Jonathan Anderson and Edwin Low have collaborated for decades, creating mind-bending bodies of photographic work and films that vary drastically in style from project to project. But the enduring common denominator in everything they do is observing some fascinating phenomena in the world, taking the deepest dive into studying it, and finding the cleverest way to share what they saw.
George Eastman Museum
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Peter Bagrov named new curator at Eastman Moving Image Department
The George Eastman Museum announced last month that Dr. Peter Bagrov has been appointed as the new curator in charge of its Moving Image Department. Relocating from Moscow to Rochester, he’ll be succeeding Paolo Cherchi Usai, who has taken a leadership position at Italy’s national film institute.
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Review: Eastman’s moon photography and ‘Woven’ exhibits
In a way, the exhibits are macro and micro mirrors of one another, representing order and chaos, growth and entropy. And all of life as we know it is suspended between the two, ultimately helpless.
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‘#Mobilize’ summons traces of social movements
Using GPS info from tweets with social justice hashtags, art collective Larson Shindelman creates images at the sites where the tweeter stood. The duo’s images are on view at Eastman Museum.
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Nathan Lyons retrospective at Eastman Museum
It’s the first retrospective that focuses on his photographs as a whole, exhibiting his late-life shift to digital color photography alongside his early work.
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David Levinthal’s gaze: ‘War, Myth, Desire’ at Eastman Museum
The major retrospective presents the overarching themes present throughout Levinthal’s photographic career. But what does his lens have to say about his subject matter?
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Projecting the Nitrate Picture Show
Eastman Museum’s projectionists discuss the technical art of screening notoriously combustible nitrate films.
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Development of a Photo City
Photography moves out of industry and into the galleries
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Eastman Museum highlights ‘Stories of Indian Cinema’
Adam previews “Stories of Indian Cinema” and the related exhibits at Eastman Museum, and some upcoming one-off screenings and events at The Little, VSW, and Downtown Presbyterian.
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Collaborative creativity, curated
The 2017-18 arts season will feature group shows and exhibits that span multiple venues.
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Portraits of places
I first viewed images from Lucinda Devlin’s daunting photographic series, “The Omega Suites,” in 2012, when the work was displayed at SUNY Brockport’s Tower Gallery. The photographs — sobering, meditative looks into execution chambers and other spaces where the condemned spend their final hours — have always stuck with me. Devlin’s work is being shown […]
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Affording the arts
The Trump Administration’s 2018 federal budget proposal cuts arts funding. How would that affect Rochester’s scene?
