NEW YORK — One of the first photographs in An-My Lê's retrospective “Between Two Rivers/Giữa hai giòng sông/Entre deux rivières” is of a group of people staring up at the sky. The show runs through ...

Ground Rules,” the artist’s first retrospective, is on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through April 19, 2026.

Through more than 120 photographs by more than four dozen leading contemporary artists, the exhibition explores the phenomenon of “people watching” as a recreational activity, an act of surveillance, ...

This streetlight mystic shows her painterly photography at MoMA in an archive that celebrates long exposures and perceptual improvisation. By Holland Cotter The stellar photographer Ming Smith ...

Photography and the American West have a lot in common. Both were “discovered” by Europeans in recent centuries, despite the fact that neither was exactly new. The camera obscura existed in the ...

A group of experts met to discuss the images that have best captured — and changed — the world since 1955. Credit... Supported by By M.H. MillerBrendan EmbserEmmanuel Iduma and Lucy McKeon Let’s get ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

Hugh Eakin’s new book, “Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America” (Crown), isn’t really about Picasso, or about war, or about art. Its subject is the creation of a market for a certain product, ...