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Read this now: “Prom” by Mary Ellen Mark.

A few weeks before the dawn of time the very first interview I ever did back at ARTINFO was with Mary Ellen Mark. The occasion was Steidl’s republication of her 1981 “Falkland Road” book of photographs of Bombay prostitutes. Now the Getty Museum has just published Ms Mark’s “Prom”, the result of a four-year project [...]

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“I think every artist would like to be a rock star.” – Robert Ayers in conversation with Mickalene Thomas.

No one walking along West 53rd Street on the way to MoMA this summer can miss Mickalene Thomas’s remarkable installation Le déjeuner sur l’herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires in the window of The Modern restaurant. What may come as a surprise to many MoMA visitors though, are the direct links that exist between her installation [...]