When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. “Conceptual pieces were a part of Man Ray’s practice from the very beginning”. | Credit: Joseph ...
Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention, Jewish Museum, New York, NY (solo) Man Ray: African Art through the Modernist Lens, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; University of Virginia Art Museum, ...
Man Ray was the ultimate networker. From the time he was twenty-three years old, when he asked Alfred Stieglitz to sit for a painted portrait, he had an uncanny knack for befriending important people.
Despite the fact that I have seen many, many art shows sanctifying 1920s modernism from seemingly every angle, the “Mouvement Flou” is a new one to me. The term, meaning the “blurry” or “out of focus” ...
In light of the 100th anniversary of André Breton’s 1924 Surrealist manifesto that will be celebrated in Paris in October 2024, a very unique sale, paying tribute to one of the most eclectic figures ...
In his “rayographs,” he raved, he was finally “working directly with light itself.” The showstopper is the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction. By Arthur Lubow In the winter of 1921, Man ...
In Man Ray's most famous photograph, 'Le Violon d'Ingres', the surreal, the sexual, and the French Neoclassical combine. Man Ray, Le violon d’Ingres (1924). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bluff ...
A close-up view of Man Ray's Le Violon d'Ingres © Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2025 A trove of avant-garde art—including ...
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Man Ray, "Boardwalk" (1917), oil, wood handles, and yarn on wood (© Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2025; all other photos Julia Curl/Hyperallergic) Stepping into ...