In a controversial ruling this summer, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit dismissed some charges against a man who allegedly used an AI image generator to create child sexual abuse material (CSAM), holding that such material is protected by the First Amendment. Citing two US Supreme Court decision from 1969 and 2002, the three-judge panel ruled that the First Amendment protects a person's right to privately possess images or videos of child sexual abuse, if the material does not depict a real person and remains in the home. Now some photographers are reacting.

  Saturday, October 3: Art of Manga at Brooklyn Museum When an art form born of mass circulation is suddenly stripped from its newsprint and pinned to a gallery wall, something almost personal happens. In Art of Manga at the Brooklyn Museum, a dizzying shift from the pocket-sized, disposable book to the physical, hand-drawn original becomes a study in visual momentum.  To look closely at these 600 original drawings—stretching from the foundational, mid-century kineti...