Act, his new exhibition at the Laurence Miller Gallery, deals with the mentally and physically disabled. Denis Darzacq, looking good and sporting fashionable sneakers, sat in the patio of an East Village Mexican restaurant and spoke to us about the liberation of disabled bodies ...

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For his first exhibition at the Galerie VU’, Nicolas Comment presents Mexico City Waltz. The series is inspired by three texts: Jack Kerouac’s Tristessa, Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, and Antonin Artaud’s Voyage au pays des Tarahumaras. These texts served Com...

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The new series by this Canadian artist, on display at the David Zwirner Gallery, plays with juxtapositions. Here, in these fictional pictures, he confronts two time periods, that of the civil war in Angola and the emergence of Disco in New York.

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In the news, what happens off-camera is the only thing that should interest a worthy photographer . The communicators, the ones that get a Rolex after 50 years of service, and the people that that pay , don’t like what happens off-camera. Is it so revolting to show those “things that mus...

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Perhaps nothing is so romantic as what remains after that which was great has long faded away. The Romantic era of the nineteenth century was founded upon this, the idea that emotion is an authentic source of aesthetic experience. And the emotions Romanticism values most are those the remind ...

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Jonas Cuénin, one of our New York contributors, has a passion for Irving Penn, and in particular one of the photographer’s most famous series: Small Trades. Jonas’ web series, “Of Pictures and Men” (Des images et des hommes) is a tribute to Penn’s work. It focuses on all those in the ...

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