Mark Holsworth, Black Mark

Mark Holsworth, Black Mark

@mholsworth.bsky.social

Author of The Picasso Ransom, Sculptures of Melbourne and the long-running blog Black Mark - Melbourne Art & Culture Critic. He/him

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Mark Holsworth, Black Mark
@mholsworth.bsky.social

What is wrong with AI from the perspective of a games company (Chaosium).

Chaosium@chaosium.bsky.social

A follow-up to our post about the recent proliferation of AI creations in our community content programs at @drivethrurpg.com and our efforts to combat it... 🧵

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@mholsworth.bsky.social

Bluesky calls this adult content because it is "sexually suggestive." This is reporting on Melbourne street art. All images were taken in public and have been on the street for a long time. When have men wearing loincloths and fishheads ever been sexually suggestive?

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The Guardian
@theguardian.com

Art dealer who sold forged Warhols sentenced to nearly four years in prison

theguardian.comArt dealer who sold forged Warhols sentenced to nearly four years in prisonLeslie Roberts, 62, who created fraudulent invoices and authentication documents, also ordered to repay $2.6m A Miami art dealer who admitted to selling forged Andy Warhol artwork has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison. Leslie Roberts, 62, created fraudulent invoices and authentication documents, as well as counterfeit stamps to deceive buyers, the US justice department said in a statement issued on Thursday. Continue reading...

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Dr nick nobody
@nicknobody.bsky.social

Zionists want to destroy Adelaide Writers Week again, to silence criticism of Israel’s genocide. These fascists continue to attack culture in service to a foreign terrorist state #auspol www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...

deepcutnews.comExclusive: pro-Israel extremists launch campaign to cancel Randa Abdel-Fattah from Adelaide Writers’ WeekPen Power Australia’s AI-generated email campaign targets the Palestinian-Australian academic

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Mehreen Faruqi
@mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social

Yesterday I suspended parliament to demand the Albanese government call Israel’s depravity in Gaza for what it really is - a genocide. Australia must expel the Israeli ambassador, end the two way arms trade, sanction Israel, and pass the Red Lines Package.

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Squirrel Comedy
@squirrelcomedy.bsky.social

Tonight's show was Mumbo Wumbo Jumbo by Artist (painter sculpture, performance artist) The Naughty See Monkey. He paints a work while telling tales, dances (He was band Ergot Derivative's gogo dancer) & videos of his life play. It's a retrospective of his life in the scattered style of his art.

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Sawn off at the ankles is a classic move of scrap-metal thieves.

Andy Fleming@slackbastard.bsky.social

#TIL 'A Matthew Flinders statue at Mornington Park has been sawn off at the ankles and has gone missing. Listener Marcelle alerted Charlie Pickering to the vandalism and sent photos to the program.' #EXCLUSIVE www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

abc.net.au774 Drive Exclusive: Matthew Flinders statue in Mornington park vandalised - ABC listenListener Marcelle alerted Charlie Pickering to the vandalism and sent photos to the program.

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Michael Lobel
@mlobelart.bsky.social

While on a stroll on an absolutely glorious NYC autumn day, passing by 210 West 14th Street, where Marcel Duchamp had his studio from 1943 until his death in 1968, and where he produced his final work, Étant Donnés. Above front doorway, relief of an artist at work with brush in hand

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Amyville Hoyrror
@amyhoy.bsky.social

in the art fraud world, faking a signature is the killing stroke for a legal case. the smart fraudsters let a faked artwork work its way through a series of deniable attributed-to's and in-the-manner-of's and let the buyer fill in the blanks.

Andrew Deck@andrewdeck.bsky.social

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

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Glen
@gergyl.bsky.social

Replying to @gergyl.bsky.social

Interesting thing about that, from an Australian perspective, is that then Attorney-General Robert Menzies toured Nazi Germany the following year, a few months before Kristallnacht; spoke highly of Herr Hitler on his return. He first became Prime Minister in December 1939.

Glen@gergyl.bsky.social

Australian Attorney-General Robert Menzies went to Germany to meet him, in 1938, but only managed to see minions: trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ar....

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Twang 🍉
@twangmaker.bsky.social

Replying to @deepcutnews.bsky.social

Albo is putting a wrecking ball through the creative arts in Australia. He appointed the Antisemitism Envoy to suppress creative voices. He is bowing to US tech bros and allowing them to steal Australian creative works without payment. Creative people unite and campaign to eject Albo from office.

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"...last term bans on Nazi symbology were also introduced with strict penalties." As far as I know, these laws have only been used twice, both times to censor criticism of the ALP/LNP duopoly, which depicted their leaders dressed as Nazis. Fuck the ALP/LNP. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

abc.net.auAntisemitism plan would strip funding from unis, arts events who fail to fight Jewish hatePowers to strip funding from public institutions who fail on antisemitism, a review of Australia's hate speech laws, and visa screening for antisemitic views are among the recommendations of a wide-ra...

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Jessica Ellis
@baddestmamajama.bsky.social

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Mehreen Faruqi
@mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social

The PM's never met a billionaire he didn't love, never mind that this particularly fascist one is fresh from threatening to “annihilate” Iran and banning the press from the White House.