Cultured Tuesday January 27, 2026
It’s 2026, and Wolfgang Tillmans enjoys the kind of an extraordinary status: The 57-year-old German artist is fresh off a major exhibition at Paris’s Centre Pompidou and a 2022 survey at the Museum of Modern Art. While he rose to fame by making simple, austere beauty mixed with a deceptive amateurishness, the digital world has thoroughly caught up, and, notes Cultured, he's working to coin the next lexicon of contemporary photography. “I often work with our own expectations of beauty,” Tillmans says. Read the full Story >>
Digital Camera World Tuesday January 27, 2026
According to Yodobashi Camera's best-seller data for the second half of December, the Sony A7 V body, released for retail shipping on December 18, is now Japan’s best-selling camera, followed closely by the Fujifilm X-T30 III + XC13-33mm lens kit. The kit was released just days earlier, on December 16. As the fifth-generation model in Sony's full-frame A7 series, the A7 V features a 33MP partially stacked sensor, dramatically faster readout speeds, and a new processing engine that integrates AI performance, notes Digital Camera World. Read the full Story >>
YouTube Tuesday January 27, 2026
“I made it all the way to the scene of the Alex Pretti shooting, and then the federal agents almost immediately pushed everyone to the intersection. No one knew what was happening. They were just gather because they’d heard there was a shooting.” So notes photojournalist David Guttenfelder at The New York Times YouTube page, where he describes what he saw when Pretti was killed by federal agents. “People started shouting, ‘You killed one of our neighbors,” Guttenfelder says. Read the full Story >>
artnet Tuesday January 27, 2026
A senior curator and two collections committee volunteers have resigned their posts at the Art Gallery of Ontario after the institution voted against acquiring a new slideshow work by the artist Nan Goldin. The purchase was defeated by a narrow margin after several members expressed concern about Goldin’s remarks denouncing Israel’s attacks on Gaza as genocide, notes Artnet. Some people on the committee found a November 2024 speech by Goldin “offensive” and “antisemitic,” according to the Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail. Read the full Story >>
