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Alia Ali is the Recipient of the 2025 Jameel Fellowship at the V&A, London

Currently in residency at the V&A, London, Alia Ali is their current Jameel Fellow. Working across language, photography, sculpture, video and installation, Ali’s practice explores cultural binaries and confronts conflicted notions surrounding gender, politics, media, and citizenship. Textile has been a constant in Ali’s work. She reflects on its universality — from birth to death, from the most intimate to the most public moments of our lives — and its capacity to both unite and divide us, physically and symbolically. Through immersive installations using light and pattern, Ali moves past the limits of language, offering expansive, sensory encounters with self, culture, and nation. At the V&A East Storehouse, Ali is delving into the collection to pursue her ongoing research into Yemeni Futurism. Drawing on oral histories and overlooked artifacts, she offers counter-narratives to appropriation, violence, and disregard, reframing nostalgic pasts and confronting dystopian presents to carve out radically imagined futures.
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Lauren Semivan's Spoken by a Ghost at Portrait Society Gallery

Portrait Society Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by contemporary photographer Lauren Semivan, opening September 19 and running through November 1, 2025.
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Corinne Botz News: New Book, Milk Factory, & exhibitions at Hudson Hall, NYC and Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland.

Hudson Hall, NYC: This solo exhibition brings together interconnected series spanning the past twenty-one years.
Ghosts, Mother’s Milk, and Other Stories, Hudson Hall, Hudson, NY
October 11 - November 23, 2025.
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 11 from 4-6pm 
Film Screening & Artist Talk: Friday, October 17 at 6pm
 Screening of Milk Factory (2021, 10min) & Bedside Manner (2016, 18min), followed by a Q&A with the artist, moderated by Lesly Deschler Canossi, and a book signing.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland: Ghosts. Visualizing the Supernatural
September 20, 2025 - March 8, 2026
Corinne Botz is exhibiting over forty large-scale photographs and a sound piece from Haunted House alongside artworks by William Blake, Marcel Duchamp, Cornelia Parker, Mike Kelley, Gillian Wearing, Rachel Whiteread, Glen Ligon, and many others.

Christopher Payne: Made in America

This fall, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present “Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne,” an exhibition featuring Payne’s intricately detailed photography of America’s factories. On view from Nov. 21 through spring 2026, the exhibition brings together more than 70 large-format photographs captured by Payne over a decade-long photographic journey to learn more about the craft of both industrial and artisanal making in the United States.

alia ali... one of many, Published by Hatze Kantz, 2025

Rather than a monograph, a drawing of one, Alia Ali presents with this book a multi-graph, a drawing of many. Ali deconstructs artificial binaries to examine inherited political narratives—diaspora, identity, borders—through the lens of photography, language, textile, and architectural installations. A map of patterns emerges, interwoven with artist statements, research images, exchanges with collaborators, and fragments of her journals. Words and images draw us simultaneously into the micro musings of the artist’s mind and zoom out to a macro reflection of the global and communal nature of the artist’s practice. Ali’s multi-graph is a textural experience in which each page is folded upon itself, leaving one wondering at what is invisible in plain sight.This extraordinary book also impresses with its special form of Japanese binding. Alia Ali (*1985, Austria) is a Yemeni-Bosnian-American multimedia artist who lives and works in New Orleans, Paris, Marrakech, and Jaipur. Her interdisciplinary works combine photography, textiles, language, and installations to challenge cultural identities and political narratives. Ali’s works have been exhibited worldwide and are renowned for their vibrant patterns, profound themes, and innovative artistic approaches that transcend the boundaries between tradition and modernity.

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Please join us this Thursday from 6-8 for a very special night to celebrate a cause close to our hearts. @lensonlifeproject is a nonprofit organization supporting photography and computer literacy around the world. By cooperating with local organizations, they build spaces to help students overcome trauma, grow artistically and gain skills to enter the global marketplace. Student work will be shown in honor of their momentous accomplishments. Congratulations to all and we are so honored to be a part of it! #lensonlife

Gillian Laub's Family Matters

Gillian Laub's solo exhibition "Family Matters" at the International Center of Photography is on view until Jan 10, 2022. Recent press in The New Yorker, Vulture, Vanity Fair and

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Doug Hall's The Way Things Look

Recent MOMA acquisition of Doug Hall's "The Way Things Look, 1974." The acquisition was made possible with support from the Samuel J. Wagtstaff, Jr. Fund

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