American Idols

ANNIE LEIBOVITZ AT THE DIA: Leibovitz has created casual, formal, and whimsical portrayals of music personalities in settings as diverse as juke joints, recording studios,
hotel rooms, rehearsal spaces, city streets and the expansive American landscape. Country singer Emmylou Harris appears against an ethereal twilight sky. Johnny Cash strums guitar with daughter Roseanne on their family porch in Virginia. Grammy award-winning rap artist Missy Elliot appears larger-than-life in diamonds and fur.

The Beatles on the Balcony

Many of the most memorable photographs ever taken of the Beatles form the basis of this historic new exhibition which coincides with the first major retrospective devoted to Angus McBean (1904-1990), the acclaimed British portrait photographer who took the defining images of the group at the start and end of their careers as The Beatles.

When in Rome

Via Slate, some nice pix of Rome and those beautiful Italians