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Exhibition: ‘Robert Mapplethorpe’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma,...
Exhibition dates: 13th March – 13th September 2015 Curators: The exhibition is curated by Jérôme Neutres from Paris with Director Pirkko Siitari and Chief Curator Marja Sakari from Kiasma. These...
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Exhibition: ‘Light, Paper, Process: Revolutionizing Photography’ at the J....
Exhibition dates: 14th April – 6th September 2015 These days, photography can be anything your imagination, concept and process desires… Whether that makes for interesting / lasting (ie. memorable) /...
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Exhibition: ‘Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott’ at the Museum of Fine Arts,...
ustExhibition dates: 17th January 2015 – 13th September 2015 Robert and Jane Burke Gallery (Gallery 335) It’s been a really tough time writing the Art Blart recently, as my beloved Apple Pro tower...
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Exhibition: ‘In Focus: Animalia’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center,...
Exhibition dates: 26th May – 18th October 2015 Some of the photographs in this postings are sad, others are just gruesome. One animal’s in/humanity to many others. Marcus . Many thankx to the J. Paul...
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Exhibition: ‘Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 19th September – 20th December 2015 Following on from the magnificent Francesca Woodman, here we have an artist from a previous period who investigates aspects of alienation,...
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Photography: Alexander Gardner: ‘Memories of the War. Illustrations of the...
23-24 May, 1865 Location Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C. Participants George Gordon Meade Army of the Potomac William T. Sherman Army of the Tennessee Army of Georgia In this, the...
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Exhibition: ‘Capa in Color’ at Jeu de Paume – Château de Tours
Exhibition dates: 21st November 2015 – 29th May 2016 Curator: Cynthia Young, curator at Robert Capa archives To be honest, Robert Capa was not the most natural colour photographer, especially when...
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Exhibition: ‘Brett Weston: Significant Details’ at Pasadena Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 17th April – 11th September 2016 Curator: Erin Aitali, PMCA Director of Exhibitions and Registrar If your subject is essentially unrecognizable – a defining characteristic of many...
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Exhibition: ‘Paul Strand: Photography and Film for the 20th Century’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 19th March – 3rd July 2016 Last day for this exhibition from one of the masters of photography. Apologies to the gallery and the readers that I did not get the posting up earlier...
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Exhibition: ‘Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium’ at the J. Paul Getty...
Exhibition dates: 15th March – 31st July 2016 The Perfect Moment, The Perfect Medium and … Mapplethorpe, that seminal exhibition for Australia that I saw at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in...
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Exhibition: ‘Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium’ at the Los Angeles...
Exhibition dates: 20th March – 31st July 2016 Robert Mapplethorpe is a formalist. Apollonian and Dionysian ideals are two sides of the same coin. Marcus . Many thankx to the Los Angeles County Museum...
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Exhibition: ‘Sojourner Truth, Photography, and the Fight Against Slavery’ at...
Exhibition dates: 27th July – 23rd October 2016 ‘I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance’ Former New York slave Sojourner Truth (which literally means “itinerant preacher”) strategically deployed...
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Text / Photographs: Mother Boats C.P. (Brian Traynor). ‘Los Angeles Pride...
October 2016 The year was 1970. The year of the first Earth Day, the year that the United States invaded Cambodia, the year when National Guardsmen shot four student demonstrators at an antiwar rally...
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Exhibition: ‘George Tice: Urban Landscapes’ at the Joseph Bellows Gallery, La...
Exhibition dates: 10th September – 28th October 2016 An American iconography George Tice is a master photographer and an exceptional artist. Using a large format 8 x 10 camera this craftsman has...
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Exhibition: ‘Louis Faurer’ at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris
Exhibition dates: 9th September – 18th December 2016 Curator: The exhibition has been curated and organized by Agnès Sire, director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in association with the Estate...
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Exhibition: ‘Lewis Baltz NEVADA’ at Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, California
Exhibition dates: 15th November – 30th December 2016 I love this man’s work. Elegant, formalist, classical photographs of man altered landscapes and their environs. New Topographics. From the lineage...
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Exhibition: ‘Teller on Mapplethorpe’ at Alison Jacques Gallery, London
Exhibition dates: 18th November 2016 – 7th January 2017 Nothing SALACIOUS . to see here According to a tartly written denigration of Mapplethorpe in particular and more generally of photography...
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Photograph: Weegee (Arthur Fellig) ‘Gay Deceiver’ c. 1939
December 2016 I just couldn’t resist a one photo posting – a rarity on Art Blart – because this is ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS! Weggee, flash, a dazzling smile and a lovely pair of stockings … what more...
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Exhibition: ‘Edward Steichen: Twentieth-Century Photographer’ at deCordova...
Exhibition dates: 7th October 2016 – 26th March 2017 Just for enjoyment. Marcus . Many thankx to the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting....
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Exhibition: ‘Peter Hujar: Speed of Life’ at Fundación MAPFRE, Barcelona
Exhibition dates: 27th January – 30th April 2017 Curator: Joel Smith, “Richard L. Menschel Curator” and Director of the Department of Photography at the Morgan Library & Museum Peter Hujar: Speed...
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