All Photos © Ryan Pyle

On a 2006 trip, Ryan Pyle decided to focus his camera on the disappearing culture of China’s remote western Xinjiang province. He says, “The culture is vanishing before my eyes. Each time I return something is missing—a market, an old shop full of blacksmiths, a local mosque. This cultural fabric will be lost forever.” Previously named Chinese Turkestan, the Xinjiang province is bordered by the Gobi desert and some of the highest mountain ranges in the world, making this location incredibly remote.

Ryan Pyle is a Canadian born-artist. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 2001 and moved permanently to China in 2002 where he is a contributor, covering China, for the New York Times. In addition to this photographic series, Pyle has created a multimedia piece.

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Song Sparrow, 2007 © Paula McCartney

A bird watcher’s dream comes to life via Paula McCartney’s Bird Watching series in her first solo show in New York. The opening reception for Paula McCartney’s Bird Watching will be Wednesday, March 3, from 6–8pm, the exhibit runs from March 4 to April 23, 2010 at Klompching Gallery, New York. An in-conversaton between Paula McCartney and Darius Himes of Radius Books, followed by a book signing will be held in the gallery on Saturday, March 6th from 1–2pm. Bird Watching is also a newly released book published by Princeton Architectural Press.

© Lori Nix, “Mastodon”, 2009, Courtesy of ClampArt, New York City

Clampart’s exhibition ‘The Museum of Unnatural History” opens tonight (February 25th) with a display of photographs and paintings that illustrate the unnatural elements in a natural history museum.

This image, by Lori Nix, will be on view at the ClampArt gallery through April 10th.

All photos © Edith Maybin

These images are part of a larger fine art series which Maybin has made of herself and her daughter combined as one. This particular series is photographed at night while Maybin’s daughter is asleep; these photographs of her daughter’s head and her own body are combined to make a chimera of persons. This discussion surrounds the topic of identity as a woman, mother and daughter.

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