artnet news Monday June 19, 2023
Gagosian, the world’s largest gallery, will now represent the estate of photographer Francesca Woodman, who before her death at 22 helped define a style of contemporary photography through her inward reflection that drew from Gothic, Victorian, and Surrealist influences. Gagosian will be featuring an exhibition of the artist’s work next spring in New York, notes Art News. Woodman’s estate was previously represented jointly by the Marian Goodman Gallery and the Victoria Miro Gallery.
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School of Visual Arts Monday June 19, 2023
From June 29 to July 19, SVA features the 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition in the Department of Photography, Video, and Related Media. The show spotlights sixteen artists who employ a range of mediums—including print photography, painting, sculpture, installation, and moving image—to formulate distinctive statements about the world and our relations with it. "The fusion of lens and screen serves as the fundamental framework for interpreting information and gaining insights into our ever-evolving world,” notes department chair Charles Traub.
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The New York Times Monday June 19, 2023
The European Union has taken an important step toward passing what would be one of the first major laws to regulate artificial intelligence, reports The New York Times. The law could be a potential model for policymakers around the world as they grapple with how to put guardrails on the rapidly developing technology. The European Parliament, a main legislative branch of the E.U., passed a draft law known as the A.I. Act, which would severely curtail uses of facial recognition software, while requiring makers of A.I. systems like the ChatGPT chatbot to disclose more about the data used to create their programs.
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David Schonauer Monday June 19, 2023
The history of the smile in photography is complicated. In the early days of medium, the subjects of portraits often did not smile--whether because of 19th-century dental hygiene of other cultural
reasons is not entirely clear. But today the expectation of a smile in a photo is pretty standard. That's why people are praising North Carolina-based photographer Brooke Light's approach when it
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