Pocketguide to CMA: The White House by Elijah Pierce

The Sun. It’s an essential part of our everyday lives and of our modern image-making technologies that it often goes unnoticed--or becomes an unexamined cliché. To coincide with The Sun Placed in the Abyss exhibition, we challenged photographers to respond to several creative challenges. We asked photographers to tag their…

Ohio artist Maya Lin was one of 21 recipients yesterday to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. Lin joined other innovators, artists, and pioneers in a…

Noted British Landscape painter Joseph Turner was a devotee of sun-staring or sun-gazing, which involves staring with the naked eye directly at the sun. Scientists had previously used the camera obscura to protect against the blinding brightness of the sun. Turner directly confronted it. Like Turner, many artists in The…

The Sun Placed in the Abyss, an original exhibition on view at Columbus Museum of Art, features 50 contemporary artists and collectives who explore the essential relationship between photography and the Sun. Pictured here: Arc of Total Eclipse by Sarah Charlesworth (left) and Venus Transit by…