Allan Sekula's 1974 photo-text work, This Ain't China: A Photonovel, announces the artist's early attention to China as a foil for Western paradigms of production—cultural and economic. The work combines a (meta)narrative with staged photographs, shot in the spirit of Jean-Luc Godard (in a Maoist phase and channeling Bertolt Brecht). Sekula's plot concerns the employees of a greasy spoon restaurant in San Diego (artist included), all musing about working and living conditions, and plotting a strike—a microcosm implicated in a global imaginary, tran...

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"If You Lived Here... " was, in Yvonne Rainer's words, "a vivid demonstration of how an art exhibition can constitute a radically different approach, one that can offer not only a diversity of objects but can contextualize a social field in and from which the objects are produced and derive their meaning. In other words, art exhibition does not have to separate, or isolate, its objects from the conditions in and under which those objects have been produced."

Part research-based artwork, part curated group show (with three discrete exhibitions, four public meetings, and numerous auxiliary events), part dis...

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One of the most important international photography events, The AIPAD Photography Show New York will be presented by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) from March 26 through 29, 2009. More than 70 of the world's leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work by contemporary, modern and 19th-century masters at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street and Park Avenue in New York City. The 29th edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York will open with a Gala Preview on March 25 to benefit the John Szarkowski Fund, an endowment for photography acquisitions at The Museum of...

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