Canine reception in a neighborhood hotel. Photo © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos-Institut des cultures d’Islam What a great idea: Invite renowned British photographer Martin Parr to be the artist in residence at a little-known Islamic cultural center hidden away … Read More
Mitch Epstein’s “Amos Coal Power Plant, Raymond City, West Virginia 2004.” © Black River Productions, Ltd./ Mitch Epstein “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle,” reads a text in a frame on a desk … Read More
Santu Mofokeng’s “Katse Dam, Lesotho” (1996), from the photo essay “Landscape and Memory.” © Santu Mofokeng The Galerie du Jeu de Paume is holding exhibitions of the work of two photographers interested in alienation: the alienation of South African black … Read More
Images Plucked from The Sludge of History ”La Vie de Château” (1973) by Philippe Salaün. © Philippe Salaün. Collection Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris Any exhibition that attempts to cover a time span of more than 30 years or … Read More
Images Plucked from The Sludge of History ”La Vie de Château” (1973) by Philippe Salaün. © Philippe Salaün. Collection Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris Any exhibition that attempts to cover a time span of more than 30 years or … Read More
A Baffling, Freewheeling Vision of Human Hell ”Marseille” (1997) © Antoine d’Agata-Magnum photos. Courtesy Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris Art is not always meant to uplift. The task of an exhibition is just as much to open visitors’ eyes … Read More
The French Turner Captures Light on Canvas “Venise, l’Eglise de Crescuati (1870-80). © Petit Palais/Roger-Viollet The lives of 19th-century artists were often remarkably short. A penchant for opium, a meager income and a tendency to spend a lot of time … Read More
History in a SuitcaseRediscovered in Mexico ”Spectators Watching the Funeral Procession of General Lukacs, Valencia, June 16, 1937,” by Gerda Taro. © International Center of Photography There are moments in history when the loss of a suitcase does not constitute … Read More
“Portrait of Z. B. Marenzi” (1737) by Paolo Bonomino. Caen’s Musée des Beaux Arts must be my absolute all-time favorite provincial fine-art museum. Set in a contemporary building excavated out of the main courtyard … Favorite
The Silo, with works by François Morellet and Lawrence Weiner. Photo © André Morin If the superb collection of conceptual, minimalist and contemporary art housed in Le Silo, which opened in May, were on show at the Centre Pompidou in … Read More
