As a young man, after graduating from the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art in 1938, Irving Penn harbored dreams of becoming a painter. […]…
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After his 1984 retrospective at MoMA, Penn returned to drawing and painting as a serious creative endeavor for the first time in more than […]…
In this composition, which some interpret as a self-portrait, the elements of an enigmatic tabletop still life lock tightly into place, overlapping like a […]…
The majority of Penn’s paintings feature his preferred background of unencumbered white space, but in this striking work, three voluptuous, colorful figures are set […]…
The oblong forms in Collision crowd the picture plane, cut off at the edges like a full bleed image. As the edges approach one […]…
Deborah Bell Photographs presents MARIA, an exhibition of photographs by Lee Friedlander featuring his wife, Maria. Dating from 1958 to 2008, the pictures were taken […]…
The new book by Jerry Schatzberg, Dylan by Schatzberg, includes several rare and never before seen images of Dylan during Blonde on Blonde and Highway 61 […]…
The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA)’s Fall 2018 exhibition Interior Lives: Photographs of Chinese Americans in the 1980s by Bud Glick is the […]…
Downtown Milan. The Fondazione Prada Osservatorio hosts The Black Image Corporation, a project by the artist Theaster Gates, that offers to the audience the […]…