popular culture & art without limits
popular culture & art without limits
Throughout their career, American photographer Lola Flash has often focused on social, political, LGBTQ, and feminist issues. Flash is of African American and Native American heritage. Growing up in Montclair, New Jersey, they developed an interest in photography as a…
Aaron Siskind (1903-1991): From Documentarian to Abstract Expressionist Influential American photographer Aaron Siskind did not pick up a camera until age 26. The New York native was gifted a camera as a wedding gift and, until then, had been working…
American photographer Philip Perkis has influenced a generation of students, artists, and fellow instructors. He is Professor Emeritus at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1991. The resulting body of work, entitled Mexico, was created…
After eight years of delays, Norway’s National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design is set to open on June 11th. The ample space, sprawling across 13,000 square meters and housing 5,000 works, merged five of Norway’s foremost art and design…
Da Nang, the largest economic and cultural center in central Vietnam, is a bustling port city boasting tranquil beaches, vibrant national parks, and a mélange of historical and cultural attractions. The Han River flows through the city’s center, with parks…
In the simplest terms, photomontage is the process of combining or layering photographs together to express more about the subject than what can be shown by a single image. The artwork was initially created by cutting, gluing, and arranging photographs…
Barbara Kruger, the American conceptual artist well known for her collage and graphic design work, rose to prominence in the 1980s with her iconic black and white photographs overlaid with bold, pithy text examining the themes of feminism, capitalism, and…