Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the artist’s momentous 1972 posthumous retrospective
May 9, 2023
This video was produced on the occasion of Cataclysm: The 1972 Diane Arbus Retrospective Revisited, which opened in September 2022 at our 537 West 20th Street location in New York. Organized by David Zwirner and Fraenkel Gallery to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the artist’s momentous 1972 posthumous retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cataclysm re-creates the iconic exhibition’s checklist of 113 photographs, underscoring the subversive poignancy of Arbus’s work even today while highlighting the popular and critical upheaval the original exhibition precipitated.
Learn more about the exhibition here.