SGFARA

Joseph Beuys’s Game-Changing Art Plants Seeds for Change in Two Vast LA Projects

Installation view of “Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature,” 2024, at the Broad, Los Angeles. Photo Joshua White/JWPictures.com/Courtesy The Broad “If you have all my multiples,” Joseph Beuys once said, “then you have me completely.” The polymathic German sculptor was referring to the editioned objects that bore the intellectual and emotional freight of his artistic …

Joseph Beuys’s Game-Changing Art Plants Seeds for Change in Two Vast LA Projects Read More »

At MASS MoCA, Osman Khan Marries ‘One Thousand and One Nights’ with an AI-Generated Storyteller and Flying Carpet Drones

Installation view of “Osman Khan: Road to Hybridabad,” 2024–25, at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, featuring Mohammed’s flying horse, Buraq, as a coin-operated kiddie ride. Photo Jon Verney/Courtesy the artist, made with MASS MoCA Drone-operated flying carpets held captive inside a Taj Mahal–shaped cage; a mammoth head of the British colonialist Sir Cyril Radcliffe moonlighting …

At MASS MoCA, Osman Khan Marries ‘One Thousand and One Nights’ with an AI-Generated Storyteller and Flying Carpet Drones Read More »

Artwork Made by Humanoid Robot Ai-Da Using AI Algorithms Sells for $1 M. at Sotheby’s

Ai-Da Robot (Aidan Meller), A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing, 2024. Courtesy of Sotheby’s. Sotheby’s recently sold the first artwork made by a humanoid robot using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for $1 million, blasting past its estimate of $120,000 to $180,000. On November 7, the artwork A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing (2024) by the …

Artwork Made by Humanoid Robot Ai-Da Using AI Algorithms Sells for $1 M. at Sotheby’s Read More »

Mysterious Monument Linked to King Arthur is 4,000 Years Older than Long Believed, UK Archaeologists Say

King Arthur’s Hall probably has nothing to do with the king, who himself may not have existed. courtesy Cornwall National Landscape An inconspicuous stone and turf monument on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, southwest England, is likely 4,000 years older than first thought, according to local archaeologists. The rectangular structure, coined King Arthur’s Hall and previously …

Mysterious Monument Linked to King Arthur is 4,000 Years Older than Long Believed, UK Archaeologists Say Read More »

Following a Trail of Banksy Forgeries, Italian Police Uncover $215 M. Pan-European Forgery Network

TURIN, ITALY – FEBRUARY 24: A man walks near a Banksy artwork during the “The World of Banksy” Art Exhibition at Porta Nuova Railway Station on February 24, 2022 in Turin, Italy. (Photo by Stefano Guidi/Getty Images) Getty Images 38 people across Europe are suspected of involvement in a sweeping scheme to create and sell …

Following a Trail of Banksy Forgeries, Italian Police Uncover $215 M. Pan-European Forgery Network Read More »

A Sonia Boyce–Lygia Clark Double Feature at Whitechapel Offers an Exhilarating Proposition 

Installation view of “Sonia Boyce: An Awkward Relation,” 2024–25, at Whitechapel Gallery, London, showing Black Female Hairstyles (1995) on the wall and Exquisite Tension (2007) on the video screen. Photo Above Ground Studio For its fall programming, London’s Whitechapel Gallery decided to present an intriguing pairing of exhibitions of two artists who at first may …

A Sonia Boyce–Lygia Clark Double Feature at Whitechapel Offers an Exhilarating Proposition  Read More »

Florida Jury Finds Cocreator of UndeadApes NFTs Guilty of Wire Fraud and Money Laundering

UndeadApes NFTs listed on the Solanart exchange. Screenshot via Solanart A federal jury in Tampa, Florida, recently found the cocreator of the “UndeadApes” and “Undead Lady Apes” NFT collections guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. According to an announcement from the US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida published …

Florida Jury Finds Cocreator of UndeadApes NFTs Guilty of Wire Fraud and Money Laundering Read More »