"Brand was sitting at home on Friday night watching football when the doorbell rang and a man in a van asked for help to unload some merchandise. 'I asked him, 'what are we going to unload?'. He said with a smile, 'well, the paintings of Medemblik',' Brand recounted." - Yahoo! (AFP)
A.I.-centric handwringing concerns the potential to generate images with hidden, subliminal messages. The supposed danger is that brands will start producing carefully doctored images that subtly embed their logos. Previously, the existential threat was A.I.’s looming global takeover; now the concern is that it will be used to control and manipulate the masses. - Artnet
A plaster version of The Burghers of Calais, now thought to be worth £3 million, is one of 1,750 works owned by the museums of the city of Glasgow and now described as "unlocated." The sculpture was last on display in 1949, when it was damaged. - The Guardian (AFP)
Both venues were evacuated on Saturday after the threats came in. Heightened security will remain in place at least through the opening of Paris+ (an Art Basel fair) on Thursday. - Artnet
As smartphones go, this integration of AI signals a new era, one created with tech that is intuitive to the kind of ferocious simulation the next generation is being engineered around, where a picture is no longer worth a thousand words but a thousand tiny fictions. - Wired
One visitor to New York and MoMA from North Carolina: "I was in here for a long time. ... And I turned around and was like, 'Is this real?'" - Hyperallergic
The museum has 12,000 "human remains," many of enslaved people and Indigenous people, and it plans to take them all off display as urgent ethical - and legal - questions are changing museum policies worldwide. - The New York Times
While publicized as an investment in art and beautifying the city, the location, impact, and funding sources of these murals seem to correspond closely with private real estate and corporate investments. - Metro Times Detroit
In an increasingly difficult fundraising climate, dealer involvement in museum shows has become ever more prevalent. This begs the question: are the works we see on museum walls actually for sale? - The Art Newspaper
In 1989, a group of thieves disabled an alarm system and broke into the Haggs Castle Museum of Childhood and stole a cache of items, all missing until now. Robert Gemmell Hutchison's painting Children Wading (1918) was located after being consigned to a Yorkshire auction house by unsuspecting owners. - BBC
After Learning to Paint and Patrolling the Ruins of Pompeii, a Robot Dog Is Helping Humans Visit an Abandoned Monument in a State of ‘Curated Decay’ - Artnet
In the 20th century, Americans saw war through the eyes of professional photojournalists and camera operators. Today, it is those doing the fighting or those caught up in it who produce its fastest-moving images, as soldiers and civilians alike film conflicts and distribute their acts of witness or advocacy. - The New York Times
Its practitioners, mostly in big cities in the U.S., Germany and Japan, attempted to dethrone art by putting its enactment in the hands of ordinary people. They created "event scores" that consisted of minimal instructions for art making to be interpreted as the maker chose, with process valued over final product. - Seven Days
