THE WRAP Thursday September 24, 2026
Director Danny Boyle has said he used AI technology to create images for his Rupert Murdoch drama Ink, which entered the awards season conversation with premieres at both the Venice and Telluride film festivals. “There’s about 30 seconds of it in our movie, where we animate a couple of old photographs,” the Oscar-winning director told Vanity Fair. “My opinion of (AI) is that it’s a very useful tool in many ways, provided you use it respectfully and provided you pay actors if you’re going to replace them with some kind of AI embodiment,” he added. Read the full Story >>
DAZED Thursday September 24, 2026
Not long after moving to Poughkeepsie, New York, for his studies in 2013, Caleb Stein fell in love—first with Andrea Orejarena, a fellow student at Vassar College who remains his partner and close collaborator, and then with the local swimming hole along the Hudson River that Orejarenas introduced him to. “It instantly became the place we’d spend all our free time,” Stein tells Dazed. Returning every summer, he documented the community at the timeless spot. The result is the new book Down by the Hudson. Read the full Story >>
WLCU Thursday September 24, 2026
A former Michigan inmate has sued the Michigan Department of Corrections and three individual MDOC staff for allegedly altering his prison photograph so that he appears to be wearing a Native American headdress and clothing. Dylan Leenheer, a Native American man on parole from the Newberry Correctional Facility in Luce County, Michigan, filed suit under the Elliot-Larson Civil Rights Act, claiming he was the victim of “intentional racial humiliation,” notes WLCU. The complaint says Leenheer is a member of the Gun Lake Tribe. Read the full Story >>
AnOther Thursday September 24, 2026
The work in “The Last Dolls,” an exhibition of work by Bob Carlos Clarke at London’s Atlas Gallery, reveals a lifetime of obsession. Clarke (1950-2006) is remembered primarily for his black-and-white nudes; iit was his obsession with women – one woman in particular, whom he offered to photograph and ended up briefly marrying – that first drew him to pick up the camera, adds AnOther, which talked with Clarke’s daughter Scarlett about his work. He was, she says, “driven by an almost obsessive pursuit of perfection.” Read the full Story >>
