One Photographer’s Intimate Portrait of the 1980s New York Art Scene

“Wilke’s description of her early erotic objects as both abstract and “namable” reads as a pretty accurate description of a number of other three-dimensional works made in the early years of the 1960s by other artists, including Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois, and Yayoi Kusama. Each was then working independently to establish a formal vocabulary that ... See more

Harris – whose photographs are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Museum and the High Museum in Atlanta – made a specialty of taking “portraits” in which the sitter does not appear, telling the story of a person by the rooms he or she occupies or the things they use daily. “I felt as if I had been training for this mome... See more