Aperture Thursday January 8, 2026
Museum of Modern Art curator Oluremi C. Onabanjo’s exhibition “Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination" examines how photographers contributed to the proliferation of Pan-African solidarity during the mid-20th century, linking the postcolonial transformations of the 1960s and 1970s to the US civil rights movement through works by photographers such as James Barnor, Kwame Brathwaite, Samuel Fosso, and Sanlé Sory. Photobooks, Onabanjo tells Aperture, are at the center of the exhibition. Read the full Story >>
CREATIVE BLOQ Thursday January 8, 2026
Many artists stopped using the former Twitter in the great X exodus of a couple of years ago, after Elon Musk's chaotic rebranding of the platform, which came witha proliferation of conspiracy theories and hate speech on the app. Now, notes Creative Bloq, Musk has stoked a new controversy by announcing a new X feature that allows any user to edit any image without asking permission. All images on X now have an 'edit image' option that can be accessed by clicking on the three dots at the top right of a post or via an icon that appears on images themselves. Read the full Story >>
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Wonderful Machine Thursday January 8, 2026
Austin, Texas-based photographer Inti St. Clair anchored a campaign for biopharmaceutical company Madrigal Pharmaceuticals' campaign aimed at showing that life with MASH (metabolic
dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis) can still be joyful, connected, and fulfilling. Developed by the agency MRM, the campaign focused on the experiences of people living with MASH, a serious liver
inflammation and damage caused by a buildup of fat in the liver that … Read the full Story >>
Instagram Wednesday January 7, 2026
Christopher Anderson, the photographer whose unsparing portraits of Trump administration officials in Vanity Fair caused a recent stir, is making news again: In an Instagram post, Anderson shared details about a chilling encounter with Jeffrey Epstein in 2015, after he was assigned by New York magazine to photograph the now-disgraced financier. Anderson says Epstein made an effort to “buy out” the photo shoot for $20,000, but that when it fell through he sent a “massive” bodyguard named Merwin to close the deal. Read the full Story >>
