If you are in Pittsburgh, don’t miss the amazing Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story at Carnegie Museum of Art, October 29, 2011, through April 7, 2012. If you don’t make it, go here.
Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908–1998) photographed Pittsburgh’s African American community from c. 1935 to c. 1975. His archive of nearly 80,000 images is one of the most detailed and intimate records of the black urban experience known today.
Check out this school of taste. It’s a great collection by French curator Nicolas Trembley who back in the good gold days of VHS founded, together with Stéphanie Moisdon, the Bureau des vidéos à Paris. “Sgrafo vs Fat Lava” tells you how taste changes and how something that you hate(d) can become beautiful—well, almost. (A review.) Nicolas Trembley also runs the blog for the Syz Collection, which makes a private collection public through visual associations, real information, and some deadpan analogies.
