News Brief

February 24, New York: Mark Lubell, Director of the International Center of Photography, announced the 2014 recipients of the Infinity Awards:
Cornell Capa Lifetime Achievement: Jürgen Schadeberg
Art: James Welling
Fashion: Steven Klein
Photojournalism: Stephanie Sinclair and Jessica Dimmock
Publication: Holy Bible by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin (Mack/AMC, 2013)
Young Photographer: Samuel A. James
The awards will be presented at the gala event on Monday, April 28, 2014, at Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers, in New York City. Information.

Reminder The deadline for the AI 33 CFE has been extended to February 28. Everybody Rise. Information.

Steven Klein, iconoclast and innovator, has been awarded the 2014 Infinity Award for Fashion Photography. The image above, shot for December 2007 Vogue, was captured from a New York Times article. Photo © Steven Klein.

Art Fair Preview

February 27-March 1: Texas Photo Roundup
March 5-9: ADAA: The Art Show
March 6-9: The Armory Show
March 6-9: Scope New York
March 6-9: Moving Image Fair
March 6-9: Volta NY
March 14-22: Asia Week New York

Monday, February 24

Opening day: Lucas Samaras | Offerings From a Restless Soul. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, at 82^nd Street, NY, NY.

Tuesday, February 25

Opening reception: Jonathan Alpeyrie | Capture. Anastasia Photo, 166 Orchard Street, NY, NY. Ed. Note: Please check website; information was sketchy.

Artist’s talk, 7 pm: Sara Macel in conversation with Marvin Heiferman. Camera Club of New York, 336 West 37th Street, 2nd floor, NY, NY. Free/limited seating

Pavel Zoubok Gallery presents: Mac Premo | The Luckiest Arab in Belfast. The Invisible Dog Art Center, 51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY. Information/tickets.

Artist talk, 6:30 pm: Mike Cavallaro | The Rebirth of the American Comic Book. Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63^rd Street, NY, NY. Tickets/$15/$10/$7.

Wednesday, February 26

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Matthew Pillsbury | Nate and Me. Sasha Wolf Gallery, 70 Orchard Street, NY, NY.

The ICP Lecture Series presents, 7 pm: Letha Wilson, in conjunction with the exhibition What Is A Photograph? The School at ICP, Shooting Studio, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY. Tickets/$15.

Opening day: Proof: The Intersection of Science, Art, and Photography, 1860s – 2013. L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, 764 Madison Avenue, between 65^th-66^th Streets, NY, NY.

Film screening, 8 pm: Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman (dir. Mickalene Thomas. HBO. View trailer. Information.

In Los Angeles Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Walead Beshty | Selected Bodies of Work. Regan Projects, 6750 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA.

Adam Magyar, Hong Kong, 2007-2008, from an exhibition opening this week at Julie Saul Gallery.

Thursday, February 27

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Klara Kristalova | Big Girl Now. Lehmann Maupin, 201 Chrystie Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Amy Arbus | On the Street. Leica Gallery, 670 Broadway, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Norbert Prangenberg | The Last Works. Garth Greenan Gallery, 529 West 20^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Pello Irazu | Studio. Yancey Richardson Gallery, 525 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Metro | Reinier Gerritsen, Adam Magyar & David Molander. Julie Saul Gallery, 535 West 22nd Street, 6th floor, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8:30 pm: Balika Mela and Jannat. Thomas Erben Gallery, 526 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Collier Schorr | 8 Women. 303 Gallery, 507 West 24^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Brea Souders | Mountains Without Faces. Camera Club of New York, 336 West 37^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: The City in Transition: Berenice Abbott | New York and Charles Marville | Paris. Howard Greenberg Gallery, 41 East 57^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 7:30-9 pm: SocialDocumentary.net: Using the Power of Photography to Promote Global Awareness exhibition, featuring winners of the CFE Global Awareness. powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY.

In Los Angeles

Opening reception, 7-9 pm: Peter Lindbergh. Fahey-Klein Gallery, 148 North La Brea, between First Street and Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Taryn Simon | Birds of the West Indies. Gagosian Gallery, 456 North Camden Drive, Los Angeles, CA.

Artist’s talk, 7:30 pm: Bettye Saar | Fade: The Art of Aging. Hammer Museum, UCLA, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA. Free/register.

Taryn Simon, 1964 Aston Marton DBS, 2012 (“Skytail”), from Birds of the West Indies, opening this week at Gagosian Gallery Los Angeles. Photo © Taryn Simon, captured from a New York Times article.

Thursday, February 27-Saturday, March 1
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation/Columbia University presents: Bit by Bit: Experiments in Digital Storytelling, with Storytellers Vito Acconci, Diana Balmori, Nina Berman, Joel Gibb, Nicholas Lemann, Asim Rafiqui, and Ellen Weinstein. Lecture Hall, Floor 3, Pulitzer Hall, Columbia University, 2950 Brodway, NY, NY. Information. Free/RSVP required. Ed. Note: At post time, the website was still under construction; keep trying.

ASMP NY presents, PBNY & IDEASHARE. Saturday’s featured speaker: Albert Watson.  For information, locations, and to register, go here.

Friday, February 28

Opening day: Chuck Close | Nudes. Pace Gallery, 534 West 25th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Panopticum | works by Michael Borremans, Robert Beck, Mark Dion, Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, Robert Heinecken, Herbert List, Tricia Lawless Murray, Cindy Sherman, and Taryn Simon.. Robert Miller Gallery, 524 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Thick Paint, featuring works by Jean Fautrier (1898-1964), Franz West (1947-2012), and Zhu Jinshi (b. 1954). Luxembourg & Dayan, 64 East 77^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Jeanne Susplugas | House to House II. Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY.

In Beijing Opening day: The 2^nd CAFAM Biennale, The Invisible Hand | Curating as Gesture. Continuing through April 20 at the CAFA Museum, Beiing. Information. Directions 

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Saturday, March 1

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Moyra Davey | Ornament and Reproach. Murray Guy, 453 West 17^th Street, NY, NY.

In Houston Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Lori Nix | The City. G Gallery, 301 East 11^th Street, Houston, TX.

In Los Angeles Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Dan Gluibizzi | Between Friends and Mei Xian Qiu | Qilin. Kopeikin Gallery, 2766 S. La Cienega Boulevard, at Washington, Los Angeles, CA.

Sunday, March 2

Opening day: Garry Winogrand. The National Gallery of Art,Washington, DC. Information. See recent DART feature.

Monday, March 

Opening reception, 5:30-7:30 pm: DECLASSIFIED | En Avant, featuring work by members of the Veteran Coalition of Arts. Calumet Gallery, 22 West 22^nd Street, 2^nd Floor, NY, NY. Information.