{"id":70387,"date":"2025-12-04T00:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70387\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T00:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:37:14","slug":"beeples-regular-animals-has-billionaire-robots-at-basel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70387\/","title":{"rendered":"Beeple’s ‘Regular Animals’ has billionaire robots at Basel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Famed artist Beeple\u2019s latest spectacle<\/a>, \u201cRegular Animals,\u201d has billionaire-tech-titan robot dogs pooping out NFTs, and stopping onlookers at Art Basel Miami Beach in their tracks at the fair\u2019s VIP preview.<\/p>\n

The animatronic canines sport nightmarishly realistic masks of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg \u2014 plus famed artists Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol, plus two Beeple (aka Mike Winkelmann) lookalikes \u2014 all crafted by famed mask-maker Landon Meier.<\/p>\n

Beeple showed off his \u201cRegular Animals\u201d work at Art Basel\u2019s VIP preview day in the Meridians section of the fair. Page Six<\/p>\n

As the robo-mutts trot around, they continuously snap photos, squatting to take a digital dump of an art print in accordance with its corresponding style.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg\u2019s for example, looks like the Metaverse, Musk\u2019s is a black and white\u00a0robot take, while Picasso is cubist and Warhol is pop art.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so creepy,\u201d said a number of onlookers. \u201cIt\u2019s so freaky!\u201d proclaimed another. <\/p>\n

The robots are continuously taking pics and \u201cpooping\u201d out prints. Page Six<\/p>\n

The work got a big reaction from fairgoers who gathered around to snap pics. Page Six<\/p>\n

But Beeple\u2019s point, he told us, was about how we see the world now.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt used to be that we saw the world interpreted through the eyes of artists, but now Mark Zuckerberg and Elon, in particular, control a huge amount of how we see the world,\u201d he explained to Page Six. \u201cWe see the world through their eyes because they control these very powerful algorithms that decide what we see. And so we wanted to kind of play with that idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bezos\u2019 robot doesn\u2019t make prints at all, but, \u201cHe\u2019s another person who shapes how we see the world,\u201d Beeple explained. \u201cSo he needed to be in the piece.\u201d<\/p>\n

The masks are hyper-realistic. Page Six<\/p>\n

This print was made by a robot that looks like Beeple himself. Page Six<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re increasingly seeing the world through the eyes of AI and robotics,\u201d he told us. \u201cI think that will happen more and more.\u201d<\/p>\n

We hear all of the robot dogs have already been snapped up by private collectors \u2014 for $100,000 each \u2014 but the owners have let them \u201cgo on tour.\u201d <\/p>\n

However, fairgoers still have a chance to take home a piece of the chaos: The dogs will \u201celiminate\u201d 1,028 prints, each stamped \u201cExcrement Sample,\u201d along with a warning label noting that the item may be \u201cdisgusting to most patrons of the arts,\u201d and could cause, \u201cuncontrollable erections in degenerate art collectors.\u201d<\/p>\n

The back of the prints includes a warning. Page Six<\/p>\n

Of those prints, 256 include a \u201cscan to claim\u201d barcode in the corner, marking them as actual NFTs. <\/p>\n

Given that Beeple\u2019s blockbuster NFT, \u201cEverydays: The First 5,000 Days,\u201d sold for $69.3 million at Christie\u2019s in 2021, the latest drops might end up as yet another gold mine.<\/p>\n

Billionaires weren\u2019t just depicted in the work \u2014 some were roaming the fair. <\/p>\n

The work, Beeple explained, is about who controls how we see the world now. Page Six<\/p>\n

Google co-founder Sergey Brin was spotted browsing the booths, though it\u2019s unclear whether he visited Beeple\u2019s installation.<\/p>\n

There was a report in 2022<\/a> that Brin\u2019s now ex-wife, Nicole Shanahan,<\/a> had an affair with Musk, which she and Musk both shot down.\u00a0Shannahan denied the WSJ report, saying \u201cDid Elon and I have sex, like it was a moment of passion, and then it was over? No. Did we have a romantic relationship? No. We didn\u2019t have\u00a0an affair.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also spotted at the fair was Starwood Capital billionaire Sternlicht, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, Pure Vida founders Omer and Jennifer Horev, Shop.com CEO Loren Ridinger, Miami club king David Grutman and Miami Design District developer Craig Robins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Famed artist Beeple\u2019s latest spectacle, \u201cRegular Animals,\u201d has billionaire-tech-titan robot dogs pooping out NFTs, and stopping onlookers at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3087,36635,16331,9633,30577,8372,40672,123,125,124,1705,1706],"class_list":["post-70387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-art","tag-art-basel","tag-billionaires","tag-celebrity-news","tag-elon-musk","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-society","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}