“No Limits,” In the Gloaming

Skyscraper-inspired swirls of steel and aluminum sculpture provide free public art

Sponsored content: Three large-scale sculptural works have left their initial Park Avenue placement and ventured south to sit among other iconic Manhattan skyscrapers they re-envision. Situated between and around New York City’s Union Square and Flatiron District, Cuban-born, Madrid-based artist Alexandre Arrechea‘s “No Limits” toys with the theme of flexibility in the midst of stone-and-steel-strong architecture. This outdoor installation, composed of aluminum and steel sculptures, …

Helmut Newton at the Annenberg Space for Photography

The king of kink comes to LA in an exhibition of large format photography

As the photographer credited with defining the genre of black-and-white fashion photography, Helmut Newton is nevertheless rarely found outside the pages of books and magazines. That’s why our ears perked up when the Annenberg Space for Photography announced plans to exhibit over 100 large-scale images from Newton’s first three books “White Women,” “Sleepless Nights” and “Big Nudes.” For LA-based photography enthusiasts, it’s a chance to …

Touching Strangers: Photographs by Richard Renaldi

NYC publisher Aperture seeks crowd-funding support to bring the photo series to print

Photographer Richard Renaldi has been working on his latest project since 2007. In creating the “Touching Strangers” series, Renaldi invites total strangers on the street to pose together—touching—and captures a fleeting moment of intimacy, turning the ostensible discomfort into something wonderfully familiar. Shot with a large format 8×10 view camera, his newer portraits carry the same strength in composition and conceptional boldness that his earlier …