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Agenda Exhibitions to See

Backstory Mo Yi • Politics, propaganda, and the Cultural Revolution

Redux Rediscovered Books and Writings • An essential guide to the ’60s-era selfie

Curriculum • A List of Favorite Anythings

Film & Foto

Sofia Coppola on Pictures

Modern Vision • Revisiting a 1929 exhibition that blended photography and cinema

Alain Resnais

The Red Desert Effect • What is the enduring resonance of Antonioni’s first color film?

Dayanita Singh

Alex Prager

Ryan Spencer

Smoke Screen • Anthony McCall’s light installations merge photography and film

Shirin Neshat’s Dreamlands

The Loving Cut • Framing landscapes of queer desire

Basim Magdy

Fouad Elkoury

At Least They’ll See the Black

Gus Van Sant A Thousand Compositions

HALE COUNTY

Aperture Beat • Stories from the Aperture community—publications, exhibitions, and events

Object Lessons • Georges Méliès’s The Human Fly, 1902