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Allen Ginsberg and Vivian Maier

Allen Ginsberg and Vivian Maier

Howard Greenberg Gallery will present Notes from the Margins: Allen Ginsberg and Vivian Maier, a new exhibition marking the centennial of two singular artists born in 1926, whose work emerged from the cultural periphery and came to leave a lasting mark on the visual and literary imagination of the 20th century. Notes from the Margins offers a timely reconsideration of…
Stepping into Style: Fashion and the Art of Elegance

Stepping into Style: Fashion and the Art of Elegance

Holden Luntz Gallery presents, Stepping into Style, a summer exhibition that explores the intersection between photography’s intersection of lifestyle and fashion as one of the most influential ways the camera has shaped modern ideas of elegance, identity, glamour and self-expression. Bringing together works that originated from studio refinement, black and white film stock and large format equipment to later works…
Becoming Marilyn

Becoming Marilyn

So much has already been said about Marilyn Monroe. After a deprived and unhappy early life as Norma Jeane Mortenson, Marilyn began her slow rise in Hollywood thanks to her agent and lover Johnny Hyde. At the time of her death at age 36, Marilyn had reached the height of celebrity and stardom – a position that has miraculously continued…
France in the Time of Manet and Morisot

France in the Time of Manet and Morisot

Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot lived during a tumultuous yet fertile period in France. Events included war and the loss of territory; modernization and the rise of industry; and a shift from rural to urban living. As both artists were living in Paris, it became the largest city in continental Europe and the arts capital of the world. Manet and…
Emma Hartvig: Masks & Myths

Emma Hartvig: Masks & Myths

The Hulett Collection is proud to present Masks & Myths, a selection of works by Vienna-based contemporary artist Emma Hartvig. Blending cinematic atmosphere with emotional intimacy, Hartvig’s photographs explore womanhood through a deeply personal and evocative lens. Moving fluidly between portraiture, allegory, and autobiography, her images inhabit a space where vulnerability, transformation, memory, and myth converge. Throughout the exhibition, Hartvig…
Lynn Adler: And So We Moved To Petaca

Lynn Adler: And So We Moved To Petaca

Obscura Gallery is thrilled to present an exhibition and book signing for And So We Moved To Petaca: Portrait of a New Mexico Community, with photographs by Lynn Adler and curated by Bill Shapiro. The exhibition and recent book publication (University of New Mexico Press, 2026) is a sublime photographic chronicle of the efforts of several counterculture families to adopt…
Michael Kenna: Confessionali

Michael Kenna: Confessionali

In 2007, Michael Kenna visited the Chiesa di Santo Stefano in Reggio Emilia and began a series of photographs that initiated a focused, contemplative body of work on confessionals, fixed wooden booths inside a Catholic church, designed specifically for the sacrament of confession. In Italian churches, confessionals are often more decorative than in many other countries, reflecting local craftsmanship and…
Meryl Meisler: Queer-Friendly Nightlife Now

Meryl Meisler: Queer-Friendly Nightlife Now

Nearly five decades after documenting disco-era revelry, photographer Meryl Meisler returns with a bold new body of work capturing the pulse of contemporary queer nightlife—its grit, glamour, and enduring sense of community. Meryl Meisler: Queer-Friendly Nightlife Now premieres the CPW’s inaugural Upstate Photography Biennial, a new exhibition series featuring 39 artists from across the region, opening May 30, 2026. Meisler’s…
New York City Never Sleeps

New York City Never Sleeps

Peter Fetterman is pleased to present a group show celebrating 20th-century New York City. Long recognized as the epicenter of street photography — a place where the medium expanded, redefined itself, and captured the pulse of American urban life, New York contains a full spectrum of human experience. Harsh light and deep shadow shaped the city’s visual language, alternately revealing…
Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum

Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum

Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum, on view at Fraenkel Gallery from March 12 to May 22, 2026, gathers forty-five photographs made between 1961 and 1971 in spaces defined by privacy and trust. The title refers to a sacred inner room, a place not meant for casual entry, and the exhibition reflects Arbus’s rare ability to be welcomed into such environments. Bedrooms,…
Helmut Newton x Steven Klein

Helmut Newton x Steven Klein

In this exhibition, the photographic works of Helmut Newton and Steven Klein are united because they both share an inclination for the erotic, the fetishistic, the humorous, and the glamorous – elements which have universal appeal. Helmut Newton has long been known as an icon of fashion photography and scandalized magazine readers in the 1970s and 1980s with his charged…
Philippe Halsman: Portraits

Philippe Halsman: Portraits

Philippe Halsman: Portraits, on view from February 7 to March 28, 2026, celebrates the enduring legacy of one of the twentieth century’s most inventive portrait photographers. Born in Latvia and later working in Europe and the United States, Philippe Halsman developed a visual language that reshaped how public figures were photographed and perceived. His portraits are instantly recognizable for their…
Brassaï: Secret Paris

Brassaï: Secret Paris

In 1933, bewitched by the city of Paris, the photographer Brassaï published Paris by Night, a groundbreaking photobook depicting the shadowed streets, cafés, lovers, and nocturnal wanderers that came to define the modern image of the city. A new exhibition at Howard Greenberg Gallery presents nearly 40 photographs from Brassaï’s celebrated Paris by Night series alongside selections from The Secret…
Fragmentary Glimpses: Alfred Stieglitz and David Vestal in New York

Fragmentary Glimpses: Alfred Stieglitz and David Vestal in New York

One thing is certain about New York City—it is always changing. We know this on an instinctual level, but the art of the times is what reveals the city’s shapeshifting energy. As a versatile medium, photography both documents what a camera views while simultaneously revealing more than what is seen at any given moment. Robert Mann Gallery is pleased to…
Photography´s New Vision: Experiments in Seeing

Photography´s New Vision: Experiments in Seeing

The New Vision movement of the 1920s and 1930s offered a revolutionary approach to seeing the world. It represented a rebellion against traditional photographic methods and an embrace of avant-garde experimentation and innovative techniques. László Moholy-Nagy, an artist and influential teacher at the Bauhaus in Germany, named this period of expansion the “New Vision.” Today, the term encompasses photographic developments…
Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell

Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell

During the 1930s and early 1940s, George Hurrell (1904–1992) reigned as Hollywood’s preeminent portrait photographer. Hired by the Publicity Department at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) when he was only twenty-five, Hurrell advanced rapidly to become the studio’s principal portraitist. With a keen eye for artful posing, innovative lighting effects, and skillful retouching, he produced timeless portraits that burnished the luster of many…
Nouvelle Vague French Photography from the 1950s and 1960s

Nouvelle Vague French Photography from the 1950s and 1960s

Peter Fetterman Gallery presents Nouvelle Vague, an evocative survey celebrating the essence of French photography through the eyes of some of the twentieth century’s most admired artists. Bringing together works by Edouard Boubat, Raymond Cauchetier, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, Sabine Weiss, and others, the exhibition pays tribute to a generation that forever transformed the language of…
The Poetry of Everyday Life Master Photographers of the French Humanist Movement

The Poetry of Everyday Life Master Photographers of the French Humanist Movement

Keith de Lellis Gallery is proud to present “The Poetry of Everyday Life – Master Photographers of the French Humanist Movement,” a landmark exhibition celebrating the timeless work of mid-20th century photographers who captured the heart and soul of post-war France. Featuring both iconic and little known works by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, Édouard Boubat, Sabine Weiss, this…
Stephen Shore: Early Works

Stephen Shore: Early Works

303 Gallery is pleased to present Stephen Shore: Early Work, a selection of works from the artist’s teenage years between 1960 – 1965, coinciding with his newly released book, “Early Work”, published by MACK. The largely unpublished works predate his series The Velvet Years, taken at Warhol’s Factory, and offer a distinct account of early 1960’s New York. These visceral…
Melissa Shook: Freedom to Create

Melissa Shook: Freedom to Create

Stevenson Library at Bard College is pleased to present Melissa Shook: Freedom to Create, curated by Fiona Laugharn, an independent curator and Bard College alumnus. “I have begun to realize how important freedom is for the person who desires to create in any way.”- Melissa Shook (age 17), Bard College Application, 1956 Melissa Shook: Freedom to Create traces the celebrated…