A century ago, French writer and poet André Breton penned his “Manifesto of Surrealism,” which launched an art movement known for creating bizarre hybrids of words and images. These juxtapositions, often generated…
Tag: Photography
Generative AI is a minefield for copyright law
In 2022, an AI-generated work of art won the Colorado State Fair’s art competition. The artist, Jason Allen, had used Midjourney – a generative AI system trained on art scraped from the…
The US has a child labor problem – recalling an embarrassing past that Americans may think they’ve left behind
At the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Special Collections, where I am head curator, we’ve recently completed a major digitization and rehousing project of our collection of over 5,400 photographs made by…
Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Demon Copperhead’ and the enduring devastation of the opioid crisis
Barbara Kingsolver’s literary honors range from the National Book Prize of South Africa to the PEN/Faulkner Award. On May 8, 2023, she added a Pulitzer Prize to her accolades. Her winning novel,…
Donald Trump and the dying art of the courtroom sketch
For the first time in its history, The New Yorker featured a courtroom sketch on its cover. The image, which appears on its April 17, 2023, issue, gives viewers a glimpse of…