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2026-10-07 19:17:06 UTC

If you saw a viral cartoon of Dolly Parton and Tim Curry at the pearly gates, signed by the New Yorker cartoonist Brendan Loper and thought "hmm, a bit banal for him?" then congratulate yourself. It was actually generated by ChatGPT by a fan who asked the AI chatbot to make “a New Yorker-style cartoon.” When Loper found out, he was aghast. “I’m not a territorial person, but my name is my name. It felt very much like a violation of my personhood," he told Nieman Lab. Here's their story on how extensive this issue is, how artists feel about it, and what ChatGPT owner OpenAI is doing to clamp down on this behavior. “I can see the DNA of my work in there, but it still doesn’t look like something I drew,” said New Yorker contributor Emily Flake. “It’s kind of like seeing a distant cousin.”
https://flip.it/tR_uJx
#Cartoons #TheNewYorker #AI

2026-09-16 23:44:05 UTC

Pop artist Peter Max has died at age 88. His career started in the "flower power" era of the 1960s, and his work became part of American culture. He was official artist for events like the Olympics, the Super Bowl, the Indianapolis 500, the World Cup and other events. His art also appeared on a Boeing 777, a Norwegian Cruise Line ship, household furnishings and more. Here's [@AssociatedPress](https://flipboard.com/@AssociatedPress )'s tribute.
https://flip.it/5I12VG
#Art #PeterMax #RIP

2026-08-10 18:25:17 UTC

Jeff Bogle is the author of "Street Cats & Where to Find Them." He talked to [@FrommersMag](https://flipboard.com/@FrommersMag )'s Pauline Frommer about how to approach our feline friends when traveling, the best places to photograph them, and what to do if you find a sick cat.
https://flip.it/hGXe7U
#CatsOfMastodon #Photography #Cats

2026-07-13 20:06:58 UTC

People projected all sorts of emotions onto the face of a Black woman surrounded by Patriot Front members, captured in a viral photo recently. Resistance. Stoicism. Fear. [@NOTUSReports](https://flipboard.com/@NOTUSReports ) tells the real story of Bernita Bowlding.
https://flip.it/2uhXou
#Photography #Culture #USPolitics

2026-07-13 20:05:13 UTC

People projected all sorts of emotions onto the face of a Black woman surrounded by Patriot Front members, captured in a viral photo recently. Resistance. Stoicism. Fear. NOTUS@flipboard.com tells the real story of Bernita Bowlding.
https://flip.it/2uhXou
#Photography #Culture #USPolitics

2026-05-29 23:37:30 UTC

Trump's second-term portrait — stern, with furrowed brow, reminiscent of his mug shot — has been used on National Park passes, a commemorative passport and now, possibly, a $250 bill. [@huffingtonpost](https://flipboard.com/@huffingtonpost )'s Katherine Speller looks into its significance, reframing and monetizing Trump's arrest, and communicating his status to both supporters and critics.
https://flip.it/oa-_TT
#TrumpAdministration #Photography #Semiotics

2026-04-07 00:56:24 UTC

In 1966, Joe Piette was drafted and sent to Vietnam to fight for the U.S. He soon came to believe that he was on the wrong side, bought a camera and began to document what he saw. For the ensuing 50 years, he's been an activist photographer, present at demonstrations in Sudan and Congo, at worker strikes and anti-ICE rallies. The Temple News, a paper for Temple University, talked to him about his life and work ahead of an exhibition at TILT Institute, Philadelphia.
https://flip.it/Zz3ee3
#Photography #Activism #WarPhotography

2026-03-11 17:10:18 UTC

Washington D.C.'s National Mall has a new work of art: A gold-painted statue of President Donald Trump standing behind convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a "Titanic" pose. The "King of the World" sculpture was reportedly installed by the anonymous collective Secret Handshake. Here's more from [@time](https://flipboard.com/@time ).
https://flip.it/oPt3em
#Art #TrumpAdministration #WashingtonDC #JeffreyEpstein

2025-12-18 20:43:23 UTC

Want a break from the... everything? Here are some amazing science images, selected by Nature magazine, including a fake kidney, a solar-powered slug, and the obligatory adorable tardigrade.
https://flip.it/kQvCxN
#Photography #Science #Tardigrades #MicroscopicPhotography

2025-11-25 22:27:18 UTC

Yoko Ono was an established and influential artist long before she met John Lennon. "Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind," a new exhibition at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates her near-70-year career, which spans film, music, conceptual and performance art. Read more in [@Salon](https://flipboard.com/@Salon ).
https://flip.it/A8.XIW
#Art #Galleries #Museums #YokoOno #Chicago

2025-11-24 23:25:50 UTC

An AI-generated mural on the side of a building Kingston upon Thames in the U.K. has been removed after locals described it as "horrible, like a scene from hell." It was supposed to depict a festive ice-skating scene, inspired by the work of sixteenth-century Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder. But by accident or design (one theory is that it was the work of Young British Artist Mat Collishaw) it instead showed contorted human faces, heavily disfigured dogs, a Christmas market engulfed in flames, and a hideous snowman. After numerous complaints, with some suggesting that it was actually a comment on the refugee crisis, it was taken down on Nov. 20. Here's more from ArtNet.
https://flip.it/XANqzk
#Art #YoungBritishArtists #YBA #MatCollishaw #Murals #UnitedKingdom #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Technology #Tech

2025-11-03 23:12:29 UTC

After Eastman Kodak went bankrupt in 2012, it continued to make Kodak film, but the rights to distribute it went to a separate company, Kodak Alaris. Now, the 133-year-old company has launched Kodacolor 100 and Kodacolor 200, its first new still film stocks in many years, and has said that it will be selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax directly. "[This] suggests that the company has figured out how to wrest some control of its distribution away from Kodak Alaris," @npub1psa…j5uh's @npub1nn0…qf5k writes. Here's more.
https://flip.it/PbQyTk
#Photography #Film #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #Kodak

2025-10-24 22:20:19 UTC

Who's the dapper mystery man in AP photographer Thibault Camus' photo of the aftermath of the Louvre heist? Could it be Arsène Lupin, Inspector Clouseau, or the Scarlet Pimpernel? The French authorities are staying schtum, with the Paris prosecutor's office telling @associatedpress@flipboard: "We'd rather keep the mystery alive.;)."
https://flip.it/MeK38A
#TheLouvre #LouvreHeist #MysteryMan #Photography #Photographs #France #Paris

2025-10-22 19:36:35 UTC

"Christina's World," the famous painting by American artist Andrew Wyeth, went out of MOMA's gallery rotation in 2024, and Adam Neese, the museum's Senior Collections Photographer for Conservation, took the opportunity to take a closer look at it. For the MOMA blog, he writes about the imaging techniques he used to examine the painting, and what they revealed. "We now have a set of detailed visual images, with each stitched image comprising over a billion pixels. These images preserve not just the appearance of the painting, but its material history," he writes.
https://flip.it/2TRGkv
#AndrewWyeth #Art #ArtHistory #Photography #Culture #Galleries #Museums #MOMA

2025-09-17 20:24:22 UTC

For the past 120 years, the U.S. National Audubon Society has worked on bird conservation and for the past 16, it's run a contest to find the most stunning imagery of our feathered friends. @popsci@flipboard.com shares some of the winning photos, from a royal tern feeding its chick a fish to a tiny chubby owl in Chile.
https://flip.it/AL27NS
#Photography #Photos #Nature #Wildlife #Birds #NationalAudubonSociety #Ornithology #Birdwatching

2025-08-26 20:47:53 UTC

Artist Amy Sherald decided to keep her exhibition "American Sublime" from being installed at the Smithsonian after the gallery told her it had concerns about the painting Trans Forming Liberty, which presents the Statue of Liberty as a Black trans woman. She writes for MSNBC about the importance of museums to the past and present. "Philippe de Montebello, an art curator who previously directed the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 31 years, once called museums 'the memory of mankind.' If that is true, then to manipulate museums is to manipulate who we believe we are. Control the memory and you control the future," Sherald writes. "Museums are not stages for loyalty. They are civic laboratories. They are places where we wrestle with contradictions, encounter the unfamiliar and widen our circle of empathy. But only if they remain free."
https://flip.it/RZot1C
#Art #Galleries #Museums #History @npub1gaf…3trh #AmySherald #Smithsonian

2025-08-14 17:45:05 UTC

35 years ago, Jim Sanborn presented the cryptographic sculpture Kryptos to the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia. Made from copper, granite, quartz and petrified wood, it has four sections, each of which holds a message in code. Over the years, three of the sections have been solved — by CIA code breakers, a California computer scientist, and the National Security Agency. Now, 79-year-old Sanborn says he's going to auction off the solution to the final message, with the company arranging the sale estimating a winning bid between $300,000 and $500,000. Here's [@newyorktimes](https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes )'s story on why he's doing it now, and what he hopes the winning bidder will do with the secret.
https://flip.it/_TN3II
#Science #Technology #Mathematics #Codebreaking #Kryptos #JimSanborn #Art #Sculpture #Cryptology #Cryptography #Cryptanalysis

2025-08-12 23:17:45 UTC

This might be one of the weirder conspiracy theories we've heard — and that's saying something. A group of protestors claims that the famed sculptor Anish Kapoor has trapped a man inside his Cloud Gate piece (commonly known as "The Bean"), which has been in Chicago's Millennium Park for more than 20 years. A member of the "Man in Bean" coalition said in an Instagram video that has had 400,000 views that Kapoor stole a baby and put them inside the Bean in 2004. Here's Art Net's attempt to unpack the bizarre, untrue story.
https://flip.it/P8lhSS
#Art #Chicago #AnishKapoor #TheBean #CloudGate #ConspiracyTheory

2025-07-29 22:22:34 UTC

Last week, the social media accounts of the Department of Homeland Security posted an image of "American Progress," a 19th-century painting that depicts a floating white woman herding buffalo and Native people off Western lands. Its caption read: "A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending." The original of the painting, which is by John Gast and was completed in 1872, is on display at the Autry Museum of the American West. [@19thnews](https://flipboard.com/@19thnews ) spoke with some of the experts at the museum about its historical significance, how they place it in context, and their perspective on DHS's use of the picture. Virginia Scharff, the museum's chair of Western history, sees the strategic deployment of the “American Progress” painting as deeply insidious. “The Department of Homeland Security is not sending scantily clad White women,” she said, “but instead sending guys with guns and truncheons and masks to grab people off the streets. There’s a deliberate kind of deception being practiced here that is really cynical and really dangerous, in my view."
https://flip.it/bQPHFD
#Art #ArtHistory #TrumpAdministration #USPolitics #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity

2025-06-11 21:43:15 UTC

Philadelphia anthropologist, playwright and poetic ethnographer Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon recently collaborated with photographer Joseph V. Labolito on a project where she performed a poem to accompany his 1980s shot of a little girl hanging out with her dad. Here's what she wrote — seven stanzas of pure love called "There Are Black Fathers; To Daddy, Father's Day, June 19, 1983" — how she composed it, and what it means. "Because of stereotypes and popular culture – media, movies, news stories – that tend to demonize and pathologize Black men, there’s a myth that men in our communities are all cut from the same cloth," she told @conversationus@newsie.social. "For me, the poem discounts that stereotypical narrative and celebrates the African American men that I knew growing up – Daddy, my uncles, the deacons in our church, the neighborhood dads on my block."
https://flip.it/zh0lZv
#Photography #Poetry #FathersDay #Culture #Literature #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #Parenting #Fatherhood

2025-06-06 21:40:22 UTC

Last weekend, Elon Musk shared some images on his X platform that he claimed had been created by the Grok AI system. They were actually just edits of original work by Australian artist Charles Brooks, a former concert cellist who is known for photographing the insides of instruments. An X user named Eric Jiang had run some of these through Grok, adding people to the original photos so they look like buildings. Musk retweeted the post with the comment "Generate images with @Grok." @npub1psa…j5uh's Matthew Gault spoke with Brooks. “I feel like, if he’s plugging his own AI software, he has a duty of care to make sure that what he’s posting is actually attributed correctly and is properly his,” he said. “But ‘duty of care’ and Musk are not words that seem to go together well recently.”
https://flip.it/OQhrJ3
#Art #AIArt #GenerativeAI #Grok #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CharlesBrooks #ElonMusk

2025-06-04 23:36:04 UTC

Our photography newsletter this week focuses on LGBTQIA+ photographers, including the Village Voice's Fred McDarrah and Zanele Muholi, a nonbinary artist who explores race, gender and sexuality in their work. The collection also includes a piece about the Getty Center's new exhibition on how LGBTQ+ people's long history as documentarians of their own lives.
https://flipboard.com/@photographers/framed-with-pride-uphplnu9gf166le5
#Photography #Pride #LGBTQ #LoveIsLove #PrideMonth #LGBTQRights

2025-05-23 22:55:31 UTC

Here's a @npub13fk…z5hw Storyboard curated by @npub19n4…5vr0 that celebrates the work of photographers of Asian and Pacific Islander descent. Discover Corky Lee's documentation of Asian American activism, how Manny Crisostomo travels to capture images of Indigenous and Pacific Islander people, and more. “Our ancestors have been voyagers for millennia. I’m one of those voyagers 4,000 years later—except I get on an airplane, it’s a little faster!” says Crisostomo, who is Guam's only Pulitzer-winning photojournalist.
https://flipboard.com/@photographers/aapi-photographers-tdanddka9npiaqpg
#Photography #Photos #Art #AAPIHeritage #AAPIHeritageMonth #Culture

2025-05-08 20:03:10 UTC

There's something compelling about photos and paintings of boats: Humans and their vessels against a backdrop that can be calm, peaceful, powerful and terrifying, sometimes shifting from one to the other in minutes. Here's @npub1ta4…j4lj's @npub13fk…z5hw Storyboard about the technical side of taking photos of boats, as well as archival photography of the U.S. navy and some of his own shots.
https://flipboard.com/@salvomic/naval-photography-ldonbtp8289is8as
#Photography #Boats #USNavy #TheSea #Photos #Culture #Art
Find more of Salvo's curation and photography via his federated Flipboard account, @npub1x53…cggs.

2025-05-06 18:03:45 UTC

Artist Jessica Poundstone has written a book about the history of dogs in art, and it's a delight. LitHub shares some of the images, including a sketch on limestone discovered in Egypt and believed to be from around 1295 BCE, a poodle powder box from 1940s France, and some portly Japanese pooches.
https://flip.it/Rg8p1t
#Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #Art #ArtHistory #Books @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-04-29 20:42:02 UTC

What do you think a book cover for "Do the Right Thing" or "Fargo" would look like? Artist and illustrator Matt Stevens imagines designs for both, plus 98 other films, in a box of collectible postcards, "Good Movies as Old Books." LitHub reproduces a few of his covers here.
https://flip.it/XHtGeG
#Art #Design #Illustration #Movies #Film #Cinema #Postcards #Books @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-04-28 21:29:40 UTC

Malick Sidibé was known as the Eye of Bamako because of his cataloging of Mali's capital through the 1960s and 1970s. In the years after the country gained its independence from France, Sidibé photographed everyone from exuberant youngsters dancing in nightclubs to people posing seriously in his studio. A new book, "Painted Frames," celebrates his legacy and gives his portraits new life, displaying the shots in frames hand-painted by local artisans in collaboration with Sidibé, who died in 2016. Here's more from Atmos.
https://flip.it/RaDmFO
#Photography #Mali #Africa #Art #MalickSidibe

2025-04-25 16:59:43 UTC

What is art? And can animals make it? Philosopher Shawn Simpson takes a look at this, using the examples of male satin bowerbirds, which make adorned archways from twigs, whale song, pig paintings, and blue manakin birds' song-and-dance routines.
https://flip.it/VU1vqm
#Art #Artists #Philosophy #Nature #Animals #WhaleSong #PigPaintings #Culture

2025-04-22 22:50:28 UTC

Yesterday was the third annual Corgi Derby, an event that pays tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II by racing her favorite dog breed. Juno was the fastest to complete the 230-foot course in Musselburgh, Scotland, and was presented with a trophy and treats by Judy Murray, mother of tennis champion Andy. Here's a selection of cute (and some slightly snarly) photos from the dogs' big day out, courtesy of Defector.
https://flip.it/so.maL
#Photography #Photos #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #Scotland #Corgis #QueenElizabethII

2025-04-21 21:35:15 UTC

Marc Chagall's painting, White Crucifixion, was Pope Francis's favorite. "Pain is depicted there with serenity," said the late pontiff of the 1938 work, which was created in reaction to Nazi crimes against Jews. Forward examines how Francis' experiences under military dictatorship in Argentina in the 1970s may have led to his love for the painting, which culture editor Talya Zax says shows, "there is a kind of fragile peace to be found in the act of surviving what might seem unsurvivable." Zax concludes: "He understood, very well, the violence of the world he was about to leave. And he understood, like Chagall, that any experience of peace within that world was something to strive for — not something guaranteed."
https://flip.it/-so4T6
#Art #Painting #PopeFrancis #Catholicism #Judaism

2025-04-16 22:34:06 UTC

When artists imagine the future these days, it looks bleak and dark — and actually, fair enough. But for Boomers, it was colorful, shiny, and sometimes sexy — and that's at least partly down to the late Syd Mead, the concept artist who worked on "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," "Tron" and "Blade Runner," and also depicted futuristic vehicles and alien vistas, imbued with optimism rather than evil. Six years after his death, Mead has his first retrospective, Future Pastime. Read more about it in the Art Newspaper's story here, and see it in New York until May 21. Story may be paywalled.
https://flip.it/rehpaC
#Art #Movies #Film #ScienceFiction #Futurism #Dystopia #BladeRunner #Tron #StarTrek #SydMead

2025-04-08 20:12:24 UTC

Need something to make you smile? Popular Science shares 15 images from the International Pet Photography Awards, including shots of an elegant whippet, a gentle Friesian stallion, and a sweet rescue rat named Button.
https://flip.it/e7vYpd
#Photography #Photos #Pets #Lifestyle #DogsOfMastodon #CatsOfMastodon #HorsesOfMastodon #RatsOfMastodon #Dogs #Cats

2025-03-28 17:28:51 UTC

The latest target for Trump's crackdowns is the Smithsonian Institution and its museums and education and research centers. A new executive order directs Vice President JD Vance to eliminate "improper, divisive or anti-American" ideology from programs at the Institution, which receives federal funding. Here's more from MSNBC's MaddowBlog.
https://flip.it/iw2S6c
#Smithsonian #Museums #TrumpAdministration #DiversityEquityInclusion

2025-03-18 17:30:22 UTC

Kim Kardashian faced swift backlash after posting on Instagram about her Tesla-festooned photoshoot for indie fashion mag Perfect. The top comment on her post, with over 20,000 likes, said "never buying skims again," referring to Kardashian's shapewear brand. Artnet's critic Ben Davis looks at whether the Tesla and Kardashian backlash is a distraction, or will it have a real impact. "Social media rage is fleeting and impressionable and not to be taken too seriously," he writes. "But some part of Musk’s power is based on social-media feedback loops in the first place, and that can go wrong — and maybe the sheer dystopian dreadfulness of the image of Kim Kardashian joylessly taking a selfie with Musk’s robot is a fitting symbol."
https://flip.it/i_MFZ0
#Photography #Photos #Magazines #Photoshoot #Tesla #KimKardashian #ElonMusk #TeslaTakedown

2025-02-19 23:20:43 UTC

Underwater photography used to be the preserve of the pros, largely thanks to the price of gear and the difficulty of using it. Nowadays, camera and housings are cheaper and don't require such expertise, and there's also invaluable editing software. Here's a @npub13fk…z5hw Storyboard from @npub19n4…5vr0 about how to take and edit breathtaking underwater photos, plus gear reviews, and some prizewinning shots for inspiration.
https://flipboard.com/@photographers/into-the-depths-of-underwater-photography-hivdq7jbt6r083lk
#Photography #Photographers #UnderwaterPhotography #Wildlife #Nature #Cameras

2025-02-11 21:12:18 UTC

Branching structures exist throughout nature — in trees, of course, but also in leaves, veins and arteries. Mitchell Newberry, a research assistant professor of biology at the University of New Mexico, writes about Dutch artist Piet Mondrian's tree paintings, which evolved from realistic depictions in context, to overlapping lines in shades of gray. “Gray Tree” uses only curved lines of various thickness superimposed on top of one another at seemingly random angles. Yet the image is unmistakably a tree," writes Newberry for @npub1gpe…88e5. "How did Mondrian convey the sense of a tree with so little? The science of trees may offer some clues."
https://flip.it/7UiFaI
#Art #Painting #PietMondrian #Trees #Biology #Branching #Science

2025-02-11 18:22:07 UTC

Kara Walker, the artist and MacArthur genius, has created a new installation for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine) / A Respite for the Weary Time-Traveler. / Featuring a Rite of Ancient Intelligence Carried out by The Gardeners / Toward the Continued Improvement of the Human Specious" consists of eight Black automatons that "invite us to reflect on the human and nonhuman histories of racialized labor, offering a cryptic message about our own liberation," writes The Nation's Rachel Hunter Himes. Here's her story on this new work and how it fits into Walker's oeuvre. "Walker’s figures in 'Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine),' like those in her cut-paper murals, embody histories that need to be contended with," Hunter Himes says. "Yet unlike her earlier work, this installation also grants us a glimpse of a possible future, a future of freedom. Here, Walker asks her Black automatons to give us an image of liberation, a request to which they graciously accede."
https://flip.it/YTU5RI
#Art #SanFrancisco #KaraWalker #ModernArt #BlackMastodon @npub1e4z…xz2t

2025-02-07 23:59:44 UTC

Whether they're celebrated, like Carrie Mae Weems and Gordon Parks, or overlooked, like Coreen Simpson, Black photographers have had a huge impact on art, culture and society. In this week's The Shot newsletter, @npub19n4…5vr0 payed tribute to some visionary storytellers through the years.
https://flipboard.com/@photographers/black-history-month-2025-photography-edition-egfv7blvruev1qn7
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #Photography #BlackMastodon @npub1e4z…xz2t #Photos

2025-02-06 20:30:45 UTC

David Edward Byrd, the designer and artist behind the iconic Broadway posters for "Follies," "Godspell," "Little Shop of Horrors" and many more, has died at age 83. Here's a brief tribute to him from Broadway World. His autobiography, "Poster Child: The Psychedelic Art & Technicolor Life of David Edward Byrd," was published in 2023. Buy it at Bookshop.org via the second link.
https://flip.it/XxE-hi
https://flip.it/d3CKjw
#DavidEdwardByrd #Art #PosterArt #Theater #Broadway #InMemoriam #RIP #Books @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-02-03 21:37:11 UTC

In July 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the Amistad and were arrested and tried for mutiny in Connecticut (their case eventually escalated to the Supreme Court and was an important moment in the abolitionist movement). During the trial, an artist named William H. Townsend drew some of the rebels. Kate McMahon, a historian of global slavery at the Smithsonian Institute, wrote for @npub1gpe…88e5 what these rare portraits tell us. "These portraits ... bring the massive, messy, contested story of slavery down to the scale of individual humans. Their visages call upon present and future generations to collectively imagine not only the horrors of the slave trade, but also the power of individual dignity and collective resistance," she writes.
https://flip.it/z3.n9A
#Art #History #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #Amistad #BlackMastodon @npub1e4z…xz2t

2025-02-01 00:46:48 UTC

Writer Sarah Belmont finds inspiration in museums — they're a means of reconnecting with her creativity and easing writer's block. Last month, she became the first reporter to spend a night at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which will close in September for a massive five-year renovation project. Here's her account of her adventure — conversations with the photographer in residence, exploration of the tunnels beneath the museum, and a lie-down under "Les mariés et la tour Eiffel," by Marc Chagall.
https://flip.it/KGX4M5
#Art #Museums #Galleries #CentrePompidou #Paris

2025-01-28 17:52:34 UTC

The Louvre — the world's most visited museum — is in a dire state, according to a leaked memo sent by its director to France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati. In response, President Emmanuel Macron announced that the big draw, the Mona Lisa, will be moved to another part of the museum, which will be repaired and expanded at a cost of hundreds of millions. Now, Francesca Caruso, the regional assessor for culture in Lombardy, Italy, is calling for the painting to be sent to Milan to join The Last Supper — Da Vinci started painting the Mona Lisa in Florence but may have finished it in France when he went to live there in 1516.
Here's NBC News's story on what's going on, and how Macron plans to raise money for these massive renovations. We want to know: What do you think should happen to the Mona Lisa?
https://flip.it/QcufME
#Art #Museums #Galleries #MonaLisa #France #EmmanuelMacron

2025-01-24 18:10:46 UTC

Supersized paintings were — pardon the pun — big in 2022, when works as large as 2m x 3m became common. Art Net takes a look at why smaller paintings and sculptures are gaining popularity, from the bold and brash going out of favor, to practical and economic concerns like cost, storage space, and shipping.
https://flip.it/moVUUh
#Art #Painting #Sculpture #Culture

2025-01-21 21:39:41 UTC

Rich Hein may not be a familiar name to all photographers, but the former Chicago Sun-Times photo editor, who died on Sunday, was a legend to former colleagues. He was also beloved by the city's theatrical community, for which he shot publicity stills. Here's a tribute to him from the paper where he worked for 40 years, plus a few of his outstanding shots.
https://flip.it/Jzbuni
#Photography #Photographers #RichHein #Theater #InMemoriam #RIP

2025-01-21 19:04:12 UTC

"What I love about Lynch is how he really lived the art life. He was constantly chasing the creative dragon: painting, sculpting, drawing, building furniture, making music, acting, meditating," writes Defector's Israel Daramola in his tribute to the inimitable filmmaker, who died last week.
https://flip.it/YVX-d7
#DavidLynch #Art #Artists #Movies #Cinema #Film #InMemoriam

2025-01-15 20:47:23 UTC

"The Brutalist," starring Adrien Brody and directed by Brady Corbet, is tipped for Oscar success after picking up the award for best drama film at the Golden Globes. WorldCrunch explains brutalism, the architectural style that inspired the movie, and shares examples of brutalist buildings in San Diego, London, Montreal, Bangladesh and more.
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#Architecture #Design #Brutalism #TheBrutalist #Movies #Cinema #Oscars

2025-01-14 17:33:33 UTC

Vital Impacts is a non-profit focused on conservation through storytelling by visual journalists — photographers document the world's biodiversity and endangered species. Here are some of the photos taken by their journalists, from an image of a black rhino in Kenya to a picture of a polar bear swimming in arctic waters.
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#Photography #Conservation #Biodiversity #Photojournalism

2025-01-02 19:19:11 UTC

In the introduction to his reissued book, "Tokyo: A Certain Style," photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki dismisses the West's obsession with Japanese minimalism as "some Japanophile’s dream." Here, author Matt Alt shares some of Tsuzuki's pictures of cluttered homes known as gomi-yashiki (trash mansions), and asks what all this says about our relationship with stuff.
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#Photography #Culture #Books @npub1ny7…uv57 #Japan #Minimalism #Design #Home

2024-12-20 21:52:27 UTC

Some of us spent last Sunday afternoon assembling a pre-made Costco gingerbread house and studding it with gumdrops, and boy was that enough for us. So we bow down to the artists featured in this @dwell story, who spend months constructing (incr)edible architecture. Take a look at their creations and read more about their process here.
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#Design #Food #GingerbreadHouses #Culture #Lifestyle

2024-12-12 19:15:11 UTC

James Hatsuaki Wakasa was shot dead in 1943, in Topaz, a concentration camp in Utah. Two friends erected a monument for him. In 2021, the Topaz Museum removed the stone and placed it in their museum, without the permission of survivors, descendants, or the Japanese American community. They damaged the monument, and left the site of Wakasa's murder unmarked, filling the hole in the ground with dirt. In his book, "The Afterlife is Letting Go," excerpted in LitHub, Brandon Shimoda writes about what it means to protect a 2,000 pound stone.
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#Museums #Monuments #History @npub1uc0…cpgf #JapaneseAmericanHistory #Books @npub1ny7…uv57

2024-12-10 21:26:12 UTC

Notre-Dame de Paris has been brought back to life after it went up in flames in 2019. [@ArtNews](https://flipboard.com/@ArtNews ) explains the restoration project and what will happen next.
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#Art #Architecture #NotreDame #Paris #Culture

2024-12-09 22:03:51 UTC

Photographer Doris Ulmann is remembered for her work in Appalachia during the Great Depression, where she shot folks who ordinarily wouldn't have the opportunity to sit for a portrait. JSTOR shares some images.
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#Photography #Portraits #Culture #DorisUlmann

2024-11-28 00:26:02 UTC

Photographer Ernest Cole's seminal work was "House of Bondage," an exposé of apartheid in his home country of South Africa. Cole left the country for the U.S. before the book was even published in 1967 (it was immediately banned and he was stripped of his citizenship). He went on to take tens of thousands of photos in New York and the Jim Crow South, but work dried up, and he spend times living on the same streets he had photographed, before dying of pancreatic cancer at 49. Most of his U.S. work has never been seen until now, with the release of a new documentary, "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found." CNN talked to its director, Raoul Peck, about the making of the movie and the parallels Cole saw between South Africa under apartheid and the segregated South.
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#Photography #Photos #ErnestCole #SouthAfrica #Apartheid #Segregation @npub1e4z…xz2t #Film #Cinema #Documentary

2024-11-20 19:27:23 UTC

A 17th-century atlas of the stars and planets is about to go on display for the first time after restoration work that allows you to see its brilliant colors and fine detail. The Art Newspaper takes a peek inside the "Harmonia Macrocosmica," a masterpiece of Dutch art and cartography, which also offers insight into theories of astronomy at that time. If you're in the U.K., you can see the book in real life at the Blickling Estate, Norfolk.
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#Art #Cartography #Maps #History @npub1uc0…cpgf #Astronomy #Norfolk #UnitedKingdom

2024-11-13 17:09:43 UTC

Concept artists define the look of video games. For Aftermath, Luke Plunkett spoke to a number of them, from indie freelancers to those at AAA (major) studios and everything in between, to learn about the work they do, why much of it is unseen, and the gnarly nature of contracts and NDAs. "...the implicit expectation is that a studio will own the work you make forever. One particularly hostile contract stated they would own my work in perpetuity for the rest of my life, or my children's lives. Not sure if that one will hold up in court," says Daisy, a AAA veteran now working in independent development.
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#Art #ConceptArt #VideoGames #GamesIndustry #GameDevs #NDAs #Devs #AAA #GameDevelopment

2024-11-07 22:23:45 UTC

Rafael Rodriguez grew up in institutions: Foster care, group homes, juvenile detention, Rikers Island, New York State Prison and as of 2007, the federal system. Here's a brief animation from The Marshall Project about how he met a mentor who he says saved his life through art. "Memo taught me how to draw from inside with emotion. I began to understand how oil painting mimics parts of life the same way a single brushstroke can throw an entire painting off," he says.
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#Art #Prison #Incarceration #ArtTherapy #MarshallProject

2024-11-06 18:21:10 UTC

Indonesia has been engulfed in political volatility since February 2024, when the outgoing president, Joko Widodo, changed electoral laws to allow his sons to hold office. Journalist Hung Duong says in that context, it felt auspicious that she had been interviewing Ade Darmawan and Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, two artists who are, "delving into Indonesian history to shine a light on the manipulation of memory and archives that’s happening before our eyes," she writes. Here's her story for Artforum on their work, and how "archival history can be twisted to present nostalgic images of the 'good old days' and foment reactionary narratives." [This story may be paywalled]
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#Art #PoliticalArt #Politics #Indonesia

2024-10-31 21:56:41 UTC

When the enslaved people of the island of Haiti rose up and won their liberty in the late 18th and early 19th century, women fought shoulder to shoulder with men. Yet it's the male freedom fighters who are remembered. Now, Haitian artists Richard Barbot and François Cauvin have imagined what these women looked like, creating paintings of revolutionary fighters such as Marie Jeanne Lamartiniére, Sanité Bélair, and vodou priestess Cécile Fatiman. Emi Eleode writes about their lives and the upcoming Resistance, Revolution and Reform: Cambridge and the Caribbean in the Age of Abolition, which will open at London's Fitzwilliam Museum in 2025.
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#Art #Exhibitions #History @npub1uc0…cpgf #BlackMastodon @npub1e4z…xz2t #BlackHistory #Haiti #London

2024-10-30 23:17:15 UTC

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Update: Another piece of political art has popped up — this time in Philadelphia. Philly Voice reports that a statue of Donald Trump has been placed in Maja park, behind a bronze sculpture of a nude woman. Beneath it is a plaque that quotes Trump on the "Access Hollywood" tape that was leaked before the 2016 election: "I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait," the plaque says. "And when you're a star they let you do it. Grab them by the p****. You can do anything." An identical statue appeared in Portland, Oregon on Sunday but was vandalized and removed within hours. Here's more.
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#Art #PublicArt #USPolitics #USElection #Philadelphia #Pennsylvania #DonaldTrump #AccessHollywood

2024-10-30 19:07:18 UTC

Tomorrow's Halloween — meaning it's time to adjust that camera for night time, eerie lighting, and creepy characters. This collection has basic tips and ideas, shots and apps to try, and a bit of history and nostalgia too.
https://flipboard.com/@photographers/halloween-photography-special-hm74tcs3vtharb8f
#halloween #photography #photographytips

2024-10-29 22:05:42 UTC

Political art is popping up in Washington, D.C. Last week, an unknown artist placed a replica of Nancy Pelosi's desk, topped with a basketball-sized emoji-like poop, along the National Mall. The plaque beneath reads: “This memorial honors the brave men and women who broke into the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021 to loot, urinate and defecate throughout those hallowed halls in order to overturn an election." Now, it's been joined by a bronze statue of a tiki torch in Freedom Plaza, with the caption, “This monument pays tribute to President Donald Trump and the ‘very fine people’ he boldly stood to defend when they marched in Charlottesville, Virginia.” Here's more from CNN.
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#Art #PublicArt #USPolitics #USElection #WashingtonDC #DonaldTrump #CapitolRiot

2024-10-29 22:04:42 UTC

Political art is popping up in Washington, D.C. Last week, an unknown artist placed a replica of Nancy Pelosi's desk, topped with a basketball-sized emoji-like poop, along the National Mall. The plaque beneath reads: “This memorial honors the brave men and women who broke into the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021 to loot, urinate and defecate throughout those hallowed halls in order to overturn an election." Now, it's been joined with a bronze statue of a tiki torch in Freedom Plaza, with the caption, “This monument pays tribute to President Donald Trump and the ‘very fine people’ he boldly stood to defend when they marched in Charlottesville, Virginia.” Here's more from CNN.
https://flip.it/Uuu6DI
#Art #PublicArt #USPolitics #USElection #WashingtonDC #DonaldTrump #CapitolRiot

2024-10-23 18:07:53 UTC

Ed Sheeran has dozens of tattoos, some to commemorate career highlights, one because a radio station wanted him to get one on air, one because Saoirse Ronan deliberately misspelled the song title "Galway Girl" in a music video, and many that have no rationale whatsoever (a Heinz ketchup label... the word "PRINCE" written in the "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" font). Jill Mapes, a writer for Hearing Things, has found herself completely fascinated by the recreation of "Mother and Child," a lithograph by Henri Matisse that Sheeran has on his left forearm. The original is Matisse's take on a Virgin Mary/Jesus picture. The Sheeran version is somewhat saucier. Mapes writes about how her fixation on the tattoo led her to examine Matisse's most interesting period of work.
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#EdSheeran #Art #Culture #Matisse #Lithography #Tattoos #TattoosOfTheFediverse

2024-10-17 17:26:47 UTC

Nikon's annual Small World competition is a beautiful mashup of art and science, celebrating the best images taken through a light microscope. This year's winner shows mouse brain tumor cells and was taken by Bruno Cisterna, a faculty member at Augusta University's Medical College of Georgia. Take a look at it, and other winning images of an electrical arc between a pin and a wire, a cannabis plant leaf, and more.
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#Photography #Science #MicroPhotography #Culture #Photos #SmallWorld

2024-10-16 17:22:50 UTC

If you had to wear school uniform as a kid, you know that the goal is always to make your clothing look as unique as possible, without getting in trouble with teachers. A new photo book, "Catholic Girl," by Andrea Modica, illustrates that perfectly — showing subcultures and music preferences, as well as friendships, and the joy and pain of being young. Here, Dazed and Confused takes us inside its pages.
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#Photography #Photos #Books @npub1ny7…uv57 #NewYork #Fashion #Style

2024-10-15 23:00:29 UTC

How did Edvard Munch create his self-proclaimed “soul painting,” "The Scream?" Kelly Scanlon writes for Far Out magazine about the origin of the artwork, and its place in the symbolic art movement.
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#Art #History #ArtHistory @npub1uc0…cpgf #Symbolism #ExistentialDread

2024-10-10 20:31:59 UTC

From Boaty McBoatface to the Floating Crapsickle, you just can't trust an internet vote. The state of Michigan didn't seem to get that memo, however, when it launched a contest to design "I Voted" stickers. The winner is a piece of artwork featuring a werewolf ripping its shirt to shreds as it howls in front of a U.S. flag. The design, by 12-year-old Jane Hynous, won by a large margin. "I didn't want to do something that usually you think of when you think of Michigan," she told the New York Times. "I was like, 'Why not make a wolf pulling his shirt off?'" Here's @npub15wh…e9hw with more.
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#Design #Art #USElection #Michigan #InternetCulture #BoatyMcBoatface

2024-10-08 18:34:46 UTC

Some of New York's bars are the stuff of legend, from the Stonewall Inn's pivotal place in LGBTQ+ history to Rudy's Bar & Grill, the famous dive bar that's withstood decades of gentrification. James and Karla Murray have now photographed some of these historic spots for a new book, "Great Bars of New York City," which focuses on Manhattan drinking establishments. Blind Magazine shares a few of those pictures.
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#Photography #NewYork #Culture #Books @npub1ny7…uv57

2024-10-04 21:09:58 UTC

60 years ago, Luigi Lo Rosso found a painting in the basement of a villa in Capri. He stuck it in a cheap frame and gave it to his wife, who didn't think it was pretty enough to sell, so hung it on the wall. Then in the 1980s, their son Andrea saw Picasso's Buste de femme Dora Maar in a grade-school textbook. Ever since, the family have been trying to authenticate their picture as a genuine Picasso. Last month, it was certified. Here's more from CNN.
Link: https://flip.it/FqHftW
#Art #ArtHistory #Picasso #Italy #Capri
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2024-09-27 18:29:14 UTC

Archaeologists have discovered hundreds of ancient drawings in the Peruvian desert, with the help of aerial photos and AI. The images, called geoglyphs, date back around around 2,000 years and depict humanoid figures and domesticated animals. Some hint at human sacrifice, portraying decapitated heads and orcas armed with blades. The AI process may now be used beyond this heritage site. Speed is essential in identifying geoglyphs because many of them “lie on the cusp of erasure through agricultural expansion, urban development and wind-power generation," says David Beresford-Jones of the University of Cambridge. Here's more from the New Scientist (story may be paywalled).
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#Art #Archaeology #History @npub1uc0…cpgf #Science #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

2024-09-25 17:02:38 UTC

Two museums in Paris, Musée Guimet and Musée du quai Branly, are under fire for renaming Tibetan exhibits as Chinese or from the "Himalayan world." An estimated 800 demonstrators protested outside the museums at the weekend and Tibetan cultural advocacy groups based in France requested formal meetings to discuss the rationale behind the terminology changes. Here's more from [@ArtNews](https://flipboard.com/@ArtNews ).
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#Art #Paris #Museums #Galleries #Tibet #China #Activism

2024-09-13 16:57:59 UTC

Gauguin biographer Sue Prideaux picks her favorite biographies of artists for @npub14ud…fpym
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Which titles would you add to this list?
#art #books #biography #artists

2024-09-03 23:30:58 UTC

Taking pictures is such a low-stakes endeavor that now the problem is dwindling storage space, overwhelming digital clutter, and treasured memories lost to time.
How to keep up with it all so that your photos work for you and not the other way around?
This collection has a few suggestions. ⤵️
https://flipboard.com/@photographers/photo-management-in-an-era-of-overwhelm-ekco179s9ps9bagd
#photography #digitalphotography #photos #organizing #declutter

2024-08-13 16:27:41 UTC

Some good news for the #fediverse ecosystem: Now you can follow and interact with profiles from Threads, Mastodon and other federated social services on Flipboard.
So...who are your favorite #art and #photography people here? Who's on Threads that we should know? And who do we need to talk to to turn on fediverse sharing?!
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/follow-anyone-in-the-fediverse/

2024-08-08 20:40:58 UTC

Every year, the LA LGBT Center hosts its Senior Prom, for people aged 50 and older. It's a chance to celebrate for those who couldn't enjoy their teenaged prom because they were not living as their authentic selves — or for those who just want to go to a great party. Here, Advocate shares some of the photos from the 27th edition, held last month. "Seeing the sheer joy and pleasure that was afforded this group of seniors makes my heart smile. They really look like kids at a prom, I love it! We all deserve joy in all seasons of life," writes digital photo editor Nikki Aye.
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#LGBTQ #LoveIsLove #Pride #Lifestyle #Photography

2024-08-01 18:28:49 UTC

As well as jaw-dropping feats of athleticism and surprising viral stars (Turkish shooter Yusuf Dikeç, we're talking about you), the Olympic Games is known for its design. From logos and posters to the very rings themselves, CreativeBloq looks at Olympic art dating back to 1912 in this @npub13fk…z5hw Storyboard.
https://flipboard.com/@creativebloq/the-olympic-games-a-look-at-the-iconic-art-and-design-jk160o6ikb3g0565
#Design #Art #Logos #OlympicGames #Olympics