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David Schonauer Thursday April 24, 2025
ChatGPT users have discovered that the popular AI chatbot can serve as a reverse-location search too: Show ChatGPT a picture, and it can reliably tell you where it was taken. In fact, says Mashable,
it's "scary" good at doing so. OpenAI recently introduced its newest ChatGPT reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, which feature improved visual reasoning, and made its image generator available to free … Read the full Story >>
ARTnews Wednesday April 23, 2025
Ukrainian artist Margarita Polovinko, whose drawings and photography excavated her post-Soviet reality and later the Russian invasion, died at age 31 while serving as a combat medic, notes Art News. Her death was announced on April 8 by her sister, who wrote in an Instagram post, “Margarita died defending Ukraine.” Born in Kryvyi Rih, an industrial city in central Ukraine, Polovinko was interested in what she called “the post-industrial city, post-industrial nature and the place of man in this environment.” Her subjects shifted after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
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Jack Shainman Gallery Wednesday April 23, 2025
Through May 31, New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery features “Malick Sidibé: Regardez-moi,” an exhibition of work by the celebrated Malian photographer Malick Sidibé, some of which has never before been exhibited. The exhibition “invites viewers into the bustling parties, joyous gatherings, and tender moments that defined the transformative era of a young nation relishing to establish its own national identity,” notes the gallery, and comes with the publication of Painted Frames, a monograph exploring of Sidibé’s painted frame photographs.
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npr Wednesday April 23, 2025
Every year, for millions of years, a huge number of painted lady butterflies have migrated thousands of miles across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Scientists haven't understood quite how far they travel — or how they can withstand such a difficult journey — but now, notes NPR, an international team of researchers has traced their route. From 2021 to 2024, photographer Lucas Foglia accompanied them on their trek across continents, taking pictures of the scientists and the insects they were working hard to understand.
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