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CHICAGO

Art Institute of Chicago

Until 19 January

Arthur Rothstein, Dorothea Lange,

Walker Evans: Photography + Folk Art

artic.edu

CINCINNATI

Cincinnati Art Museum

Until 2 February

Sohrab Hura: The Levee –

A Photographer in the

American South

cincinnatiartmuseum.org

LINCOLN

deCordova Museum

Until 29 March

Truthiness and the News

Featuring Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris

and Barbara Norfleet

decordova.org

LOS ANGELES

Getty Center

Until 19 January

True Grit – American Prints and

Photographs from 1900 to 1950

getty.edu

NEW ORLEANS

A Gallery for Fine Photography

Until 4 January

Josephine Sacabo: Moments of Being

agallery.com

NEW YORK CITY

Foley Gallery

Until 5 January

Henry Leutwyler

foleygallery.com

TUCSON

Etherton Gallery

Until 11 January

Keith Carter, Susan Burnstine,

Kate Breakey

ethertongallery.com

WILMINGTON

Delaware Art Museum

Until 26 January

Posing Beauty in African American

Culture – curated by Deborah Willis

delart.org

EXHIBITIONS

USA

All images © Kevin Horan

Xenia No. 1, 2009

Jake No. 1, 2014

Bella No. 1, 2016

Stanwood No. 1, 2015

A

s one might imagine,

it takes immense

patience to create a

successful ungulate

portrait. ‘People ask how I pose

them, and I can tell you: there’s

no posing. There’s plenty of

watching and being ready. Once

I have a given animal on set, we

try to work until something really

good happens, or until someone

gets sick of it. That could be the

handler, the subject or me.

Sometimes we give the goat a

break and bring her back later.

Sometimes we give up,’ he says.

Horan created these portraits

between 2009 and 2018 and

what began as a photographic

exercise, emerged as something

quite different in the end. ‘I came

to look into those ungulate eyes

in a way that makes me ever

more curious and empathetic

about the world as experienced

by The Other,” he says. ‘Because

each of us creatures lives in a

world that is determined by our

own senses and experience.

That goes for goats and sheep,

and dogs and earthworms, and

swallows and spiders. And even

other humans. Even humans

from other tribes.’

Currently, Horan is working on

three projects including, Time’s

Awasting, which he describes as

being the absolute opposite of

Goats and Sheep as it’s in colour

and depends on serendipity

rather than planning and

production. Additionally, he is

working on a series entitled Life

Everlasting, which also concerns

animals, but focuses on the

beauty of their corpuses after life.

kevinhoran.com

fivecontinentseditions.com