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A new exhibition – which the Guardian gave five stars – tells the story of the birth of art photography. Here are some of the most astounding images, along with tales of the strange techniques that made them In the mist … Ho Fan’s 1959 image Smoky World. Photograph: M+, Hong Kong, Estate of Ho FanWed 21 Oct 2026 07.00 BSTYevonde: Mrs Richard Hart-Davis as Ariel, 1935Yevonde (1893-1975)is perhaps best known for her vibrant, stylised society portraits. Working in her studio over the 1930s, Yevonde transformed her models into goddesses and mythical beings using elaborate props and costumes. In this image Edith Hart-Davis portrays the spirit Ariel from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography runs at Tate Modern until 21 February 2027Photograph: National Portrait Gallery, LondonLong Chin-San: Riverside Spring 1942From the late 19th century, photographers embraced pictorialism, not as a style but as a shared ambition: to claim photography as an expressive art form equal to painting, printmaking and sculpture. These photographers experimented with subject matter, printing processes and exhibition formats to assert the creative agency of the photographer.

The Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the Walker Youngbird Foundation will jointly launch a new residency program for Native artists beginning next spring. Called the Walker Youngbird Native Artist Residency, the initiative will bring a Native artist to FAWC for four weeks (May 23–June 19). The Walker Youngbird Foundation will provide $10,000 for the inaugural year, $2,500 of which will go to the artist as a stipend. The chosen artist will also receive a private apartment and a 400-square-foot studio during their stay, as well as access to FAWC’s broader creative community and a closing public program.

In advance of its first-ever regular season game in Paris on Sunday, the National Football League announced NFL Color Field—“a new platform that brings football and visual arts together through large-scale installations, original programming and immersive cultural experiences,” as a press release describes it. Over the coming weekend, a painting by Jammie Holmes will figure in hand-painted end zones created for a flag-football field that will be set up beneath the Eiffel Tower as part of an NFL Experience Paris installation. A Louisiana native and recent fellow at Paris’s Académie des beaux-arts and Cité internationale des arts, Holmes is a fan of the New Orleans Saints, who will play the Pittsburgh Steelers in the City of Light.

An exhibition pairing paintings by the two artists guides us through the chambers of our own minds and bodies. Ilana Savdie, "Galactophore" (2026), oil, acrylic, beeswax on canvas stretched on panel (all photos Lakshmi Rivera Amin/Hyperallergic)