Air Mail Wednesday June 25, 2025
In 2004, Forbes magazine estimated the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue’s total revenues at $1 billion. “My last Swimsuit Issue was published in 2013, with Kate Upton on the cover, and ‘Swim,’ as the staff called it, was on 13 platforms, including print editions out of Beijing, Delhi, and Cape Town,” writes former SI managing editor Terry McDonell at Air Mail. The new film Beyond the Gaze: Jule Campbell’s Swimsuit Issue is about the complicated legacy of the woman behind the global publishing event, McDonell notes.
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404 Media Wednesday June 25, 2025
AI bots that scrape the internet for training data are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries, and are in some cases knocking their collections offline, according to an assessment from GLAM-E Lab. The survey is the first attempt at measuring the problem, which in the worst cases can make valuable, public resources unavailable to humans because the servers they’re hosted on are being swamped by bots scraping the internet for AI training data, notes 404 Media.
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Museum of Wisconsin Art Wednesday June 25, 2025
“I grew up in rural Wisconsin, outside of a village of 1,000 people, where my family has lived for seven generations. I left at 18 with no expectation of calling the state home again,” says photographer Erinn Springer. She did return, in 2019, after the death of a family member—“seeking a part of herself that had been latent in her adult years,” notes the Museum of Wisconsin Art, which features the exhibition “Erinn Spring: Dormant Season” through Sept. 14. Her work “explores memory and mortality,” notes AnOther.
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David Schonauer Wednesday June 25, 2025
Giovanni Ghidini is what you might call a single-minded artist. And, noted the Robb Report recently, that's why you've probably never heard of him. He has spent more than a quarter century working on
a single project, one that marries horticulture, sculpture, and photography in a meditation on life and death, nature and human manipulation of it, and what it means to make art. … Read the full Story >>
