15 APR 2026

Day 105

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

John Locke · An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

A detailed engraving and etching showing actresses dressing in a barn. A group of women are gathered, some adjusting costumes, others applying makeup or interacting with each other. The scene is richly detailed, capturing the bustling atmosphere of a pre-show preparation.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn

British · 1738 · William Hogarth

Hogarth's print series Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn is an engraving of a painting that no longer exists, so what does it tell us about the original?

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Vision-Language Navigation

multimodality · Vision-and-Language Navigation · Room-to-Room on Matterport3D

A model is given a sentence and a sequence of panoramic views. Its only job is to walk the path a person described — in a building it has never entered.

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A polished marble pair: a seated woman in heavy folds holds a lifeless adult male across her lap, his arm falling free, her face smooth and young above his.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Pietà (Michelangelo)

Michelangelo · 1499 · Marble

A single block of marble holds a mother and a grown son in a pose that should not work — yet the weight, the cloth and the quiet face make it hold.

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