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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on Feb. 21 is opening a photo exhibit called Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960. The exhibit coincides with the citywide FotoFest 2010 Biennial.

Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait in Drag (regular wig), 1981

The museum’s assistant photography curator, Yasufumi Nakamori, has selected some 200 works from the museum’s significant international collection to visualize key moments in the dynamic history of post-1960 photography. The show explores “ruptures,” or new directions and approaches in photographic media, created in response to the artistic movements that emerged post-1960, such as Conceptualism and Performance art.

Richard Misrach, William Eggleston and Lewis Baltz will be given a mini focus in this exhibition of more than 80 artists. The exhibition will be on view during the FotoFest 2010 Biennial and offers historical perspective on the contemporary works that will be displayed at over 200 participating FotoFest exhibition spaces citywide.