In March 2011, the GwinZegal Center for Art and Research is inaugurating a new exhibition space in Guingamp, resulting from the “visual arts” project they began in 2003 to produce and distribute exhibitions and publish books. The space can be defined as an experimental place, a...

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This marks the American photographer’s 4th trip to Cuba since the late 1990s. Cuba has historically been one of Michael Eastman’s most successful series. Faded aristocratic mansions and architectural facades carry an atmosphere of neglect and decay, while maintaining the vibrant ton...

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This week David Schonauer will focus primarily on Libya with a picture by Alaguri featured in The Atlantic showing a graffiti of Moammar el-Qaddafi on a wall in Benghazi captioned “Africa’s monkey of all monkeys”. A way of evoking the words the dictator pronounced when desc...

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Although I have already met my intermediate Kickstarter goal, I have until March 21st to raise funds. The estimated cost for two weeks of shooting in the highly contaminated Exclusion Zone is $25,000 (a car and driver alone costs $600/day). However, in total, I plan to raise $50,000 ...

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The Moscow Museum of Modern Art devotes its five floors to one of the most controversial artists of the former USSR. From Azerbaijani origins, Rauf Mamedov takes advantage of the space for a retrospective of his work. The exhibition is organized by curator Aïdan Salakhova, herself being an...

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Following up on the “Photographic Explorations” series that began several years ago, the Société de Ventes Volontaires (SVV) Le Mouël, with Viviane Esders as expert, is auctioning 19th and early 20th century pictures from Asia, the Pacific, Africa, and the Americas. The sale will take...

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Sumatra after a tsunami? L’Aquila after the earthquake? “I didn’t give it a thought” says Gregory Crewdson, standing in the center of the Gagosian Gallery in Rome, where his exhibition will be on show until March 5th. It’s called “Sanctuary”. This famous sanctuary is depicted in forty-...

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