Ji Zhou: Symbiosis

From June 22, 2022 to August 27, 2022

398 West Street

New York, NY 10014

Eli Klein Gallery is proud to present “Ji Zhou: Symbiosis” - the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. The artist, based on his observation and reﬂection on the current situation of the contemporary environment, focuses on plants in the works in this exhibition. Every piece was shot and laid out on a specially designed structure, the light from which allows the artist to isolate and inspect each plant, with an emphasis on its pattern. The contrast between the natural plants and the appearance of artificial photography suggests a symbiotic relationship between what is ordinarily provided, and what is altered by humans.

Since Ji Zhou’s 2017 solo exhibition at the Gallery, the world has changed radically due, in part, to the global pandemic. By experiencing this global change, the artist began to shift the focus of his works from urban landscapes to honeysuckle - the flower whose leaves endure the winter - and created the Metempsychosis - 2022 (2022) series. Honeysuckles are very adaptable and are not strictly dependent on soil and climate. When photographed, the flowers can wither faster than they grow naturally, but it is also because of the photography that the flowers can be framed as they once bloomed. The Metempsychosis series is a group of abstract expressionist photographs inspired by Jackson Pollock's paintings. “Vitality in Action” is the emphasis for these works. The images are given a gradient effect and the plants are brought to life by the illumination of the light. The blooming flowers and the wilted flowers intertwine with each other: they seem to be struggling and blooming in the withering. The real and the illusory captured in these photographs showcase the full cycle of the plants’ lives in one united display.

Under a monochromatic filter, Twining Florets (2021), a lightbox work, shows a seemingly contradictory, but intertwined, scene of reality and fantasy. Staying home during the pandemic forced many people to lose direct contact with the natural world, leaving their memories of nature and plants blurred. The sides of the lightbox are left uncolored, allowing the viewers to see the original color of the work through the slit. Although the entirety of the image is still inaccessible via this view, it is enough to restore, aided by one’s imagination, the original appearance of the part covered by the filter.

Symmetry and asymmetry, order and disorder, are embodied in Ji Zhou’s works. In Full Bloom (2021) and Prosperity (2021), the artist placed plants and flowers in man-made arrangements, misrepresenting what’s natural. Plants grow wildly around a central pattern composed with flowers and branches to form a vibrant scene and reflect the vitality that plants exude. Although Hasht Bihisht (2021) follows a similar plant placement format, the artist chose to arrange each plant in a more disorderly placement. A few colorful flowers bloom and are intertwined with withered branches and leaves, creating a paradox in which vitality and gloom co-exist. Additionally, the disordered arrangement of plants in Ji Zhou’s works indicates the blurred boundaries amongst plants. The duration required for plants to grow to maturity is concealed when stacking them together; each plays a valuable role in the natural environment and should be respected.

This exhibition is also the debut of the Plant portrait - Tillandsia (2022) series. In contrast to Ji Zhou’s other works in this show, sophisticated plant arrangements are absent. Tillandsia, a tenacious plant that can grow merely by absorbing nutrients and moisture in the air, are presented in monochrome in this series. Even in a “hopeless” environment, this plant can still grow exuberantly. Each work was made by combining two photographs: the left and right half. While both photos seem to match perfectly in each work, there are still subtle dissonances. In fact, Ji Zhou intentionally arranged the photos to create a barely noticeable distinction in each work, creating another layer of artificiality to what at first glance, suggests natural growth. Under this symbiotic setup, different snapshots are fused into a new hybrid.

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Holden Luntz Gallery | Palm Beach, FL

Best in Show

From December 20, 2025 to January 17, 2026

Holden Luntz Gallery presents Best in Show @ JL Modern, an exhibition that honors the timeless bond between humans and their canine companions. Bringing together photographs created across more than a century, the show explores how dogs—whether posed, wandering, or entirely unaware of the camera—have shaped the emotional and visual language of photography. Here, dogs emerge not only as subjects, but as partners in storytelling, helping artists reveal humor, tenderness, and the subtle rhythms of daily life. At the heart of the exhibition are images rooted in humanist and documentary traditions. Early street scenes, quiet neighborhoods, and improvised encounters capture dogs moving naturally through the world, offering moments of spontaneity that enrich the narrative. In these photographs, the animals often become silent guides, leading viewers through landscapes of childhood, friendship, and fleeting urban interludes. Their presence carries an authenticity that anchors each frame, reminding us that the simplest gestures can evoke lasting meaning. The exhibition also considers how fashion and celebrity photography have embraced dogs as unexpected agents of charm. A poised figure crossing a station with a sleek hound or a glamorous actress sharing a candid moment with her pet shows how canine presence can disarm even the most carefully constructed image. Within these scenes, dogs create openings—revealing personality, softening composure, or adding a note of surprise that lingers in the viewer’s memory. Playfulness and experimentation appear throughout the exhibition as well, especially in works that use dogs as catalysts for visual invention. Performative, humorous, or architecturally composed, these images demonstrate how a simple shift in scale, gesture, or setting can transform an ordinary moment into something extraordinary. Spanning vintage prints to contemporary works, Best in Show celebrates the enduring capacity of dogs to shape mood, deepen narrative, and connect us to shared experiences that transcend time. Image: Elliott Erwitt — England, 1974 printed later Silver Gelatin Photograph 11 x 14 in, at JL Modern Gallery © Elliott Erwitt

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Obscura Gallery | Santa Fe, NM

One-of-a-Kind III

From November 22, 2025 to January 17, 2026

Obscura Gallery presents its third annual winter holiday exhibition, One-of-a-Kind III, a celebration of originality and craftsmanship that brings together a diverse group of contemporary photo-based artists. The exhibition showcases unique artworks priced under $1,500, offering collectors and art lovers the opportunity to discover pieces available exclusively at the Santa Fe gallery. This year’s show features ten artists, among them Michael Berman, Susan Burnstine, Gordon Coons, Lou Peralta, Sara Silks, Aline Smithson, Eddie Soloway, Lynn Stern, Robert Stivers, and Bryan Whitney. In addition, the gallery introduces Santa Fe jewelry artist Karin Worden, whose handcrafted pieces embody the same spirit of individuality that defines the exhibition. The open house event will take place on Saturday, November 28, from 1–4 pm, with many of the artists in attendance. While photography today is most often associated with reproducibility, One-of-a-Kind III invites viewers to reconsider the medium through the lens of singular creation. In the early days of photography, many techniques inherently produced unique images—prints that could never be exactly replicated. This exhibition honors that lineage while embracing modern experimentation, highlighting how artists continue to reinvent photographic traditions in innovative ways. The works on view span a range of historical and contemporary techniques, including gelatin silver prints enhanced with mixed media, cyanotypes, collages, and gold leaf applications. Some pieces explore texture through hand-applied surfaces or the integration of organic materials, while others incorporate digital processes and even cedar-smoked relief printing. The inclusion of handcrafted jewelry extends the conversation beyond the photographic image, celebrating artistry in all its forms. Together, these works embody the tactile, personal, and unrepeatable nature of true craftsmanship—a reminder that in an era of mass production, there remains profound beauty in the singular and handmade. Image: Japonisme: Fireworks and Cherry Blossoms © Aline Smithson

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Leica Gallery San Francisco | San Francisco, CA

ECHO: Various Photographers

From November 10, 2025 to January 17, 2026

The Gallery at Leica Store San Francisco, in collaboration with Camera West, presents ECHO—a poetic tribute to twenty-five years of photographic exploration, connection, and vision. Marking Camera West’s quarter-century milestone, the exhibition brings together twenty-five photographers whose works converse across time, tracing the evolution of seeing, feeling, and understanding through the lens. ECHO is not merely an anniversary exhibition; it is a meditation on how images shape memory and how memory, in turn, reshapes our way of seeing. Each participating artist reflects on their creative journey, linking early sparks of inspiration with the refined sensibility that only experience affords. The result is a dialogue between beginnings and transformations—a rhythm of curiosity, hesitation, and revelation that defines every photographer’s path. The exhibition embraces the notion that growth in art rarely follows a straight line. Instead, it moves like light itself—bending, diffusing, deepening. Through this interplay of time and perspective, ECHO celebrates the beauty of persistence and the tenderness of artistic evolution. From vibrant urban scenes to quiet landscapes, from portraits that reveal the soul to abstractions that whisper of emotion, each work carries the resonance of both past and present vision. Supported by Camera West and Underdog Film Lab, the show gathers artists such as Dylan Aiken, Maura Allen, Lynn Johnson, Teresa Freitas, and Vincent Ricardel, among others, whose images collectively honor the enduring spirit of photography as both craft and calling. Presented with quiet reverence at the Leica Store San Francisco, ECHO stands as a luminous reflection on what it means to witness, to grow, and to share. It reminds us that in every frame lives a trace of time—an echo of who we were and who we are still becoming. Image: Scaled © Gary Copeland

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Craig Krull Gallery | Los Angeles, CA

Julian Wasser | Pop and Burn

From November 29, 2025 to January 17, 2026

Julian Wasser’s long career unfolds like a fast-moving reel of American culture, capturing both its glittering surfaces and its darker undercurrents. Julian Wasser | Pop and Burn reflects on this singular photographer whose instinct for being in the right place at the right moment echoed the talent of his early mentor, Weegee. Riding alongside the famed press photographer in Washington, D.C., Wasser learned early that the camera could be both witness and provocation, a tool that demanded speed, nerve, and an unblinking eye. When Wasser relocated to Los Angeles in the 1960s, he stepped into a city pulsing with unrest, glamour, and ambition. As TIME Magazine’s West Coast photographer, he chronicled the decisive scenes of a transforming era—from civil rights demonstrations to the explosive energy of the Sunset Strip. His images of cultural icons, from Marilyn Monroe to the Beatles, reveal a photographer attuned not only to celebrity but also to the subtleties of character and mood. Even his portrait session with a then-unknown Joan Didion would become an enduring part of her public image. Yet Wasser’s archive extends far beyond the famous faces. Pop and Burn highlights his fascination with the everyday stage of Los Angeles: teenagers drifting through nightclubs, shop clerks on break, or young strangers lingering on the edge of neon-lit streets. Framed in his trademark high contrast, these scenes feel urgent and unvarnished, the flash freezing fleeting gestures into bold visual statements. The exhibition celebrates Wasser’s raw, hard-edged vision—shaped by years of chasing breaking news in his ‘65 Mustang, press pass clutched at the ready. His photographs, steeped in both Pop culture and the burn of vulnerability that fame can ignite, offer an unfiltered look at a city and a nation in motion. In honoring his legacy, Pop and Burn recognizes a photographer who transformed immediacy into lasting cultural memory. Image: Julian Wasser Blowing Bubbles signed on verso, not stamped Vintage gelatin silver print 9 1/4 x 13 1/4" (CK143) at Craig Krull Gallery © Julian Wasser

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Etherton Gallery | Tucson, AZ

Jason Lee & Frank Gohlke: Alternative Views

From December 02, 2025 to January 17, 2026

Etherton Gallery presents Alternative Views, an exhibition bringing together two compelling approaches to American landscape photography through the work of Jason Lee and Frank Gohlke. This exhibition offers viewers a rare opportunity to explore the American landscape through distinct lenses: Lee’s spontaneous, road-trip explorations capture overlooked moments of everyday life, while Gohlke’s sustained, methodical attention reveals the deeper narratives embedded in place over time. Jason Lee’s photographs span small towns and rural landscapes across California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas. His images, often both black and white and color, carry a cinematic quality influenced by filmmakers such as Terence Malick, Wim Wenders, and David Byrne, and the observational precision of photographers like Henry Wessel. Lee’s work captures the unexpected juxtapositions and visual ironies of the American West, presenting fleeting moments in daily life with a sense of quiet nostalgia. His images ask viewers to pause and reconsider the scenes we often pass by unnoticed, revealing beauty in the unremarkable. Frank Gohlke, known as the poet of the everyday, has dedicated five decades to documenting the intersection of human activity and natural forces. His work shifted the focus of landscape photography from grand vistas to the ordinary landscapes shaped by industry, agriculture, and urban development. Gohlke’s photographs of grain elevators, suburban parking lots, and tornado-affected towns remind us of the consequences of human choices, combining aesthetic rigor with a clear sense of responsibility. His essays and lectures further contextualize his imagery, establishing everyday structures as meaningful symbols within the American photographic canon. Displayed together, Lee and Gohlke’s work offers a dialogue between immediacy and reflection, between the fleeting and the enduring. The exhibition invites viewers to consider both the visual subtleties of overlooked places and the broader impact of human activity on the landscape. Through this dual perspective, Alternative Views emphasizes the importance of attention, empathy, and stewardship, urging a deeper engagement with the environments we inhabit. Image: Jason Lee Highway 90, Texas, 2022 archival pigment print 11 x 14 in, at Etherton Gallery @ Jason Lee

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Williamsburg Biannual | Brooklyn, NY

James Casebere: The Spatial Unconscious

From September 25, 2025 to January 17, 2026

The Williamsburg Biannual, in collaboration with Sean Kelly, presents James Casebere: The Spatial Unconscious, a sweeping exhibition that spans four decades of the artist’s practice. Occupying three floors, the show gathers rarely seen works across a range of media, many of which have never before been exhibited in New York. Visitors will encounter early black-and-white images, color photographs, Polaroids, waterless lithographs, and new sculptural works that trace the evolution of Casebere’s exploration of constructed space and imagined architecture. Casebere’s artistic language bridges sculpture, photography, and architecture, positioning him as a seminal figure within the Pictures Generation. For him, photography is not merely a means of representation—it is a process of invention, a way to examine how perception and memory shape our shared realities. Through his meticulously crafted models, Casebere constructs worlds that balance between the real and the imagined, addressing themes of solitude, social structure, and the fragile equilibrium between permanence and decay. His compositions, often devoid of human presence, evoke a haunting psychological charge while questioning the systems that define our built environments. The exhibition also introduces Casebere’s Shou Sugi Ban sculptures, a new series inspired by the Japanese technique of wood preservation through charring. Using sustainable bamboo plywood, these geometric forms reveal both strength and vulnerability. Their textured, darkened surfaces speak to renewal through fire—a poetic meditation on the cycles of creation and loss that underpin architectural and human existence alike. Deeply influenced by literature, politics, and cultural history, Casebere continues to redefine the visual dialogue between space and meaning. The Spatial Unconscious offers a rare opportunity to experience an artist’s sustained inquiry into the architecture of the mind and the structures that hold, shape, and sometimes unsettle our collective imagination.

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Fahey/Klein Gallery | Los Angeles, CA

Julia Fullerton-Batten: Tableaux

From November 20, 2025 to January 17, 2026

Fahey/Klein Gallery presents Julia Fullerton-Batten: Tableaux, a captivating exhibition that highlights two of the artist’s most ambitious projects, Old Father Thames and Frida – A Singular Vision of Beauty and Pain. Internationally recognized for her meticulously constructed, cinematic photographs, Fullerton-Batten merges the precision of film direction with the atmosphere of painting. Each image exists between fact and fantasy, transforming historical fragments and emotional truths into rich visual storytelling. In Old Father Thames, Fullerton-Batten explores London’s defining river, the lifeline that has shaped the city’s fortunes and myths for centuries. Living near its banks in West London, she was drawn to its ever-changing nature—its tides, moods, and the human dramas that have unfolded along its course. From jubilant Frost Fairs to moments of tragedy and renewal, her series reconstructs scenes from the Thames’ layered past. Each tableau feels like a moment frozen in time, illuminated with cinematic lighting and historical authenticity, revealing the river not just as a geographical feature, but as a living chronicle of London’s spirit. The Frida series pays tribute to the legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, whose life and work embodied courage, creativity, and cultural pride. Inspired by Kahlo’s fearless individuality and deep love of Mexico, Fullerton-Batten reimagines her essence through strikingly stylized portraits and settings. Collaborating with Mexican artisans and costumers, she photographed her subjects in vibrant Tehuana garments within evocative locations—abandoned mansions, historic haciendas, and the haunting “doll island” of Xochimilco. These works bridge homage and invention, celebrating Kahlo’s enduring influence and the transformative power of art. Born in Bremen in 1970, Julia Fullerton-Batten has become a leading figure in contemporary fine-art photography. Her works are held in major international collections, including the National Portrait Gallery in London and Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, affirming her status as a master of visual storytelling. Image: The Princess Alice Disaster of 1978 Archival Pigment Print Signed, titled, dated, numbered on label verso © Julia Fullerton-Batten

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The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA | New York, NY

New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging

From September 14, 2025 to January 17, 2026

Lines of Belonging marks the 40th anniversary of New Photography with an exhibition featuring 13 artists and collectives who delve into the complexities of identity, community, and interconnectedness. As artist Sabelo Mlangeni eloquently stated, "Love is the key that takes cultures from oppression to joy," reflecting how, in his work, the concept of love serves as a powerful force for liberation and political unity. Through their varied practices, these artists explore places of belonging and trace connections that transcend generations, histories, and geographies. Some use their personal experiences to connect with broader political narratives, while others challenge historical archives and reimagine future communities through their art. Lines of Belonging focuses on four cities—Kathmandu, New Orleans, Johannesburg, and Mexico City—each of which has long been a hub for life, creativity, and cultural exchange, often predating the modern nation-states in which they now reside. The work presented here offers a stark contrast to the rapid, profit-driven pace of contemporary image production, digital technologies, and artificial intelligence. Instead, these artists advocate for slowness, persistence, and care as a response to the overwhelming speed and commodification of the modern world. This exhibition marks the first time these artists and collectives are being presented at MoMA, and it includes Sandra Blow, Tania Franco Klein, and Lake Verea (Francisca Rivero-Lake and Carla Verea) from Mexico City; Gabrielle Goliath, Lebohang Kganye, Sabelo Mlangeni, and Lindokuhle Sobekwa from Johannesburg; Nepal Picture Library, Sheelasha Rajbhandari, and Prasiit Sthapit from Kathmandu; and L. Kasimu Harris, Renee Royale, and Gabrielle Garcia Steib from New Orleans. Together, these artists offer fresh perspectives on the intersection of place, memory, and identity. Image: L. Kasimu Harris. Come Tuesday (Marwan Pleasant at Sportsman’s Corner), New Orleans. 2020. Inkjet print, 24 × 36" (61 × 91 cm). Courtesy the artist

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Marian Goodman Gallery | Los Angeles, CA

Ana Mendieta: Back to the Source

From November 07, 2025 to January 17, 2026

Marian Goodman Gallery presents Back to the Source, the gallery’s first exhibition devoted to the work of Ana Mendieta (1948–1985). This landmark presentation gathers pivotal pieces created between 1972 and 1985, a period that marked the full flowering of Mendieta’s artistic vision. The exhibition includes seven digitally remastered films, photographic series, newly available prints and drawings, as well as documentation of her ephemeral sculptural works. Spanning her formative years in Iowa and her time in Mexico and Cuba, the show reflects the evolution of an artist who merged body, nature, and ritual into a unified expression of identity and belonging. Mendieta’s practice defied the boundaries of traditional media. Working with earth, fire, water, and air, she transformed these elements into the raw materials of both art and renewal. Her earth-body works, often performed and documented in natural settings, stand as gestures of communion between the self and the landscape. Using feathers, flowers, branches, moss, and even gunpowder, she infused her work with a spiritual and ritualistic dimension, invoking ancient traditions and a profound sense of continuity with the natural world. For Mendieta, nature was not merely a backdrop but a collaborator—a living partner in a cycle of creation, decay, and transformation. Through her films and photographs, she captured fleeting acts of connection that dissolve the line between presence and absence, permanence and impermanence. Each work embodies her search for origins, for a return to the essential and universal. Back to the Source honors Mendieta’s enduring influence as a pioneering artist who redefined performance, sculpture, and environmental art. Her poetic engagement with the elements continues to resonate, reminding viewers of the deep, spiritual ties between humanity and the natural world. Image: Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series, 1977. © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.

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North Carolina Museum of Art | Raleigh, NC

Then and There, Here and Now: Contemporary Visions of North Carolina

From August 09, 2025 to January 18, 2026

With a diversifying population, rapidly evolving cities, and transforming ecology, North Carolina has undergone immense change, especially in recent years. This exhibition features works by artists who are reckoning with the inevitability of the passage of time across our state. While some artists reflect on deeply personal memories of their home and their relationship with the land and built environment, others highlight the consequences of climate change and the legacy of social injustice. Then and There, Here and Now challenges viewers to consider their own relationship to the past—however nostalgic, mournful, disorienting, or hopeful—and its impact on the present. Organized by the North Carolina Museum of Art. This exhibition is made possible, in part, by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources; the North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.; and the William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment for Educational Exhibitions. Research for this exhibition was made possible by Ann and Jim Goodnight/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fund for Curatorial and Conservation Research and Travel. Image: Elizabeth Matheson, Pinecrest Pool, 2004

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Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art | New York, NY

Alison Viana: Soft Spaces

From September 11, 2025 to January 18, 2026

Soft Spaces presents a compelling series of installations featuring the work of alumni from the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Fellowship, an international and intergenerational program dedicated to nurturing LGBTQIA+ artists of color. Since its founding in 2017, the Fellowship has provided a space for mentorship, collective learning, and professional development, guiding artists in the creation of sustainable practices while fostering radical affirmation of identity through liberatory pedagogy. The exhibition’s title, Soft Spaces, reflects the environment of care, experimentation, and vulnerability that the Fellowship cultivates. Participants describe the program as a sanctuary for exploration, where artistic risks can be taken and personal expression is nurtured. Within this context, the notion of softness becomes both a literal and metaphorical framework, shaping how the works on view engage with process, identity, and community. Soft Spaces brings together recent work by thirty-eight artists from the 2019–20, 2020–21, and 2021–22 Fellowship cohorts. The range of practices represented is expansive, encompassing digital and media art, painting, photography, filmmaking, performance, and installation. Each work embodies the artist’s exploration of self, history, and societal structures, highlighting the diversity of voices and perspectives cultivated by the program. By presenting these works collectively, Soft Spaces emphasizes the intersection of individual creativity and shared experience. The exhibition not only showcases the technical skill and conceptual depth of the artists but also illuminates the ways in which a supportive community can empower innovation and sustain artistic growth. Through these installations, viewers are invited to witness the transformative power of mentorship and the vital contributions of LGBTQIA+ artists of color to contemporary art today. Image: Alison Viana, Felix, 2024. Digital print, 24" x 36". Courtesy of the artist.

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MSU Broad Art Museum | East Lansing, MI

Africa Past, Present, and Future: Celebrating 65 Years of the MSU African Studies Center

From July 19, 2025 to January 18, 2026

How does learning from cultures different from our own shift our perspectives and understanding of the world? Africa Past, Present, and Future: Celebrating 65 Years of the MSU African Studies Center marks this major anniversary year while also forwarding important questions about the role of collections and object-based learning to expand our knowledge and understanding of the world around us—and our place therein. In 2025, the MSU African Studies Center (ASC) celebrates its 65th anniversary, a remarkable achievement with so many impactful years of service to the university community and across the African continent. Composed of works from the collections of the MSU Broad Art Museum and MSU Museum, the works on view present a wide range of African art and cultural objects that help narrate the relationship of MSU to Africa and its many countries, ethnic groups, and peoples. The museums’ collections of African art grew in significance at the same time that MSU became more deeply involved with the founding of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka—a partnership forged between then-MSU president John Hannah and the Nigerian government. At this same moment, in 1960, Hannah initiated the formalization of the ASC, the second such organization to be inaugurated in the United States at that time. Through this shared history and building upon the incredible work of the ASC today, this exhibition offers experiential opportunities for visitors to learn about the ASC’s captivating work and how university collections continue to advance teaching and learning about and from the many cultures of Africa—past, present, and future. Africa Past, Present, and Future: Celebrating 65 Years of the MSU African Studies Center is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and co-curated by Steven L. Bridges, senior curator and director of curatorial affairs at the MSU Broad Art Museum; Kurt Dewhurst, professor and curator at the MSU Museum, and director of arts and cultural partnerships at University Outreach & Engagement; Leo Zulu, director of the MSU African Studies Center; and Erik Ponder, African Studies Librarian; with additional curatorial advisors: Candace Keller, associate professor of art history and visual culture at MSU; Marsha MacDowell, professor and curator at the MSU Museum, and director of the Michigan Traditional Arts Program; Ray Silverman, former professor of art history and visual culture, curator of African Arts, and director of museum studies at MSU; Lynne Swanson, cultural collections manager at the MSU Museum; and Chris Worland, textile artist and former guest curator at the MSU Museum. Support for this series is provided by the MSU Federal Credit Union. This exhibition is the result of a partnership between the MSU African Studies Center, International Studies and Programs; MSU Broad Art Museum; MSU Museum; and MSU Libraries.

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Eugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation

The International Center of Photography (ICP) is proud to present Eugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation, an exhibition that examines how Eugène Atget (1857–1927) came to be regarded as one of the forefathers of modern photography through the timely and tireless advocacy of Berenice Abbott. Featuring historic prints from ICP’s collection alongside landmark publications and other printed ephemera, the exhibition reconsiders the role that Abbott played in establishing Atget’s now-canonical status, sometimes to the detriment of her own remarkable career as a photographer. Though Atget didn’t live to see it, Abbott became the ideal steward, proving that every photographer needs a champion.

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Zhang Kechun: The Yellow Desert

Huxley-Parlour is pleased to present The Yellow Desert, a photography exhibition by contemporary Chinese photographer Zhang Kechun. Featuring eleven new large-format works from his latest series, begun in August 2025, the exhibition explores the Gobi Desert across Northern China and Southern Mongolia. Through landscape photography that bridges history, culture, and human presence, Zhang Kechun examines the complex relationship between desolation, memory, and modern life in this vast and evolving terrain.

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All About Photo Presents 'Fay and Gay' by Samantha Yancey

The project Fay and Gay by Samantha Yancey, on view throughout January 2026, offers an intimate and deeply human portrait of devotion, routine, and shared identity. This compelling body of work centers on Fay and Gay, twin sisters born in 1936 near Pelahatchie, Mississippi, whose lives have unfolded side by side for nearly nine decades.

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Alia Ali

Gilman Contemporary presents a striking introduction to the work of Alia Ali, an artist whose multicultural background spanning Yemen, Bosnia, and the United States deeply informs her visual language. Her photographs, rich in pattern and color, navigate the complex terrain of identity, migration, and belonging. Rather than offering conventional portraiture, Ali envelops her subjects in boldly patterned textiles, allowing fabric itself to become both veil and voice. These coverings obscure familiar markers of identity, inviting viewers to question how much of what we think we know about a person is shaped by what we see—or what we assume.

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Bigaignon x rhinoceros gallery - Act 2/3: Col Tempo

In Rome, rhinoceros gallery, the art space founded by Alessia Caruso Fendi within Palazzo Rhinoceros, presents “Act 2/3: Col Tempo (With Time)”,the second chapter of a trilogy of exhibitions developed in collaboration with the Paris-based gallery Bigaignon. On view from November 26, 2025 to January 14, 2026, this new exhibition is dedicated to the essential element of time,marking the continuation of a three-part project that will unfold through March 2026.

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Yamamoto Masao

Robert Koch Gallery unveils a rare and essential exhibition dedicated to Japanese photographer Yamamoto Masao, bringing together works from several of his most celebrated series, including A Box of Ku, Nakazora, Kawa=Flow, Bonsai, and Tomasu. This presentation offers a profound immersion into one of contemporary photography’s most poetic and contemplative voices—an artist whose practice invites viewers to slow down, breathe, and rediscover the hidden beauty embedded in everyday life.

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All About Photo Presents ’Notes From The Edge’ by Antonio Denti

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All About Photo Presents 'Notes From The Edge' by Antonio Denti

All About Photo is proud to announce Antonio Denti as the winner of the December Solo Exhibition Contest, selected by internationally acclaimed photographer Ed Kashi. His long-term project, “Notes from the Edge,” offers a striking and poetic exploration of what it means to live in a world caught between collapse and rebirth.

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My Circus by Ellen von Unwerth

Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht presents an exhibition by famous Paris-based German fashion and fine art photographer Ellen von Unwerth from 31 January until 13 September 2026. The high-profile exhibition My Circus features 160 iconic photographs of models and pop musicians in which femininity, playfulness, eroticism, and fashion take center stage. The stylish images were created for fashion brands, publications, and her own inspiring VON magazine and books.

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Sayuri Ichida and Tomasz Laczny at IBASHO and IN-DEPENDANCE

IBASHO and its sister gallery IN-DEPENDANCE by IBASHO proudly present parallel solo exhibitions by UK-based Japanese artist Sayuri Ichida and her life partner, Polish-British artist Tomasz Laczny. Their works will be on view in tandem from 22 November 2025 to 11 January 2026 in Antwerp.

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