Last Tuesday, Meta introduced a new AI image generator with a feature that raised more than a few eyebrows- it would allow users to not only create pictures from a text prompt, but also to to generate AI images using other people's public photos. "If you have a public account, you need to change your settings now to avoid ending up the unwitting subject of anyone's AI creations," warned CNET in an article titled "Meta Has a New AI Image Tool, and I Already Used It to Deepfake My Friend's Instagram." On Friday, after widespread criticism, Meta paused the feature.

  While epoch-defining abstract expressionist artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman hosted  photographers shooting their studio actions for features in LIFE magazine during the 1950s and ‘60s, the gallerist who put them on the map, Betty Parsons, stayed home and made paintings. Most of this work never saw light during her lifetime. But yesterday, a major exhibition, Betty Parsons: An Expanded World,opened at the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard Col...