Yes – the springtimes needed you. Often a star
was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you
out of the distant past, or as you walked
under an open window, a violin
yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission.
But could you accomplish it? Weren’t you always
distracted by expectation, as if every event
announced a beloved? . . .
–Rainer Maria Rilke / from Duino Elegies
Welcome to Spring/Summer and the start of the festival season. Welcome to the 150th edition of Prescriptions. Here is our review of recent events in the arts.
Aaryan Sinha, This Isn’t Divide and Conquer
Belfast Photo Festival 2024
This festival’s 10th edition will delve into how contemporary photographers are interpreting rapid digitalisation, our climate emergency and the ethical questions surrounding Artificial Intelligence. Through June 30, 2024, various locations, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Peter Lindbergh, Milagros Schmoll, Paris, 2006
Beyond Fashion
The photographers brought together in the exhibition have looked anew at the potential of fashion photography creating an imagery that goes beyond fashion, elevating it to the status of an art form. Presenting Peter Lindbergh, Viviane Sassen, Paolo Roversi, Miles Aldridge, Ellen von Unwerth, among others. On view through September 8, 2024 at Saatchi Gallery, London. Organized by FEP The Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography.
Eimear Walshe, ROMANTIC IRELAND / Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale / 60th Edition
The 60th International Art Exhibition, titled Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, will continue through November 24, 2024, at the Giardini and the Arsenale. Curated by Adriano Pedrosa and organised by La Biennale di Venezia.
Myriam Boulos, Carla at home, Beirut Lebanon, 2018 © Myriam Boulos / Magnum Photos
Close Enough: Women Photographers of Magnum
Close Enough explores the practices of thirteen women photographers of Magnum and the relationality they create within global situations, local communities, and interactions with individual subjects. Presenting Alessandra Sanguinetti, Newsha Tavakolian, Susan Meiselas, and several others. On view through July 21, 2024 at Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung.
Kristine Potter, Dark Water, 2019
Truth Told Slant: Contemporary Photography
This exhibition will feature the work of five photographers who take unique approaches to documentary photography that challenge the principles of observing the contemporary world. On view at High Museum Of Art through August 11, 2024.
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