MUSÉE 29 – EVOLUTION
Evolution explores the concepts of progress, transformation, growth, and advancement in an age when images are taking a dramatic shift in the role they play in our lives.
A photographer accustomed to staging and controlling scenes in order to create his images, in 2017 Max Pinckers traversed into an environment that was completely staged, and yet absolutely out of his control when he traveled to North Korea on assignment for the New York Times. In his book Red Ink, Pinckers captures images from the capital city Pyongyang.
Thinking about “Carrie”, Sissy Spacek drenched in pig’s blood strikes a chord among cultural icons, but the classic film’s final scene astounds throughout cinema.The film’s surface layer illuminates a splatter flick, rather than the allegory of high school being Hell on Earth.
Steven Yeun: I apologize but I'm at Disneyland right now and there's a giant marching band in front of me. Maybe it's good background music.
Andrea Blanch: [laughs] It's not disruptive at all, thanks. First of all I wanted to say that you've made some great career choices. Quite extraordinary.
In certain music videos, the subject (typically the artist) spins stationary while the background whooshes out of control. I like to call it the “Intoxicating Spiral” because it creates a spinning effect.
“For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke a sense of humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war and if it is used well it can be a powerful ingredient in the antidote to war.” – James Nachtwey
Shohei Miyachi:
“My photographs explore role-playing and power dynamics in male to male sex acts.”
There is a strange and complicated relationship between photography and death. To be alive means to be constantly moving, to be constantly changing; when one’s heart stops one dies. The camera lens stops this, arresting life and forcing it into unnatural stillness.
Gus Van Sant’s Psycho follows the big studio vision but rebels in his avant-garde (or lack of) approach. He respects Hitchcock’s vision and doesn’t claim the original idea as his own.
ACRIA held its 23nd annual signature winter fundraising event—the Holiday Dinner—on Thursday night at the Angel Orensanz Foundation, raising $350,000 to support the ACRIA Artists Ending AIDS Fund at Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC).
The MET Breuer’s ruminative exhibition “Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy” proposes art’s unique ability to capture the act of compulsive truth-seeking.
Time Magazine have recently announced their “Person of The Year” cover and have chosen to represent “The Guardians” a group of journalists who have risked their lives in pursuit of the truth
Sometime in the mid 90’s, the public became aware of the pop cultural revelation that the one and only The Wizard of Oz can be synched to Pink Floyd’s one and only The Dark Side of the Moon.
What happens when you put talented dancers, an energetic photographer, and an interesting location together? You get Jordan Matter’s recipe for success on YouTube, showcased through his widely viewed 10-Minute Photo Challenge series.
While it was a nation swelling with renewed prosperity and the promise of the kind of luminous modernity embodied by England, France and the United States, the pictures Wurmfeld took in the years she spent in Italy depict a country with one leg in a simpler past.
Days after HyperAllergic posted an article detailing the Whitney Museum’s connection to the migrant crisis at the United States border, 100 plus staffers at the museum have signed a letter demanding their employers provide answers to the allegations.
