Cindy Sherman

The Early Mapplethorpe?

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Symbolist, Andres Serrano, Homoerotic, F. Holland Day, Video, Decadence, Homosexual, Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Jesus, Alfred Stieglitz, Surrealism, Slideexpand, Gender, Arts News

Today many, if not most, artist-photographers incorporate issues of theater, sexuality and the constructed self into their work. From Cindy Sherman's ...

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The Best Mothers In Art

Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Mother's Day, Mothers in Art, Cindy Sherman, Michelangelo, Motherhood in Art, Louise Bourgeois, Mothers Day, Van Gogh, Slideexpand, Paintings of Motherhood, Alice Neel, Moms in Art, Art's Best Moms, Happy Mothers Day, Female Artists, Lucian Freud, Arts News

HuffPost Arts would like to officially thank moms everywhere for their countless gifts of strength and inspiration. What better way is there to expres...

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Cindy Sherman; Chanel Revisited

Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Self-Portraits, Isle of Capri, Metro Pictures Gallery, Iceland, Art Exhibit, New Photographic Series, Cindy Sherman, Chanel, New York, Arts News

In this photographic series, American photographer Cindy Sherman exhibits new, large-scale works that depict enigmatic female figures standing in stri...

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New York Weekend Events: April 27-29

Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: NY Around Town, New Amsterdam Bicycle Festival, New York Weekend, Dekalb Market, Hester Street Fair, New York Events, Cindy Sherman, New York News

9th Annual Madonnathon Where: Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn; (718) 963-3369 When: Friday, 8PM Price: $5-$7 Start the weekend off by dan...

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Changing Faces: The Transformational Power of Makeup

Napoleon Perdis | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Style News, Women, Anti-Aging, Contouring, Cindy Sherman, Contemporary Art, Makeup, Moma, Beauty, Eyebrows, New York Around Town, Style News

Contemporary artist Cindy Sherman is a woman who has manipulated makeup to her advantage in her work. Her retrospective features a staggering array of images Sherman created by dressing as women of every age and from every conceivable era.

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Cindy Sherman Just Blew My Mind

Christopher Herz | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Cindy Sherman Moma, Moma, Models, Cindy Sherman, Photography, New York Things to Do, Gallery Show, Amazing Photography, NY Around Town, New York Around Town, NY Arts, Arts News

How much of ourselves truly exists beneath our outfits, make-up, haircuts and other projections of who we want to be seen as?

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Cindy Sherman's "Circle of Influence"

Kalup Linzy | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Collier Schorr, Elizabeth Peyton, Contemporary Art, Kalup Linzy, George Condo, Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman, Video, Arts News

On March 26, I participated in the panel Cindy Sherman: Circle of Influence at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Organized and moderated by ...

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The Bunny Boys Are Back In Town

Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Bunny, Video, Cindy Sherman, Adolescent Boys, Volta, Bratislava, Queer Art, Gay, Rembrandt, Berlin Art, Andrej Dubravsky, Slidepollajax, Wicker Man, Donnie Darko, Galerie Jiri Svestka, Arts News

Andrej Dubravsky paints inexperienced boys with an unsettling pair of bunny ears. They shift back and forth between vulnerable and wicked, showing the...

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A History Of Photobooth

Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Photography, Musee D'elysee, Video, Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman, Slidepollajax, Gillian Wearing, Behind the Curtain: The Aesthetics of Photobooth, French Museum, UK Arts, Photobooth, Andre Breton, Arts News

Going into a photo booth undoubtably is a strange sensation. No matter how many times one has done it before, there is always frantic rush to pose tha...

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Cindy Sherman as Orson Welles... as John Ford... as Vittorio De Sica... as Alfred Hitchcock... as...

G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Photography, Cinema, Cindy Sherman, Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills, Arts News

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Fairy Tales, Monsters and the Genetic Imagination

Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Cindy Sherman, Marcel Dzama, Charlie White, Kiki Smith, Mark Hosford, Saya Woolfalk, Fairy Tales, Monsters and the Genetic Imagination, Amy Stein, Inka Essenhigh, Frist Center, Yinka Shonibare, Meghan Boody, Nashville Art, Paula Rego, Slidepollajax, Arts News

For either a child or an adult, nothing is scarier than thinking something is under the bed. Fantasy and fear begin to merge into one in the upcoming ...

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Looking For Cindy Sherman: A Retrospective At MoMA

Regina Weinreich | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Debbie Harry, Chuck Close, Eva Respini, Ralph Gibson, Cindy Sherman, April Gornick, Eric Fishl, Eric Bogosian, Laurie Anderson, Museum of Modern Art, Female Artists, Michael Stipe, Molly Ringwald, Lou Reed, Arts News

On the 6th floor of the Museum of Modern Art, Cindy Sherman is just where you want her, everywhere.

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The Many Faces Of Cindy Sherman

Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: Photography, Postmodern Photography, Video, Postmodernism, Cindy Sherman Retrospective, Cindy Sherman, Museum of Modern Art, Moma, Female Artists, Arts News

Cindy Sherman's photographs are anonymous autobiographies. By taking on the roles of author, director, make-up artist, hairstylist, wardrobe mistress ...

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Cindy Sherman's Long Awaited MoMA Retrospective

Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Photography, Video, Cindy Sherman Moma, Cindy Sherman Retrospective, Cindy Sherman, Feminist Art, Female Artists, Cindy Sherman Moma Retrospective, Ny Moma, Arts News

Cindy Sherman is both one woman and an infinite number of real and imagined women. She is not only one of the most influential contemporary photograph...

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Hahn-Bin: Juilliard Meets Studio 54

Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Hahn-Bin, Juilliard, Pop Art, Cindy Sherman, Experimental Classical, Judy Garland, Culture, Edith Piaf, Andy Warhol, Classical Music, Pop Music, Video, Avant-Garde, Violin, Yohji Yamamoto, The Tree of Life, Fashion, Arts News

Hahn-Bin is an exquisite melting pot of talent and style, of the classical and the strange. A prodigy violinist Pop Art icon, he is what happens when ...

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Do Clothes Make The Man? Caleb Cole Pretends To Be Everyone

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Photography, Video, Indianapolis, Art, Artwork, Caleb Cole, Private Lives, Cindy Sherman, Genderbending, Portraits, Emerging Artists, Gender, Arts News

Caleb Cole describes himself on his website as "a former altar server, scout, and 4-H Grand Champion in Gift Wrapping." He is also a photographer who ...

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Top 11 Auction Shockers Of 2011

Bruce Helander | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Raymond Pettibon, Cindy Sherman, Art Auction, Andreas Gursky, The Art Economist, Glenn Ligon, Barbara Kruger, Zhang Xiaogang, Arts News

The annual fall auctions have just taken place during the week of 11-11-11, and so we've picked the top 11 priciest bombshells from the final "hammer price" tabulations.

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PHOTOS: The Week In Art

Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Art Gallery, Jeff Koons, Islam, Week in Art, Cindy Sherman, Andreas Gursky, Mini Monet, Dinosaurs, Damien Hirst, Nicolas Cage, Charlie Hebdo, Tattoos, Arts News

This week at Huff Post Arts we wondered if we could pass tattoos off as high art and shopped on eBay for dinosaur fossils. We checkout out the new mos...

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PHOTO: The Most Expensive Photo In The World

Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Photography, Gursky, Expensive Photograph, Rhein II, Christies, Cindy Sherman, Andreas Gursky, Arts News

They say a picture is worth a thousand words; this Tuesday a picture was worth $4.3 million, making it the most expensive photograph in the world. The...

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Jennifer Lopez Praises Women at the Glamour Awards

Regina Weinreich | Posted 01.08.2012

Lopez received the final award in the star-studded Carnegie Hall tribute that also honored Gabrielle Giffords, Glee's Lea Michele, Arianna Huffington and Gloria Steinem for "starting it all."

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From Victim to Victor: Women Turn the Representation of Rape Inside Out.

G. Roger Denson | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Ana Mendieta, Sue Williams, Rape in Art, Frida Kahlo, Kiki Smith, Judy Chicago, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, Janine Antoni, Nan Goldin, Sexual Dependency, Homosocial Divide, Domestic Battery, Eve Sussman, Artemisia Gentileschi, Käthe Kollwitz, Arts News

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The Genius of Damien Hirst

David Galenson | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Tate Modern, Cindy Sherman, Slidepollajax, Arts News

Hirst has not only influenced many of his peers; he is among the small number of artists who have spawned major artistic movements, and influenced important cultural institutions.

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Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

David Galenson | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Jeff Koons, Royal Academy of Arts, Cindy Sherman, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, UK Arts, Arts News

London's Royal Academy of Arts claims that its Summer Exhibition is "The largest open contemporary art exhibition in the world." This year's show includes 1,200 works by more than 700 artists. Much to my surprise, I loved it.

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Could A Monkey Photographer Lead To A Copyright Revolution?

ARTINFO | Posted 09.16.2011

Read More: The Daily Mail, David Slater, Art, Cooper-the-Cat, Artinfo, Cory Arcangel, Cindy Sherman, Copyright Infringement, Cat Cam, Copyright, Monkey Photographer, Monkey, Arts News

By now you've probably heard of the "Cindy Sherman of the Monkey World," as we dubbed her recently. While working in an Indonesian national park, Brit...

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PHOTOS: The Show Critics Love to Hate

Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Jeff Koons, Anish Kapoor, Christopher Le Brun, Art, Simon Brundret, Controversy, Tony Cragg, United Kingdom, Cindy Sherman, Royal Academy, Keith Tyson, UK Arts, Art Exhibitions, Royal Academy of the Arts, Arts News

(Via Mutual Art) The equally beloved-and-berated Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is back, now on view from June 7th-August 17th. It is the world’...

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