The Hollywood Reporter Wednesday September 24, 2025
Brad Everett Young, a celebrity photographer, actor and champion of arts education, died on September 14 after his car was struck by another vehicle driving the wrong way on a California Freeway. He was 46, notes The Hollywood Reporter. A fixture on Hollywood’s red carpets, Young was a familiar face at premieres, galas and awards shows. His photo portfolio included projects or shoots for Vogue, Vanity Fair, People and other publications. Starting in the late 1990s, Young had parts TV shows and films. He also founded Dream Loud Official, an initiative dedicated to preserving music and art programs in schools. Read the full Story >>
UC Davis Wednesday September 24, 2025
A traveling exhibition of nearly 90 works by labor photographer and journalist David Bacon will be on view at the University of California, Davis’s Peter J. Shields Library through Dec. 14. The exhibition, “In Camps, Under Trees and Evicted,” commemorates the 60th Anniversary of the 1965 farmworkers’ strike. Bacon’s work, taken over 35 years, depicts the lived experiences of farmworkers and others living close to the line who are, in the artist’s words, “virtually invisible in the picture most people see of Northern California.”
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CNBC Wednesday September 24, 2025
Google has been trying to play catch-up to OpenAI since the AI era dawned almost three years ago. Now, reports CNBC, it appears to finally be gaining ground with users. The company’s Gemini app took the top spot among free apps on Apple’s App Store, leapfrogging OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Gemini AI has seen some recent updates that have lured new users. Last month, Google launched an updated version of its “Flash” AI model, called 2.5 Flash Image, which has a new image editing feature called Nano Banana that has drawn raves.
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Dear Dave Wednesday September 24, 2025
After an August holiday, Dear Dave magazine continues the review section on the interesting website, with a half dozen essays about current exhibitions by leading thinkers on the medium, including Aaron Peck on Andreas Gursky at Gagosian, Paris; Marcus Civin on Edward Burtynsky at the ICP, New York; Nancy Keefe Rhodes on Archive as Liberation at Lightwork, Syracuse; Jon Feinstein on Tarrah Krajnack at The Frye, Seattle; Jeffrey Whetstone on Tod Papageorge at MOCA, Westport; and Max Blue on Kunié Sugiura at SFMOMA, San Francisco.
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