MY MODERN MET Tuesday February 3, 2026
When Google Arts & Culture released its Art Selfie feature in 2018, the app instantly became a hit. In three years, it sifted through more than 120 million selfies, matching faces with doppelgängers across art history. Now My Modern Met spotlights Art Selfie’s counterpart, Pet Portraits, which invites users to discover their pet’s very own art double. Pet Portraits relies upon a trained computer vision algorithm to locate a pet’s look-alike from art history. It’s your pet’s world, and you just live in it, so have some fun. Read the full Story >>
Air Mail Tuesday February 3, 2026
Should you ever need to identify a work by the New York photographer Rodney Smith, who lived from 1947 to 2016, there are some visual clues: Smith—who primarily photographed with a 35-mm. Leica M4 before transitioning to a 120/6x6 medium-format Hasselblad with an 80-mm lens—was both cinematic and architectural, notes Susan Bright and the visual artist Anne Morin in the new monograph, Rodney Smith: Photography Between Real and Surreal. Air Mail says Smith's images are “very Wes Anderson but in black and white.” Read the full Story >>
ARTnews Tuesday February 3, 2026
A copyright lawsuit that briefly put Drake and Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti on a collision course is now over—and, notes Art News, decisively so. Galimberti, a National Geographic photographer, had sued the rapper over visuals used in his “What Did I Miss?” music video, alleging that a scene copied imagery from The Ameriguns, his 2020 photo project documenting American gun culture. The case was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it cannot be refiled. See also: Billboard. Read the full Story >>
Underwater Photography Guide Tuesday February 3, 2026
Underwater Photography Guide has announced the winners of its 14th annual Ocean Art photography competition, with the Best In Show award going to Steven Kovacs for his image “Tired Fish,” made during a blackwater dive off Kumejima, Japan. “One of my favorite subjects to encounter on blackwater dives is the goosefish, also known as the monkfish. So when I began seeing photographs of a never-before-seen species of larval goosefish taken off Kume Island, Japan, I knew I had to visit and try to find one,” notes Kovacs. Read the full Story >>
