Brooke Bell 1/29/26 Brooke Bell 1/29/26

ON VIEW AT THE COOPER HEWITT: CHRISTOPHER PAYNE - MADE IN AMERICA

Made in America is now on view through September 27, 2026 at The Cooper Hewitt. Christopher Payne’s photographs take you inside American factories, showcasing the traditional craftsmanship behind the creation of musical instruments, flags, footballs, and pinball machines, as well as the intricate hand processes still critical to creating the most advanced products, ranging from microchips to the Giant Magellan Telescope.

The first large-scale photography exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Made in America showcases the design process through photography bringing the object, the machine, and the hand together. Payne’s photographs highlight manufacturing as a fundamental part of the design process.

In celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary, this exhibition brings together more than 70 of Payne’s large-format photographs to consider the American factory as a key site of design ingenuity and innovation.

Brooke Bell 10/29/25 Brooke Bell 10/29/25

ALIA ALI IS THE RECIPIENT OF THE 2025 JAMEEL FELLOWSHIP AT THE V&A, LONDON

Currently in residency at the V&A, London, Alia Ali is their current Jameel Fellow. Working across language, photography, sculpture, video and installation, Ali’s practice explores cultural binaries and confronts conflicted notions surrounding gender, politics, media, and citizenship. Textile has been a constant in Ali’s work. She reflects on its universality — from birth to death, from the most intimate to the most public moments of our lives — and its capacity to both unite and divide us, physically and symbolically. Through immersive installations using light and pattern, Ali moves past the limits of language, offering expansive, sensory encounters with self, culture, and nation. At the V&A East Storehouse, Ali is delving into the collection to pursue her ongoing research into Yemeni Futurism. Drawing on oral histories and overlooked artifacts, she offers counter-narratives to appropriation, violence, and disregard, reframing nostalgic pasts and confronting dystopian presents to carve out radically imagined futures.

Brooke Bell 10/29/25 Brooke Bell 10/29/25

SPOKEN BY A GHOST BY LAUREN SEMIVAN ON VIEW AT PORTRAIT SOCIETY GALLERY IN WISCONSIN

Portrait Society Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by contemporary photographer Lauren Semivan, opening September 19 and running through November 1, 2025.

Brooke Bell 10/29/25 Brooke Bell 10/29/25

CORRINE BOTZ: EXHIBITIONS AT HUDSON HALL, NYC AND KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL, SWITZERLAND

Ghosts, Mother’s Milk, and Other Stories at Hudson Hall, Hudson, NY This solo exhibition brings together interconnected series spanning the past twenty-one years.
October 11 - November 23, 2025.
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 11 from 4-6pm 

Film Screening & Artist Talk: Friday, October 17 at 6pm

 Screening of Milk Factory (2021, 10min) & Bedside Manner (2016, 18min), followed by a Q&A with the artist, moderated by Lesly Deschler Canossi, and a book signing.

Ghosts. Visualizing the Supernatural at Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
September 20, 2025 - March 8, 2026

Corinne Botz is exhibiting over forty large-scale photographs and a sound piece from Haunted House alongside artworks by William Blake, Marcel Duchamp, Cornelia Parker, Mike Kelley, Gillian Wearing, Rachel Whiteread, Glen Ligon, and many others.

Brooke Bell 10/29/25 Brooke Bell 10/29/25

CHRISTOPHER PAYNE: MADE IN AMERICA AT COOPER HEWITT FALL 2025

This fall, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present “Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne,” an exhibition featuring Payne’s intricately detailed photography of America’s factories. On view from Nov. 21 through spring 2026, the exhibition brings together more than 70 large-format photographs captured by Payne over a decade-long photographic journey to learn more about the craft of both industrial and artisanal making in the United States.

Brooke Bell 5/2/25 Brooke Bell 5/2/25

ALIA ALI… ONE OF MANY - Published by Hatze Kantz, 2025

Rather than a monograph, a drawing of one, Alia Ali presents with this book a multi-graph, a drawing of many. Ali deconstructs artificial binaries to examine inherited political narratives—diaspora, identity, borders—through the lens of photography, language, textile, and architectural installations. A map of patterns emerges, interwoven with artist statements, research images, exchanges with collaborators, and fragments of her journals. Words and images draw us simultaneously into the micro musings of the artist’s mind and zoom out to a macro reflection of the global and communal nature of the artist’s practice. Ali’s multi-graph is a textural experience in which each page is folded upon itself, leaving one wondering at what is invisible in plain sight.This extraordinary book also impresses with its special form of Japanese binding. Alia Ali (*1985, Austria) is a Yemeni-Bosnian-American multimedia artist who lives and works in New Orleans, Paris, Marrakech, and Jaipur. Her interdisciplinary works combine photography, textiles, language, and installations to challenge cultural identities and political narratives. Ali’s works have been exhibited worldwide and are renowned for their vibrant patterns, profound themes, and innovative artistic approaches that transcend the boundaries between tradition and modernity.

Price: $80.00. Please contact info@benrubigallery.com to purchase

Brooke Bell 5/2/25 Brooke Bell 5/2/25

UNFILTERED BY LENS ON LIFE PROJECT ON VIEW AT BENRUBI GALLERY NOVEMBER 14TH, 2024

Please join us Thursday, November 14th from 6-8 pm for a very special night to celebrate a cause close to our hearts. Lens on Life Project is a nonprofit organization supporting photography and computer literacy around the world. By cooperating with local organizations, they build spaces to help students overcome trauma, grow artistically and gain skills to enter the global marketplace. Student work will be shown in honor of their momentous accomplishments. Congratulations to all and we are so honored to be a part of it!

Brooke Bell 3/1/24 Brooke Bell 3/1/24

ABOUT GILLIAN LAUB'S FAMILY MATTERS IN THE NEW YORKER, VANITY FAIR, AND MORE

Gillian Laub's solo exhibition Family Matters at the International Center of Photography is on view Sep 24, 2021 - Jan 10, 2022.

READ MORE: ICP, VULTURE, VANITY FAIR and WSJ MAGAZINE

Brooke Bell 3/1/24 Brooke Bell 3/1/24

DOUG HALL'S ‘THE WAY THINGS LOOK’ AT MOMA

Recent MOMA acquisition of Doug Hall's "The Way Things Look, 1974." The acquisition was made possible with support from the Samuel J. Wagtstaff, Jr. Fund

Brooke Bell 2/29/24 Brooke Bell 2/29/24

SEVERAL JEFFREY MILSTEIN WORKS IN NEW ‘WE ALL FLY’ GALLERY AT THE SMITHSONIAN AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM IN WASHINGTON, DC

A new gallery at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC is set to open in 2022 dedicated to general aviation and its impact on everyday life and influence on society. This new space, Thomas W. Haas "We All Fly" gallery will permanently display seven large scale Jeffrey Milstein aircraft works in their collection.