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 1972 retrospective of Diane Arbus’s work, mounted at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) just one year after she took her own life, divided viewers the way few exhibitions ever have. New York Times ...

Radiant Rembrandts, vibrant portraiture of everyday life and uncanny photographs in New York and Boston, to catch before they’re gone, come August and September. By Rachel Sherman Critics compared her ...

It’s another summer of Diane Arbus. The famed photographer, who was only 48 when she took her own life in 1971, has never been out of fashion in the art world. Her influence radiates through the work ...

How many statues dedicated to real women are in Central Park? Just one, and it only went up last year. A new statue has temporarily joined the landscape, though—the Public Art Fund has brought a ...

In celebration of Artnet’s Important Photographs sale, we asked three of our specialists to tell us about three groundbreaking female photographers—Diane Arbus, Lisette Model, and Cindy Sherman—and ...

Essayist Richard Rodriguez looks at the work of photographer Diane Arbus, who opened her shutter on subjects that rarely blinked at life. Diane Arbus is as famous as any American photographer of 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 ...

According to the credits Fur is “inspired” by Patricia Bosworth’s sober, well-researched and touching 1984 biography of Diane Arbus, the photographer who specialized in making indelible images of 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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