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It does explain why Eric and Don Jr. have been conspicuously out of the public eye of late. “The sentencing came after the men were accused of stealing or trying to sell the $6 million fully-functioning gold toilet, an artwork titled ‘America,’ which was believed to have been chopped up so the gold could be sold.”

2 Men Are Sentenced in Theft of Golden Toilet
The men were sentenced to two to four years for their roles in the 2019 theft of an 18-carat artwork at Winston Churchill’s ancestral home.

New tool lets artists ‘poison’ their artwork to deter AI companies from using it to train their models
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/27/new-tool-lets-artists-poison-their-artwork-to-deter-ai-companies.html

This new tool lets artists 'poison' their artwork to deter AI companies from using it to train their models—here’s how it works
If an artist doesn't want their pieces being used to train AI image generators, a new tool called Nightshade would let them "poison" their artwork.

Coffee Grinder and Glass, Oil on Paperboard, Juan Gris #Art

Coffee Grinder and Glass, Oil on Paperboard, Juan Gris #Art

Anarcho-syndicalism is really cool, and Rudolf Rocker is a big part of that for me.
He spent years lecturing about it at the Jubilee Street Club in the East End, and his book is one of my absolute favorites, that I always keep close by at home.
I wish I had a better picture, but hey, this one’s what you get!
#Anarchism

Are NFTs Ready to Keep Australian Artists Engaged?
Ruiqiang Li, Brian Yecies, Qin Wang, Shiping Chen, Jun Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06926 https://

Are NFTs Ready to Keep Australian Artists Engaged?
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) offer a promising mechanism to protect Australian and Indigenous artists' copyright. They represent and transfer the value of artwork in digital form. Before adopting NFTs to protect Australian artwork, we in this paper investigate them empericially. We focus on examining the details of NFT structure. We start from the underlying structure of NFTs to show how they represent copyright for both artists and production owners, as well as how they aim to safeguard or secur…

why does kicad have this insistence on putting PCB artwork on sheets
nobody does that. nobody wants to have PCBs on A4 sheets on paper. nobody wants to have them printed out layer by layer, it's 2025, come on

“The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number became believers and turned to the Lord.”
‭‭Acts€ ‭11€:‭21€ ‭NRSV€€
https://bible.com/bible/2016/act.11.21.NRSV

Acts 11:21 The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number became believers and turned to the Lord. | New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) | Download The Bible App Now
The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number became believers and turned to the Lord.

a new amazing artwork recreation by Nicholas Rougeux (@…) : "Clavis Cælestis: A Synopsis of the Universe – Digital edition of Thomas Wright’s 1742 astronomical treatise" https://www.c82.net/work/?id=399

Levels of close reading of an artwork:
1️⃣ This is a brushstroke.
2️⃣ What did the artist mean to communicate by placing this brushstroke?
3️⃣ Actually, I think that's just a stain from a coffee mug.
4️⃣ What did the artist mean to communicate by placing this coffee stain?

This Barbara Kruger Mural from 1990 Has Become the Year’s Most Poignant Artwork https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/b

Barbara Kruger's Mural in LA Is 2025's Most Poignant Artwork
A 1990 mural by Barbara Kruger at MOCA has become 2025's most poignant artwork after appearing prominently in anti-ICE protests in LA.

Immersive Fantasy Based on Digital Nostalgia: Environmental Narratives for the Korean Millennials and Gen Z
Yerin Doh, Joonhyung Bae
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10013

Immersive Fantasy Based on Digital Nostalgia: Environmental Narratives for the Korean Millennials and Gen Z
This study introduces the media artwork Dear Passenger, Please Wear a Mask, designed to offer a layered exploration of single-use mask waste, which escalated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The piece reframes underappreciated ecological concerns by interweaving digital nostalgia and airline travel recollections of Millennials and Gen Z with a unique fantasy narrative. Via a point-and-click game and an immersive exhibition, participants traverse both virtual and real domains, facing ethical and en…

Happy & Glorious: Coronation art exhibition goes on show https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/happy-glorious-coronation-art-exhibition-goes-on-show/

Happy & Glorious: Coronation art exhibition goes on show - The National Archives
Stunning new artwork commissioned by the Government Art Collection to mark the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla has gone on show in our Happy & Glorious exhibition. The free exhibition includes work by artists from across the UK created in response to the Coronation on 6 May 2023. For the […]

📌 Pinned Introduction
Hey, I’m Erik. I’m an anarchist with an embarrassingly massive crush on Rudolf Rocker’s syndicalist take. I’m also bisexual, autistic, and genderfluid because why not add some extra flavor?
I’m here to share my weird little world, build some solidarity, and maybe spark a little revolution along the way. No pressure, no drama, just good vibes and a lot of laughs. You do you and I’ll do me. Cool? Cool.

Speaking of "Adhesiveness" in 1960 David Hockney made a painting titled Adhesiveness. Which arguably depicts Walt Whitman fucking David Hockney, the labels 23 23 and 4 8 being a basic numeric code. Along with We Two Boys Together Clinging these two early works are Hockney referencing Whitman and being explicit about being gay. More info in this article and this one.

Was just reading about Matilda Emmerich having her artwork declined by the Hawkesbury Agricultural Show because of its content. Am I the only one concerned about the censorship of artists in Australia these days?
https://www.…

Teen artist striving for ‘hope’ during global wars banned from show
A teenager submitted a painting of a young angel in combat fatigues and flags from global conflict zones, but organisers have refused to hang it.

"These evangelical men saved sex for marriage – they weren’t well prepared"
In the meantime the females didn't stay home by the fire!
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jun/17/evangelical-sex-marriage

Cat Royale: An Artistic Inquiry into Trust in Robots
Matt Adams, Nick Tandavanitj, Steve Benford, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Victor Ngo, Simon Castle-Green, Guido Salimberi, Pepita Bernard, Joel Fischer, Alan Chamberlain, Eike Schneiders, Clara Mancini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04970

Cat Royale: An Artistic Inquiry into Trust in Robots
Cat Royale is an artwork created by the artists Blast Theory to explore the question of whether we should trust robots to care for our loved ones. The artists endeavoured to create a `Cat Utopia', a luxurious environment that was inhabited by a family of three cats for six hours a day for twelve days, at the centre of which a robot arm played with them by wielding toys. Behind the scenes, the decision engine recommended games based on ongoing assessment of their happiness. A video installation …

This Barbara Kruger Mural from 1990 Has Become the Year’s Most Poignant Artwork
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/barbara-kruger-untitled-questio…

Barbara Kruger's Mural in LA Is 2025's Most Poignant Artwork
A 1990 mural by Barbara Kruger at MOCA has become 2025's most poignant artwork after appearing prominently in anti-ICE protests in LA.

Various Artists – Beyond The Body
#electronic

Intersting (automated) posting background artwork of Lucas Arts games:
This reminds me that I have never played The Dig nor have I played Full Throttle beyond a short demo that was on a shareware CD-ROM.
https://mastodon.social/@lucasarts_places/1143774055917190…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20771 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Towards Black-Box Membership Inference Attack for Diffusion Models
Given the rising popularity of AI-generated art and the associated copyright concerns, identifying whether an artwork was used to train a diffusion model is an important research topic. The work approaches this problem from the membership inference attack (MIA) perspective. We first identify the limitation of applying existing MIA methods for proprietary diffusion models: the required access of internal U-nets. To address the above problem, we introduce a novel membership inference attack metho…

So, the instance I'm on isn't exactly getting a lot of attention for my artwork, does anyone have recommendations for where I could transfer to instead?

once again pissed off at yume nikki for being easily the greatest surrealist artwork of the 21st century, possibly of all time

REfugEEs From Beyond – Odd Spede Noisecore
#byncsa

The artwork currently deployed at Focal Point Gallery, #Southend gets rearranged every few days by gallery staff. Saturday 1pm they're putting the #pickles on display.

Having a mom who brings home this pin from work and understands me as someone who’s queer and gender-fluid had me smile.

I found a Bluesky page that is posting old-school 3D renders.
https://bsky.app/profile/oldschool3d.bsky.social
I'll be spending the afternoon looking for the name of a particular old-school 3D artist whose artwork I remember from back in the day. It was mostl…

The artwork currently deployed at Focal Point Gallery, #Southend gets rearranged every few days by gallery staff. Saturday 1pm they're putting the #pickles on display.

Various Artists – 2000’s Horrors
#byncnd