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David Plowden, the photographer who spent decades capturing the grit and beauty of working America, has died at 93. He became famous for stark, haunting black-and-white images of steam trains, steel mills, small-town streets, and Midwestern farms as those worlds started to fade.
12:29 PMNew York Times ArtsJane Yolen, the wildly prolific children’s author, has died at 87. Over a long career she turned everyday moments, folklore, and history into stories across pretty much every format, from novels and picture books to poetry and nonfiction, totaling around 450 books.
10:23 AMNew York Times ArtsAnish Kapoor has taken over the Hayward Gallery with work that looks and feels like ritual: plastic-wrapped slabs of paint that read as guts, wounds, and offerings. There are cavernous voids, blood-red surfaces, and a constant push and pull between the sacred and the grotesque, like you are standing in a shrine built out of butcher bags.
9:01 AMThe Guardian Art and DesignDavid Hockney came back to Yorkshire from LA and it looked, at first, like a quiet winding down. Instead, it kicked off a late-career surge: daily bursts of new work, especially on the iPad, turning landscapes and gardens into bright, immediate events. The piece tracks that reawakening through the writer’s personal encounters with Hockney and the steady stream of dazzling images that followed.
12:00 AMThe Guardian Art and DesignSummary
David Plowden, the photographer who spent decades capturing the grit and beauty of working America, has died at 93. He became famous for stark, haunting black-and-white images of steam trains, steel mills, small-town streets, and Midwestern farms as those worlds started to fade.
Why it matters
He helped define how Americans remember the country’s industrial and rural past, turning vanishing places into lasting art.
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Jane Yolen, the wildly prolific children’s author, has died at 87. Over a long career she turned everyday moments, folklore, and history into stories across pretty much every format, from novels and picture books to poetry and nonfiction, totaling around 450 books.
Why it matters
Her death closes the chapter on a rare, era-defining children’s writer whose work quietly helped raise millions of readers.
Summary
Anish Kapoor has taken over the Hayward Gallery with work that looks and feels like ritual: plastic-wrapped slabs of paint that read as guts, wounds, and offerings. There are cavernous voids, blood-red surfaces, and a constant push and pull between the sacred and the grotesque, like you are standing in a shrine built out of butcher bags.
Why it matters
In a moment of safe, dry shows, Kapoor is making art that hits the nerve and refuses to look away.
Summary
David Hockney came back to Yorkshire from LA and it looked, at first, like a quiet winding down. Instead, it kicked off a late-career surge: daily bursts of new work, especially on the iPad, turning landscapes and gardens into bright, immediate events. The piece tracks that reawakening through the writer’s personal encounters with Hockney and the steady stream of dazzling images that followed.
Why it matters
It’s a case study in how a change of place and a willingness to experiment can spark a whole new chapter, even at the very top of a long career.
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