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The Sony World Photography Awards launched 16 years ago as a way to champion work from all ages and backgrounds. Fast forward to the present, little did the organization know that it would (mistakingly) crown an image created by artificial intelligence. That's what happened at this year's coronation, as German photographer Boris Eldagsen refused to accept the award for the Creative category.His photograph, entitled Pseudomnesia: The Electrician, was created using OpenAI's DALL-E 2 image generator and alludes to a 1940s family photo, where two women from different generations lie front and center. Call it photography or 'promptograhpy' as Eldagsen dubbed it, the work was purposefully submitted to "drive debate" about how this technology is currently redefining our understanding of photograp...

It's been quite the year for Yayoi Kusama. Having kickstarted 2023 with a major collaboration with Louis Vuitton and a retrospective exhibition at Hong Kong's M+ Museum, the acclaimed Japanese artist is set to debut a three-story infinity room at WNDR Museum in Chicago.Dots Obsession has previously toured around the world and most recently went on view in 2018. The latest iteration sees the walk-in installation dripped in an all-yellow aesthetic, where Kusama's siganture dots orbit around the space and across the museum walls. “Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions,” the artist previously said in a statement. Kusama's 2017 masterpiece, Let’s Survive Forever, which is currently on ...