Joe Johnson’s photographic project Mega Churches is currently on view at Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston SC. The mega church, which can be found throughout the United States, hosts a large congregation of 2,000+ evangelical worshipers and a production of often-televised religious spectacle. It is a highly relevant subject for the contemporary visual artist [...]
Michael Najjar: high altitude
bitforms gallery nyc
529 w. 20th st.
ny, ny 10011
usa
Phone: +1 212 366 6939
Fax: +1 212 366 6959
Contact: Steven Sacks
info@bitforms.com
www.bitforms.com
www.michaelnajjar.com
Sep 18 – Oct 24, 2009
bitforms gallery is pleased to announce a third solo exhibition with German photographic artist Michael Najjar and the world premiere of his ‘high altitude’ work series.
In this body of work, Najjar [...]
By JOHN STRAUSBAUGH
IN the window of a small storefront art gallery on Rivington Street called Alife Presents, a plasma screen scrolls through a portrait gallery of the Lower East Side of Manhattan as it used to be. More photos hang on the walls inside. Black and Hispanic schoolchildren smile. Crips and Bloods flash gang signs. [...]
By Holland Cotter
Like probably a zillion other school kids, “My country tears of thee” was the way I understood the first line of “America.” Maybe that’s the way the Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank heard it too when he came to the United States from Europe in 1947, at 22, with English his second, third or [...]
Haegue Yang:
Integrity of the Insider
September 24 – February 10
Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55403
+1.612.375.7600
http://www.walkerart.org
In the last few years, Haegue Yang (born 1971, based in Seoul and Berlin) has worked with non-traditional materials such as customized venetian blinds and electrical devices including lights, infrared heaters, and fans, to create a [...]
October 30, 2009–January 31, 2010
Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 5th Floor
Who Shot Rock & Roll is the first major museum exhibition on rock and roll to put photographers in the foreground, acknowledging their creative and collaborative role in the history of rock music. From its earliest days, rock and roll was captured in photographs [...]
Creating Identity: Portraits Today is the title of a new exhibition currently on view at the 21c Museum in Louisville Kentucky. 21c is the first museum in the United States to exclusively exhibit works made in the twenty-first century. Creating Identity brings together 37 artist who explore a variety of concepts through contemporary portraiture through [...]
Believed to be among the world’s best living war photographers, Don McCullin has been taking professional photographs for the last half century. His work, following in the tradition of Robert Capa and Bill Brandt, has won him international acclaim, numerous awards and the first CBE awarded to a photojournalist, in 1993. McCullin’s portraits of impoverished, [...]
NEW YORK, NY. – The International Center of Photography will present Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, a global survey of today’s most exciting and innovative photography and video art. As ICP’s signature exhibition—and the only one of its kind in America—this year’s Triennial promises to be the most dynamic yet, [...]
