math Weird and wild warped-grid jigsaw puzzles inspired by Mobius, Haeckel, and Picasso David Pescovitz
happy mutants The true nature of creativity: pilfering and recombining the work of your forebears (who, in turn, pilfered and recombined) Cory Doctorow
"monumental forgetfulness" Man spaces out and accidentally leaves an original Picasso on a train. Now it's missing Carla Sinclair
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artificial intelligence AI trained to detect art forgeries by looking at a single stroke. Mark Frauenfelder
happy mutants #SAD: Doonesbury's collected Trump strips afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted Cory Doctorow
art Robbie Barrat's AI-generated nude paintings make Francis Bacon look like a genteel pre-Raphaelite Rob Beschizza
crooks Martin Shkreli ordered to give up $7.4 million, including his one-of-a-kind Wu Tang Clan album Mark Frauenfelder
crime The DoJ is going to make Shkreli sell off his unreleased Wu-Tang and Lil Wayne albums, his Picasso and his Enigma machine Cory Doctorow
fake news Inside Kim Jong-Un’s bunker, the plot to kidnap Prince George, and other fabrications in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan
F for Fake Museum in Italy shuts down exhibit with Modigliani forgeries — "Even a child could see these were crude fakes" Mark Frauenfelder