The rayograph has been long admired but largely misunderstood. This important retrospective gives Man Ray’s eponymous photograms the attention they deserve. ByJonathon Keats, Contributor. Forbes ...

“This looks like the kind of work my high school students turn in.” I was making my way out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City just before closing when I halted in front of Man Ray’s ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. “Conceptual pieces were a part of Man Ray’s practice from the very beginning”. | Credit: Joseph ...

Man Ray, "Boardwalk" (1917), oil, wood handles, and yarn on wood (© Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2025; all other photos Julia Curl/Hyperallergic) Stepping into ...

When a teenage girl gave cult favorite filmmaker Jim Jarmusch an order, he listened. As a result, four newly restored silent films by the artist Man Ray will hit theaters this spring with a drone rock ...

Man Ray was the ultimate networker. From the time he was twenty-three years old, when he asked Alfred Stieglitz to sit for a painted portrait, he had an uncanny knack for befriending important people.

Man Ray was one of the leading avant-garde thinkers of his generation, but how did he develop his unique approach? A watercolor sketch made while the artist was still in his early twenties has ...

In his “rayographs,” he raved, he was finally “working directly with light itself.” The showstopper is the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction. By Arthur Lubow In the winter of 1921, Man ...

Following the publication of his English-language Alphabet for Adults in 1940, Man Ray embarked on the creation of a French edition of this art-book, Alphabet Pour Adultes. Rather than simply ...

Nearly 200 works from the Dada and Surrealist movements, including "Ingres' Violin" by Man Ray -- the world's most expensive photograph -- will join the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, it ...

Image Size: 11 x 8.5 inches 16 x 20 inches; 14 x 11 14 x 16 ...

Image Size: 11.5 x 8.5 inches 16 x 20 inches; 14 x 11 14 x 16 ...