20th Century and Contemporary Archive
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Sneak peek: Contingent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America
Posted on December 11, 2015The recent coverage of artist Ai Weiwei’s planned use of Legos in an artwork about free speech to be included in the exhbition “Andy Warhol / Ai Weiwei” at the […] -
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Laura McPhee’s exceptional photos of Calcutta
Posted on December 4, 2015If you are in or near New York City – or plan to be over the next week – you have the marvelous opportunity to see photographs taken in Calcutta […] -
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Notes from the Field – Donald Blumberg Photographs: The Master Sets
Posted on November 25, 2015Ivy Sanders Schneider– The American photographer Donald Blumberg has the eye of a scientist. Like slides enlarged and displayed, his photographs are data points: watch the news coverage of the […] -
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A photograph that deals with the real world… Irving Penn, beyond beauty
Posted on October 23, 2015“A photograph that deals with the real world but at the same time seeks to free itself of it.” – Irving Penn, unpublished note, about 2007 Ivy Sanders Schneider- A […] -
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Beauty & freedom, guise & dolls: Warhol & Mapplethorpe
Posted on October 17, 2015The exciting exhibition Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls opened this weekend at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford. Focusing on New York in the 1970s and early 80s, […] -
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Sneak peek: On becoming an art collector, from an interview with Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner
Posted on October 14, 2015For more than 30 years, Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner have devoted themselves to contemporary art, and through their passion and acumen have assembled an extraordinary collection. This fall, […]