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Thirty Bob Ross paintings will be auctioned over the next few months, with proceeds going to small and rural public stations across the United States that have had their funding cut off. Congress has eliminated $1.1 billion allocated to public broadcasting, leading to many stations making […]

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Abbey Road has announced the winners of its music photography awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, given to David Bailey. Here are some of the winning shots, which include a picture by Kirby Gladstein of Lana Del Rey headlining Coachella, and Jordan Curtis Hughes' image of The […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

When U.S. President Trump visited the the U.K., he wanted to give King Charles a sword from the Dwight D Eisenhower Presidential Library. The director, Todd Arrington, refused because the artifact had been accepted as a donation and therefore belongs to the American people. Now he's been forced […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

The David Bowie Centre, which houses Bowie's personal archive of 90,000 items, is now open at the V&A East Storehouse in London. @RollingStone shares 13 highlights from the collection including the contact sheet for the "Aladdin Sane" cover, the Ziggy Stardust asymmetric catsuit, the stylophone […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

What inspired the little dog in Rembrandt's The Night Watch? Anne Lenders, a curator at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, who has been working on restoring the 1642 painting, has a theory. When browsing an exhibition, she saw a dog that looked familiar in a drawing by Adriaen van de Venne, a Dutch […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 21d

For the past 120 years, the U.S. National Audubon Society has worked on bird conservation and for the past 16, it's run a contest to find the most stunning imagery of our feathered friends. @[email protected] shares some of the winning photos, from a royal tern feeding its chick a fish to a […]

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Flipboard Tech Desk @techdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 21d

Some of the workers most affected by AI have been artists, illustrators and graphic designers. For his AI Killed My Job series, @brianmerchant spoke with some of them about ridiculous costume designs, whether comics might be at least temporarily immune to the technology, and cleaning up the […]

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Flipboard Culture Desk @culturedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 22d

Which is harder to draw: A kiss, or a horse? @aftermath.site's Isaiah Colbert spoke to Samuel Deats, co-director of "Castlevania" and "Castlevania: Nocturne," to find out.

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What’s Harder To Draw: Horses Or Kisses? We Asked An Expert - Aftermath

Castlevania’s Samuel Deats explains the technical night-mare behind drawing moving horses and intimate kisses

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Flipboard Culture Desk @culturedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 30

Each year, the monsoon waters consume the lower reaches of an art studio in Dien Phuong, Vietnam. But instead of sweeping the striking cube-shaped structure away, the rising tide flows gently through its perforated brick walls. A clever, and important, design feature amid the growing climate […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 26

Artist Amy Sherald decided to keep her exhibition "American Sublime" from being installed at the Smithsonian after the gallery told her it had concerns about the painting Trans Forming Liberty, which presents the Statue of Liberty as a Black trans woman. She writes for MSNBC about the importance […]

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Flipboard News Desk @newsdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 26

A giant portrait of U.S. President Donald Trump, stretching across three stories, now hangs on the exterior of the Department of Labor. @[email protected] explains why people are alarmed by this. "Historically, authoritarian leaders — such as Josef Stalin in the Soviet Union and Mao Zedong […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 19

U.S. President Donald Trump has escalated his campaign against the Smithsonian Institution and its museums, saying in a Truth Social post that there is too much focus on "how bad slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been." The comments come after the White House announced a […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 14

35 years ago, Jim Sanborn presented the cryptographic sculpture Kryptos to the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia. Made from copper, granite, quartz and petrified wood, it has four sections, each of which holds a message in code. Over the years, three of the sections have been […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 12

This might be one of the weirder conspiracy theories we've heard — and that's saying something. A group of protestors claims that the famed sculptor Anish Kapoor has trapped a man inside his Cloud Gate piece (commonly known as "The Bean"), which has been in Chicago's Millennium Park for more […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 5

There's a new exhibition and book looking back at the career of British painter David Hockney. @csmonitor takes a look at what to expect from both, including his famous swimming-pool paintings, set designs for operas, and the "220 for 2020" iPad works he made during the pandemic, which had the […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 29

Last week, the social media accounts of the Department of Homeland Security posted an image of "American Progress," a 19th-century painting that depicts a floating white woman herding buffalo and Native people off Western lands. Its caption read: "A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 24

Artist Amy Sherald has canceled her Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery show, "American Sublime," amid discussions of removing a painting that shows a trans woman dressed as the Statue of Liberty. Sherald told The New York Times that the Smithsonian […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · Jun 11

Philadelphia anthropologist, playwright and poetic ethnographer Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon recently collaborated with photographer Joseph V. Labolito on a project where she performed a poem to accompany his 1980s shot of a little girl hanging out with her dad. Here's what she wrote — seven […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · Jun 6

Last weekend, Elon Musk shared some images on his X platform that he claimed had been created by the Grok AI system. They were actually just edits of original work by Australian artist Charles Brooks, a former concert cellist who is known for photographing the insides of instruments. An X user […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · Jun 4

Our photography newsletter this week focuses on LGBTQIA+ photographers, including the Village Voice's Fred McDarrah and Zanele Muholi, a nonbinary artist who explores race, gender and sexuality in their work. The collection also includes a piece about the Getty Center's new exhibition on how […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · May 27

President Trump has made significant changes to the design of the Oval Office since January. It's an aesthetic that photo editor Emily Keegin describes as "gilded rococo hellscape." For @newyorktimes's Visual Studies series, she breaks down the look's lineage and significance, from the Palace of […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · May 23

Here's a @Flipboard Storyboard curated by @miaq that celebrates the work of photographers of Asian and Pacific Islander descent. Discover Corky Lee's documentation of Asian American activism, how Manny Crisostomo travels to capture images of Indigenous and Pacific Islander people, and more. “Our […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · May 23

Update: Here's a quick interview with the All-American Rejects about their hectic week, and what's next. "Apparently, these kids broke through the fence, made a little hole Alcatraz-style and were funneling in through the side neighbor’s fence. Nashville’s usually so music spoiled, like Los […]

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From their tour:

"The movie that was tonight. Thx to our director @aknight"

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · May 22

The All-American Rejects have been on tour — but they're not playing arenas or clubs. Since early May, the band has been popping up in bowling alleys, corn fields, barns and college campuses as part of their mission to challenge the overpricing of live music events. The final show in the Give […]

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