The rumours have been circulating for a few months and finally this week they have been confirmed: Brussels is to have a new photographic museum. The Fondation A Stichting will open soon just 150 metres from the Wiels arts centre, in the former Bata factory on avenue Van Volxemlaan. The new museum is a private initiative on the part of Astrid Ullens. Its director and curator, Jean-Paul Deridder, will present three exhibitions a year, drawing for the most part on the substantial collection of photographs that Ullens has built up, in which post-war US photography is particularly well represented – including big names like Diane Arbus, Walker Evans, and Lee Friedlander. The first exhibition planned is devoted to the US portrait photographer Judith Joy Ross and will open on 3 October. Info: www.fondationastichting.be
(Photo: Untitled, Pathmark, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1984
© Judith Joy Ross, courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York - Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne)
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