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The portrait was titled Empty Plate and put in a custom-made frame<\/p>\n
An artist sneaked an AI-generated print on to a gallery wall before bemused visitors alerted museum staff.<\/p>\n
The print was hung up at National Museum Cardiff by secretive artist Elias Marrow, who said his Empty Plate piece – depicting a young boy in school uniform holding a plate – was viewed by a “few hundred people” before it was removed.<\/p>\n
One visitor who noticed the artwork asked a member of staff about it, but said the museum worker “admitted they had no idea about the piece or when it arrived”. <\/p>\n
An Amgueddfa Cymru spokesperson said: “An item was placed without permission on a gallery wall in National Museum Cardiff. We were alerted to this and have removed the item in question.”<\/p>\n
The artwork, generated using artificial intelligence before being printed off, was hung by Marrow in the museum’s Contemporary section, with his website saying Empty Plate “represents Wales in 2025”.<\/p>\n
Marrow he was interested in “how public institutions decide what’s worth showing, and what happens when something outside that system appears within it”.<\/p>\n
He said using artificial intelligence to create it was “part of the natural evolution of artistic tools”, adding he sketched the image before he used AI.<\/p>\n
“AI is here to stay, to gatekeep its capability would be against the beliefs I hold dear about art,” he said.<\/p>\n
Morrow said visitors had responded well to it and took photos.<\/p>\n
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The piece was used to “represent the state of Wales in 2025”<\/p>\n
The artist, who said similar stunts he had carried out at Bristol Museum and Tate Modern were not “approved, sanctioned, or acknowledged”, denied it was vandalism.<\/p>\n
“The work isn’t about disruption; it’s about participation without permission,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I’m not asking permission, but I’m not causing harm either.”<\/p>\n
One museum visitor from Ireland who saw the piece on 29 October said they thought it might have been “performance art”, but then “quickly realised that this was a guerrilla piece”.<\/p>\n
They said they wondered “why such a poor quality AI piece was hanging there without being labelled as AI”, and approached staff only to be told no-one knew what it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC The portrait was titled Empty Plate and put in a custom-made frame An artist sneaked an AI-generated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-275269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}