Walker Evans

Lens Crafted: MOMA Focuses on Walker Evans

America First: MOMA's Homegrown Modernism

The Village Voice's Top 5 Book Events This Week, May 29-June 4, 2013

101 Classic Cookbooks 92Y Tribeca Wednesday, May 29, 7:30 p.m., $15 Here's one for the foodies--or really anyone who cherishes the cookbook as more than just a batter-stained instructional manual. Like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for baked goods, 101 Classic Cookbooks (Rizzoli) is the Fales Libra ... More >>

LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Tenant Farm for the 21st Century

Photo Essay: It Happened on the NYC Subway

A princess rides the F train Usually, New York City's labyrinthine subway system is just transportation. But sometimes magic happens, and I was lucky enough to have my camera when these odd scenes occurred. In doing so, I was inspired by Walker Evans, who worked for the Farm Security Administratio ... More >>

Sherrie Levine's "Mayhem": Walker Evans Irked Again

The Whitney mounts a big survey of work by the noted Appropriation artist

TRUE ORIGINAL

Sherrie Levine gets a major retrospective

South Carolina Barbecue: A Few Thoughts

Like the sign says, Dukes Bar-B-Q in Walterboro, South Carolina. The pig on the front lawn isn't real, but the people are. In two trips to South Carolina in the last decade, I've spent much of my time crisscrossing the state and looking at the barbecue there. Yes, sometimes just looking at it.

'70s wives ask themselves, "When was the last time I expressed pleasure in our sex life?" and so much more

​Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Especially for Wives: When Was the Last Time Author: Michael A. Campion, PhD., with ph ... More >>

Wasted Downtown: A Restored On the Bowery

David Goldblatt, Zwelethu Mthethwa, and 'Retratos Pintados' Evoke Art's Subject-Producer Question

Three photo shows at the Jewish Museum, the Studio Museum, and Yossi Milo Gallery

Vijay Iyer Tops the Fourth Annual Village Voice Jazz Poll

Historicity and records from other fresh faces take our 2009 jazz poll

Appropriate Me!: 'The Pictures Generation' at the Met

Quotes and smokes—Pictures artists get a show

Paul Graham and Harris Lieberman's 'A Twilight Art' Confront the Future

Photographers stare down the uncertain prospects of their art form

Interview: Whitney Curator Elisabeth Sussman on William Eggleston: Democratic Camera

Double Exposure: William Eggleston and Enrique Metinides

Buckle up for some curious photo road trips

The Met's Century of Photography

A striking, revealing lineup of giants from photography's first hundred years

Course(s) for Adventure

You've got a thing or two to learn. . .

Seeing It All

Twilight in America: The Rockford Files meets The French Connection

History-Making Footage

The Unlikely Beauty of Club Sandwiches Served on Faux-Wood Formica

What's Stranger Than Paradise?

Or, How We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the 'Burbs

Dire Diary

The gushy artforum.com items read like the Us magazine of art criticism

Do Not Recycle

The most stylish magazine photography of 2004

The Real Thing

A slew of shows turn Paris into a study center in the varieties of photographic realism

For This Ambitious Photographer, Politics Is Where You Find It

Sufferin' Succotash

Blues and Reds meet at quaint Greenwich Village old-timer

Show World

Listings

Picture This

The Best Photo Books of 2003

Show World

Listings

Only the Lonely

At Two Locations, Photographer Katy Grannan Returns With Richer, Riskier New Work

Fuckin' Wit Da Best

Face From the Block

On the Road

To the Batcave

The Great Divide

Photography's Two Different Worlds

Wizard of Odd

Roger Ballen’s Theater of the Absurd

Site Specific

With Joel Meyerowitz in the Forbidden City

Still Lives in Perpetual Motion

Midsummer Night’s Read

Beach Fare with an Edge

Cracking Eggers

Family Matters

Vaughn Sills’s Rural Group Portrait

Picture Perfect

The Call of the Wild

Lucidity on Fire

Heroic Comrades, Meet the Common Man

The Shock of the Old

Strange Days at Anthropologie and Restoration Hardware

We Are Family

Our Century, Ourselves