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Maï Lucas’ New York Days is being shown at Dashwood Projects until the 25th May 2026. Lucas is a Franco-Vietnamese photographer based in Paris, working across art, fashion, and documentary photography. Since 1986, she has chronicled the emergence of French hip-hop culture, building close relationships with musicians, graffiti artists, and dancers central to the movement. Her monographs include Hip Hop Diary of a Fly Girl 1986–1996 Paris and All Eyes On Me. Having exhibited internationally since 2003, New York Days is her first solo exhibition in New York, forty years after her first visit to the city. This is a....

Penguin napping, abusive nuns, exploding cadavers and tragic games of russian roulette – these are just some of the tales in Bedtime Stories for Bad Boys and Girls, a new book and exhibition by artists Larry Clark and James Gilroy. The two met in downtown New York in the early 1970s and formed an instant and permanent bond rooted in drugs and a shared pleasure in indeterminancy. “We were living with abandon and not thinking about the consequences,” Clark tells me. Gilroy elaborates, “Back then, you walked down the block and maybe ran into somebody or into a situation. We’d just get...

Some photographs offer a crystalline vision, an intimation of how the world would look if only our eyesight were finer and more powerful. Others remind us that things can slip in and out of view, eluding the gaze. The latter group includes the work of Genesis Báez. Shadows and reflections, condensation and blur—the nine color photographs in her exhibition “Holding Water” accentuated everything that interferes with the camera’s ability to capture its object. At times, the results verged on illusionism. In Crossing Time, 2022/2025, for instance, we saw a woman in a partially darkened space crouched on what appears to be...