Duane Michals, the provocative artist who used his camera to tell stories with cosmic, enigmatic or autobiographical themes, helping introduce narrative to modern photography, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 94, noted The New York Times. His death, at a hospital, was confirmed by Bridget Moore of DC Moore Gallery, whose website describes Michals as "one of the great photographic innovators of the last century." The Times noted that Michals, "neither belonged to a particular school of art nor founded one. His influence derived chiefly from proving that someone could succeed without conforming to genre or technical norms."

  Last Chance, June 14: Martha Cooper | Streetwise at BDC Annex Long before the art world sanitized New York’s streets into destination gallery districts, photographer Martha Cooper was out there, capturing the precise moment the Hip Hop subculture was born. For decades, her lens has been trained on the raw, kinetic energy of New York City. With Streetwise, at the Bronx Documentary Center, we are treated not just to a retrospective, but to a masterclass in visual ethn...