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The Most Popular Cameras Used on Flickr

Flickr’s “Camera Finder” shows the number of members who have uploaded at least one photo with a particular camera on a given day over the last year. The graph lines moving up or down indicates a change in the camera’s popularity relative to all other cameras used by Flickr members. The graphs are accurate to the extent that Flickr can automatically detect the camera used to take the photo (about 2/3rds of the time). Discover the most popular cameras used on Flickr…

Add comment January 15th, 2007

The Best Magazine Covers of the Year

The best magazine covers of the year were unveiled today at the American Magazine Conference, by Cynthia Leive, President of the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) and Editor-in-Chief of Glamour, and Marlene Kahan, ASME’s Executive Director. The conference, a premier industry event attended by executive-level magazine publishers and editors, as well as the press, is hosted by Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) and ASME. Eligible cover dates of entries ranged from August 1, 2005, to July 31, 2006. View the full list of winning magazine covers…

• Cover of the Year - “Flood in the Oval Office,” The New Yorker
• Best Celebrity Covers (tie) - Julianne Moore in Harper’s Bazaar; Busta Rhymes in VIBE
• Best News Cover - “Watch Your Back Mountain,” The New Yorker
• Best Concept Cover - “The End of Cowboy Diplomacy,” TIME
• Best Fashion Cover - 2005 Style Issue, Departures
• Best Service Cover - 2006 Fitness Issue, Time Out New York
• Best Cover Line - “Rocket Man,” The Economist

Add comment October 25th, 2006

857 Esquire Magazine Covers Since 1933

The Esquire Cover Gallery contains every magazine cover from Autumn, 1933 until the present. You can navigate the cover gallery archive by year and month…

Add comment August 10th, 2006

The Art World’s Biggest Spenders

It’s the list every artist and dealer wants to have — ARTnews magazine’s annual ranking of the top 200 art collectors, now out in the summer issue. Top collectors include producer and writer Michael Crichton, Warner Bros. President Alan Horn, and entertainment moguls David Geffen and Michael Ovitz. View the full list…

The top ten — billed as “the art world’s biggest spenders” –are:
* New York investment banker Leon Black and his wife Debra
* Sunamerica CEO Eli Broad and his wife Edythe
* Steven Cohen, billionaire hedge fund investor
* Museum of Modern Art chairman Ronald S. Lauder and his wife Jo Carole
* Israeli shipping magnate Sammy Ofer
* Francois Pinault, owner of Christie’s auctioneer
* Billionaire art collector Mitchell Rales
* Charles Saatchi, art collector and gallery owner
* Leslie H. Wexner, founder and chairman, Limited Brands and his wife Abigail
* Las Vegas casino developer Stephen A. Wynn and his wife Elaine

Forbes.com also features a slide show of top billionaire art collectors.

Add comment July 10th, 2006

Every Time Magazine Cover Since 1923

Time’s archive features over 40 years of magazine covers. To browse through an issue, select a year in the covers gallery. Click on the cover image and you’ll find a table of contents with links to the articles from that issue. Find out what was on the cover the week you were born…

Add comment July 5th, 2006

Top 40 Magazine Covers of the Last 40 Years

Last October the American Society of Magazine Editors unveiled the top 40 magazine covers of the last 40 years. Rolling Stone’s January 22, 1981 cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono was named the top magazine cover to appear since 1965..

A judging panel of 52 magazine editors, design directors, art directors and photography editors was charged with picking the 40 top covers from a pool of 444 images representing 136 magazines. The contest was open to all consumer magazines published in the United States. Magazines were invited to submit up to four entries from their respective publications. Entrants were also encouraged to nominate covers of magazines that were not published by their company or were no longer being published.

Add comment June 9th, 2006

The Pulitzer Prize Winners 2006

The Pulitzer Prize, started by New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), is awarded each year for works published the previous year. There are 21 Pulitzer categories. In 20 of those categories the winners receive a $10,000 cash award and a certificate. Only the winner in the Public Service category of the Journalism competition is awarded a gold medal. The Public Service prize is always awarded to a newspaper, not an individual, although an individual may be named in the citation. Here are the winners for 2006…

Add comment May 4th, 2006

Top 30 Artists in the Artcyclopedia

The most popular artist searches within Artcyclopedia.com last month: a measurement of which famous artists have the greatest “mindshare” in our collective culture.

Add comment March 24th, 2006

The Timeline of Art History

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York presents the Timeline of Art History. The Museum’s curatorial, conservation, and education staff research and write the Timeline, which is an invaluable reference and research tool for students, educators, scholars, and anyone interested in the study of art history and related subjects…

Add comment March 17th, 2006

Highest Art Auction Prices

AskART™ presents past Auction results from 1987, as well as upcoming auction information for the Auction Houses they have identified as being the best for American artists at auction. AskART limits their auction records to original works of art (not lithographs and prints). Prices generally include buyer’s premiums, however there are many auction houses that do not report prices to include the frequent 15-20% premiums.

Add comment March 17th, 2006

Interesting Flickr Photos

Flickr is a popular online photo management and sharing application. These photos are a random selection of some of the interesting things discovered on Flickr within the last 7 days. Click the ‘reload’ button to get another random set of images.

Add comment March 15th, 2006