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Exhibition: ‘Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography’ at the McNay...
Exhibition dates: 28th September 2016 – 15th January 2017 Curator: René Paul Barilleaux, Chief Curator/Curator of Contemporary Art at the McNay I really, really don’t know what tales I can tell...
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Exhibition: ‘In the Tower: Barbara Kruger’ at the National Gallery of Art,...
Exhibition dates: 30th September 2016 – 22nd January 2017 Now this is how you tell a tale using contemporary photography! Succinct, psychological sound bites that are commentaries on cultural...
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Exhibition: ‘Haunted Screens: German Cinema in the 1920s’ at the Milwaukee...
Exhibition dates: 21st October 2016 – 22nd January 2017 The interwar years of the European avant-garde are some of the most creative years in the history of the human race. Whether because of...
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Exhibition: ‘Recent Acquisitions in Focus: Latent Narratives’ at the J. Paul...
Exhibition dates: 13th September 2016 – 29th January 2017 Again, telling stories with pictures… Lyrical, ambiguous juxtapositions abound. Hand, clock, motel, scream, bird, body, river, stairs, hand....
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Exhibition: ‘Surveillance’ at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City,...
Exhibition dates: 16th September 2016 – 29th January 2017 This looks to be a fascinating exhibition on a very interesting subject. It’s such a pity I cannot comment on the exhibition itself due to...
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Exhibition: ‘Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency’ at the Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 11th June 2016 – 12th February 2017 This “seminal” body of work by Nan Goldin allegedly changed the course of photography. In my opinion, not for the better. There is little love...
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Exhibition: ‘Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 7th October 2016 – 26th February 2017 An exhibition showcasing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer artistic life in New York City through the social networks of Leonard...
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Exhibitions: ‘The Rebellious Image: Kreuzberg’s “Werkstatt für Photographie”...
Museum Folkwang Essen exhibition dates: 9th December 2016 – 19th February 2017 C/O Berlin exhibition dates: 10th December 2016 – 12th February 2017 It’s so good to see these essential, vital,...
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Exhibition: ‘Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 7th October 2016 – 26th February 2017 An exhibition showcasing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer artistic life in New York City through the social networks of Leonard...
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Exhibition: ‘Film Stills: Photography between Advertising, Art and the...
Exhibition dates: 4th November 2016 – 26th February 2017 I seem to have a bit of a thing for film and photography at the moment! More delicious film fascination, this time for the still camera....
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Exhibition: ‘The Camera Exposed’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Exhibition dates: 23rd July 2016 – 5th March 2017 There’s not much to say about this exhibition from afar, except to observe it seems pretty standard fare, with no outstanding revelations or insights...
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Exhibition: ‘Robert Doisneau – Photographs. From Craft to Art’ at...
Exhibition dates: 9th December 2016 – 5th March 2017 I have waited nearly ten years to do a posting on this artist and his “humanist photography” (he was part of Steichen’s Family of Man exhibition)....
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Exhibition: ‘David Hockney: Current’ at NGV International, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 11th November 2016 – 13th March 2017 Drawing inside the line What Hockney does not do in his recent work, is draw inside the line.* By this I mean he fails to invest each line with...
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Exhibition: ‘A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde’ at...
Exhibition dates: 3rd December 2016 – 12th March 2017 My apologies to readers of Art Blart, but my postings will be short of comment in the next month or so as I try to take as much rest as possible....
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Exhibition: ‘Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath’ at The...
Exhibition dates: 19th November 2016 – 19th March 2017 Curator: Keith F. Davis, Senior Curator, Photograph This will be short and sweet because of my hands… love this artist’s work. Triumph of...
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Exhibition: ‘Life and Labor: The Photographs of Milton Rogovin’ at the San...
Exhibition dates: 18th August 2016 – 19th March 2017 I will be limiting my postings to one every 5 days because I am resting my injured hands. From the lineage of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine, Walker...
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Exhibition: ‘Edward Steichen: Twentieth-Century Photographer’ at deCordova...
Exhibition dates: 7th October 2016 – 26th March 2017 Just for enjoyment. Marcus . Many thankx to the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting....
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Exhibition: ‘One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers’...
Exhibition dates: 23rd November 2016 – 2nd April 2016 NEARLY A WEEK SINCE MY LAST POSTING SO LET’S MAKE THIS A GOOD ONE… A fabulous posting on the photocollages of that most excellent of artists,...
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Exhibition: ‘Images à la Sauvette’ at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris
Exhibition dates: 11th January – 23rd April 2017 No more, decisive moment Following the relatively unknown photocollages of Josef Albers, a posting on one of the most famous artist books in the...
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Exhibition: ‘Cy Twombly’ at the Centre Pompidou, Paris
Exhibition dates: 30th November 2016 – 24th April 2017 This posting is for a friend who is a great Twombly fan. Of the installation photograph of the series Nine Discourses on Commodus (1963, below)...
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