AI slop was all over social media in 2025, and, noted Creative Bloq recently, Meta's head of Instagram Adam Mosseri has finally recognized something that was already pretty apparent: Authenticity is going to be an issue in 2026. In an end-of-year post at Instagram and Threads, Mosseri took issue with the term "AI slop," saying there is "a lot of amazing AI content,"-though, noted PetaPixel, he didn't provide any examples. He also took aim at camera companies, saying they are betting on the wrong aesthetic. "They're competing to make everyone look like a professional photographer from the past," he wrote.

   Thursday, January 22: Jasper Johns | Between the Clock and the Bed at Gagosian Between the Clock and the Bed—an exhibition of historic works by Jasper Johns at Gagosian in partnership with Castelli Gallery—surveys the crosshatch paintings and drawings that dominated his practice from 1973 to 1983 and have reverberated across his subsequent production.  Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of this body of work’s debut at Castelli Gallery in 1976, this ...