artist's Choice: Vik Muniz, Rebus at MoMA
Reviewed in the New York TImes 25 December 2008 The photographer Vik Muniz is a pedagogical whiz whose greatest talent lies more around his art than strictly within it. Read more
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Travels Abroad Lead to Journeys Within
Lynn Davis in The New York Times 8 April 2007 Ms. Davis, 62, is a veteran traveler. For the last 20 years she has circled the globe with her camera, documenting mammoth structures like the Great Pyramids and natural wonders like Wave Rock in western Australia in an austere yet ravishing style. Read more -
The Met: Robert Polidori
19 September 2006 Marking the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the devastating floods that followed, this exhibition features approximately twenty large-scale color photographs that Robert Polidori created during four extended visits to New Orleans between September 2005 and April 2006. Read more -
Model Family
Sally Mann in Smithsonian Magazine 1 May 2005 Sally Mann’s unflinching photographs of her children have provoked controversy, but one of her now-grown daughters wonders what all the fuss was about Read more -
Re-Inventing the Spaces Within
Lalla Essaydi in Aperture 1 March 2005 Lalla Essaydi published in Aperture Magazine. Read more
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Art in Review: Sally Mann, "Last Measure"
Review in The New York Times 24 November 2003 Edwynn Houk Gallery 745 Fifth Avenue, at 57th Street Through Nov. 15 The earth and its relationship to mortality are... Read more -
The Disturbing Photography of Sally Mann
Sally Mann in the New York Times 17 September 1992 At the opening last spring of "Immediate Family," Sally Mann's show at the Houk Friedman Gallery in New York, the winsome young subjects of the photographs aroused as much curiosity as the artist herself. Read more
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