Opening Today: Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography

(via The Museum of Modern Art)

Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography

May 7, 2010–March 21, 2011


The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street New York, NY 10019
The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, third floor

For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography presents a selection of outstanding photographs by women artists, charting the medium’s history from the dawn of the modern period to the present. Including over two hundred works, this exhibition features celebrated masterworks and new acquisitions from the collection by such figures as Diane Arbus, Berenice Abbott, Claude Cahun, Imogen Cunningham, Rineke Dijkstra, Florence Henri, Roni Horn, Nan Goldin, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Lucia Moholy, Tina Modotti, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems, among many others. The exhibition also highlights works drawn from a variety of curatorial departments, including Bottoms, a large-scale Fluxus wallpaper by Yoko Ono.

Catch MOMA's New Photography 2009 before Jan. 11

from MOMA:

New Photography 2009 is a thematic presentation of significant recent work in photography that examines and expands the conventional definitions of the medium. Although the six artists in this installation—Walead Beshty, Daniel Gordon, Leslie Hewitt, Carter Mull, Sterling Ruby, and Sara VanDerBeek—represent diverse points of view, working methods, and pictorial modes ranging from abstract to representational, their images all begin in the studio or the darkroom and result from processes involving collection, assembly, and manipulation. Many of the works are made with everyday materials and objects, as well as images from the Internet, magazines, newspapers, and books. Some of the artists also work in other mediums and their pictures relate to disciplines such as drawing, sculpture, and installation. As traditional photographic techniques are being quickly replaced by digital technologies, the artists included here examine the process and structure of making photographs.

Through January 11, 2010 at MOMA

Facebook status sparks discussion.

"MoMA's Fourth and Fifth floor Lack Women"

Paddy Johnson of Art Fag City combed through a lengthy discussion on art critic, Jerry Saltz's status update on Facebook about the lack of women artists on display in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art. According to Saltz, “Of the 383 works on the 4th & 5th flrs. of MoMA’s perm. coll., only 19 are by women (4%).”

Read more here.

Where Are All the Women?

worth reading: Jerry Saltz's "Where Are All the Women?" article, published on November 18, 2007 in New York Magazine.