Dan Havlik reports for PDN Online:
“Many people may think of Rolleiflex professional cameras as classic if somewhat clunky affairs. Those people may want to start reevaluating that view, however, now that Rolleiflex has once again released a super cool miniature digital version of its twin reflex camera. Once again, we have to say that [...]

John Markoff reports for The New York Times: 
“SAN FRANCISCO — An e-mail scam aimed squarely at the nation’s top executives is raising new alarms about the ease with which people and companies can be deceived by online criminals.

Thousands of high-ranking executives across the country have been receiving e-mail messages this week that appear to be [...]

Erica Ogg reports for CNET News:
“Though CRT monitors have been made practically obsolete for consumers by the LCD industry, a few industries–photography/visual design/filmmaking–still cling to them for their nonpareil color quality.
Hewlett-Packard is trying to loosen their grip on those clunky desktop space-hoggers by offering a liquid crystal display for visual artist types that boasts [...]

Glen Collins reports for The New  York Times: 
“After a thousand years artisans are still using muscle, sweat and painstaking craftsmanship to preserve exquisitely painted pieces of colored glass that adorn majestic places of worship.

Now, in the most expensive restoration of stained glass ever undertaken in the United States, conservation is under way on the famous [...]

Zach Honig reports for Pop Photo:
“The competition aims to increase awareness of the potato’s role in developing nations.
n celebration of the International Year of the Potato, the United Nations‘ Food and Agriculture Organization has announced a photo contest for amateurs and professionals worldwide.
Individuals aged 18 and older may enter the contest with either one [...]

Shutter Bug reports:
“April 10, 2008 — Kingston Technology Company, Inc. announced it has posted an interview with National Geographic photographer Gerd Ludwig on its ‘Icons of Photography’ microsite. The 20 Questions interview gives site visitors an up-close-and-personal look at the world-class photographer who’s captured life [...]

Dylan Loeb McClain reports for The New York Times:
“Reported discoveries of lost works by Leonardo da Vinci are almost as common as, well, images of the Mona Lisa.

The latest attribution to be proposed involves the design for the illustrations in a chess book from around 1500. The book, “De Ludo Scachorum,” or “The Game [...]

Robin Pogrebin reports for The New York Times:
“New York State’s top economic-development official has proposed moving the performing arts center planned for the former World Trade Center site and building it atop a vast subway station planned for downtown at Fulton Street and Broadway.

The official, Avi Schick, chief executive of the Empire State Development Corporation, [...]

Kathy Horyn reports for The New York Times: 
“ANY people look to fashion advertisements as eagerly as they do the layouts, and a perusal of the spring issues finds chalk-striped vamps at Dior, discoing Amazons at D&G, hipsters at Burberry and cloud-borne nymphs at Lanvin. Emerging from all this dreamy splendor, like an uninvited guest, her [...]

From ArtDaily.org:
“LUCERNE.-The Museum of Art in Lucerne presents the exhibit Swiss Video Art from the 70s and 80s: A Reconstruction through May 4. With video installations and video tapes by Swiss artists, some from the store-rooms of the artists’s studios, the exhibition focuses upon the beginnings of video art in Switzerland and its developments until [...]