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New exhibition The Real Thing: Unpacking Product Photography has opened at The Met in New York and dissects the avant-garde in early advertising

Experience the continuation of CARNEGIE HALLs FALL OF THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC: DANCING ON THE PRECIPICE festival this spring.

Heres your weekly roundup of some of the must-see, must-do, must-know things that need to be on your radar this week.

Carnegie Hall’s Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice festival begins this weekend with two concerts by the Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Most.

Readers leafing through the Argentinian women’s magazine Idilio (“Love Affair”) in 1949 were in for a shocking sight: a kneeling woman, waiting for a man with a giant finger to turn her on – or, possibly, off – like a human lamp. The picture’s title? Dream No 1: Electrical Appliances for the Home. The coming months brought yet stranger visions to the magazine’s readers: a woman unimpressed by a male companion who happens to have the face of a snap...

Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists from Helen Kornblum at The MoMa highlights photographic contributions made by women artists over the last 100 years

The 2021 edition of a href= http://www.artbasel.com target= _blank Art Basel Miami Beach /a – Art Basel’s first in-person fair in the Un

I asked Peter Tush, Curator of Education at the Dali Museum, what would have happened to Miller if she hadnt been so gorgeous. "We wouldnt be having this conversation," he answered. Lee Miller had looks — but she was also a fine photographer Millers beauty opened many doors. But it wasnt her only advantage. She was smart, witty, extremely self-confident, up for adventure, reckless, restless. And a pal of Picassos. / Lee Miller Archives England 2020. All Rights Reserved / Picasso and Lee Mill...

The Vanished Glamour of Midcentury Print Media Great examples of photography and editorial design abound at the Jewish Museum. (Catch the catalog, too.) The Vogue cover of March 15, 1945, features a blurred model behind a frosted glass panel emblazoned with a red cross, photographed by Erwin Blumenfeld and art-directed by Alexander Liberman. It is “scary and sad to think that no mainstream fashion title would now publish a cover this bold,” our critic says.Credit...Erwin Blumenfeld, via Con...

Current and coming: Changing lenses at the Jewish Museum Mason Klein Private collection, © The story of the exhibition Modern Look: Photography and the American Magazine starts in Weimar-era Germany, where the emerging field of graphic design was developing throughout the 1920s at the Bauhaus school. Numerous artists and designers of the German avant-garde were Jewish. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, their opposition to modernist art and persecution of its practitioners drove a genera...