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People visit the In Focus: Protest exhibition on July 1, 2021 at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. The exhibition features images captured during periods of social struggle in the United States, including works by Dorothea Lange, Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce Davidson and John Simmons. Curated by Mazie Harris, the exhibition which opened this week will run until October 10, 2021. Frederic J. BROWN / AFP.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-The J. Paul Getty Museum presents In Focus: Protest, an exhibition featuring images made during periods of social struggle in the United States, and highlighting the myriad roles protest photographs play in shaping our understanding of American life. The exhibition is on view at the Getty Center Museum June 29 October 10, 2021. Photographs not only capture a nations values and beliefs but also help shape them. Camera in hand, photographers often take to the streets, recording protests and demonstrations or bear
Pencil Of Rays: Sara Anstis @ Galerie Fabian Lang, Zurich
Galerie Fabian Lang // May 07, 2021
May 07, 2021 | in Painting
It was a bit over a year since we first introduced the works of Sara Anstis, enthralled by her trippy visuals dominated by almost exclusively nude muses. And while the exuberance of the visuals clashed with the intimate format of her pieces on paper, the artist had scaled up her work significantly for the upcoming solo presentation with Galerie Fabian Lang in Zurich.
Opening on May 7th,
Pencil Of Rays brings together the largest body of work by the Swedish Canadian artist, comprising 9 pastels on paper and one oil and casein on canvas. Still building her images around the archetypal feminine subjects, Anstis is utilizing a bigger scale to create more elaborate, narrative-richer compositions. Evoking medieval art in a way the scenes are depicting depth and perspective (Silken Windhound, January, both 2020), the artist is using such an outdated approach as a