ARTnews Monday July 13, 2026
A photograph by acclaimed Ukrainian artist Boris Mikhailov has been stolen from the Lithuanian National Museum of Art in what officials believe was a targeted theft. The work, part of Mikhailov’s 1993 series “At Dusk,” disappeared from the Radvila Palace Museum of Art in Vilnius on June 28 while on view in the exhibition “Ukrainian Dreamers: Kharkiv School of Photograph,” notes Art News. The stolen photograph is one of 111 hand-tinted panoramic images Mikhailov made in his hometown of Kharkiv following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The theft comes after a string of high-profile museum robberies across Europe over the past year. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Sunday July 12, 2026
Last Tuesday, Meta introduced a new AI image generator with a feature that raised more than a few eyebrows- it would allow users to not only create pictures from a text prompt, but also to to generate
AI images using other people's public photos. "If you have a public account, you need to change your settings now to avoid ending up the unwitting subject … Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Friday July 10, 2026
Most photographers share photos online via platforms that use heavy-duty compression, making images look noticeably worse. That wasn’t working for Japanese developer and photographer Ryutaro Kiuchi, who created HiRezGo—an online sharing service that promises to show photos in full quality. Kiuchi says HiRezGo preserves original high-resolution image data by using a progressive streaming approach: As a user zooms in on an image, more data streams in seamlessly, notes PetaPixel. Read the full Story >>
ARTHUR DROOKER Friday July 10, 2026
In 2025 we spotlighted Arthur Drooker’s book Thirty-Six Views of the Golden Gate Bridge, a collection of images that challenge viewers to see one of the world’s most photographed landmarks in new ways. Drooker recently got in touch to inform us that the deluxe version of the book, featuring a signed 8.5” x 11” print, and a salvaged piece of the Golden Gate Bridge, has been acquired by the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley and the Bowes Library of Art and Architecture at Stanford University. Read the full Story >>
