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 >>
Are photographs inherently dishonest? Photographer Martin Schoeller thinks so. "I do think all photographs lie," he said told CNN in an interview. "I don't think there is one picture that is really honest. You can't describe a person in a split second, but maybe in the grand scheme of photography, I think there are some pictures that are more honest than others, you know? … Read the full Story >>
Since 2005, photographer and photography lecturer Robert Burley has been documenting the demise of film photography through film photographs. He has traveled around the world with his 4×5 field camera, capturing the demolition of buildings, the equipment that once powered a giant industry, and the desolation of factories that were once teeming with workers. In his book, The Disappearance of Darkness: Photography at the … Read the full Story >>
"I see it ten times a day," said photographer Co Rentmeester in a recent interview. He was ruefully referring to the Jumpman logo that appears on Jordan brand products, which generated $6.59 billion in revenue for Nike in 2023. In 1984, Rentmeester photographed Michael Jordan for Life magazine, and his image, he has maintained for years, inspired the famous logo. He has unsuccessfully sued … Read the full Story >>
If you've never seen Christopher Makos' portraits of Andy Warhol entitled Altered Images, a selection from this 1981 artistic collaboration is now on view at Yancey Richardson Gallery Using highly theatrical makeup and a variety of wigs, Warhol transformed himself into a number of female personas, several of which embody attributes of his own celebrity subjects. Wearing a man's shirt and plaid necktie … Read the full Story >>
Imagine yourself stepping into Max's Kansas City when it ruled New York nightlife in the 1970s: Your waitress might well have been Debbie Harry, and sitting at a table near you might have been Robert Mapplethorpe, William Burroughs, and Lou Reed. Photographer Anton Perich was there, and he recorded the scene for posterity in images we feature today. But our trip in the photographic … Read the full Story >>
