The myth of American photographer Diane Arbus (1923-71) is remarkably durable. Mention her name and a familiar shorthand materializes. The documenter of "freaks", of outsiders, of those on the very ...
"Do you remember your first Diane Arbus photograph?" The question posed by gallerist Jeffrey Fraenkel provoked murmurs among the opening-night crowd at "Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum" on Friday, ...
If you think you are capable of living without writing,” said the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, “do not write.” He didn’t live to meet Diane Arbus, but if he had seen her photographs he would have ...
Critics compared her unnerving images to those of Diane Arbus, but praised her ability to infuse her subjects with warmth and humanity. By Adam Nossiter How do you show 450 Arbus photos? In a maze of ...
A projection outside Diane Arbus: Constellation at Park Avenue Armory in New York. I was not allowed to take my own photos of the show. (photo Hakim Bishara/Hyperallergic) The era of Diane Arbus’s ...
You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. “Constellation,” a Diane Arbus exhibition at the Park ...
Four decades after Diane Arbus was found dead in a New York bathtub with both of her wrists slit, the art world is still analyzing her life and her artwork for fresh clues, hoping to reveal new ...
Right now, Berlin’s Gropius Bau is hosting the largest Diane Arbus exhibition ever held. Titled Diane Arbus: Konstellationen, it features 454 prints, many of them never displayed before, in a show ...
Christie’s has announced a single-owner auction of the photography collection accumulated by Trevor Traina, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Austria from 2018 to 2021. The October 3 New York sale ...
The movie "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus," starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr., is cinematically pretty complicated, so it seems valid to start off by saying a little about who ...
Radiant Rembrandts, vibrant portraiture of everyday life and uncanny photographs in New York and Boston, to catch before they’re gone, come August and September. By Rachel Sherman Critics compared her ...