The New York Times Tuesday May 20, 2025
Several Hollywood industry and labor organizations are asking the Trump adminstration for tax breaks that they say would help bring more film and television production back to the United States. Their letter was sent in response to President Trump’s declaration on Truth Social this month that he would put a 100-percent tariff on films made outside the United States. The White House quickly walked back Trump’s tariff threat, but not before his post had put a spotlight on the declining levels of film and TV production in California and the United States, notes The New York Times.
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THE ART NEWSPAPER Tuesday May 20, 2025
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has received a promised gift of more than 6,5000 works from Artur Walther, one of the world’s foremost photography collectors. The gift from Walther and the Walther Family Foundation includes post-war and contemporary photography from Africa, Japan, Germany and China, as well as vernacular photos from Europe and the Americas, from artists including Malick Sibidé, Ai Weiwei, Thomas Struth, and Stephen Shore, notes The Art Newspaper.
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DP Review Tuesday May 20, 2025
DJI’s newly announced Mavic 4 Pro—the latest in its popular pro-level drone series and successor to the Mavic 3 Pro—introduces a new 100MP main camera with a redesigned spherical "Infinity Gimbal" that allows for full 360º rotation and 70º upward tilt. It also promises a longer battery life and an improved transmission system with a new pro-grade remote, notes DP Review. However, DJI says the Mavic 4 Pro won’t be sold in the US at launch amid President Donald Trump’s trade war with China, though, notes PetaPixel, some retailers "are doing their own thing."
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By
Andreea Pocol Tuesday May 20, 2025
In the age of generative artificial intelligence, the phrase "I'll believe it when I see it" no longer means what it once did. "As a computer science researcher and PhD candidate at the University of
Waterloo, I'm increasingly concerned by my own inability to discern what's real from what's AI-generated," notes Andreea Pocol, whose research team asked nearly 300 people to classify a set … Read the full Story >>
