"Do you remember your first Diane Arbus photograph?" The question posed by gallerist Jeffrey Fraenkel provoked murmurs among the opening-night crowd at "Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum" on Friday, ...

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 ...

The first big New York art show this season, at the David Zwirner gallery in Chelsea, is “Cataclysm,” an exhibit of Diane Arbus photographs—a recreation of the Museum of Modern Art’s wildly ...

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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 ...

Diane Arbus was a daughter of privilege who spent much of her adult life documenting those on the periphery of society. Since she killed herself in 1971, her unblinking portraits have made her a ...

San Francisco-based Fraenkel Gallery, which has a long and rich history with iconic photographer Diane Arbus, has enlisted the help of mega-gallery David Zwirner to bolster its representation of the ...

The movie "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus," starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr., is cinematically pretty complicated, so it seems valid to start off by saying a little about who ...

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 ...

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 ...