The Serpentine Gallery is holding a retrospective exhibition forJonas Mekas, founder of Anthology Film Archives in New York with his brother and other agitators of the 1950s and the decades that followed. The exhibition was conceived by the artist as a way to revisit his archives, wh...

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When the San Francisco punk scene took off in 1976, Jim Jocoy dropped out of UC Santa Cruz, got a job at a copy store, and went to punk clubs at night where he photographed his friends. Together the members of this small independent scene made art, music, videos, and other DIY productions. Jocoy...

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“Modernity? Perspectives from France and Turkey” explores the effects of modernity on contemporary art. The exhibition looks into the phenomenon of modernity and its confrontation for artists , which is still valid today. The works in the exhibition focus on the dynamic...

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The video artist Basma Alsharif and the photographer Yazan Khalili, both Palestinian, take a documentary approach to their art, basing their work on their own personal and emotional experiences. Each artist speaks metaphorically of the political situation with eloquent contradictions.

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Last Thursday London’s Photographers’ Gallery opened its doors to three new exhibitions exploring ideas around photo collage.
On the second floor the gallery presents the first UK exhibition of the work of Geraldo De Barros (1923 – 1998), a key figure in Brazilian art and design...

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The V&A is presenting a free exhibition of Middle Eastern photography that features some of the region’s most celebrated artists. The theme is somewhat broad, geographically speaking—Iran is perhaps overly represented—and few risks have been taken, but one has to consider the...

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Paul Frèches is presenting a group exhibition questioning the idea of form, specifically, the final form as a decisive element of a work in the context of the exhibition and the physical interaction with the public. The exhibition brings together photographs, photographic installa...

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What remains from Studio Joe, Beirut, Lebanon, is a set of about 30 pictures, portraits and self-portraits that would have disappeared without the attention of Roubina Margossian. A photographer based in Beirut, she was walking through Bourj Hammoud when she was attracted by an old man sitting in ...

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Kevin Downs is a photojournalist. He covers mainly local news, daily life, natural disasters, and the political and social realities of his community. The stories aren’t always red-hot, but they’re nonetheless corrosive , and the community is his own. 
More than two months after Sandy, the m...

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On Monday, January 21, 2013, the administrative receiver Maître Poli will have on his desk all of the twenty or so proposals from lawyers and/or companies to take over the agency Sipa Press, which has been in bankruptcy reorganization proceedings since December 6, 2012. The quality of...

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