© Michal Chelbin. *Stas (Sentenced for Murder): Juvenile Prison for Boys*, Russia, 2009. Archival pigment print. Courtesy of the artist and CLAMP, New York.

CLAMP Art | March 9 —May 6, 2023

Over the course of six years, artist Michal Chelbin gained unprecedented access in order to photograph male and female inmates in seven prisons across Ukraine and Russia. Not wanting to be influenced by knowledge of her subjects' crimes, she focused on the complicated gaze of the prisoners, completing her sessions before asking about the details of anyone's sentence. Sometimes waiting hours for masks to be let down, Chelbin patiently sought expressions that transcended individual situations and spoke of universal truths beyond the confining walls of the jail cell.

The title, Sailboats and Swans, refers to the bucolic, unintentionally sardonic murals found on the prison walls amplifying the numbing reality of incarceration.

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Laila Annmarie Stevens. *Jada and Aaliyah, Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY* from the series *A House Is Not Home*, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and the Museum of the City of New York.

Museum of the City of New York | Opening March 10

The Museum of the City of New York is pleased to announce New York Now: Home, the first in an ongoing photography exhibition series. Inspired by the Museum’s landmark presentation of the same name in 2000, this series will occur every three years and engage different themes and issues of the contemporary city.

The selected work encompasses a variety of perspectives from dozens of artists—as diverse as the city itself—and consider a range of picture making approaches. From the personal and intimate to the monumental and collective, the photographs in this exhibition invites viewers to see the city they thought they knew through fresh perspectives.

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Carrie Schneider. Still from *Sphinx (the answer is man)*, 2023. 16mm film, color, silent. Courtesy of the artist, Candice Madey, New York and CHART, New York.

MASS MoCA | March 11 — September, 2023

Like many of us, Carrie Schneider reinvented the way she lived and worked during the pandemic; sequestered at home with her young son, the artist’s garage became her workspace, and she sought community and inspiration through virtual means. The artist constructed a room-sized camera with industrial plastic, acrylic sheets, and a 480mm Rodenstock lens; experimenting with multiple exposures on chromogenic paper, she ultimately developed the in-camera process that produces a unique, painterly print. After a year of isolation, Schneider had created a series of 105 unique photographs that function as a kind of pandemic diary and a portrait of both an inner life and a desire to connect.

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