Despite the fact that I have seen many, many art shows sanctifying 1920s modernism from seemingly every angle, the “Mouvement Flou” is a new one to me. The term, meaning the “blurry” or “out of focus” ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has opened Man Ray: When Objects Dream, the first major exhibition to position the artist’s Rayographs at the center of his career. On view from September 14, 2025, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. “Conceptual pieces were a part of Man Ray’s practice from the very beginning”. | Credit: Joseph ...

Man Ray, "Boardwalk" (1917), oil, wood handles, and yarn on wood (© Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2025; all other photos Julia Curl/Hyperallergic) Stepping into ...

In his “rayographs,” he raved, he was finally “working directly with light itself.” The showstopper is the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction. By Arthur Lubow In the winter of 1921, Man ...

“This looks like the kind of work my high school students turn in.” I was making my way out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City just before closing when I halted in front of Man Ray’s ...

“Man Ray didn’t consider photography to be a form of art,” said Marion Maneker in Puck. That notion may surprise some visitors to the Met’s survey of one of the artist’s most fertile periods, because ...

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