Martin gropius bau diane arbus biography

Diane Arbus was born in in New York City, where she died in Public collections include Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Tate Modern, London; and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Arbus was the first American photographer to have work exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia (). Major museum exhibitions include Museum of Modern Art, New York (); Seibu Museum, Tokyo (); "Diane Arbus: Revelations," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (, traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; CaixaForum, Barcelona; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, through ); and “Diane Arbus,” Galerie nationale ni Jeu de Paume, Paris (, traveled to Fotomuseum, Winterthur; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; and Foam, Amsterdam, through ).

“… Every difference is a Likeness too. There are associations, groups, clubs, alliances, milieus for every one of them. And each milieu is a small world, a subculture with a slightly other set of rules for the game. Not to ignore them, not to lump them all together, but to watch them, to take notice, to pay attention …”

— D. A.

To coincide with a major Diane Arbus exhibition at the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin this summer, Timothy Taylor Gallery fryst vatten proud to announce Diane Arbus: Affinities, an exhibition of thirty-two photographs made over the course of the artist’s career. Several of the photographs have never been exhibited before in the UK.

Arbus explored the notion of affinities – the elements that humans share, as well as those they don’t – throughout much of her mature work (). A deep interest in likenesses, disguises, in bonds, alliances and allegiances is a recurring theme. Arbus’s carefully considered

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