Throckmorton Fine Art Friday August 15, 2025
Photographers Tina Modotti and Edward Weston had one of the great, tumultuous artist romances of the 20th century—“a union formed by passion, collaboration, infidelity, and revolutionary politics, all set against the backdrop of Mexico,” notes Artnet, which spotlights the exhibition “Points of Convergence" at Throckmorton Fine Art in New York City through Sept. 13. The exhibition presents more than 30 photographs by Modotti and nearly 30 by Weston from a collection built over 35 years by Spencer Throckmorton.
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David Schonauer Friday August 15, 2025
Jim Acosta, former chief White House correspondent for CNN, stirred controversy recently when he sat for a conversation with a reanimated version of a person who died more than seven years ago. His
guest was an AI-created avatar of Joaquin Oliver, one of the 17 people killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018. The former CNN … Read the full Story >>
Mashable Thursday August 14, 2025
Up until now, Instagram users have had two options for sharing other users' posts: share it on their Instagram Story, which is only live for 24 hours, or collaborate on a post, which requires approval from both users. Now the platform is introducing a repost feature similar to that on TikTok, complete with its own "reposts" tab on users' profiles. Reposts will show up in your friends' feeds and in the “friends” tab on Reels. “Instagram is pushing Reels on its users, and reposts are a surefire way to encourage engagement on Reels,” notes Mashable.
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AnOther Thursday August 14, 2025
Ballet dancer Cassandra Trenary has been drawn to cameras since playing with her father’s camcorder as a child, growing up in Lawrenceville, Georgia. But it wasn’t until she was given a vintage Nikon F in 2017, while working with the American Ballet Theatre in New York, that her love for taking pictures was truly ignited. Now, after 15 years with the company – five as principal – she looks back on her photography with AnOther. “So much of my job is to exist in other people’s visions, and so I think [photography] is a way to share my vision,” Trenary says.
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