Hacker News with Generative AI: Art

“Secret Mall Apartment,” a Protest for Place (modernagejournal.com)
In 2003, a group of Rhode Island artists created a secret living space within a busy shopping mall and lived there off and on, undetected, for about four years.
Art, Urban Planning, Protest, Community Art
95 points by rufus_foreman 14 hours ago | 56 comments
"C" Is for Censorship: PBS Cuts 'Art Spiegelman' Doc (documentary.org)
Twelve days before Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2024) was set to broadcast on April 15 across PBS stations nationwide as part of its strand American Masters, the filmmakers were told that a 90-second sequence—which shows the famous artist discussing an anti-Trump cartoon he created for the 2017 Women’s March newspaper—would be cut from the documentary.
Censorship, Documentary, Politics, Art, Media
6 points by colinprince 16 hours ago | 0 comments
That fractal that's been up on my wall for years (chriskw.xyz)
I spent a lot of time doodling in middle school in lieu of whatever it is middle schoolers are supposed to be doing. Somewhere between the Cool S’s and Penrose triangles I stumbled upon a neat way to fill up graph paper by repeatedly combining and copying squares. I suspected there was more to the doodle but wasn’t quite sure how to analyze it.
Art, Geometry, Personal Projects
465 points by chriskw 21 hours ago | 33 comments
Gilded Fish: Illustrations of Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine c.1780 (publicdomainreview.org)
Goldfish have had a poor reputation over the last century or two. They’ve been casual prizes at fairground games; the lesser alternative to puppies or kittens; and idiomatically (and incorrectly) accused of having limited memory capacity. It was not always so. Goldfish were once prized pets, coveted by emperors and nobles, exotic symbols of good luck. But anything can lose its shine if it’s easily attainable — and that was the goldfish’s undoing.
History, Art, Animals
14 points by crescit_eundo 2 days ago | 0 comments
I trapped an AI model inside an art installation [video] (youtube.com)
Creative Projects, Artificial Intelligence, Art
30 points by handfuloflight 3 days ago | 2 comments
Markovian Parallax Denigrate (wikipedia.org)
Markovian Parallax Denigrate is a series[1] of hundreds of messages[2] posted to Usenet in 1996.[3] The messages, which appear to be gibberish, were all posted with the subject line "Markovian parallax denigrate".
Usenet, Internet Culture, Language, Cryptography, Art
3 points by CGMthrowaway 4 days ago | 0 comments
Button-sized eggs and teapot cities: A peek into the big, WW of miniatures (npr.org)
Miniatures are huge right now.
Miniatures, Art, Culture, Design
4 points by rolph 4 days ago | 0 comments
The Imaginary 16-Bit Amiga Games of Suzanne Treister (suzannetreister.net)
From the mid to late 1980s I spent a lot of time hanging around videogame arcades in London. I started to think about the games, their structures, their objectives, their themes, their addictiveness. I started to consider their cultural subtexts, antecedents, the effect they may have on society and how they might develop and connect to other mechanisms, developments and fantasies or projections of the future.
Art, Games, Technology, Culture, Society
20 points by erickhill 4 days ago | 1 comments
Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll (publicdomainreview.org)
When Oskar Kokoschka fell in love with Alma Mahler, he fell harder than Satan into Hell. “What you are, I am: if you turn from me, I am once again like no one and have no world”, he wrote on April 26, 1912. “I live in you, and I only live truly and really for as long as you believe in me.”
Art, History, Relationships
6 points by Goodbichon 4 days ago | 3 comments
Graffiti Art (graffitiart.app)
Create professional graffiti art with our AI graffiti generator. Transform text into stunning graffiti letters and custom designs in seconds. Perfect for artists, designers, and creators.
Artificial Intelligence, Design, Art, Graphics
7 points by xbaicai 5 days ago | 1 comments
Paper Mechanisms (cutfoldtemplates.com)
Paper Crafts, DIY, Art
93 points by downboots 5 days ago | 4 comments
Mary Queen of Scots Channel Anamorphosis, a 3D Simulation (charlespetzold.com)
I’ve been going down some odd rabbit holes recently while researching my free online book-in-progress The Lost Art of Logarithms.
History, 3D Simulation, Art
11 points by nih 6 days ago | 1 comments
Mystical (suberic.net)
I wanted to make a programming language that resembled magical circles. This is more like a way to write PostScript that looks like a magical circle, but I will refer to it as Mystical in this document.
Programming Languages, Esoteric Languages, Art, Design
440 points by mmphosis 6 days ago | 45 comments
The Connoisseur of Desire (nybooks.com)
Literature, Art, Culture
34 points by samclemens 7 days ago | 1 comments
Banksy famed warehouse wall heart art to support heart health (heart.org)
DALLAS, May 16, 2025 — A striking Banksy artwork—a red heart-shaped balloon covered in bandages—will soon find a new home.
Art, Street Art, Charity, Health
3 points by geox 7 days ago | 0 comments
The largest and most detailed photo ever taken of a work of art (rijksmuseum.nl)
This is the largest and most detailed photo ever taken of a work of art. It is 717 gigapixels, or 717,000,000,000 pixels, in size.
Art, Photography, Technology, Museums
4 points by sparklingmango 8 days ago | 0 comments
Onfim's world: Child artists in history (resobscura.substack.com)
The sketches survived by chance, preserved on strips of birch bark found during Soviet archaeological excavations. They had been intended for use by school children from the medieval state of Novgorod. These children, who lived around the year 1250 CE, were meant to be learning how to read and write. But one student named Onfim used them to draw. And for this reason, Onfim has become immortal.
Art, History, Education, Russia
37 points by benbreen 8 days ago | 7 comments
Internet Phone Book (internetphonebook.net)
An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators. Published since 2025.
Internet, Art, Design, Web Development, Education
28 points by surprisetalk 8 days ago | 1 comments
How Cory Arcangel Recovered Late Artist Michel Majerus's Digital Legacy (newyorker.com)
In 2002, the thirty-five-year-old, Luxembourg-born painter Michel Majerus was on a short flight from Berlin, where he lived, to his native country, when the plane crashed, killing him and nineteen other passengers.
Art, Digital Legacy, Legacy, Death, Biography
13 points by bookofjoe 8 days ago | 5 comments
Cut-price Magna Carta 'copy' now believed genuine (bbc.com)
A manuscript once considered an unofficial copy of Magna Carta is now believed to be a genuine version and ''one of the world's most valuable documents'', according to UK academics.
History, Documents, UK, Magna Carta, Art
5 points by pseudolus 8 days ago | 1 comments
Anatomy of a $70M Auction Flop (nytimes.com)
Alberto Giacometti’s “Grande tête mince (Grande tête de Diego)” failed to sell at Sotheby’s Tuesday evening, despite an estimate over $70 million.
Art, Auctions, Finance
26 points by prismatic 8 days ago | 34 comments
Sotheby's – Modern Evening Auction – Tue May 13 25 [video] (youtube.com)
Art, Auctions, Sotheby's
4 points by handfuloflight 9 days ago | 0 comments
Archisuits (2005–2006) (insecurespaces.net)
Archisuit consists of an edition of four leisure jogging suits made for specific architectural structures in Los Angeles.
Art, Fashion, Los Angeles
34 points by internet_points 10 days ago | 1 comments
When the Ground Thaws (2018) [pdf] (squarespace.com)
Art, Literature, PDF, 2018
10 points by NaOH 10 days ago | 4 comments
The overlooked masterpiece full of coded messages about World War One (bbc.com)
Esoteric and pioneering, the paintings of a lesser-known Pre-Raphaelite, Evelyn De Morgan, explored the trauma and meaning of war – and prefigured current fantasy art.
Art, History, Fantasy Art
24 points by rmason 12 days ago | 7 comments
An online exhibition of pretty software bugs (glitchgallery.org)
Welcome to the Glitch Gallery, an online exhibition of pretty software bugs! This is a museum of accidental art, an enthusiastic embrace of mistakes, a celebration of emergent beauty.
Software Bugs, Art, Design, Online Exhibitions
124 points by tobr 12 days ago | 7 comments
A MAZE. / Berlin – 14th international games and playful media festival (amaze-berlin.de)
A MAZE. / Berlin is an international festival for independent and arthouse games to explore the world and culture of playful media.
Games, Festivals, Germany, Art, Media
3 points by jansan 12 days ago | 1 comments
Cory Arcangel Recovered a Late Artist's Digital Legacy (newyorker.com)
In 2002, the thirty-five-year-old, Luxembourg-born painter Michel Majerus was on a short flight from Berlin, where he lived, to his native country, when the plane crashed, killing him and nineteen other passengers.
Art, Legacy, Digital Art
7 points by FinnLobsien 12 days ago | 1 comments
Teaching Coding with JavaScript and P5.js (thegreenplace.net)
When asked which programming language to learn first - especially for kids - my usual answer is JavaScript [1]. Nothing beats the direct feedback you get from code that's able to paint things on the screen, without having to install anything.
JavaScript, Programming, Education, Kids, Art
6 points by ingve 13 days ago | 1 comments
Radio City (thesephist.com)
One of the beautiful privileges of living in a city like New York is that you can just go for a stroll around town and encounter pieces of art that could plausibly belong in museums.
New York, Art, City Life
4 points by feross 13 days ago | 0 comments