Events
Visit
Madison Avenue Fall Gallery Walk 2023
Saturday, October 28, 2023, 11am–5pm
New York
madisonavenuebid.org
Join Artnews and the Madison Avenue Business Improvement District on an autumn walk to visit over fifty galleries that line Madison Avenue from East 57th to East 86th Streets. The Gagosian Shop, which offers an exclusive and extensive selection of artist’s books, exhibition catalogues, posters, and prints, is featuring a display dedicated to Roy Lichtenstein and offering a 10% discount on all Gagosian titles and posters. It is also the final day to see to light, and then return—, an exhibition of new works by Edmund de Waal and Sally Mann inspired by each other’s practices, at the 976 Madison Avenue gallery behind the Shop.
Roy Lichtenstein display at the Gagosian Shop, New York, 2023. Artwork © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. Photo: Mauricio Zelaya
Reading and Talk
Elisa Gonzalez and Terrance Hayes
Moderated by Jonathan Galassi
Friday, October 20, 2023, 6pm
Gagosian, 976 Madison Avenue, New York
Join Gagosian for an evening of poetry inside to light, and then return—, an exhibition of new works by Edmund de Waal and Sally Mann, inspired by each other’s practices, at Gagosian, New York. Taking the artists’ shared love of poetry, fragments, and metamorphosis as a point of departure, poets Elisa Gonzalez and Terrance Hayes will share a selection of their recent works that resonate with the themes of elegy and historical reckoning that are explored in the show. Jonathan Galassi, chairman and executive editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, will also read from The FSG Poetry Anthology, a collection of work by more than 125 poets published on the occasion of the publisher’s seventy-fifth anniversary. Following the readings, Gonzalez and Hayes will discuss poetry’s enduring magnetism and its ability to foster dialogue in a conversation moderated by Galassi.
Left: Elisa Gonzalez. Middle: Terrance Hayes. Right: Jonathan Galassi
Tour
American Pastoral
Thursday, March 5, 2020, 6:30pm
Gagosian, Britannia Street, London
Join Gagosian for a tour of the group exhibition American Pastoral. The show juxtaposes modern and contemporary works with historical American landscapes ranging from Albert Bierstadt’s depiction of the sublime in Sunset over the River (1877) to Edward Hopper’s tranquil seaside scene, Gloucester Harbor (1926). Gagosian’s Alice Godwin will focus on a select grouping of exhibited works that seek to challenge the idealized vision of the American Dream that has long been a rich topic of inquiry for artists in the United States. To attend the free event, RSVP to londontours@gagosian.com. Space is limited.
Installation view, American Pastoral, Gagosian, Britannia Street, London, January 23–March 14, 2020. Artwork, left to right: © Theaster Gates, © Adam McEwen, Thomas Moran, © Richard Prince, © Banks Violette, © Ed Ruscha. Photo: Lucy Dawkins
In Conversation
Edmund de Waal
Sally Mann
Friday, November 8, 2019, 6:30–7:30pm
Frick Collection, New York
www.frick.org
In conjunction with the exhibition Elective Affinities: Edmund de Waal at the Frick Collection, artist and writer Edmund de Waal will speak with Sally Mann about art and writing, and about the pair’s individual practices. The event has reached capacity. To join the wait list, RSVP to edevents@frick.org.
Installation view, Elective Affinities: Edmund de Waal at the Frick Collection, Frick Collection, New York, May 30–November 17, 2019. Artwork © Edmund de Waal
Announcements
Honor
Sally Mann
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Sally Mann was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022. The artist’s induction ceremony took place in September 2023. Founded in 1780, the academy is both an honorary society that recognizes and celebrates the excellence of its members and an independent research center convening leaders from across disciplines, professions, and perspectives to explore challenges facing society, identify solutions, and promote nonpartisan recommendations that advance the public good.
Sally Mann during her induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2023. Photo: courtesy American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Award
Sally Mann
Lucie Award 2022
Sally Mann will receive a Lucie Award for achievement in fine art at the gala ceremony at Carnegie Hall in New York on October 25, 2022. The Lucie Awards were launched in 2003 as part of the Lucie Foundation’s mission to honor master photographers, discover and cultivate emerging talent, and promote the appreciation of photography worldwide.
Sally Mann, Lexington, Virginia, 2015. Photo: © Annie Leibovitz
Award
Sally Mann
Prix Pictet
Sally Mann is the winner of the ninth cycle of the Prix Pictet, which aims to harness the power of photography to draw global attention to issues of sustainability, particularly concerning the environment. The thematic focus of this award cycle is “fire.” Mann has been recognized for her Blackwater series (2008–12), a multifaceted exploration of the Great Dismal Swamp, which spans the border of Virginia and North Carolina. Viewed by the artist as “a vessel for the memories of the complex struggles enacted upon it,” the swamp was long a treacherous refuge for people escaping slavery, and had been devastated by wildfires by the time Mann photographed it. The award ceremony took place at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on December 15, 2021, in advance of the opening of an exhibition at the museum showcasing the twelve photographic series shortlisted for the prize.
Sally Mann, Blackwater 3, 2008–12 © Sally Mann
Award
Sally Mann
OPUS Award
Sally Mann is the 2021 recipient of the annual OPUS Award. Presented by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, the award is bestowed to individuals who have made and continue to make significant contributions to the vibrant and complex fabric of American Southern art. Mann, who was born in Lexington, Virginia, began her photographic practice in the 1960s and has remained connected to her Southern roots, documenting the people and places of the region in various critically acclaimed bodies of work. The award will be presented in January 2022, at the museum’s annual “O What a Night” gala.
Sally Mann, Ponder Heart, 2009 © Sally Mann
Honor
Sally Mann
Prix Pictet Shortlist
Sally Mann has been shortlisted for the ninth cycle of the Prix Pictet, which aims to harness the power of photography to draw global attention to issues of sustainability, especially those concerning the environment. Founded in 2008 by the Pictet Group, the prize is awarded to the photographer who, in the opinion of the independent jury, has produced a series of work that is both artistically outstanding and presents a compelling narrative related to the selected theme, which is “Fire” this year. The winner will be announced in December 2021 at an exhibition of the shortlisted artists’ work at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Sally Mann, Blackwater 3, 2008–12 © Sally Mann
Honor
Sally Mann
International Photography Hall of Fame
Sally Mann has been inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame, which recognizes those who have advanced the field of photography. Throughout her career, Mann has investigated the visual and metaphorical potential of employing nineteenth-century technologies. She has long used an 8 × 10 bellows camera and has explored platinum, bromoil, and wet-plate collodion processes to make prints that capture the complexities of familial relationships, social realities, and the passage of time. The induction ceremony took place on October 29, 2021, in St. Louis and online.
Sally Mann, Emmett, Jessie, and Virginia, 1989 © Sally Mann
Museum Exhibitions
On View
Sally Mann in
Love Languages
Open from September 2, 2023
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
www.mfah.org
Love Languages considers how the making of art is a type of love language all of its own. The installation attempts to address the question “How do we prioritize tenderness against debilitating social conditions?” The works on view engage with the necessity of intimacy in interpersonal and collective relationships. Work by Sally Mann is included.
Sally Mann, Jessie #25, 2004 © Sally Mann
On View
Revolutions
Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960
Through April 20, 2025
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
hirshhorn.si.edu
Revolutions is a major survey of 270 artworks by 126 artists from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s permanent collection. Celebrating the museum’s fiftieth anniversary, the exhibition aims to capture the shifting cultural landscapes of a century defined by new currents in science and philosophy and ever-increasing mechanization. Shown alongside these historic works are contributions from nineteen contemporary artists whose practices demonstrate how many revolutionary ideas from a hundred years ago remain critical today. Work by Francis Bacon, Amoako Boafo, Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Rick Lowe, Sally Mann, Man Ray, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, and Cy Twombly is included.
Rick Lowe, Fire #4: This Time Athens, 2023, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC © Rick Lowe Studio
On View
New Symphony of Time
Opened September 7, 2019
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
www.msmuseumart.org
New Symphony of Time expands the boundaries of Mississippi’s identity, casting light on a shared past to help reflect an expansive, more inclusive future. The exhibition aims to explore personal and collective memory, history and the connection to place, and the roles artists play in pursuit of civil rights and racial equity through ancestry. Themes include migration, movement, and home; shared humanity; environment; and liberty. Work by Titus Kaphar and Sally Mann is included.
Sally Mann, Deep South, Untitled (Emmett Till River Bank), 1998 © Sally Mann
Closed
Sally Mann in
Real Families: Stories of Change
October 6, 2023–January 7, 2024
Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, England
fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Real Families: Stories of Change brings together more than 120 artworks spanning painting, photography, sculpture, and film. The exhibition asks viewers to question what makes a family today and to consider the impact our families have on us, through the eyes of contemporary artists. Work by Sally Mann is included.
Sally Mann, Three Generations, 1991 © Sally Mann
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Sally Mann in
People Watching: Contemporary Photography Since 1965
June 24–November 5, 2023
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
www.bowdoin.edu
This exhibition explores the phenomenon of people-watching as a recreational activity, an act of surveillance, a type of harassment, a sign of empathy, and a documentary form of expression. It brings together more than 120 photographs that investigate the myriad ways in which artists have represented individuals encountered on the street, at home, at work, in the studio, and on documentary or journalistic assignments. Work by Sally Mann is included.
Sally Mann, Naptime, 1989 © Sally Mann
Closed
Love Songs
Photography and Intimacy
June 1–September 11, 2023
International Center of Photography, New York
www.icp.org
Love Songs features photographic projects about love and intimacy from sixteen contemporary photographers, including Nan Goldin and Sally Mann. Through the myriad lens of intimate relationships, the exhibition brings together series dating from 1952 to 2022 that explore love, desire, and intimacy in complex and contradictory ways.
Sally Mann, Semaphore, 2003 © Sally Mann
Closed
Sally Mann in
Drawn to the Light: 50 Years of Photography at Maine Media Workshops + College
June 16–September 10, 2023
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
www.portlandmuseum.org
Maine Media Workshops + College has drawn photographers to Rockport, Maine, for half a century. Instructors and students formed a community around their passion for the art form and its capacity for personal expression and visual storytelling. With around a hundred works made through an array of photographic practices, this exhibition demonstrates the incredible vitality of the artists that have passed through Maine and the wide influence of the workshops on photography more broadly. Work by Sally Mann is included.
Sally Mann, Leah and her Father, 1983–85 © Sally Mann
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Sally Mann in
I’ll be your mirror. . .
June 8–September 1, 2023
Moss Art Center, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg
artscenter.vt.edu
I’ll be your mirror. . . features painting, sculpture, photography, and performance that explore the hidden relationships between the self, community, and land. The exhibition encourages viewers to consider their impact on the world and embrace a more sustainable and equitable future. Work by Sally Mann is included.
Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Door and Painting), 1999–2000 © Sally Mann
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Sally Mann and Cy Twombly
Remembered Light
November 23, 2022–May 7, 2023
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
www.mfa.org
This exhibition brings together three sculptures by Cy Twombly, on loan from the Cy Twombly Foundation, and thirteen photographs by Sally Mann from her Remembered Light series (1999–2012). Twombly and Mann were both born and raised in the southeastern state of Virginia. Mann photographed Twombly’s Lexington home and studio over several years, from 1999 until after his passing in 2011. Through her lens, she sought to capture aspects of his life, his inner world, and his appreciation for the past. Appearing alongside Twombly’s sculptures, the photographs—pervaded by the same themes of life, mortality, and remembrance present in Mann’s other work—form a poetic dialogue between these two friends and their powerful artistic visions.
Installation view, Sally Mann and Cy Twombly: Remembered Light, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 23, 2022–May 7, 2023. Artwork, front to back: © Cy Twombly Foundation, © Sally Mann. Photo: © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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No Place Like Home
January 31–April 28, 2023
Schingoethe Center, Aurora University, Illinois
aurora.edu
No Place Like Home features artworks by more than thirty artists who address the concept of home from multiple perspectives. The exhibition features photography, sculpture, video, paintings, textiles, and printmaking and explores the many facets of home as a place of joy and sorrow, rest and labor, refuge and danger. Work by Theaster Gates and Sally Mann is included.
Sally Mann, Candy Cigarette, 1989 © Sally Mann
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Presence
The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder
September 30, 2022–January 15, 2023
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
www.portlandmuseum.org
Presence aims to capture the full spectrum of the human experience, from the anonymous to the celebrity and from the everyday to era-defining events such as the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and the civil rights movement. With approximately 140 photographs by seventy artists, the exhibition is drawn entirely from the collection of Judy Glickman Lauder. Work by Richard Avedon and Sally Mann is included.
Sally Mann, Emmett, Jessie and Virginia, 1989 © Sally Mann
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Monochrome Multitudes
September 22, 2022–January 8, 2023
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
smartmuseum.uchicago.edu
Revisiting classic modernist ideas about flatness, idealized form, and colors, this exhibition opens up the seemingly reductive format of the monochrome to reveal its global resonance and creative possibilities while working toward a more expansive narrative of twentieth and twenty-first century art. Work by Alexander Calder, Walter De Maria, Helen Frankenthaler, Theaster Gates, Frank Gehry, Sally Mann, and Richard Serra is included.
Sally Mann, The Bath, 1989 © Sally Mann