Room Service: Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden exhibits the hotel in art and culture

BADEN-BADEN.- The hotel holds a particular fascination as a topos in the history of art and culture — especially in the city Baden-Baden, a spa and cultural center that has been shaped by tourism. Its history is closely interwoven with that of its many visitors. Numerous myths surround the hotel as a semi-public place. It serves as a mirror for motives of longing and as a backdrop for both highly intimate and politically weighty matters. Over the past two hundred years [...]

Exhibition displays the quality, diversity and dynamism of South African photography

AMSTERDAM.- The exhibition Apartheid & After reveals how powerfully the recent past can colour our perception of the present; this theme runs through the work of all twelve participating photographers after 1990. However powerful the individual images may be, this is photography with a hidden agenda – in a positive sense of the word. Knowledge of the past brings the present into sharp focus, and vice versa. It’s a tightrope act. Being a photographer in South Africa demands a sober, articulate, [...]

Exhibition seeks to explore the way artists have addressed female body image in contemporary art

OLD WESTBURY, NY.- The Amelie A. Wallace Gallery at SUNY College at Old Westbury is presenting Body Conscious, a group exhibition by nine internationally acclaimed artists with diverse and exciting practices. Body Conscious seeks to explore the way artists have addressed female body image in contemporary art. By tackling anorexia, dieting, obesity, etc., each of these artists attempts to articulate the Western obsession with the size of women’s body. According to the National Eating Disorders Association, over 20 million women suffer from significant [...]

University of Sydney photographic exhibition traces Pacific history

SYDNEY.- An exhibition of historic photographs at the University of Sydney’s Macleay Museum offers a fascinating look at life in the Pacific during the early colonial period. Dating from the late 1850s the images on display are drawn exclusively from the Macleay Museum’s extensive historic photograph collection. The show includes photographs taken by missionaries, anthropologists, tourists, and early government expeditions. They offer intriguing insights into the history of some of Australia’s nearest neighbours. Points of Focus features images of the British proclamation [...]

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents “Jeff Wall Tableaux Pictures Photographs 1996-2013″

AMSTERDAM.- An extraordinary selection of work by Canadian photographer Jeff Wall (b. Vancouver, 1946), one of today’s leading international artists, opens at the Stedelijk Museum on March 1, 2014. Encompassing 37 works, the exhibition surveys Wall’s oeuvre since 1996. Jeff Wall: Tableaux Pictures Photographs 1996–2013 presents recent work in color and black and white, and features two new photographic works, which will be seen for the first time in this exhibition: the diptych Summer Afternoons, and Monologue. It is the first major photography [...]

Mei Xian Qiu’s first exhibition with Kopeikin Gallery opens in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kopeikin Gallery presents Mei Xian Qiu’s first exhibition with the Gallery, titled “Qilin” after the Chinese mythical creature, which is itself a combination of the four most sacred beasts in Chinese mythology. It is a creature of innate hybridism and duality, representing simultaneously and truth. Qilins signal the passage of the wise, and is the compass to the West. The exhibition opens with a reception for the artist on Saturday, March first from 6:00 – 8:00 and continues through [...]

OHWOW’s first exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe’s work opens in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, CA.- OHWOW announces As Above, So Below, the gallery’s first exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe’s work, on view February 28 through March 29, 2014. This thematic exhibition, based on theoretical concepts of achieving visual equity and superseding artifice through method, presents more than 40 of Mapplethorpe’s images, including silver gelatin prints and Polaroids, which reveal a novel interpretation of the artist’s practice – some are unique works, and many have rarely been shown. The phrase “as above, so below” refers to [...]

Bowdoin College Museum of Art presents exhibition of surrealist photography

BRUNSWICK, ME.- This spring, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art presents an exhibition that explores the radical and multilayered nature of Surrealist photography. Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography features photographs created by leading Surrealist artists, such as Eugène Atget, André Kertész, René Magritte, Man Ray, and Maurice Tabard. In addition to presenting works from the movement’s European roots in the 1920s and 1930s, Under the Surface highlights the extensive reach of Surrealist influence both geographically, by showcasing works of American and Central American [...]

Photo Shanghai: China’s inaugural photography art fair launches

SHANGHAI.- The World Photography Organisation and Montgomery announced the inaugural edition of Photo Shanghai, the first international art fair dedicated to photography in China. It will run from 5-7 September at the landmark Shanghai Exhibition Centre. The fair, which will be directed by Alexander Montague-Sparey (previously Director, Head of Photograph Department, Christie’s London) has been created in direct response to the increasing demand by audiences from across Asia-Pacific, and beyond, to discover accessible and collectable photography. Galleries from across the world [...]

Exhibition of James Casabere’s latest and previously unseen work opens at Galerie Templon

BRUSSELS.- For his first exhibition in Brussels, American photographer James Casebere is showing his latest and previously unseen work atGalerie Templon. The new work draws its inspiration from climate change and the threat of environmental disasters. His colour photographs depict American landscapes, those vast spaces where land, forest and sea meet in places such as the Californian coast and North Carolina. Isolated architectural structures stand in the midst of these places where nature reigns apparently unchallenged. Sometimes private dwellings, sometimes public [...]

“Abbott and Marville: The City in Transition” opens at Howard Greenberg Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition of photographs by Berenice Abbott and Charles Marville will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from February 27 – April 11, 2014. Documenting now vanished streets and landmarks, Abbott and Marville: The City in Transition contrasts two cities – New York in the 1930s and Paris in the 1860s. Many of the images are on public view for the first time. An opening exhibition will be held on Thursday, February 27, from 6-8 p.m. One of the [...]

Exhibition of new work by artist Taryn Simon opens at Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills

BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Gagosian Beverly Hills presents “Birds of the West Indies,” an exhibition of new work by Taryn Simon. In 1936, American ornithologist James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Writer Ian Fleming, an active bird watcher, appropriated the author’s name for his own now famous novels. He found the name “flat and colorless,” perfectly suited for a character intended to be “anonymous…a blunt instrument in the hands of the government.” This co-opting of a name was [...]

Boomoon’s debut United Kingdom exhibition opens at Flowers gallery

LONDON.- Boomoon (b.1955) is a South Korean photographer currently working in Seoul and Sokcho. Since the 1980’s he has been engaging with the natural landscape in his work as a means of self-reflection, producing large format photographs of vast expanses of sea, sky and land. Devoid of human presence, the central emphasis of his work is the experience of the infinity of nature and the representation of it’s presence. “It is of profound importance to understand Boomoon’s capacity to create an [...]

Major exhibition at National Portrait Gallery launches First World War centenary

LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery is to stage the first national exhibition of the First World War centenary commemorations in February 2014. The Great War in Portraits (27 Feb-15 Jun 2014) will be the start of a four-year public programme at the Gallery of displays and events, and workshops for young people, it was announced today Thursday 24 October. Showing how the First World War was depicted and reported with a degree of visual detail unprecedented in the history of conflict, the [...]

International Center of Photography announces 2014 Infinity Awards winners

NEW YORK, NY.- The International Center of Photography announced the honorees of the 2014 Infinity Awards including Jürgen Schadeberg, who will receive the Cornell Capa Lifetime Achievement Award at the gala event on Monday, April 28, 2014, at Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers, in New York City. “It is with great joy that we honor this remarkable pool of talent,” said ICP Executive Director Mark Lubell. “This year’s recipients have each made significant contributions to the field of photography and the powerful way [...]