The Easel

30th October 2018

The Deal of the Art

Johnathon Sturgeon | The Baffler | 12th October 2018

Coverage of the shredding of a work by street artist Banksy has varied wildly – Banksy’s philosophical motivation, the value of the shredded work, Sotheby’s suspected collusion. Pragmatically, the linked piece thinks the prank was “an accomplishment”. Why? Because art auctions are “shopping” where there is a “growing displacement of connoisseurship by marketing”.

Christie’s is First to Sell Art Made by artificial Intelligence, But What Does That Mean?

Meilan Solly | Smithsonian.com | 26th October 2018

In a sign of things to come an “artwork” generated using AI has sold at auction. A furious debate is now raging over whether an algorithm can be creative, or artistic. Art critics are generally dismissive, one calling the piece “100 percent generic”. The algorithm’s developer, shocked by the art world’s ire, says “for sure, the machine did not want to put emotions into the pictures”.

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