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Exhibition on view

National Geographic’s American West

National Geographic photographers traveled the West over decades documenting the unique and colorful culture that built the foundation of America. National Geographic Greatest Photographs of the American West, which assembles a handpicked selection of rare and amazing images spanning 125 years, will open in 10 museums across the country – a first in exhibition history.

Participating museums include:

• Booth Western Art Museum

• Buffalo Bill Historical Center

• Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art

• Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa

• National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum

• National Geographic Museum

• National Museum of Wildlife Art

• Rockwell Museum of Western Art

• C.M. Russell Museum

• Stark Museum of Art

This exhibition opens October 27th in venues nationwide.

Taryn Simon @ Corcoran Gallery of Art

Artist Taryn Simon presents the first complete East Coast exhibition of Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII from November 10, 2012 to February 24, 2013.

A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters was produced over a four-year period (2008–11), during which the artist traveled around the world researching and recording bloodlines and their related stories. In each of the eighteen “chapters” that make up the work, the external forces of territory, power, circumstance, or religion collide with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance. The subjects Simon documents include victims of genocide in Bosnia, test rabbits infected with a lethal disease in Australia, the first woman to hijack an aircraft, and the living dead in India. Her collection is at once cohesive and arbitrary, mapping the relationships among chance, blood, and other components of fate.

A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters highlights the space between text and image, absence and presence, and order and disorder.

A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII

November 10, 2012–February 24, 2013

The Corcoran Gallery of Art

Washington, DC

Image: Taryn Simon, excerpt from Chapter XVII, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII. Wilson Centre for Photography. © 2012 Taryn Simon.

Winter Street / Winter Landscape Workshopwith Joel Meyerowitz

Barney Kulok: Building

BUILDING – BARNEY KULOK from Benazir the Cat on Vimeo.

In this short, filmed in Verona while on press for Building: Louis I. Kahn at Roosevelt Island, Barney Kulok offers a look at the process of “building” his latest monograph.

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In October 2012, Four Freedoms Park—the last design Louis I. Kahn completed before his untimely death in 1974—will open on Roosevelt Island in New York, over forty years after its commission as a memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Barney Kulok’s black-and-white photographs of the building site function as a meditation on the materiality and formal underpinnings of Kahn’s architectural thinking. Building is at once a historical record and a multilayered visual investigation of form and the subtleties of texture—elements of fundamental importance to Kahn’s philosophies. As architect Steven Holl writes, “Kulok’s photographs free the subject matter from a literal interpretation of the site. They stand as ‘Equivalents’ to the words about material, light, and shadow that Louis Kahn often spoke.”

Barney Kulok’s Building: Louis I. Kahn at Roosevelt Island will be available soon!

Building:Price: $75.00