Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the brush or the pen? CS: I guess it would be the brush. When I was a freshman, I had an instructor who had us keep a sketchbook for painting watercolors only – under no circumstances was drawing allowed! That class started my life-long interest in painting the world around me. PR: Where do you live and … Read the full Story >>
Robert Pattinson is worried about deepfake technology. In an interview with the Evening Standard's ES Magazine, the "Batman" actor talked about his unease over the digitally altered videos of his face that have been popping up across the internet. "It's terrifying," he said, adding, "You just realize that we're two years away from it being indistinguishable from reality -- and what on Earth am … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Being asked to create 40 drawings for the New York magazine cover for the “Reasons We Have Loved New York” issue must be a New York artist’s dream assignment. All in one week. What were you doing when the call came in? Jeanne Verdoux: I had come to Bordeaux in September for a sabbatical semester from Parsons. The goal was to … Read the full Story >>
Legendary photo editor John G. Morris died on Friday at age 100. Morris passed away at a hospital near near home in Paris; his friend and colleague Robert Pledge, a founder of the Contact Press Images agency, confirmed the death. Morris, noted The New York Times, left an indelible stamp on photojournalism from World War II through the Vietnam War. He notably edited Robert … Read the full Story >>
Two years ago, on Jan. 5, 2021, OpenAI introduced DALL-E, a neural network that created images from text captions. Over the past year, such AI image generators-including DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney-have "the biggest thing to happen to images since the invention of photography," noted PetaPixel recently. "It doesn't feel like so long ago that we were first trying this research direction to … Read the full Story >>
If you haven't strolled along the springy walkways that make Big Bambu such a thrill to visit, you have just 20 days remaining to do that. Mike and Doug Starn's installation on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art closes after Halloween. The views of the Manhattan skyline are extraordinary, and Big Bambu - a multi-dimensional work of art that … Read the full Story >>
Lauren Greenfield has spent her career looking at wealth. As a photographer, she has photographed affluent teens at play, investors on the lam, strippers earning their hundies, and abandoned mansions in Dubai. As a documentary filmmaker, she looked at the construction of a $100 million house amid last decade's financial crisis. Her recent photographic exhibition "Generation Wealth" gathered together 25 years of work examining … Read the full Story >>
Apple is wondering what a real photo really is. The existential question comes as the maker of iPhones unveils its Apple Intelligence AI with iOS18.1 this week. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple software chief Craig Federighi said the company is aiming to provide AI-powered image editing tools that preserve photo authenticity. iOS 18.1 brings a new "Clean Up" feature to … Read the full Story >>
Q: Who was Mona Lisa? Editor’s note: Leonardo da Vinci [1452-1519] himself never wrote on the subject, but scholars have pieced together the following narrative from accounts by one of his supporters, Niccolò Machiavelli [The Prince], and Giorgio Vasari [The Lives of the Artists] as follows. Above left: the Isleworth Mona Lisa [now called “the Earlier Mona Lisa” Info; … Read the full Story >>
Photographer Melissa Lyttle learned a myth growing up in Florida. "I was taught that the Civil War was fought over states' rights--a concept that seemed plausible to a kid--and that our side had its own heroes and its own stories worth remembering," she noted in a recent interview. In the past year, as the nation has taken steps to acknowledge the truth of its … Read the full Story >>
"I used to be unknown, and that was restful and pleasurable," Saul Leiter once said. "Now I have become known, and people want to interview me." Leiter, who died in 2013 at age 89, became known for his evocative color photographs of New York City in the 1950s and 1960s, but the new book "Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective" shows how painting informed his … Read the full Story >>
W.M. Hunt, art dealer, educator, and collector extraordinaire, began his own photography collection almost 40 years ago as an antidote to depression. In a going-out-of-business sale, he found what he describes as "a girlie Madonna-like figurine, and it probably was not even a silver print." He paid $40 dollars (which he didn’t have to spare) and took it home, where "she would come out … Read the full Story >>
Before his death last September, the lauded fashion and portrait photographer Peter Lindbergh began curating an exhibition of his own work titled "Untold Stories," on view at the Kunstpalast in Dusseldorf, Germany, through June 1. The first show that Lindbergh compiled himself, it brings together some 150 images taken from as far back as the early 1980s -- work that inevitably provides insights into … Read the full Story >>
It almost seems like Spring—at least the daffodils and crocus are doing their bit to satisfy our hungry eyes. So this might be a weekend for enjoying some outdoor art installations to celebrate the season. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the 2018 Roof Garden Commission opened this week with a colossal bronze sculpture by Huma Bhabha. Titled We Come in Peace, the … Read the full Story >>
After several years of work, the North American Nature Photographers Association has developed a new "Truth in Captioning" statement that addresses ethical considerations around nature photography, along with the need to honestly and accurately caption the details of images. Recently, the NANPA website featured an interview with Don Carter, president of the association, and Melissa Groo, the chair of the NANPA ethics committee, about … Read the full Story >>
Mister Rogers is having a moment. The children's television icon has been the subject of two documentaries and a biopic movie, "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood." But Hollywood aside, Fred Rogers is timeless, noted NPR in a recent interview with photographer Lynn Johnson, who spent ten years photographing Rogers, first for The Pittsburgh Press and then for Life magazine. "It was a delight … Read the full Story >>
While bloggers and tech writers all over are speculating about what will be the killer app for Apple's iPad, going on sale this Saturday, artists all over are still happy with the silent killer app for iPhone: Brushes. The easy-to-use program is useful for quick sketches on the run, but the artist who first took it seriously - Jorge Colombo - has … Read the full Story >>
Sheila Metzner came out of the world of fashion and advertising. But commerce, she once said, was never a concern of hers. "The idea of commerce grew as the years went by," she said in a 2015 interview. "Originally, I was hired by Vogue as an artist, [and] finally the man who hired me fired me as that artist -- Alexander Liberman -- his … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Your art for the 2018 memorial day cover of The New Yorker made me feel like a kid again—and got my holiday off to a great start. What is there about kids playing in water that gets your pen moving? Gayle Kabaker: Thank you! It's not really kids in water that inspires me—more just people and water in general ! When it's … Read the full Story >>
The Outsider Art Fair is back for the third year at Center 548, the clean and well-lit former New York home of DIA. The show, now in its 23rd edition, used to run at the funky Puck Building across town, and is larger than ever under the direction of Andrew Edlin. The owner of the eponymous Chelsea gallery, which represents Thornton Dial and Henry Darger among … Read the full Story >>
