Drawing the Line

Bruce Silverstein Gallery presents Joel-Peter Witkin: The Early Works, an exhibition consisting of twenty-four vintage photographic prints by one of the most idiosyncratic and recognizable...

Artifically intelligent chatbots are increasing in popularity and, an author and artist has revealed how she spoke to an AI every day for a year....

In 2021, Brea Souders made a new companion. They were in touch for around a year, and in that time, they delved into life’s big...

“AI is a mirror,” the artist Brea Souders says. “It can reveal things about ourselves and our culture in a very poetic way which is...

In an arresting black-and-white photograph, two figures in profile stand face-to-face before a dark screen, which is partially surrounded by a pale border. Their heads...

Joel-Peter Witkin is a photographer whose images of the human condition are undeniably powerful. For more than forty years, he has pursued his interest in...

In Joel-Peter Witkin’s world, death is not to be feared. Instead, there is beauty in the macabre, and some humor there too, as evidenced from...

On the occasion of the December 2022 print edition of A.i.A., the Religion Issue, we revisit this article from February 1997 that also explores how...

The COVID-19 pandemic was a quiet catastrophe, insofar as it was not the type that we are used to seeing photographed. The years of destruction...

It is not easy to make an imaginative photograph, because the document tends to solidify whatever it re-presents: The camera’s eye is not unlike Medusa’s,...

What will be left for us to probe? What ‘aesthetic entrances’ will be used? Alessandro Merola on Brea Souders’ weaving of pixels and pigments that...

The artist’s first monograph brings together her wide ranging approach, process, and strategies to reimagine what a photograph can be, and what it might mean....

Brea Souders featured in the New York Times The Trump administration has weakened our environmental protections, and now our waterways are threatened by pesticides, fertilizers...

<p '=''>It’s been a long time since we’ve needed to leave our homes to explore the world. Longer still since ‘Explorer’ has been a valid...

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond (VMFA) has received a gift of more than eight-thousand photographs by Aaron Siskind (1903–1991) from the artist’s...

Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York is pleased to announce GO, an installation of photographs created by the collaborative duo known as CORAMU, curated by Yael...

Artists' books occupy a creative space between traditional books and contemporary works of art, challenging what a book can be. This highly visual and experiential...

Long before the ubiquity of digital technologies transformed the book, artist Keith Smith was engaged in prescient redefinition and innovation. Though Smith has worked for...

The Jewish Museum announced today that it has received a major gift from The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation, established in 1996 by Annalee Newman,...

In the summer of 1934, a young woman named Lisette Model took a break from her life in Paris to visit her mother and sister...

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE points perpetually beyond itself. Ironically, as a school, it had no ongoing tradition that it was meant to transmit to succeeding generations,...

This inventive exhibition explores how the camera can function as a device for measuring the world, mediating relations between individuals and their surrounding environments. Drawn...

Has a photograph ever shocked you? Maybe not like a painful jolt of electricity but by expanding an understanding or shaking a long held one....

The Hillman-Jackson Gallery at Bard College at Simon’s Rock is pleased to present Entry Point, a four-person exhibition showcasing the work of New York-based artists,...

Telling a story 500 years in the making, Botticelli Reimagined will be the largest Botticelli exhibition in Britain since 1930. Including painting, fashion, film, drawing,...

From postcards of ballerinas to digital shots where the performers barely look human, the art of snapping dancers has had a dramatic evolution Barbara Morgan...

Although he started his career as a documentary photographer, Aaron Siskind (American, 1903–1991) quickly became known for his abstract photographs. Socially and professionally close with...

For Valentine’s Day this year, we asked a group of photographers to choose images from their own lives that capture a feeling of desire or...

A major Aaron Siskind retrospective 'Aaron Siskind - L’Autre Réalité Photographique' is on view at Pavillon Populaire in Montpellier, France through February 23, 2015.

American photographer Barbara Morgan (1900–1992) is most well known for her photographs of luminaries in American modern dance in the 1940s and 1950s such as...

Frederick Sommer (1905–1999) explored an unusually broad array of subjects ranging from disorienting landscapes and macabre aspects of the natural world to surreal arrangements of...

In a 1951 essay, the artist and art critic Elaine de Kooning described Aaron Siskind as a “painter’s photographer.” Over 60 years later he remains...