Allen Ginsberg photos at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery recall Beat generation

NEW YORK (AFP).- The writers of the Beat Generation, who shocked America with their bohemian lifestyles and upended literature half a century ago, are celebrated in a new photo exhibit by one of their most famous members, Allen Ginsberg. The New York exhibition, “Beat Memories, the photographs of Allen Ginsberg,” comes just after the release of the movie “On the Road,” which has received generally good reviews for its dramatization of Jack Kerouac’s famous 1957 book of the same name. More [...]

Jamie Lee Curtis curates fundraising exhibition featuring leading photographers of our time

SANTA MONICA, CA.- The Frostig Collection announced a fundraising exhibition and auction of photographs by some of the leading photographers of our time, who generously donated limited edition prints to a most worthy cause. All proceeds of the auction sale will benefit the social skills program at the renowned Frostig Center, a school for children with le arning disabilities, Asperger’s and high-functioning autism located in Pasadena. The exhibition was curated by Jamie Lee Curtis: actress, author, photographer, longtime photography collector . [...]

Points of view in Austrian photography from the 1930s until today on view at Belvedere

VIENNA.- Photos – Points of View in Austrian Photography from the 1930s until Today shows some 100 artworks drawn from the broad spectrum of Austrian photography in past decades, beginning in 1936 with Herbert Bayer up to current positions such as Nadim Vardag. The selection of works is based around three principal subjects: people, the things surrounding them, and the lens between all this – so photography as such. This exhibition brings together works from the Belvedere’s collections, the Artothek des [...]

Little Black Gallery introduces the work of emerging photographer Tyler Udall

LONDON.- The Little Black Gallery introduces Tyler Udall from 11 February – 16 March 2013. This will be his debut exhibition anywhere in the world. As an emerging photographer Tyler Udall has already made a big impact in American photography. In his two short years as a photographer he has shot for several prolific fashion and art magazines and published a book of his haunting imagery, which sold out. Based in London in the early 2000’s, Tyler Udall was ‘senior fashion editor’ [...]

A major photographic exhibition “Man Ray Portraits” opens at the National Portrait Gallery

LONDON.- Devoted to one of the most innovative and influential artists of his generation, the exhibition includes over 150 vintage prints from Man Ray’s career taken between 1916 and 1968. Drawn from private collections and major museums including the Pompidou Centre, the J. Paul Getty Museum and New York’s The Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, and special loans from the Man Ray Trust Archive, the majority of the works have not previously been exhibited in the United [...]

Avant-Garde photos by Kertész and Man Ray in Swann Galleries’ Fine Photographs Auction

NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries’ auction of Fine Photographs on Tuesday, February 26 offers an outstanding selection of images that range from mid 19th century travel albums to contemporary art from the late 20th century. There is a rich assortment of early travel albums filled with images of Asia from the estate of Fong Chow, a ceramicist who went on the become Chinese ceramics curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a lifelong collector of photographs. Among the items from [...]

CAM Raleigh presents a major exhibition of artworks by British artist Alistair McClymont

RALEIGH, NC.- McClymont’s practice incorporates a range of materials and practices that include sculpture, photography and video. His most recent works reproduce natural phenomena as a means of exploring scientific and philosophical ideas. The means of production and installation of the work often reveals the science behind it. At the same time, it acknowledges that there is something inherently unknowable and uncontrollable about the way in which naturally or artificially induced phenomena behave that is capable of inducing awe and wonder. [...]

Major retrospective to the oeuvre of the 89-year-old photographer and painter Saul Leiter opens at Kunst Haus Wien

VIENNA.- Kunst Haus Wien is devoting a major retrospective to the oeuvre of the 89-year-old photographer and painter Saul Leiter. The exhibition, which was developed in cooperation with House of Photography / Deichtorhallen Hamburg, presents the wide range of this versatile artist’s works, including early black-and-white and colour photographs, fashion images, painted photographs of nudes, paintings and a number of his sketchbooks. One section of the exhibition is devoted to Saul Leiter’s most recent photographs, which he continues to take on the [...]

Don McCullin: A Retrospective. first solo exhibition in Canada of world-renowned British photojournalist

OTTAWA.- For the first time ever, the National Gallery of Canada is organising an monographic exhibition dedicated to the work of a contemporary British photographer. Don McCullin: A Retrospective features a collection of 134 exceptional black-and-white photographs taken by McCullin, an unflinching photojournalist best known for his coverage of the world’s most dangerous conflict zones. His photographs have been published in major newspapers and magazines, including The Observer, The Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph. McCullin has also created an important body of [...]

NRW-Forum Düsseldorf shows a comprehensive cross-section of Bryan Adams’ best work

DUSSELDORF.- He is undoubtedly an outstanding musician and composer. But that Bryan Adams is also a gifted photographer is not (as yet) widely known. In addition to his passion for music, his love of art—and of photography in particular—has grown over the past few decades. With the exhibition Bryan Adams – Exposed, the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf shows a comprehensive cross-section of the Canadian’s best works. This is the first time this collection goes on display in Germany. Bryan Adams has this to say about [...]

Vienna’s Leopold Museum to welcome art buffs in the buff on February 18 for nude exhibition

VIENNA (AFP).- Vienna’s Leopold Museum said Friday that visitors are welcome to strip off at a special nudist night later this month and admire its popular “Nude Men” exhibition as nature intended. “As there were several requests from nudist associations we decided to give this opportunity to all lovers of the Freikoerperkultur, the Free Body Culture,” spokesman Klaus Pokorny told AFP. “Our museum will be a clothes-free zone for one evening” on February 18, he said by email. “Nudists, naturists are [...]

Photographs by David “Chim” Seymour and Roman Vishniac on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- A two-person exhibition of photographs by David “Chim” Seymour and Roman Vishniac from the 1930s – 1950s will be on view atHoward Greenberg Gallery Two, 41 East 57th Street, from February 1 – February 23, 2013. Among the great masters of European photography, Chim and Vishniac are famed for photojournalism and social documentary depicting tumultuous events of the 20th century, as well portraits of some of the most important celebrities of the time. The exhibition at Howard Greenberg Gallery [...]

Nothin’ but Working: Phill Niblock, a Retrospective opens at Musée de l’Elysée

LAUSANNE.- Phill Niblock has produced, for over more than fifty years, a multidisciplinary work. His “Intermedia Art” features a combination of minimalist music, conceptual art, structural cinema, systematic or even political art, and strives to transform our perception and experience of time. Upon a proposal by Circuit, the photographs, films, installations and all his recorded music are brought together for the first time in a retrospective exhibition dedicated to Phill Niblock’s entire artistic endeavour. This exhibition by Mathieu Copeland is presented [...]

Gilles Caron’s first major retrospective opens at Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne

LAUSANNE.- Visual memory of an epoch, Gilles Caron (1939-1970) has chronicled the greatest contemporary conflicts through his images (Six-Day War, Vietnam War, Biafra and Northern Ireland conflicts, May 68, Prague Spring…), a commitment that eventually cost him his life while on assignment in Cambodia. Called up as a parachutist to serve in the Algerian War, Caron became a witness of to the brutality inflicted to civilians. Through photojournalism, he sought to cross to the other side in order to contribute to [...]

University of Richmond Museums presents “Flow, Just Flow: Variations on a Theme”

RICHMOND, VA.- University of Richmond Museums presents Flow, Just Flow: Variations on a Theme on view in the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art from January 29 to June 28, 2013. The exhibition of contemporary art uses the psychological state of flow as a launching point to examine related definitions and applications, many of which involve kinetic forms, non-static content generation, visitor interaction, and collective states of being. Flow, Just Flow features work of various media including video, sound, installation, kinetic [...]