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kenko’s tiny pieni III camera captures lo-fi photos without a screenJapanese photography brand Kenko Tokina has released the Pieni III, a tiny digital camera that weighs just 18 grams and hangs around the neck like a pendant. Measuring 53 millimeters (2 inches) wide, the working camera is small enough to fit between two fingers, with a familiar silver top and circular lens that recall the proportions of an old film camera. It arrives in four colors, including pastel pink Strawberry and pale blue Soda, alongside Milk and Black. The Pieni III also has a curious omission. There is no screen or viewfinder, and thus leaves photographers to point the lens toward a subject and press the shutter without seeing exactly what they’re capturing. The images remain a mystery until they’re transferred to another device. A subject might drift toward the edge of the frame, or an unexpected detail could make its way into the shot.

In an interview conducted earlier this month, after the first large-scale demonstrations in Paris, Jenny Holzer addressed the protests that have continued to roil the city in the weeks since. “It’s gruesome that kids have to fight for a better education or for teachers to be paid properly, for their schools to be clean,” the artist told T: The New York Times Style Magazine. “I worry about the kids’ safety.” The occasion for the interview was Holzer’s solo show at Musée d’Orsay, which includes an LED panel work that bears a message penned by the French writer Émile Zola in 1860: “I think of the future and see it so dark, so dark that I shrink back terrified.”

The intervention is responding to the university’s recent $3 million investment in more than 500 new AI-integrated campus surveillance cameras. A bedazzled surveillance camera on MIT's campus (all photos by and courtesy Claudia Tomateo, unless otherwise noted)

It has been widely reported that the Kennedy Center is at the center of a power struggle between the Trump administration and preservationists, as the president wants to rename it in his own honor and insists that the decaying building must close for renovations. He has threatened that it will be razed if he does not get his way. Now, CNN reports that donors who have given artwork to the institution are trying to reclaim their gifts, fearing for their safety amid a renovation and in the wake of layoffs. They are not convinced that the leadership, largely appointed by Trump, values the artworks as part of the institution’s holdings.

This article includes spoilers for You Can See Everything, a new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes now playing theatrically in the US. Did it seem strange to you that Elizabeth Holmes’s X account remained so active after she reported to prison in 2023? You are not alone, and You Can See Everything, a new documentary about the businesswoman that was directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, may offer some reasons for the weirdness of her social media in the past few years.

The museum is bringing more than 160 artworks to Paris as it undergoes a major expansion. The post The Broad Is Sending Its Art Treasures Across the Atlantic appeared first on Artnet News .