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Agenda • Exhibitions to See

Collecting • How will a recent acquisition of photographs by women expand ideas about gender and nation?

Viewfinder • Recalling her childhood in Turkish Koran schools, Sabiha Çimen finds collaborators in the girls she photographs.

Studio Visit • In her Chinatown loft, Kunié Sugiura presses conventional boundaries of photography and painting.

Backstory • A new photobook revisits Mohamed Bourouissa’s incisive images of young people on the peripheries of Paris.

Curriculum

Celebrations

What Makes a Celebration?

Myriam Boulos What’s Ours

Because the Night • How can photographs convey the freedom and ecstasy of club culture?

When the Party Came to Lagos • In 1977, when Marilyn Nance traveled to Nigeria for FESTAC, she discovered a euphoric reunion of the African Diaspora.

Jamie Hawkesworth Around the World • Wandering from Antarctica to Beijing to the British Isles, the photographer creates a dreamscape of everyday encounters.

Shikeith’s Black Uncanny • Celebrated for his striking portraiture, the young multimedia artist conjures visions of spirituality, queer presence, and the ghosts of history.

Heinkuhn Oh Itaewon Story

Tobias Zielony After the Fall • A Conversation with Kimberly Bradley

Jean Depara Night Revels of Kinshasa

Fabiola Menchelli Under the Blue Sun

Rinko Kawauchi The Shape of Things • Through her recent projects, Kawauchi’s light touch melds the everyday with the cosmic.

Will Matsuda Hanafuda

Spring 2022 Books

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