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‘My life is weird’: the court artist who drew Ghislaine Maxwell drawing her back | Life and style
Pastel drawings don’t typically go viral on the internet. But this month, thousands of Twitter users were mesmerized by a courtroom artist’s sketch of Ghislaine Maxwell – the alleged sex-trafficking accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein – staring at the artist and sketching back. Twitter users were disturbed. “I thought this was funny at first but it’s starting to haunt me,” one person wrote. Others commented on the picture’s bizarre, recursive quality – reminiscent of MC Escher’s drawing of hands drawing hands, and raising the possibility of some kind of infinite loop. Was Maxwell trolling us? Or sending the artist an ominous message? “I don’t know, and I’m not going to try…
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‘A weird meta experience’: artist has @metaverse handle restored after Meta disables it | Technology
Thea-Mai Baumann’s Instagram profile is an eclectic mix of pink-lipped selfies, David Bowie memes, colorful recordings of her hologram artwork, shots of skyscrapers in Shanghai and portraits of friends tinted in Valencia, Amaro and Toaster, all filters from Instagram’s early days. Baumann’s account, which operates under the handle @metaverse, features 10 years of her life and work. All that became inaccessible to her when she suddenly found herself disabled from her account on 2 November, days after Facebook, which owns Instagram, changed its umbrella corporate name to Meta. A message flashed on her screen: “Your account has been blocked for pretending to be someone else.” As Facebook’s corporate name change…
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In Storage or ‘In Situ’? 75-Year-Old Artist Guillaume Bijl Works From Home Surrounded by His Weird and Wonderful Large-Scale Sculptures
On Manhattan’s Higher East Facet, Belgian artist Guillaume Bijl has designed a fortune teller’s den, decked out with glowing neon indications and embroidered floor pillows scattered throughout a plush pink carpet. The installation now on watch at Meredith Rosen Gallery is Bijl at his best: a spirited and humorous aesthetic that hints at deeper, and at times darker, undercurrents. Bijl, who is now 75, 1st rose to interest in the 1960s as a self-taught artist painting in a style that mimicked anything from Impressionism to Surrealism. By the late 1970s, he’d started to incorporate located objects and genuine residence decor into his increasingly elaborate vignettes. These opulently detailed installations have appear to embody…
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