TechCrunch Tuesday October 4, 2022
There are two new developments the the social media imitation game: TechCrunch reports that the OG App—a back-to-basics version of Instagram that has been getting attention lately—is no longer available in Apple’s App Store. Apple said it removed The OG App from the App Store for accessing Instagram’s service without express permission, which violated rules regarding displaying content from a third-party service. Meanwhile, Gizmodo reports that Twitter has now cloned Instagram Reels, which in turn cloned TikTok, “because that’s what everyone does now.”
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ARTnews Tuesday October 4, 2022
Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier has been awarded the top prize at the 58th Carnegie International—the longest-running North American exhibition of international art. Organized every three to four years by Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art, the International presents an overview of how art and artists respond to the critical questions of our time. Frazier received the historic prize for her series “More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021–2022,” notes Art News.
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Bob and Diane Fund Tuesday October 4, 2022
Bob & Diane Martin were high school sweethearts who were married for 49 years. In 2006, at the age of 65, Diane was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. She passed away 5 years later. Bob, her loyal partner and devoted caregiver, died just 3 months later. Gina Martin created The Bob and Diane Fund to honor her late parents and support photographers who are telling stories about patients and families living with Alzheimer’s and dementia. Visual storytellers are invited to submit their photo essays through October 23.
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David Schonauer Tuesday October 4, 2022
In 1972, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted a retrospective of Diane Arbus's work, just a year after she took her own life. The exhibition, as Artnet put it recently, "divided viewers the
way few exhibitions ever have." New York Times critic Hilton Kramer called it "an artistic and a human triumph," while Susan Sontag wrote that Arbus's photographs "suggest a … Read the full Story >>
