Mashable Friday April 4, 2025
A recent massive breach of X/Twitter included metadata as well as email addresses for roughly 200 million accounts. Thankfully, notes Mashable, the leak does not include sensitive private credentials such as account passwords, but that doesn’t mean users who are affected by the X data leak are in the clear. Hackers and other cybercriminals may not have direct access to these accounts, but they have plenty of information that's needed to gain access to an account from a targeted individual.
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W Magazine Friday April 4, 2025
Director Yorgos Lanthimos’s distinctive visual style and penchant for examining life’s absurdities helped earn him an Oscar nod for his 2023 film Poor Things. But, notes W magazine, even as he’s poured himself into building his singular cinematic worlds, he’s been honing another craft: fine-art photography. On view at Mack + Webber 939 gallery in Los Angeles through May 18, the exhibition “Yorgos Lanthimos: Photographs” draws from two books published last year featuring images made on his film sets. The Hollywood Reporter has more.
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WWD Friday April 4, 2025
French multinational conglomerate Kering has named Nan Goldin the winner of its 2025 Women in Motion Award for photography, in recognition of her “intimate and raw portraits that highlight issues like domestic violence, sexuality and life on the fringes of society,” notes WWD. Goldin will receive the prize on July 8 during the Les Rencontres d’Arles photo festival, which will host an exhibition of her work. She will also give a talk during the ceremony at the Théâtre Antique in Arles. Founded in 2015 at the Cannes Film Festival. Kering's award program was expanded to include photography in 2019.
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Eye of Photography Friday April 4, 2025
“At a time when America often appears to be coming apart at the seams, it is timely and sobering to revisit its bloodiest conflict,” notes The Eye of Photography, which spotlights the exhibition “A House Divided: Photography and the Civil War,” on view through May 10 at the University of Saint Joseph Art Museum in West Hartford, Connecticut. The exhibition comprises over 80 rare original photographic prints and cased images documenting the conflict, made by the most gifted artist-photographers of 19th century America, notes the museum.
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