Wynn or Lose: Face to Face

A PALMER hit list of what’s new, now, and next from around the globe—from our obsessive-at-large, Wynn Burson Cateron.

Visit the new International Center of Photography in New York for FACE TO FACE: PORTRAITS OF ARTISTS by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe, and Catherine Opie—a trio of acclaimed portraitists whose intimate impressions of cultural visionaries from the worlds of literature, fashion, film, and art investigate what lingers beneath the surface of such faces as Didion, Hockney, and Scorsese…at ICP, January 27 – May 1, 2023; 79 Essex Street, New York City.

Catherine Opie, 'David', 2017. © Catherine Opie, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong and Seoul and Thomas Dane Gallery, London and Naples

Catherine Opie, 'Michèle', 2016. © Catherine Opie, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong and Seoul and Thomas Dane Gallery, London and Naples

Brigitte Lacombe, 'Glenn Ligon', New York, NY, 2020. © Brigitte Lacombe

Brigitte Lacombe, 'Maya Angelou', New York, NY, 1987. © Brigitte Lacombe

Brigitte Lacombe, 'Patti Smith', New York, NY, 2014. © Brigitte Lacombe

Tacita Dean, 'One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting', 2021. © Tacita Dean, Courtesy the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York / Paris

Tacita Dean, 'Portraits', 2016. © Tacita Dean, Courtesy the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York / Paris