Where To Go and What To See

This week's openings are all about the group shows. The Sasha Wolf Gallery in NYC is putting up its first group show ever, curated by Wolf and Peter Kayafas and including work by Kayafas, Harry Callahan, William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, and Katherine Wolkoff. In Our Dreams sounds like a fascinating survey of how photographers dialog with cultural and personal ideas of dreams.

The Brooklyn Museum is going way conceptual in its group photography show called Click! A general call was put out several months ago for photographs, professional and non, that illustrated the idea, "The Changing Face of Brooklyn." They were uploaded to an online storehouse and then the general populace was asked to log on and rate each image. Then the show was hung with sizes dictated by how much the public liked each image.

In Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Photography has put together an interesting show that is appropriate to the summer season: Beyond the Backyard. Another group show, the exhibition includes work from Dorothea Lange, Bill Owens, Larry Sultan, and Todd Deutsch that examines the American ideal of a peaceful domestic backyard and the ways that ideal succeeds and fails to be realized.

~Miki Johnson

(Photo: © Peter Kayafas, "Highpoint, North Carolina, 1993.")

Follow the link below for details about these and many more photography events around the country.

New York Events

June 25, 6-8
Deep Comedy
Opening reception
On view through July 30
Marian Goodman Gallery
24 W. 57th St.

June 25, 6-9
Body & Soul: Ananta Dasa, Sari Goodfriend, Carolanne Leslie, Stephanie Pommez
Opening reception for the artists
On view through August 15
Sous Les Etoiles The Gallery
560 Broadway, No. 205

June 26, 6-8
Frank Gohlke: Where We Live, Queens, New York 2003-2004
Reception for the artist
On view through August 22
Howard Greenberg Gallery
41 E. 57th St., Suite 1406

June 26, 6-8
In Our Dreams: Group Show
Opening reception
On view through August 9
Sasha Wolf Gallery
10 Leonard St.

June 26, 7:30
Bill Owens: Bill Owens and Working
Book signing
James Cohan Gallery
535 W. 26th St.

June 27
World Press Photo 2008 Exhibition
Opening
United Nations, Main Gallery
First Ave. at E. 46th St.

June 27, 6-8
Far From Home: Mike O'Meally, 10 Years of Photos
Opening
Dactyl Gallery
64 Grand St.

June 27
Click! A Crowd-curated Exhibition
Opening
On view through August 10
The Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn

Other Events

June 24
Behind the Seen: The Photographs of Abelardo Morell
Opening
On view through August 10
Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven, CT

June 26, 5-7
Beyond the Backyard
Opening reception
On view through August 23
Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago

June 28, 2-5
Berenice Abbott: New York City; Julius Shulman: Photographs
Opening reception
On veiw though August 30
Fahey/Klein Gallery
148 N. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles