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Exhibitions to See

Backstory • After the social uprisings of 2020, museums faced renewed calls for diversity. How have photography curators responded?

Viewfinder • Fifty years after Bloody Sunday, Gilles Peress revisits his photographs of the Northern Ireland massacre in a monumental book.

Tina Campt

You Belong Here • Guest editor Pilar Tompkins Rivas on photographs that collectively chart the history and future of Latinx culture.

Always in Resistance • For decades, the artist Ken Gonzales-Day has archived historic photographs of Latinx people in an effort to confront cultural erasure.

Making Worlds • How are writers and curators reshaping canons and institutions to create space for Latinx narratives?

Capturing Movimientos • In the 1960s and ’70s, from the East to West Coasts, photographers documented grassroots struggles for social justice.

A Picture of an Artist at Work • Performance, experimentation, and the images that disrupted an exclusionary art world.

The Revolution Will Be…

Barrios

Youth Culture

Adelante

The Collector

The Lives of Gabriela Ruiz

Found in Translation

1979: Contact Negatives

REYNALDO RIVERA GLITTER FOR THE FIRE • Throughout his life, Reynaldo Rivera has photographed friends, lovers, and stars of nightlife in Los Angeles, portraying Mexican American culture with grit and glamour.

The River Remembers Laura Aguilar • A new generation of artists honors a photographer’s bold gestures—and envisions their own queer lineages.

Dominican Postcards

Bridge of Mirrors

Cheech Marin