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Agenda Exhibitions to See
For Leonard Freed, New York’s police officers were proletarian heroes.
As a model and a photographer, Ming Smith launched her career making images of beauty.
In films about gender, advertising, and immigration, the visible hand of women’s labor
Ballads
The Ballad of Nan Goldin • A Conversation with Darryl Pinckney
FEAST FOR MY EYES
The Original Ballad • How did a slideshow with hundreds of images, presented at bars and nightclubs, become a new way of seeing relationships? Elle Pérez speaks with Marvin Heiferman about the making of an iconic book.
Speeding Along the Edge • As young artists in Boston, Jack Pierson and Mark Morrisroe made life into a queer utopia—and showed the joy of young people being themselves.
The Evocative Years • Libuše Jarcovjáková’s diary of beauty and despair in 1980s Prague
Pablo Bartholomew Outside In
Sunny Suits Objects of Affection
Daragh Soden Looking for Love
A Fold in Time • David Wojnarowicz and the radical collections of the Fales Library
Out of Sheer Rage • From Bangladesh to the U.S.-Mexico border, artists deploy photography as a form of protest.
A World Without Men • In the 1990s, a group of young Japanese photographers were branded as “girly.” But what do their images tell us about female power today?
Film Studies • With its vivid color, indelible characters, and documentation of a pre-gentrified New York City, The Ballad is a readymade mood board for film and television.
Liz Johnson Artur PDA
Abdul Kircher The Purest Thing
Surface Tension • If fashion photography is defined by artifice, why does the industry crave rawness and reality?
Clifford Prince King Gentle Nights
338 Act of Memory
Object Lessons • David Wojnarowicz’s One Day This Kid, 1990