A show at the Met reveals not just the wonders of the artist’s rayographs—photographs taken without a camera—but the relentless creativity of the man himself.
In Paris in the 1930s, there were few artists as influential as Man Ray. A pioneer of Surrealist photography, the American expat's use of modernist techniques to create groundbreaking images ...
Man Ray's 1924 image Le Violon d'Ingres, of a woman's body transformed into a violin, has continued to fascinate, confuse and ...
More than 270 photographs show expressions of gender and sexuality across two centuries. Works by well-known photographers such as Berenice Abbott, Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray and Edmund Teske hang ...
In an intimate show of nine paintings, Vito Schnabel brings to life a dialogue between the artists Man Ray and Francis Picabia—arguably under-appreciated modern-era masters. For Schnabel—son of the ...
American born, but spending most of his career in Paris, visual artist Man Ray contributed greatly to the Dada and Surrealist movements, and even though he above all considered himself a painter, he ...
Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention, Jewish Museum, New York, NY (solo) Man Ray: African Art through the Modernist Lens, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; University of Virginia Art Museum, ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A supersonic sprinter might run a mediocre mile. A sublime poet may write leaden prose. Genius must find its ...
“Le retour à la raison” (Courtesy of Man Ray 2015 Trust/ADAGP, Paris 2023) Featuring “Le retour à la raison” (Return to Reason) (1923), “Emak Bakia” (1926), “L’étoile de mer” (The Starfish) (1928), ...