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Art Museum of WVU is first stop for Walker Evans American Photographs Walker Evans (1903–1975), Parked Car, Small Town Main Street, 1932. Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1969 by Charles Rodemeyer. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of the artist, 1975 © 2021 Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. MORGANTOWN, WV .-The Art Museum of West Virginia University is the first venue on a national tour of an installation that celebrates photographer Walker Evans’s landmark solo e...

The First Art Newspaper on the Net   BOCA RATON, FLA .- “There is every reason this year to have a world view,” says Irvin Lippman, the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s Executive Director, as South Florida boldly ushers in the new year with the national premiere of Glasstress 2021 Boca Raton. “Three years in the making, with 2020 being such a challenging year to coordinate an international exhibition of this size and scope, the effort serves as an important reassurance that art is an essential a...

Swann to offer curated sale focused on the artists of the WPA Reginald Marsh, The Waterfront, New York, oil on canvas, 1943. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000. NEW YORK, NY .- On Thursday, February 4 Swann Galleries will offer the auction: The Artists of the WPA. The multi-departmental sale will feature paintings, prints, photographs, posters, books and related ephemera by artists whose careers were sustained by the Works Progress Administration. In the aftermath of the Great Depression, president Fr...

Three ways Joe Biden can bring America together Andy Serwer with Max Zahn © Provided by Yahoo! Finance TOPSHOT - US President Joe Biden delivers his inauguration speech on January 20, 2021, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. - Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the US. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images) Today is only the fourth day of Joe Biden’s presidency, and whether you support him or not you h...

How Alice Rose George Shaped a Pivotal Era in Photography Susan Meiselas, Alec Soth, Nan Goldin, and others reflect on the life and work of a legendary photo editor and poet. Photograph by Susan L. Stewart Remembrances - January 22, 2021 Perhaps the clearest picture of Alice Rose George, beloved editor, curator, teacher, and poet, who died on December 22, 2020, in Los Angeles at the age of seventy-six, can be seen through her own eye, connecting—as she so innovatively did in the books and m...

Sadly, the Depression-era photos, film clips, and stories in Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell’s “ Riding the Rails” (1998) don’t seem much different from those of today’s victims of a pandemic and a failed economy. Inspired by Thomas Minehan’s 1934 book, “Boy and Girl Tramps of America,” Uys solicited letters from those who had survived that experience. He received over 3,000 replies. He and Lovell narrowed these subjects down to 10 men and women — then i...

Two Hairy Young Women, New York, 1995Photography by Irving Penn, Courtesy of Pace Gallery As a new exhibition explores Irving Penn’s innovative aesthetic principles, the deputy director of the Irving Penn Foundation, Vasilios Zatse, discusses working with the photographer and his enduring influence January 15, 2021 In 1996, Vasilios Zatse began his journey with Irving Penn, starting as an apprentice to the master photographer and rising to become the deputy director of the Irving Penn Founda...

What is it: Virtual exhibition and artist talks presented by bitforms gallery, which specialises in digital, internet, time-based and new media art forms, and curated by Zaiba Jabbar and Valerie Amend. It includes the artists Julie Béna, Vitória Cribb, Kumbirai Makumbe, LaJuné McMillian, and Alicia Mersy. Each artist has a exclusive virtual 3-D room with a digital installation Platform: New Art City, a multi-user online platform to experience digital art—created in response to the closure...

From the episode: Andrew Keen: Let’s spend a couple of minutes to end this talking about what we want to see happen in 2021 and onwards. Tom, I’m quoting you here in your book, The National Highway: “More than a flag, a tribe and ethnicity, a legal agreement, a cluster of art or production of culture, America is a civilization of whereness. Our shared geography between the oceans is the lowest common denominator within this clashing territory of strangers.” Tom, is the solution then to...

How to Remember a Plague 如何铭记一场瘟疫 Laura Bliss 劳拉·布利斯 In normal times， future historians probably really wouldnt care about what you had for breakfast， or saw on the way to work， on any particular day. But that changed in 2020， and so did the instinct to document. In a pandemic that touched virtually every person and aspect of life on Earth， the ordinary was imbued with world-historical significance， inspiring an outburst of archival projects to capture how...