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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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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)
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Jeremy Haik
Auto-tuned photographs : Joseph Desler Costa
A good way to begin thinking about Joseph Desler Costa's work is by way of an anecdote he relayed about a friend of his. This person is a music teacher working with young children. Apparently, their students, who are taking their inspiration from any one of a number of pop music examples, have begun to
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Jeremy Haik
Photography lessons from space
Back in 1995, NASA pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a small section of the Eagle Nebula (M16) in the constellation Serpens 7,000 light years away. The image it produced, known as The Pillars of Creation, is probably one of the first images that spring to mind when talking about astrophotography. The public was predictable
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Jeremy Haik
Can I get your autograph? : When spam talks back.
A couple weeks ago, I received an email that said simply the following: "I am a huge fan of your art. I wonder if it would be possible to get your autograph? I collect artists autographs and it would be wonderful to add yours to my collection.” The fact that I got a spammy message