Protesters travelled to Paris and demanded The Louvre Museum no longer bear the name of a family they feel is complicit in the opioid epidemic: the Sackler family. The Sacklers are a British-American family primarily known for founding and owning the massive pharmaceutical company, Purdue Pharma. While many large pharmaceutical companies have come under fire…
"It’s Not Me, It’s You" Private View: May 23rd 6 – 8 pm Exhibition: May 24 – June 29, 2019 Gazelli Art House 39 Dover Street London W1S 4NN "It’s Not Me, It’s You" is a group exhibition exploring how one’s physical body can be owned and dispossessed through intimate interaction, on view at Gazelli Art House…
From April 13th to 15th, the New York Times TimesTalks Festival paired an extraordinary selection of public figures with Times journalists for panel discussions on pertinent subjects including gender equality, addiction and activism. On the 15th, an all-female group of United States senators gathered to discuss on women in politics, public policy and the special relationships cultivated among women…
November 22 through 26 marked the debut of Photo Vogue Festival in Milan, Italy. A main theme and exhibition of the festival was The Female Gaze, which highlighted the work of cutting-edge female photographers who are relentlessly revolutionizing how the female body is portrayed in fashion. Vogue's embracement of the female gaze as viable subject matter proves that mainstream media is…
"Inside - Artists and Writers in Reading Prison" Artangel @ Reading Prison Forbury Road, Reading RG1 3HY, UK September 4 - October 30, 2016 This week UK organization, Artangel, opened a new exhibition at Reading Prison. “Inside - Artists and Writers in Reading Prison” features a plethora of high profile artists, all who are responding to…
View Photo Gallery of The Watermill Center "Fada: House of Madness" benefit (50 photos) On July 30th, the Watermill Center welcomed more than 1,000 guests to the Hamptons for the Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation’s 23rd Annual Summer Benefit & Auction. Themed “FADA: House of Madness,” this year’s event drew its biggest crowd ever, which may…
Nan Goldin "Ballad of Sexual Dependency" The Museum of Modern Art, NYC June 11 - February 12, 2017 The MoMA has reinstalled Nan Goldin's 700 snapshot slideshow. The portraits are sequenced in unison with a soundtrack that correlates to the photographs. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a personal narrative taken from Nan Goldin's experiences…
June at the MoMA has an impressive line up of four contemporary installations that offers perspectives of artists who utilize new and old technologies in profound ways. Installations include Nan Goldin's famous photographic personal diary, Tony Oursler's phantasmagoric environments, Bouchra Kahlili's urgently topical videos, and Teiji Furuhashi's kinetic room-sized installations. Nan Goldin: The Ballad of…
On October 29th, Keith Rubenstein and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn hosted Lucien Smith’s "Macabre Suite". Lauding concerts as the most evolved level of performance where people from all different backgrounds and contexts come together in the same space and environment, Smith conceived Macabre Suite as an “art happening” comprised of three parts— a special dance performance by Kobe…
The second year of Paris Photo's United States exhibition is set to commence next week at Paramount Studios, showcasing images from top photographers around the globe with curated content from 81 galleries and booksellers. The program includes a special film screening and photo tribute to the late Dennis Hopper as well as a collection of…
