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Agenda • Exhibitions to See

Day Jobs • Janet Delaney’s fascination with workers began with her father, a beauty supply salesman.

Viewfinder • In his immense documentaries, Wang Bing depicts the lives of Chinese people with intricate and unsparing detail.

Studio Visit • How Anthony Hernandez heightens the textures of a changing urban landscape.

Curriculum • Vasantha Yogananthan

Sleepwalking

Alec Soth Song of the Open Road • A Conversation with Siri Hustvedt

Alec Soth Pictures for Dreaming • The artists and images that have inspired, haunted, and provoked me.

Emila Medková Sideways Logic • The potent visions of a Czech Surrealist.

The Narrative Artist

Apparitional Automaton • For centuries, the image of the sleepwalker has fascinated artists and writers. How might this premonitory figure make visible our hidden thoughts and desires?

Gregor Schneider The Family

Etienne Courtois Things Out of Place

Angel, Fiend, Surrealist • An artist and muse, fearless war correspondent and professional chef, Lee Miller looked at the world with a flair for drama.

Maja Daniels On the Silence of Myth

Nancy Rexroth Her Own Private Iowa

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. Where Cherries Blossom

Duane Michals The Human Condition • A Conversation with Jesse Dorris

The PhotoBook Review

Sincerity Department

Vivian Maier

Óscar Monzón

Anna Stüdeli

Samuel Fosso

Nona Faustine

Spotlight • In his recent series, Felipe Romero Beltrán collaborates with young immigrant men navigating legal limbo in Spain.

Endnote • During the pandemic, with productions canceled or stalled, the acclaimed filmmaker Jim Jarmusch edited down hundreds of the photo-based collages he’s been making over the years and assembled them into a book, Some Collages (2021)—discovering along the way that the principles of collage, an intuitive, spontaneous form, are at the heart of all he does.