The 58th Venice Biennale Exhibition: Meet Curator Ralph Rugoff
This year’s prestigious Venice Biennale’s centerpiece exhibition, its 58th, has been curated by Ralph Rugoff, an American art critic who became director of London’s Hayward Gallery....
The 57th Venice Biennale Exhibition: Meet Curator Christine Macel [VIDEO]
Michael Kurcfeld spoke to Christine Macel, the curator of the 57th Venice Biennale....
(Photographer Spotlight) Portraits and Mysteries: Michael Kurcfeld On Nadav Kander [Video]
When TIME Magazine controversially chose Donald Trump to be its “Person of the Year” at the end of 2016, the photographer they asked to shoot his portrait managed to create what immediately became a viral, much-parodied web meme. The uncharacteristically dignified ...
Anthony Hernandez: Portraits of a Hidden LA [VIDEO]
A retrospective on photographs of Los Angeles taken by Anthony Hernandez....
Don McCullin: Chronicler of Man's Inhumanity [VIDEO]
Photographer Don McCullin's pictures from hell. ...
Mariana Cook: Different Intelligences [VIDEO]
Mariana Cook discusses a career spent photographing artists, writers, scientists, and actors....
Alexey Titarenko and the City as Novel [VIDEO]
ALEXEY TITARENKO grew up in Cold War-era Leningrad (née and once again St. Petersburg), in a typically small, cramped apartment. To keep him quiet, his parents would give him books to read, and by the age of eight he was ...
Tanya Marcuse: Life and Death in the Allegorical Garden [VIDEO]
Tanya Marcuse discusses series “Fruitless,” “Fallen” and “Woven” in this installment of "Photographer's Spotlight."...
Désirée van Hoek: An Outsider's View of LA's Skid Row [VIDEO]
THE CLOSEST to a Cinderella real-estate tale in Los Angeles has been the renaissance that is unfolding in its historic downtown district. The art world, and the developers who follow, continue to transform the once bleak and crime-ridden neighborhood into a ...
Photographer Spotlight: John Chiara [VIDEO]
John Chiara has made a career of revealing in a wholly new manner places that have been captured endlessly in paintings and photographs. Early on, in his last year at art school, he built an enormous camera obscura hauled on a ...
Photographer Spotlight: Nick Brandt [VIDEO]
Nick Brandt committed to a 16-year odyssey of capturing the vanishing herds that roam the 2-million-acre Amboseli ecosystem, which straddles Kenya and Tanzania. When viewed at the daunting scale intended, these portraits of sentient beings inspire a visceral appreciation of the megafauna that few other photographers have achieved....
Photographer Spotlight: Vee Speers [VIDEO]
For many, adolescence is a fraught, even harrowing chapter of life, a shaky bridge into adulthood that is marked by abortive identity trials and the multiple wounds inflicted by a hard, indifferent world on fading innocence. Looking back, Paris-based Australian Vee ...
