There's a particular honesty to the magazine cover as a form. It doesn't pretend to inform. It takes a face, frames it in authority, surrounds it with competing claims for attention, and sells it. Celebrity and power have always understood each other here.
New Objectives in my ongoing series Current Affairs — applies that logic to a White House press briefing from March 18, 2026. Trump's reality doesn't even need distortion of the image. No editorial intervention beyond the choice of form. The cover of TRIUMPH simply places Karoline Leavitt's smile inside the visual grammar that they already use to legitimize their actions.
The cover lines are (almost) real. Every headline is drawn from things actually said or meant, in public, on camera, into microphones, about a war whose stated objectives changed three times in three weeks.
"We've defined the objectives very clearly."
The smile did not flicker.
Disposable by Tuesday. Collectible by history.
New Objectives (CA–001) / March 2026

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Working on some refrigerator art for friends and family.

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Einseitige Ernährung ist ungesund...

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The Empire's Final Bullfight

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Morgen Abend: Vernissage „Während die Maschine läuft" im krautART ARTspace.

Zehn Jahre figurative Ölmalerei — von den politischen Porträts bis zur Serie The War Machine. Das Bild zeigt „In der Munitionsfabrik": Rüstungsindustrie, Zulieferketten, die Gesichter hinter der Produktion.

Letzte Ausstellung in diesem Raum. Kommt vorbei.

📍 Fr 13.3., ab 18 Uhr · Lückstr. 11, Berlin-Lichtenberg
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