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A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff + Robert Mapplethorpe

Tribecca Film Festival
May 1, 5, & 6

"I think Sam Wagstaff was an amazing tastemaker and he brought a really unique vision to collecting photographic objects, which is still playing itself out in the collector's market today."
- Director James Crump

Black White + Gray examines the symbiotic relationship between influential curator and collector Sam Wagstaff and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in New York during the heady years of the 1970s and 1980s. The film peers intensively into Mapplethorpe's love affair with Wagstaff, and his rapid ascendancy in the art world with Wagstaff's forceful patronage and guidance. At the time their romance began, Mapplethorpe was 26 years old--twenty five years younger than Wagstaff, 51--and leaving the loft apartment he shared with Patti Smith near the Chelsea Hotel on 23rd Street. Both men shared the exact same birthdate, November 4, an uncanny fact of this duo of near polar opposites. The film explores the strong bond of friendship both men shared with Smith in this period, also marked by Smith's first recording triumph, "Horses," her debut album from 1975.

Text from blackwhitegray.com

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Illumination, Lynn Davis
April 6–July 16, 2007

Lynn Davis (American, born 1944) has explored the world in search of the greatest universal sites, both man-made and natural. In this exhibition, the artist presents her photographs, deeply modern and imbued with a sense of abstraction, with her selection from RMA’s collection. This pairing reflects her intuitive response to the RMA collection as resonant with the spiritual nature of her work.

Davis’s photographs have been exhibited internationally and collected widely. Her work appears in many museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum, which held an exhibition of her works in 1999.

Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011

212 620 5000

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Scaling the Lizard King
The Doors: Large format photographs
from the archives of Joel Brodsky

Snap Galleries
April 21 - July 3, 2007

Joel Brodsky, the photographer who captured one of the most iconic pictures of rock legend Jim Morrison, has died at the age of 67 on the eve of his first-ever exhibition in the UK.

His work has appeared on the covers of hundreds of albums — most memorably “The Best of the Doors,” with its provocative Christlike image of Jim Morrison in black and white.

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Spider's Strategy

April 11 - June 2, 2007

Cohen Amador Gallery
41 East 57th Street
New York, NY 10022

212 759 6740

Kanemura's work embraces the visual clutter of Tokyo; a spider is suggested through the massive amount of cables in the air along the streets.

OSAMU KANEMURA (b. 1964) supports his work in photography by delivering newspapers throughout Tokyo. While traveling his extensive route each day for the last three years, he made numerous black-and-white photographs of the crowded streets, the collage of old and new buildings and street signs, and the massive traffic in commercial goods. His dark, graphically dense, and tangled pictures capture the pace and material essence of a city that is more a product of unchecked growth than of design.

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