The Guggenheim Press Office reports:
Launch part of 50th Anniversary Celebration

“(New York, NY) — The Guggenheim Museum announces the release of Restoration Rocks, a special edition jewelry line — made with Gunite remnants of the Frank Lloyd Wright building – and distributed exclusively at the Guggenheim
Museum ’s retail store and on its website. Designed and [...]

Art Knowledge News reports:
“BERLIN, GERMANY – Helmut Newton Foundation presents “Pigozzi and the Paparazzi” with Salomon, Weegee, Galella, Angeli, Secchiaroli, Quinn and Newton, on view June [...]

From ArtDaily.org:
“LOS ANGELES.- The presentation Bernd and Hilla Becher: Basic Forms at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center, May 6–September 14, 2008, explores the collaboration between Bernd and Hilla Becher, a husband and wife team, who photographed the industrial architecture of Western Europe for nearly fifty years.
Together, the Bechers created an archive of [...]

PDN reports: 
“What does it take to launch a career as a professional photographer? That was the topic of PDN’s March 10 seminar. The panelists were PDN’s 30 photographers Mike McGregor, Adam Krause, and Morgan & Owens. Amy Lundeen, Photo Editor at Budget Travel magazine and Fiona McDonagh, Photo Director at Entertainment Weekly explained how they [...]

Miguel Helft reports for The New York Times: 
“Microsoft and Yahoo were pushed to the brink of a multibillion-dollar marriage and then to a sudden breakup this weekend by the same player.

It was Google, in the odd dual role of both unwitting matchmaker and self-interested spoiler.
Google’s phenomenal rise, after all, prodded Microsoft, the dominant [...]

Shutterbug reports: 
“May 1, 2008 — X-Rite, Incorporated (NASDAQ: XRIT) along with recently acquired Pantone, Inc. has introduced ColorMunki, said to provide photographers and designers new technological advances that address core issues of color creation, control and communication in easy-to-use, integrated solutions. The ColorMunki portfolio includes [...]

Pitchfork reviews Jamie Lidell’s new album Jim:
“Jamie Lidell has built his career upon surprising people, whether via his on-stage antics, sudden stylistic shifts, or cryptic interviews. But the biggest twist to his third album, Jim, might just be its lack of left turns. Jim isn’t quite Lidell’s Sea Change, but it’s close, and not [...]

By Matthew Moore of telegraph.co.uk:
“The graffiti artist Banksy has pulled off one of his most audacious stunts – an enormous protest against Britain’s surveillance society painted just feet from a CCTV camera.
The guerrilla artwork appeared on a wall above a Post Office yard off Oxford Street in central London on Monday morning.
It features a [...]

Shutterbug reports: 
“April 29, 2008 — Kevin Kubota has created another set of image enhancement Actions for Adobe Photoshop. The release of a fourth set of Artistic Tools, available starting next week, features over 40 new Actions and is now available to the professional photography community. In [...]

 Charles McGrath reports for The New York Times:
“GEORGE LOIS, one of the most influential admen of his generation, is the sort of person who has a dozen brainstorms an hour, at least half of them good and only a few really harebrained. Among the better ones were the early Xerox commercials showing a chimpanzee deftly [...]