Neil Genzinger reports for The New York Times:
“THIS was going to be a simple artist-at-work article about Al Jaffee, a man who could lay claim to being the world’s oldest adolescent and who just now is enjoying a fresh burst of public and professional recognition. The idea was to look in on him as [...]

Robin Pogrebin reports for The New York Times:
“Jean Nouvel, the bold French architect known for such wildly diverse projects as the muscular Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and the exotically louvered Arab World Institute in Paris, has received architecture’s top honor, the Pritzker Prize.

Mr. Nouvel, 62, is the second French citizen to take the prize, [...]

By Richard Pyle of the Associated Press:
“NEW YORK – Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country’s murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film “The Killing Fields,” died Sunday. He was 65.
Dith died at a New Jersey hospital Sunday morning of [...]

By Ula Ilnytzky of the AP for AM New York:
“NEW YORK – A New York auction house is selling a primitive photograph that could be a much earlier work than originally believed. If so, it says, it would be one of the most important discoveries in the history of photography.
The work, “Leaf,” to be sold [...]

From Daryl Lang of PDNonline.com:
“As Getty negotiated a deal to go private, it left the door open to accept a better offer from a strategic partner – perhaps Google, Adobe, Reuters, News Corporation or Sony, new documents indicate. Documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday show that the Getty board continues [...]

Lindsay Sakraida  reports for PopPhoto:

“The new digital art fair installs works in freight containers around Chelsea.
Inside a long rectangular metal room, a video scrolls through scenes of a dark, shrouded wilderness while the soundtrack relays the chirps and squeaks of circling bats. The piece is so serene and mesmerizing it could easily lull the [...]

From ArtDaily.org:
“SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales presents Charles Bayliss – Landscape Photographer, on view through May 25, 2008. Charles Bayliss (1850-1897) is a leading figure in Australia’s photographic heritage. His photographs provide a unique insight into late nineteenth century Australia, both its landscape and its inhabitants.
The Art Gallery of New South [...]

 Nicolai Ouroussaff reports for The New York Times:
“The bitter battles over reconstruction plans for ground zero. The unraveling of the Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn. And now this.

Given current economic realities, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s selection on Wednesday of a team led by Tishman Speyer to develop the West Side railyards seems like a wishful [...]

By David Walker from PDNonline.com:
“The US District Court for the Southern District of New York has hit stock photo agency Corbis with two separate orders to compensate photographers for lost images in recent weeks. Photographer Arthur Grace won a $667,685 judgment on January 30 for the loss of 45,000 images, while photographer Chris Usher was [...]

By Laura Nathan of PDNonline.com:
“German photographer Hans-Christian Schink has won the first REAL Photography Award, which ING Real Estate presents biannually to an international photographer shooting nature, development or architecture. Schink received the €50,000 (about $77,100) prize at a ceremony in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on March 20. Schink was awarded the prize for his black-and-white [...]