Since the start of her career, Sherman has had an uncanny ability to anticipate the cultural zeitgeist, and her influence permeates contemporary portraiture, where so much imagery is self-consciously constructed for the camera. Sherman is known for her...

Cindy Sherman Retrospective WHEN: February 26 through June 11 WHERE: Museum of Modern Art, New York WHY THIS SHOW MATTERS: “Cindy Sherman is already a household name, so how can we make her work fresh and surprising?” Though it was Sherman’s 2008 show...

CINDY, then SHERMAN. Ms. Sherman is not the subject of her photographs, though she is the main feature in a majority of her work. She is, however, constantly shifting roles, her face contorted or covered in make-up and prosthetics, always playing some...

Hailed for her chameleonic self-portraits in various guises, Cindy Sherman is considered an essential artist of her generation. “If you’re a collector focusing on 1980s or 1990s art, you have to have a Cindy Sherman. There’s no question about it,” says...

Before MoMA visitors enter the sixth-floor galleries, they will encounter her monumental mural. Like wallpaper, the mural adheres directly to the surface of the wall, and wraps around several walls and corners to transform space and create an immersive...

Walking through the exhibit, I was reminded that the Zelig-ess has not only become a cult figure to fashion designers, but has, in turn, embraced the worlds of fantasy they create. In fact, Sherman has collaborated with many brands, including...

Opens February 26. Photo: Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Acquired Through the Genorosity of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder in Memory of Eugene M. Schwartz, © 2011 Cindy Sherman More sites about politics, culture, and style:...

Our friends at Design Boom tipped us off to Behind the Curtain – the Aesthetics of the Photobooth, an exhibit of photo booth photography that opened yesterday at Swiss photography museum Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne. The exhibit explores photo booth...

Film Still #6." (1977) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder in memory of Eugene M. Schwartz © 2012 Cindy Sherman It’s been 15 years since influential artist and photographer Cindy Sherman...

In many ways, the themes of the series reflect a lot of the wild beginnings of modern art. The show is all about the shock of the modern age, with technology, war, and changing social conditions producing radical changes—which are often reflected in...

Who Is "Over the course of her remarkable 35-year career she has transformed herself into hundreds of different personas: the movie star, the valley girl, the angry housewife, the frustrated socialite, the Renaissance courtesan, the menacing clown,...

There comes a time when the true star shines and that time, when a modern Sleeping Beauty lies dead in her glass sarcophagus in the Beverly Hilton Hotel, while her public partied on downstairs, has arrived for Cindy Sherman, whose message of artificial...

Check out classics such as Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze's 1851 painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware ."For American art of a more recent vintage, head to the Museum of Modern Art (11 W. 53rd St. , 212-708-9400, moma .org ) for the buzzed-about exhibit...

“She is always addressing issues at the heart of our visual culture. In this world of celebrity makeovers, reality TV and YouTube, here is an artist whose different modes of representation seem truer now than when they were made.” Philippe Ségalot, a...

This made it all the more surprising that some of the models he cast in his show on Monday night, however, were especially young. At least two of the roughly 50 models were under the age of 16, the recommended minimum age for

Born 1894, real name Lucy Schwob – her uncle was the great Symbolist writer Marcel Schwob – Cahun was educated at the Sorbonne, moved to Montparnasse in 1922 and spent the subsequent 16 years in the French capital. Pre-Paris, she fell for Suzanne...

Beaton once said that making oneself a work of art was that most difficult of all causes. Cindy Sherman not only does that, she’s given herself up entirely to the mission. For nearly four decades, she has been braiding together fashion, photography, and...

It was forced to drop out as part of the Trust’s belt-tightening after the 2008 stock market crash. The reinvented exhibition will present Messerschmidt’s character heads alongside modern grimaces and funny faces (such as Cindy Sherman’s #421, above...

South. And in her lush, narrative paintings -- for which she has gathered, at midcareer, an impressive array of fellowships, residencies, solo shows and awards -- she has never stopped exploring those themes. Portraits of herself in blackface and a...