Frances Benjamin Johnston Selling Tintypes at a Virginia County Fair, May 1903 Frances Benjamin Johnston was born on January 15, 1864 in Grafton, West Virginia. Johnston was an early American photographer and photojournalist whose career lasted for more than sixty years. She is most known for her portraits, images of southern architecture, and various photographic…
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Help: A New Theatrical Work From Acclaimed Writer Claudia Rankine At The Shed
Help stars Roslyn Ruff (Theater: Fairview; Film: Marriage Story; TV: Divorce, Pose) as the narrator, embodying Rankine’s own experience, who reckons with white men she encounters in spaces like airports and airplanes, asking them exactly what they think of their privilege. Tracking how these conversations go right or wrong, or lead to further discussions, Help…
On This Day: January 14: Henri Fantin-Latour
Self-Portrait, by Henri Fantin-Latour Henri Fantin-Latour was born as Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour on January 14, 1836 in Grenoble, France. Known primarily for his still life flower paintings, he also painted the artist, musicians, and writers of his day, Fantin-Latour was a traditional academic painter who was friends with both Whistler and Manet and…
Jesper Just At Perrotin New York
In Jesper Just’s early work, beginning in the late 1990s, the artist produced exactingly stylized nonnarrative films. These first films were marked not only by a mastery of the formal aesthetics of cinema but also through a questioning of its power. Loneliness, suspense and yearning are impactful yet familiar devices of Hollywood cinema, often employed…
Richard Artschwager At Gagosian Davies Street
Live in Your Head was conceived specifically in response to the Davies Street gallery space, with its wide plate glass window giving on to a busy Mayfair thoroughfare. The installation will be visible from the street, its components arranged like objects in a Joseph Cornell box. It also recalls a sixteenth-century Wunderkammer, or cabinet of…
BLANC SUR BLANC At Gagosian Paris
A century ago, Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematist paintings heralded a revolutionary new interpretation of white, in which total abstraction suggests the utopian and the infinite. Since then, artists have deployed the achromatism of whiteness in an endless range of formal and symbolic ways, evoking states of emptiness and effacement, and summoning the raw potential of the…
Alex Israel At Gagosian Grosvenor Hill
A native of Los Angeles, Israel mines the cultural mythos of his hometown with polished optimism and calculated cool, melding nostalgic feelings with lucid perceptions of California living and the American Dream. Israel has cultivated a close partnership with Warner Bros. Studios, beginning in 2010 when he rented Hollywood props from the studio’s warehouses and…
On This Day: January 13: Jan van Goyen
Ice Skaters, 1641, by Jan Van Goyen Jan van Goyen was born as Jan Josephszoon van Goyen – also spelled Goijen – on January 13, 1596 in Leiden, Netherlands. van Goyen was a Dutch landscape painter and printmaker (etching) that pioneered naturalistic landscape painting in early 17th-century in Holland. Jan van Goyen began his apprenticeship…
On This Day: January 12: John Singer Sargent
Two White Dresses, John Singer Sargent John Singer Sargent was an American artist who was born on January 12, 1856, in Florence, Italy. He is considered to be an American expat artist, even though he was born and lived most of his life in Europe. Most famous for his portraits, he painted over 900 paintings…
