While some museums remain closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the same variety of weekly Apollo exhibits will come with exhibits at recently reopening establishments, as well as virtual projects that provide virtual art and culture.
In the last quarter of the 19th century, the firm’s cards, cheap cardboard-mounted albumin prints, reshaped the genre of portrait photography in the United States. They have turned the practice of having a portrait of a rare formal occasion on one occasion, and with that, as this exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum proposes to show, there were more opportunities to laugh with photography. Tracking the progression of the signature map from its origins in celebrity culture, the exhibition focuses on elaborate costumes and theater sets designed through studio photographers and janitors. It runs from August 18 to November 1. Learn more on Carter’s website.
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Another to see these colossal ‘statement images’ at the reopening of the National Gallery of Scotland
At the Barbican, a new series of large-scale drawings tells the story of an imaginary prehistoric society run by women
An exhibition commemorating the anniversary of the birth of the German Expressionist artist at Dresden’s Albertinum
Art museums that see themselves as reflected image objects think more about their usefulness and what they want to change.
As museums around the world prepare to reopen, many do so with a renewed sense of purpose.
The Syrian-born artist in the United States talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about her sculptural dioramas from war-torn cities and gives her a message of hope for the future.