Nan Goldin

A look at the book of Nan Goldin’s influential, intensely personal visual diary marks its 30th anniversary.

Exhibition. Jun 11, 2016–Apr 16, 2017. Comprising almost 700 snapshot-like portraits sequenced against an evocative music soundtrack, Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a deeply personal narrative, formed out of the artist’s own experiences around Boston, New York, Berlin, and elsewhere in the late 1970s, 1980s, and beyond. Titled after a song in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera, Goldin’s Ballad is itself a kind of downtown opera; its protagonists—including…

Outsiders is a new, AGO-curated exhibition of more than 300 photographs and five films by such American masters as Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, Nan Goldin, Gordon Parks and Robert Frank

Nan Goldin, Bruce bleaching his eyebrows, Pleasant St., Cambridge, 1975. Silver dye bleach print, sheet: 40 × 27 3/8 in. (101.6 × 69.5 cm) Image: 38 3/8 × 25 3/4 in. (97.5 × 65.4 cm) Frame: 41 × 28 3/8 × 1 3/4 in. (104.1 × 72.1 × 4.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 99.148. © Nan Goldin

Rafael at Home, 1997 Mark Morrisroe in Bed, 1989 “I am not a photographer,” Gail Thacker insists. “I am a painter who discovered a medium that has a soul with…

How Nan Goldin displayed the effect of AIDS across society through her best medium

Naomi Fry on Laura Poitras’s documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” on the photographer Nan Goldin and on the Sackler family’s role in the opioid crisis.