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In a new book, William Abranowicz shares powerful images of Southern places

Exhibition features a broad selection of lens-based works by local and international artists Vikky Alexander, Obsession, 1983, silver gelatin print, vinyl type, coloured Plexiglas, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of the artist. VANCOUVER .-The Vancouver Art Gallery opened Pictures and Promises in collaboration with Capture Photography Festival. Drawn from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s rich photographic holdings. Pictures and Promises, focuses on lens-based works that employ the st...

DuHun Photography Architect, designer and author William McDonough is well-known to many in sustainability — as a pioneer in green building; as the erstwhile "green dean" of architecture; as co-author of the seminal 2002 book "Cradle to Cradle"; as a designer of breakthrough buildings and materials; as a deep thinker about how design relates to a healthy and abundant future; and as an enthusiastic framer of the concepts and language that have become part of the sustainability lexicon. On the ...

Feb192021, 4:07 pm O Zhang, We are all the Future of the Earth, 2008, inkjet print, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of the Artist. Please note: As recommended by BC’s provincial health officials, gatherings of any kind and unessential travel in the province is not recommended at this time. Please adhere to COVID-19 health and safety measures, including proper physical distancing and frequent hand washing, and wearing a mask or face-covering in public indoor and retail spaces....

Old photos of Minnesota sugar beet harvest capture the Great Depression and the American dream “Roots of the Red River Valley: Through the Lens of Russell Lee,” now on display in Moorhead, uses images of the late photographer to look at the 1937 sugar beet harvest in Polk County and highlight the importance of migrant workers in the process. Written By: John Lamb | × Migrant workers in the sugarbeet fields on a Polk County, Minn., farm. Photo by Russell Lee / Co...

Adger Cowans, Footsteps, 1960. (Courtesy of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Aldine S. Hartman Endowment Fund / The Whitney Museum of American Art) When the Kamoinge Workshop began in 1963, taking its name from a Kikuyu word meaning “a group of people acting together,” a few Black photographers had already gained some prominence. Gordon Parks was probably chief among them. After starting as a portraitist in Chicago, he had gone on to work during the war years with the renowned photography pr...

“Roots of the Red River Valley: Through the Lens of Russell Lee,” now on display in Moorhead, uses images of the late photographer to look at the 1937 sugar beet harvest in Polk County and highlight the importance of migrant workers in the process.

Curran Hatleberg, Lost Coast (8), 2014 The International Center for Photography (ICP) is celebrating their one year anniversary in their new home on Essex Street with a new exhibition of “post-documentary” style photos from around the world.  ICP was forced to shut it’s doors last March, due to the pandemic, and offered virtual programming only for six months. They re-opened in hybrid form this past October. Gregory Halpern, Untitled, 2016 The new exhibit, titled, But Still, It Turns: ...

$16.80 Francis has recently proclaimed this "The Year of Saint Joseph." Now is as good a time as ever to look at art from the perspective of labor. We can turn to Marxist theory to help inform our visual imagination — rooting it in the charism of the working class. John Molyneuxs new book The Dialectics of Art offers a solid Marxist framework for the discerning viewer. Molyneux is a British socialist, activist and writer, writing from outside of the academy without a specif...

Sarah Meister Named Next Executive Director of Aperture Ms. Meister will serve as the primary creative force and public representative of Aperture, a nonprofit arts organization and preeminent publisher of photography. Sarah Meister. Photograph by Naima Green Aperture Foundation’s Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that Sarah Meister has been selected as its next Executive Director. She will begin her new role in May 2021. As Executive Director, Ms. Meister will serve as the primary cre...