NFT EVENING Tuesday May 10, 2022
August Sander’s great grandson recently hoped to bring his famed forebear’s iconic photos onto the blockchain via OpenSea, but instead a legal battle has erupted. Julian Sanders, an art dealer and gallerist based in Cologne, Germany, launched the August Sander 10K Collection launched on February 11, offering NFTs of all 10,700 images in the August Sanders archive for free, with users only needing to pay gas fees. He said his goal was to “secure the legacy of August Sander on the blockchain,” noted NFT Evening. There was a snag though: Julian Sandeers doesn’t own the copyright to August Sander’s work. SK Stiftung Kultur, a Cologne-based arts foundation, maintains those rights until 2034. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday May 10, 2022
Danish Siddiqui, who was killed while covering fighting in Afghanistan in 2021, was part of a team of Reuters photographers that has been awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for feature
photography.Siddiqui and his colleagues Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave won for their coverage of the the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic in India. Meanwhile, two Pulitzers were awarded
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The New York Times Monday May 9, 2022
Marcus Leatherdale, who made classical portraits of Manhattan’s demimonde in the 1980s — Keith Haring, Andy Warhol and Sydney Biddle Barrows, otherwise known as the Mayflower Madam, all made their way to his Lower East Side studio — died on April 22 at his home in the state of Jharkhand, India, reports The New York Times. He was 69. The cause was suicide, said Claudia Summers, his former wife. His partner of two decades, Jorge Serio, died in July, and Leatherdale suffered a stroke soon after. The Times calls Leatherdale the “Cecil Beaton of Downtown.” Read the full Story >>
AnOther Monday May 9, 2022
“There’s no designer vagina,” says Harley Weir, discussing series “Sins of a Daughter,” at London’s Hannah Barry Gallery. The intimate and emotional work, notes AnOther, draws “on themes of inherited family trauma, sexuality, shame, motherhood and the knotty topic of desire.” Weir talks with the website about the line between pornography and art, the importance of vagina acceptance, and the reality of working in both the fashion and art industries as a woman. “I dislike labels, they hold us back,” she says. Read the full Story >>
