npr Friday September 26, 2025
"Awful" and “shocking” are the words photographer Sally Mann uses to describe an incident earlier this year when police seized four of her most celebrated photographs off the walls of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas. The images were part of Mann's “Immediate Family” series, which became a flashpoint during the 1990s culture. Mann. who has a new autobiography out, tells NPR that though her work was controversial three decades ago, it had never taken off the walls of a public site until this year.
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The Guardian Friday September 26, 2025
Ryan Weideman drove a cab in New York City for three decades, meeting, as he notes in The Guardian, poets, drag queens and other people who he found interesting. ”It made me feel good. I started taking their portraits, sometimes with me in the picture. I had several cameras and would often have my strobe hooked on to my visor with a rubber band.” he recalls. Among his fares was the poet Allen Ginsberg, whom he photographed in 1990. Weideman’s work will be on view at Paris Photo, November 13-16, at the Bruce Silverstein gallery.
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ARTnews Friday September 26, 2025
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grants are not required to comply with President Trump’s executive order on “gender ideology,” a Rhode Island federal court ruled. The court determined that the new policy, which would have been in effect while reviewing grant applicants, was a violation of the US Constitution, notes Art News. Trump’s new regulations, introduced in February, said federal funds “shall not be used to promote gender ideology,” including “the false claim that males can identify as and thus become women and vice versa.” A lawsuit was filed in March by the ACLU’s Rhode Island branch.
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The Atlantic Friday September 26, 2025
“I was absolutely overwhelmed by jazz because I knew that was America,” the photographer Lisette Model once said. Her images of jazz musicians, notes The Atlantic, do indeed capture the full range of what America is, from joy and freedom to pain and repression. Model spent more than 10 years documenting Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, and other luminaries of America's jazz scene.The work, shelved during the McCarthy era, is collected for the first time in a new book, Lisette Model: The Jazz Pictures (Eakins Press Foundation).
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