Notices by Flipboard Picks in Art & Photo (artphotosdesk@flipboard.social)

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 programming cuts and laying off staff. Most of the paintings of mountain vistas and lake scenes were created on air, in under 30 minutes. Ross "dedicated his life to making art accessible to everyone,” said Joan Kowalski, president of Bob Ross Inc. “This auction ensures his legacy continues to support the very medium that brought his joy and creativity into American homes for decades.” Here's more from @AssociatedPress.

https://flip.it/QcWnYD

#BobRoss #Art #Auction #USPolitics #PublicRadio #PublicTelevision #TrumpAdministration #NPR #PBS

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 to resign — and doesn't quite understand why. Here's more from @CBSNews.

https://flip.it/S0HaFa

#USPolitics #USHistory #USCulture #TrumpAdministration

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 solved — by CIA code breakers, a California computer scientist, and the National Security Agency. Now, 79-year-old Sanborn says he's going to auction off the solution to the final message, with the company arranging the sale estimating a winning bid between $300,000 and $500,000. Here's @newyorktimes's story on why he's doing it now, and what he hopes the winning bidder will do with the secret.

https://flip.it/_TN3II

#Science #Technology #Mathematics #Codebreaking #Kryptos #JimSanborn #Art #Sculpture #Cryptology #Cryptography #Cryptanalysis

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 Defending." The original of the painting, which is by John Gast and was completed in 1872, is on display at the Autry Museum of the American West. @19thnews spoke with some of the experts at the museum about its historical significance, how they place it in context, and their perspective on DHS's use of the picture. Virginia Scharff, the museum's chair of Western history, sees the strategic deployment of the “American Progress” painting as deeply insidious. “The Department of Homeland Security is not sending scantily clad White women,” she said, “but instead sending guys with guns and truncheons and masks to grab people off the streets. There’s a deliberate kind of deception being practiced here that is really cynical and really dangerous, in my view."

https://flip.it/bQPHFD

#Art #ArtHistory #TrumpAdministration #USPolitics #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity

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 named Eric Jiang had run some of these through Grok, adding people to the original photos so they look like buildings. Musk retweeted the post with the comment "Generate images with @Grok." @404mediaco's Matthew Gault spoke with Brooks. “I feel like, if he’s plugging his own AI software, he has a duty of care to make sure that what he’s posting is actually attributed correctly and is properly his,” he said. “But ‘duty of care’ and Musk are not words that seem to go together well recently.”

https://flip.it/OQhrJ3

#Art #AIArt #GenerativeAI #Grok #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CharlesBrooks #ElonMusk

Someone is sticking googly eyes on sculptures in Bend, Oregon, and while residents love them, the city isn't happy. Here's more from @Smithsonianmag.

https://flip.it/pTyxnT

#Art #PublicArt #Sculptures #Oregon

Photographer Doris Ulmann is remembered for her work in Appalachia during the Great Depression, where she shot folks who ordinarily wouldn't have the opportunity to sit for a portrait. JSTOR shares some images.

https://flip.it/9jIBFe

#Photography #Portraits #Culture #DorisUlmann

Photographer Ernest Cole's seminal work was "House of Bondage," an exposé of apartheid in his home country of South Africa. Cole left the country for the U.S. before the book was even published in 1967 (it was immediately banned and he was stripped of his citizenship). He went on to take tens of thousands of photos in New York and the Jim Crow South, but work dried up, and he spent times living on the same streets he had photographed, before dying of pancreatic cancer at 49. Most of his U.S. work has never been seen until now, with the release of a new documentary, "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found." CNN talked to its director, Raoul Peck, about the making of the movie and the parallels Cole saw between South Africa under apartheid and the segregated South.

https://flip.it/0Al8wQ

#Photography #Photos #ErnestCole #SouthAfrica #Apartheid #Segregation @blackmastodon #Film #Cinema #Documentary

Math teacher and artist Marilou Schultz, who is from the Navajo Nation, was commissioned by Intel in 1994 to make "Replica of a Chip," a woven wool piece that re-creates Intel's Pentium chip. @colossal explains how it was made, and what it represents — ideas around gendered labor, visibility and the meaning of progress. See it in real life at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, where it will be on display until March 2025.

https://flip.it/3LRO1e

#Art #Technology #Indigenous #Intel #Pentium #IndigenousArt #Culture #Ottawa

When the enslaved people of the island of Haiti rose up and won their liberty in the late 18th and early 19th century, women fought shoulder to shoulder with men. Yet it's the male freedom fighters who are remembered. Now, Haitian artists Richard Barbot and François Cauvin have imagined what these women looked like, creating paintings of revolutionary fighters such as Marie Jeanne Lamartiniére, Sanité Bélair, and vodou priestess Cécile Fatiman. Emi Eleode writes about their lives and the upcoming Resistance, Revolution and Reform: Cambridge and the Caribbean in the Age of Abolition, which will open at London's Fitzwilliam Museum in 2025.

https://flip.it/L6ugQg

#Art #Exhibitions #History @histodons #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #BlackHistory #Haiti #London

Art lovers in the fediverse, rejoice! This week, @Flipboard federated 250 publishers including some who specialize in art, design, architecture, making and more. Here are 10 to explore:

@AptTherapy
@ArchDigest
@ArtNews
@DigitalCameraW
@Dwell
@FineWoodworking
@HouseBeautiful
@mymodernmet
@PetaPixel
@Photofocus

For the latest on our federation, here's a blogpost. See the spreadsheet below for a full list of all federated profiles.

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboard-federates-250-publishers/

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU/edit?gid=1280983387#gid=1280983387

#FollowFriday #Art #Photography #Design #VisualArts #Home #Lifestyle #Flipboard #Mastodon #Fediverse #Federation

📷 #FollowFriday #pixelfed edition:

🇩🇪 @chris.zielecki - photographer based in Hamburg, Germany

🚴♀️ @cyclingtogether - cycling (and photographing) the world since September 2022

👽 @KLeon - photography enthusiast and indie sci-fi writer

🏚 @ObsidianUrbex - exploring abandoned places through photography

🎞 @parisstroke - #monochrome #blackandwhite photography

#photography #fediverse

Some good news for the #fediverse ecosystem: Now you can follow and interact with profiles from Threads, Mastodon and other federated social services on Flipboard.

So...who are your favorite #art and #photography people here? Who's on Threads that we should know? And who do we need to talk to to turn on fediverse sharing?!

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/follow-anyone-in-the-fediverse/

For #FollowFriday, @Flipboard #Federated (try saying that a few times fast!) Magazines relating to #photography:

📸 The Photography Exchange
@the-photography-exchange-photographers - Group Magazine featuring photo-loving community contributors

🌓 Shadow and Light
@shadow-light-curated-photography-stories-simonwiffen - Leeds photographer @simonwiffen's newsletter and curation

🖼 Behind the Pictures
@behind-the-pictures-StellaK2020 - beyond all the gear and tech talk, @stellakalaw celebrating #photography as art

🎞 Photography EDU
@photography-edu-JanetteSpeyer - @janettespeyer curates about becoming a better photographer

⚙️ Photography and Videography Gear
@photography-videography-gear-software-essentialpixels - visual artist based in Athens, Greece, curates articles about cameras, lenses, accessories and more

#ff #mastoart

This is so delightful! @analog_cafe, whom we met via the #believeinfilm community here on Mastodon, curated a Storyboard for @Flipboard about edible #cameras made out of oranges, gingerbread, egg pinholes...it was featured in our #photography newsletter yesterday. ❤️

https://flipboard.com/@analog_cafe/10-edible-film-cameras-for-you-to-munch-on-mqdhe1dp4rsjuo4u

#photography #pinholephotography #diycamera

The University of Chicago Press has made five volumes of “The History of Cartography,” an ambitious overview of map making, available for free online.

Via @openculture

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#mapmaking #history #cartography

Tony Hewitt wins International Landscape Photographer of the Year for his abstract aerial photos of river beds and shorelines around western Australia.

https://flip.it/4nuIZB

#landscapephotography #naturephotography

Ever been moved to tears just thinking about the beauty and impact of #art?

It happened during this episode of @Flipboard's The Art of Curation podcast — an interview with two security guards from the Baltimore Museum of Art who participated in curating the "Guarding the Art" show in 2022.

It was refreshing to hear from people with a great appreciation for art, but who are often overlooked when it comes to sharing their opinions about it.

https://art-of-curation.simplecast.com/episodes/baltimore-museum-of-art-guards

#curation #podcast #museum