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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

If you saw a viral cartoon of Dolly Parton and Tim Curry at the pearly gates, signed by the New Yorker cartoonist Brendan Loper and thought "hmm, a bit banal for him?" then congratulate yourself. It was actually generated by ChatGPT by a fan who asked the AI chatbot to make “a New Yorker-style […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Pop artist Peter Max has died at age 88. His career started in the "flower power" era of the 1960s, and his work became part of American culture. He was official artist for events like the Olympics, the Super Bowl, the Indianapolis 500, the World Cup and other events. His art also appeared on a […]

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Flipboard Culture Desk @culturedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Come on, Dogue. The winner of Vogue's second annual Dogue Competition has been announced, and it's Sir Spud, a food-sneaking, squirrel-chasing pooch who for his prize, will grace the front cover of Dogue magazine. Here's an interview with him and his owner, Amina. flip.it/XXfAfe […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Jeff Bogle is the author of "Street Cats & Where to Find Them." He talked to @FrommersMag's Pauline Frommer about how to approach our feline friends when traveling, the best places to photograph them, and what to do if you find a sick cat. flip.it/hGXe7U #CatsOfMastodon #Photography #Cats

Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

People projected all sorts of emotions onto the face of a Black woman surrounded by Patriot Front members, captured in a viral photo recently. Resistance. Stoicism. Fear. @NOTUSReports tells the real story of Bernita Bowlding. flip.it/2uhXou #Photography #Culture #USPolitics

The Woman in the Photo Wanted to Be Alone. Instead, She Went Viral.

America saw what it wanted to see on the face of its newest icon. And everyone saw it wrong.

Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

Trump's second-term portrait — stern, with furrowed brow, reminiscent of his mug shot — has been used on National Park passes, a commemorative passport and now, possibly, a $250 bill. @huffingtonpost's Katherine Speller looks into its significance, reframing and monetizing Trump's arrest, and […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

In 1966, Joe Piette was drafted and sent to Vietnam to fight for the U.S. He soon came to believe that he was on the wrong side, bought a camera and began to document what he saw. For the ensuing 50 years, he's been an activist photographer, present at demonstrations in Sudan and Congo, at […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

Washington D.C.'s National Mall has a new work of art: A gold-painted statue of President Donald Trump standing behind convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a "Titanic" pose. The "King of the World" sculpture was reportedly installed by the anonymous collective Secret Handshake. Here's more […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025

Want a break from the... everything? Here are some amazing science images, selected by Nature magazine, including a fake kidney, a solar-powered slug, and the obligatory adorable tardigrade. flip.it/kQvCxN #Photography #Science #Tardigrades #MicroscopicPhotography

The best science images of 2025 — Nature’s picks

The Sun’s fiery surface, a tattooed tardigrade, rare red lightning and more.

Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

Photographer Christopher Anderson's shots of President Trump's inner circle have created almost as much chatter as the Vanity Fair Susie Wiles interview they accompanied. Anderson's signature closeup style showed every pore, line, and possible lip-filler injection site. Here's what he told […]

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Flipboard Culture Desk @culturedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/12/2025

Who knew a font could be woke? U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has asked diplomats to ditch Calibri and return to using Times New Roman in official communications. The State Department adopted Calibri in 2023 because it's considered a more accessible font for people with disabilities. A […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2025

"In a time when freedom of expression is under threat, just about any kind of art feels political in its own way," write the team at @ArtNews in the intro to their list of the defining artworks of the year. Here's what they selected, including "Un coro de yicas" (A chorus of yicas), which […]

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Flipboard News Desk @newsdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has altered the official portrait of President Biden's assistant secretary for health, Adm. Rachel Levine, to remove her legal name and include her deadname. Here's more from @npr. flip.it/ywj7ZH #RachelLevine #TrumpAdministration […]

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Flipboard Culture Desk @culturedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

Frank Gehry, the iconic Canadian-American architect famed for his Guggenheim Museum Bilbao design, has died at age 96. Here's more from Dezeen. flip.it/rbUd8o #FrankGehry #Architecture #Design #Bilbao #Guggenheim #RIP #InMemoriam

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Flipboard Tech Desk @techdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025

It's all change at Apple as design chief Alan Dye leaves the company for Meta. For his blog, artist and designer @louie writes about how this, and the departure of iPhone designer Jony Ive in 2019, might not be a bad thing. Why? Under their tenure, Manton argues, "Apple shifted away from making […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

Yoko Ono was an established and influential artist long before she met John Lennon. "Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind," a new exhibition at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates her near-70-year career, which spans film, music, conceptual and performance art. Read more in @Salon […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2025

An AI-generated mural on the side of a building Kingston upon Thames in the U.K. has been removed after locals described it as "horrible, like a scene from hell." It was supposed to depict a festive ice-skating scene, inspired by the work of sixteenth-century Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025

After Eastman Kodak went bankrupt in 2012, it continued to make Kodak film, but the rights to distribute it went to a separate company, Kodak Alaris. Now, the 133-year-old company has launched Kodacolor 100 and Kodacolor 200, its first new still film stocks in many years, and has said that it […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025

Who's the dapper mystery man in AP photographer Thibault Camus' photo of the aftermath of the Louvre heist? Could it be Arsène Lupin, Inspector Clouseau, or the Scarlet Pimpernel? The French authorities are staying schtum, with the Paris prosecutor's office telling @associatedpress@flipboard […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2025

Thinking of committing a museum heist? @npr has some advice, from why jewelry can be a better bet than art, to the reason some museum pieces are vulnerable to theft. flip.it/cJLkXf #Art #Crime #Museums #Galleries #Paris #MuseumHeist

Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

"Christina's World," the famous painting by American artist Andrew Wyeth, went out of MOMA's gallery rotation in 2024, and Adam Neese, the museum's Senior Collections Photographer for Conservation, took the opportunity to take a closer look at it. For the MOMA blog, he writes about the imaging […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

What happens when copyright runs out? Anyone can commodify the work of a creator. @Dwell looks at efforts to protect the legacies of Henri Matisse and Frida Kahlo, and why it's so hard to copyright furniture. "To a large extent, a chair is a chair," explains lawyer David M. Adler […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

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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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025

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 · 02/10/2025

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 · 01/10/2025

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 · 26/09/2025

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 · 17/09/2025

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. @popsci@flipboard.com 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 · 17/09/2025

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 · 16/09/2025

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. flip.it/E-kiej #Art #Culture #Drawing #Anime #Television #TV #Entertainment

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 · 30/08/2025

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 · 26/08/2025

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 · 26/08/2025

A giant portrait of U.S. President Donald Trump, stretching across three stories, now hangs on the exterior of the Department of Labor. @newsweek@flipboard.com 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 · 19/08/2025

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 · 14/08/2025

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 · 13/08/2025

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 · 05/08/2025

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 · 29/07/2025

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 · 24/07/2025

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 […] [Original post on flipboard.social]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2025

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 · 06/06/2025

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 · 05/06/2025

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 · 27/05/2025

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 · 23/05/2025

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 · 22/05/2025

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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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2025

Takashi Murakami's “JAPONISME → Cognitive Revolution: Learning from Hiroshige,” opened at Gagosian New York earlier this month.@ArtNews's Daniel Cassady interviewed Murakami about creating the show, and the act and art of copying. "This, as it turns out, is what growth looks like for Murakami […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2025

Yasunao Tone, a composer and artist who bridged the gap between music and visual arts, has died at age 90. Here's @ArtNews's tribute to the cerebral, experimental and highly influential sound maker, who described his work as like "a parasite without a host," and of whom Yoko Ono once said: “I […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2025

There's something compelling about photos and paintings of boats: Humans and their vessels against a backdrop that can be calm, peaceful, powerful and terrifying, sometimes shifting from one to the other in minutes. Here's @salvomic's @Flipboard Storyboard about the technical side of taking […]

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2025

Artist Jessica Poundstone has written a book about the history of dogs in art, and it's a delight. LitHub shares some of the images, including a sketch on limestone discovered in Egypt and believed to be from around 1295 BCE, a poodle powder box from 1940s France, and some portly Japanese […]

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