NYTIMES (Alex Marshall) - With iPhones and Faxes, David Hockney Embraced Tech
Polaroids and photocopiers also gave the artist possibilities for creating in forms vastly different from his paintings.
NYTIMES (Norman Rosenthal) - What I Learned From David Hockney
The curator Norman Rosenthal knew the artist for over 60 years and still discovered something new when they collaborated on a final blockbuster show.
NYTIMES (Holland Cotter) - David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88
His colorful figurative paintings were both conservative and iconoclastic, defying the dominant abstract schools of the mid-20th century.
NYTIMES (Jason Farago) - For Painting’s Great Skeptic, Gerhard Richter, History Is a Blur
Our critic Jason Farago on how the artist conceived a new way forward for landscape painting.
NYTIMES (Malia Mendez) - A.I. Chatbot Helps a $100 Thrift Store Painting Sell for Over $250,000
When a son got curious about the origins of a painting his mother bought at a secondhand shop decades ago, Google Gemini had some intriguing thoughts.
NPR (Rachel Treisman) - After D.C.'s Reflecting Pool gets repainted, visitors ask: What changed?
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is refilling after President Trump had it painted "American flag blue." Some visitors say the results of the project — which reportedly cost millions — are subtle.
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Spencer Neale) - What Makes a Monet a Monet?
Artificial intelligence forces us to rethink artistic authenticity. The post What Makes a Monet a Monet? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture What Makes a Monet a Monet? Artificial intelligence forces us to rethink artistic authenticity. To mark the centenary of Claude Monet’s death, the auction house Sotheby’s sold Les Îles de Port-Villez and Vétheuil, effet du matin, two Monets that had gone unseen by the public for a century, hidden away in a private collection. The plein air works sold for a staggering $19.7 million in April, smashing pre-sale estimates. One hundred years after his death, Monet’s stature appears more secure than ever, even as the art world enters a new age of imitation and fakery. Far from the auction houses of Paris and the…Open
NYTIMES (Sam Sifton) - Pool Problems
What’s happening with the paint on the National Mall?
DAILYCALLER (Ireland Owens) - Pool Expert Admits Trump’s National Mall Paint Job Will Actually Look Really Cool
'More sharp and accurate reflection'
NPR (Neda Ulaby) - Conservative Christians love this painting of George Washington. The event it depicts may not have happened
A painting of George Washington is being used by the Trump administration to argue the founders were devout Christians, but historians have doubts about whether the moment depicted actually happened.