THE VERGE Monday September 25, 2023
OpenAI has announced the third version of its generative AI visual art platform DALL-E, which now lets you use ChatGPT to create prompts. That means you won't have to waste your mental energy coming up with your own prompts to guide DALL-E 3! The chatbot will write out a paragraph to follow, notes The Verge. The latest version of DALL-E also understands context much better, say OpenAI researches. They says they also focused robust safety measures to prevent the creation of lewd or potentially hateful images.
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David Schonauer Monday September 25, 2023
You can now order a copy of the American Photography 39 juried collection, a 400-page volume that brings together the year's best professional photography --from photojournalism and advertising to
books, promotion and fine art photography -- and celebrates the industry's top photographers, photo creatives and photography clients. Under the creative direction and design of Vanity Fair art
director Emily Crawford, AP39 includes a one-color … Read the full Story >>
ARTnews Friday September 22, 2023
Erwin Olaf, the acclaimed Dutch photographer whose softly lit images of people in surrealist situations were seen widely in venues ranging from the pages of fashion magazines to the galleries of art museums, died on Sept. 20 at age 64, reports Art News. Diagnosed with emphysema in 1996, he had recently undergone a lung transplant. His work documented topics ranging from gay nightlife in Amsterdam to portraits of the Dutch royal family, notes AP. “Erwin Olaf saw beauty in every person,” said Taco Dibbits, director of the Rijksmuseum, adding that Olaf was of “historical importance” because of his activism and role in the LGBTQ+ community.
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Hayward Gallery Friday September 22, 2023
From Oct. 11 to Jan. 7, 2024, London’s Hayward Gallery will present the exhibition “Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine,” the largest survey to date for the artist, who, notes the gallery, has over the past 50 years “meticulously crafted, deeply thought-provoking and quietly subversive.” The exhibition showcases Sugimoto’s best-known works, as well as lesser-known projects, and highlights the artist’s interest in the history of photography, mathematics, and optical sciences, notes DesignBoom.
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