May of last year marked the centenary of photographer Richard Avedon’s birth, and the exhibitions and events held in honor of his talent and lasting impact on culture took us from 2023 into 2024. The Metropolitan Museum of Art presented a selection of Avedon’s innovative group portraits in “Richard Avedon: MURALS.” London’s Hamiltons Gallery shared rarely seen works in “Avedon: Glamorous.” The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Texas displayed thirteen works from the photographer’s raw 1985 “In the American West” series, which was commissioned by the museum in the late 70s.
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The most recent of these was “Iconic Avedon: A Centennial Celebration of Richard Avedon,” a retrospective that closed earlier this month at Gagosian’s rue de Ponthieu location in Paris and was a follow-up to the mega-gallery’s “Avedon 100” exhibition in New York. Curated by Derek Blasberg in collaboration with Joshua........