By channeling a language as viscerally human as football, Anadol exposed both the calculated hostility of artificial intelligence and the frigidity of the fine art world.
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Thousands Call on Christie’s to Nix AI Art Auction
An open letter alleges that many of the artworks in the auction were “created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a license.”
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Magritte Painting Becomes Most Expensive Surrealist Work Ever Sold
The Belgian artist’s uncanny scene sold for a whopping $121.16 million at auction.
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Hacker Group Says It Will Auction Off Christie’s Client Data
… But is there really anything worth bidding for?
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Hacker Group Threatens to Leak Data of Over 500K Christie’s Clients
RansomHub, which claimed responsibility for the cyberattack, said it will publicize private client information unless the auction house pays up.
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Sale of De la Cruz Collection Raises Concerns in Miami’s Art World
As major artworks head to auction, some question whether the city’s over-dependence on private collections is harmful to its arts ecosystem.
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Mysterious Magritte Painting Could Fetch $63M at Auction
“L’ami intime (The Intimate Friend)” (1958) hasn’t been shown publicly since 1998.
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Met Museum to Sell George Washington Portrait for Up to $2.5M
The portrait has spent about 80 years in the museum’s collection.
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That Time Manet Dueled One of His Critics
A witness statement by novelist Émile Zola relates the sword fight between the painter and critic Edmond Duranty after he penned a lukewarm review of Manet’s work.
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Climate Activists Crash Christie’s Auction in New York
“No art on a dead planet,” they chanted, demanding an end to fossil fuels.
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Christie’s Pulls Paintings by Lebanese Artist After “Complaints”
“I did not expect this decision from Christie’s, as they have previously sold similar works of mine,” artist Ayman Baalbaki told Hyperallergic.
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Hokusai’s “Great Wave” Makes a Splash at Auction
An edition of the iconic woodblock print broke records when it sold for $2.8M this week.