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The 2025 OCMA Biennial Zooms in on the Tribulations of Adolescence, and Other News

Plus, a new era for Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York and Starbucks unveils a new, fully compostable to-go cup.

Credit: Stanya Kahn, "No Go Backs." Courtesy of OCMA

The 2025 OCMA Biennial will feature 12 artists’ reflections on “fearless youth.”

The 2025 OCMA Biennial will examine the turbulence of late adolescence through works by Miranda July, Laura Owens, and Brontez Purnell, alongside A.I.-manipulated childhood imagery by Heesoo Kwon. Spanning teenage diaries, punk archives, and juvenilia, the exhibition treats youth as both subject and source material, mapping awkward, fertile terrain through memory, rebellion, and reinvention. 

Among OpenAI’s restructuring plans: a decreased revenue share with Microsoft.

As part of a broader restructuring, OpenAI has informed investors it intends to cut Microsoft’s share of its revenue by half by 2030, signaling a shift in the financial terms of their high-profile partnership. The move underscores OpenAI’s push to reassert control over its future, even as Microsoft continues to seek long-term access to its technology.

Untitled (The Crown Act). Credit: Qiana Mestrich. Courtesy Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York

Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York will open its new headquarters in June.

Baxter St will open its new Ludlow Street headquarters in June with a bold expansion that unifies its programs and doubles its space, reinforcing its role as a vital incubator for lens-based artists in New York. The inaugural exhibition, “The Reinforcements” by Qiana Mestrich, reimagines the overlooked labor histories of women of color in corporate America through layered, archival photo collages.

Apple reportedly thinks that the iPhone 17 Air will be a fit for only 10 percent of its customer base.

Apple appears to be positioning the iPhone 17 Air as a niche product offering, with internal estimates reportedly suggesting that it suits merely 10 percent of users due to trade-offs in battery life, performance, and camera capability. Despite its ultra-thin profile, some posit that the model demands too many compromises for most, prompting the company to allocate only a fraction of its production resources to the device.

A newly redesigned Starbucks coffee cup is now compostable and plastic-free.

Starbucks has unveiled a redesigned single-use cup that forgoes plastic entirely, using a silica-coated fiber material that’s both compostable and widely recyclable. Produced in Wales and developed over three years with Italian technology, the cup marks a significant shift in how the company approaches waste in its European markets.

Credit: We Are Rewind

Today’s attractive distractions:

Thanks to We Are Rewind’s retro cassette player, summer will look and sound good. 

Timothée Chalamet was spotted courtside at the Knicks wearing the most covetable new Cartier. 

Get ready for a long, hot jorts summer—or so the fashion forecasts say. 

Zaha Hadid Architects’ latest project in the UAE evokes the patterns of waves in the sand. 

 

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