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Patricia Silva
Summer Seeing: 10 Must-See Photos in September
As mentioned in my first post, this summer I joined Baxter St at CCNY to present a monthly selection of ten not-to-be missed photographs in New York City. Observing how social movements shape themselves around photography is often rewarding study. This list presents several works linked to modern movements supported by visual shape shifting: Soviet
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Patricia Silva
Lower East Sides: Elsewheres Around the Corner
Lorenzo Masnah and Alex Seel, Entre La Guardia y El Dorado, 2015. Installation at XY Atelier Gallery. Every summer, many expect the art world to hibernate, in cool temperature-controlled repose, remerging with a roar of high sales in the fall season. And every year, I stumble upon some fantastic independent shows in New York's
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Patricia Silva
IM Heung-soon: “Reincarnation”
The dual-channel projection begins with a female figure looking out to sea. From the first moments of the video, the viewer is aware that the artist has placed the audience between two points of dialogue, and our body is not passive in the space. Viewers shift attention from one wall to the other, keeping up
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Patricia Silva
Mickalene Thomas, “Untitled” 2015
Mickalene Thomas, Untitled, 2015. Installation at the Queens Museum, on view until March 31, 2016 This past June, the Queens Museum premiered a new installation by Mickalene Thomas. Painter, photographer, and video artist, Thomas is hyperprolific across media; expertly adapting each medium into the sense of beauty and complexity Thomas works from. Museum goers
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Conversations
Zackary Drucker & Mariette Pathy Allen in Conversation
https://www.youtube.com/embed/PXJldco5fN8
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Patricia Silva
Summer Seeing: 10 Must-See Photos in August
As mentioned in the first installment of this summer series, I am joining Baxter St at CCNY to present a monthly selection of not-to-be missed photographs in New York City. This month’s photographs are showing in the Bowery, Chelsea, the Upper East Side, and in two shows that can be seen on the same day:
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Current Exhibitions
Wolfgang Tillmans’ Book for Architects
Ten years, 37 countries in five continents, 450 pictures. Shown for the first time since its premiere at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, Tillmans' Book for Architects shows us the patterns of homogeneity in contemporary global architecture. Free from the discourse of individual significance, photographs of each building play off each other, making rhythm out
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Current Exhibitions
Summer Seeing: 10 Must-See Photos in July
This summer I am joining Baxter St at CCNY to present a monthly list of not-to-be missed photographs in New York City. That's right: photographs, not shows. As photography continues reaching across social, aesthetic, and political arenas, it's increasingly possible (and most enjoyable!) to encounter disarmingly excellent photographs in situations having nothing to do with
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Jeremy Haik
Horror of Photography : Dillon DeWaters
Try, for a moment, to image what it would be like if you were the last person left alive on Earth. There are about a thousand reasons why such a thought is terrifying; you’re utterly alone, there’s no one to talk to. Even if you manage to survive on your own for years, the knowledge
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Jeremy Haik
Jennifer in Paradise
If you’re something of a Photoshop nerd you might recognize this image “Jennifer in paradise” as that taken by John Knoll of his then-girlfriend Jennifer in 1987. John was working on a cheaper alternative to highly-priced imaging software. Since digital images were not easy to come by (it feels weird to even type those words)