"Salman al-Nabahin unearthed the mosaic pavement, thought to date from the fifth to the seventh century AD, six months ago while working in his olive orchard in Bureij refugee camp, about half a mile from the border with Israel." - Reuters
Any matches in the results mean that the image could have potentially been used to train AI image generators and might still be used to train tomorrow's image synthesis models. AI artists can also use the results to guide more accurate prompts. - ArsTechnica
The development means there is increased competition for photographers on what were traditionally called photography stock websites, but might be now better described as something else. - PetaPixel
Clément Chéroux arrived just two years ago, and during his time MoMA "was closed for the coronavirus pandemic and its programming was disrupted." He's leaving to direct the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris. - The New York Times
In 1975, Penny Wolin took photos of everything at the St. Francis residential hotel, "from an American man in his 70s and his new French-born girlfriend, to the empty room that had belonged to a stuntman until he died the night before Wolin was due to photograph him." - NPR
"The new report by the Caucasus Heritage Watch (CHW) identified 108 medieval and early modern Armenian monasteries, churches, and cemeteries in Nakhichevan that were completely destroyed between 1997 and 2011 — an eradication." - Hyperallergic
Shocker: Ninety-one percent of emoji users "like to employ them to 'lighten the mood of a conversation.' ... The presence of a little smiley face helps soften our tenth request that someone take out the trash that’s been sitting by the front door for two days 😉." - Hyperallergic
The artists believed factories were the future. "Diagonal lines hint at stained glass—and at the notion, widespread at the time, ... that industrial structures were the cathedrals of the machine age." - The Millions
Fly into Jeddah, Saudi Arabia’s second and most charming city, and vast empty patches scar the landscape. Most of its southern districts and much of its centre have gone. - The Economist
Poland will formally ask Russia to return seven paintings now in a leading Moscow museum that were looted during World War II by the Soviet Red Army, the Polish culture minister said Wednesday. - AP
In the mid-1930s, Mussolini's minister of agriculture(!), Edmondo Rossoni, worked to turn his home village, marooned in the marshes of Emilia-Romagna, into a model town that could be replicated across Italy. "In Tresigallo, Rossoni envisaged a utopia based around people, with everything geared towards improving their lives." - Atlas Obscura
Although momentum behind AI-generated art has been building for a while, the release of Stable Diffusion might be the moment the technology really takes off. It’s free to use, easy to build on, and puts fewer barriers in the way of what users can generate. That makes what happens next difficult to predict. - The Verge
Management says that the museum will remain open to the public despite the walkout and picket line, which the union is staging to press for some progress in bogged-down contract negotiations that have dragged on for two years. - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Each museum that pledges to surrender some or all of its African collection intensifies the pressure on the holdout institutions to follow. But each of these pledges also intensifies the uncertainty about what exactly is being pledged. What does it mean to return an object “to Nigeria”? - The Atlantic
