Diane Arbus was a daughter of privilege who spent much of her adult life documenting those on the periphery of society. Since she killed herself in 1971, her unblinking portraits have made her a ...

"Do you remember your first Diane Arbus photograph?" The question posed by gallerist Jeffrey Fraenkel provoked murmurs among the opening-night crowd at "Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum" on Friday, ...

Critics compared her unnerving images to those of Diane Arbus, but praised her ability to infuse her subjects with warmth and humanity. By Adam Nossiter How do you show 450 Arbus photos? In a maze of ...

The myth of American photographer Diane Arbus (1923-71) is remarkably durable. Mention her name and a familiar shorthand materializes. The documenter of "freaks", of outsiders, of those on the very ...

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know." " Diane Arbus. Revelations, the groundbreaking 2003 retrospective of the work of Diane Arbus, was a peek inside the ...

A projection outside Diane Arbus: Constellation at Park Avenue Armory in New York. I was not allowed to take my own photos of the show. (photo Hakim Bishara/Hyperallergic) The era of Diane Arbus’s ...

We absolutely have to talk about Diane Arbus. She is one of the most difficult photographers of all time, and one of the most hotly debated. At the time Arbus was alive—1923 to 1971—photography was ...

If you think you are capable of living without writing,” said the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, “do not write.” He didn’t live to meet Diane Arbus, but if he had seen her photographs he would have ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A spotty but thrilling tour of American art from Eisenhower to Nixon shows just how unhinged the ’60s were, and how hard it is to summarize the era. By Walker Mimms and Janice Chung Radiant Rembrandts ...

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