Briana Ellis-Gibbs

museum exhibitions schedule Jun 4, 2026

Lesbian rebels, exotic dancing and domesticity: New York’s Upstate Photography Biennial – in pictures

The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) in Kingston, New York, has opened the first-ever New York Upstate Photography Biennial, featuring the work of 39 artists from the Hudson Valley and beyond. Co-curated by Marina Chao and Adam Giles Ryan, the exhibition showcases diverse photographic practices, including Morgan Gwenwald's documentation of a lesbian feminist collective in the 1970s, Allison DeBritz's collages challenging media objectification, Robert Kalman's portraits paired with handwritten responses about American identity, and Viktorsha Uliyanova's textile-based works confronting Soviet conformity. The show runs until September 6, 2026.

museum exhibitions schedule Jun 2, 2026

‘A new way to express myself’: Harlem teens share their lives through photography – in pictures

The Guardian features a photo essay from the Studio Museum in Harlem's 'Expanding the Walls' program, which for 25 years has taught photography to Harlem teenagers. The exhibition 'Expanding the Walls: Making Connections Between Photography, History, and Community' runs until June 8, 2026, showcasing works by young photographers like Zemi Moreno-Billingsley, Elanie Vargas, and Joel Angel Sebastian, who use the medium to explore identity, family history, and everyday life.

museum exhibitions schedule May 28, 2026

Coke can hair rollers and Puerto Rican pride: the street photography of Janette Beckman – in pictures

The article announces a major exhibition of street photographer Janette Beckman's work at Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP). Titled "Rebels + Icons: The Photography of Janette Beckman," the show runs until 18 April 2027 and features over 700 archival and newly taken images. Beckman is known for capturing musical legends like Salt-N-Pepa and Run-DMC, as well as her intimate street portraits of New Yorkers from the 1990s to the present, including subjects from the Puerto Rican Day parade, Coney Island, Harlem, and Brooklyn.

article culture schedule May 13, 2026

‘It’s about processing’: the artist who spent three months recreating the most poignant moments with her ex

Photographer Diana Markosian has created a new project titled "Replaced," in which she spent three months recreating intimate moments from her past relationship with an ex-partner. To document the experience of falling in and out of love, she hired an actor to play her ex and traveled with him to locations they once visited together, including Miami, Paris, Naples, Capri, and Nice. The series blurs documentary and fiction, using staged reenactments to process grief, heartbreak, and healing.

museum exhibitions schedule May 6, 2026

Backflips, boulders and dancing dogs: the images that shaped art photography – in pictures

A new exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum, titled "Photography as a Way of Life," celebrates the photographers who helped establish art photography as a serious movement from the 1940s to the 1970s. The show features works by Minor White, Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan, and others, including images by Ming Smith, Donna-Lee Phillips, and Walter Chappell. The exhibition runs until September 7 and highlights how these educators and artists transformed photography's role in both the art world and higher education.

museum exhibitions schedule Apr 28, 2026

Read a book, flip off a Nazi: when reading meant resistance – in pictures

A new exhibition at Poster House in New York, titled "Reading Under Fire: Arming Minds & Hearts During Wartime," showcases vintage posters from World War I and World War II that promoted reading and book donations to support troops. The posters, drawn from the collections of the American Library Association, the YMCA, and other organizations, encouraged the public to supply soldiers with reading material as a form of morale-boosting and education. The exhibition runs until 1 November and is curated by Molly Guptill Manning.

museum exhibitions schedule Apr 22, 2026

Ghosts, nudes and lesbian pageant queens: highlights from NYC’s Photography Show – in pictures

Aipad: The Photography Show is taking place at the Park Avenue Armory in New York from April 22-26, 2026, featuring works from over 70 galleries. The exhibition highlights include Bill Brandt's 1952 nude, Rania Matar's portrait of a young woman in Lebanon, and Zanele Muholi's 2009 portrait of a lesbian pageant queen, alongside works by Tania Franco Klein, Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, and others that explore themes of identity, anxiety, and alternative realities.

article culture schedule Mar 26, 2026

Protect ya neck! Wu-Tang Clan as they’ve never been seen before – in pictures

Photographer Eddie Otchere has released a new photozine, "Wu-Tang 4 + 1 More," featuring a decade's worth of previously unseen portraits of the Wu-Tang Clan and other hip-hop artists. The images, captured between 1994 and 2004, document intimate and candid moments with members like RZA, Method Man, and Ghostface Killah, chronicling the group's early years and Otchere's determined mission to photograph each member.

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