It’s hard to believe that Vienna’s own tourism board is behind a new series of strange A.I.-generated spin-offs of some of Austria’s most iconic artworks starring the internet’s favorite animal, the cat.

Once they’ve got our attention with these viral-ready images, however, the city is offering a different proposition: visit Vienna and “see the art behind A.I. art.”

“With so much artificial intelligence invading lives—particularly with programs like DALL-E or Midjourney that allow anyone to create ‘works of art’—Vienna wants to remind visitors of who made that all possible in the first place,” explained the tourist board’s CEO, Norbert Kettner, in a press statement.

The tongue-in-cheek marketing campaign risks significant backlash, as has been the case for other cultural institutions venturing into A.I., like the San Francisco Ballet and the Mauritshuis in the Netherlands.

Vienna’s UnArtificial Art campaign. Photo: © Vienna Tourist Board, Michael Nagle.

Despite these good intentions, the campaign saw fit to address each modernist master on a first name basis, issuing a slightly offhand apology for mutating their work. “Sorry Egon, but your art made A.I. art possible,” reads one Schiele-style image of a decidedly despondent-looking feline. Another offers its heartfelt condolences to Gustav (Klimt) for ripping-off The Kiss (1907–08).

The board is also releasing a video in which art historian Markus Hübl introduces us to Vienna’s world famous masterpieces by Schiele, Klimt, and Bruegel, before offering a comically far-fetched scholarly analysis of their A.I.-generated derivative.

If the campaign succeeds, it will encourage the fast-growing audience for A.I.-generated images to redirect their attention to the real thing, which can be found at Vienna’s celebrated cultural institutions: the Belvedere, Kunsthistoriches, Albertina and Leopold Museum, to name but a few. There, they can learn about the radical achievements of the Vienna Secession, co-founded by Klimt in 1897.

“The Viennese Modernism movement that revolutionized the art world over a century ago continues to live on and affect today’s art through the algorithms that guide A.I. creations,” said Kettner.

Check out more of Vienna Tourist Board’s A.I. creations below.

Bruegel, Tower of Babel (c.1563) and A.I. picture generated on Midjourney by Vienna Tourist Board. Photos: © Kunsthistorisches Museum and Vienna Tourist Board.

Gustav Klimt, Beethovenfries, (1901/02) at the Secession. Photo courtesy of Vienna Tourist Board.

Picture inspired by Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze, generated in 2023 using Midjourney by Vienna Tourist Board.

Colorful Facade of Hundertwasserhaus, apartment house designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser in Vienna, Wien, Austria. Photo: Petr Svarc/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Picture of a facade inspired by Friedensreich Hundertwasser generated in 2023 on Midjourney by Vienna Tourist Board

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In the 7th or 8th century, Chinese artisans devised a way to combine feldspar and kaolin and fire it at a very high temperature to produce the first porcelain, which was traded globally and highly sought-after for its elegant surfaces and ornate designs. The precise process wasn’t easy to replicate: not until the early 18th century did makers in Germany first achieve the right mix of materials and methods to produce the ceramic in Europe. Around the world, the bright, white surfaces of dinnerware and decorative vessels provided canvases for the painstaking craft of porcelain painting, emphasizing numerous patterned layers of colorful glaze. For Ukrainian artist Julia Pilipchatina, the craft of hand-embellishing plates connects her to a rich creative legacy and to personal stories and family heirlooms.

Formally educated as a historian, Pilipchatina is fascinated by the profound ties to ancestry and culture that tableware represents. “By choosing a unique plate for ourselves, we draw upon our own values, and—I hope—these objects remain in our families as testament to the lives of past generations,” she says. As a refugee from Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine, the artist was forced to close her workshop, leave all of her belongings behind—save for her two dogs—and start from scratch. Now in Belgium, she’s developing a series of plates depicting detailed, chromatic insects with spotted wings, serrated legs, and feathery feet. She says:

The Beetles series was born out of an attempt to overcome my fear. It’s difficult for me to approach the topic of war. It’s too painful and feels like a black hole that drags me in as soon as I focus on it. But I suppose the nature of fear is the same, and I decided to take on a somewhat safe but strong and irrational fear of insects.

While insects have long appeared in ceramic tableware alongside other popular motifs like birds, trees, and bucolic landscapes, Pilipchatina renders each critter in a style mirroring her watercolor illustrations, inspired by an encyclopedia depicting exotic, jewel-colored specimens in intricate detail. The more she studied the images, the more the creatures ceased to be a source of anxiety as she noted their elaborate patterns and found beauty in their vibrance and textures.

Each bug’s bold, saturated color emerges through the meticulous layering of thin coats of paint, or overglaze, to the surface, then firing the piece at 800 degrees Celsius. “The cycle consists of heating and cooling to room temperature, which means that one firing can last 12 hours,” Pilipchatina says. “Since the paint is semi-transparent, achieving brightness, depth, and contrast requires many layers, and therefore many firings.”

Emphasizing beauty as a reprieve from the loss of her home and the ugliness of war, the artist focuses on tenderness and fragility in the natural world and humanity’s relationship with it and one another. Combining art and utility, an elegantly crafted dish emphasizes longevity, continuity, and tradition while connecting loved ones around the table. She says, “Having an item that belonged to a grandmother or great-grandmother is of great value and rarity. Now, I am creating such objects for the future.”

Pilipchatina explores a range of decorative ceramic designs in addition to a few series of illustrations about her dogs and children’s stories. You can find much more of her work on Behance, Instagram, and in her Etsy shop.

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By Dina Weinstein

A new exhibition of work by graduate students in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts is a first-of-its-kind show fully curated by fellow graduate students in art history, history and museum studies.

The multidisciplinary exhibition, called “(Kin)dred Ties,” opens May 5 with a 5 p.m. reception at the Murry N. DePillars Gallery, 1000 W. Broad St.

Lisa Freiman, Ph.D., an art history professor in VCUarts, designed a new graduate seminar, Curating Exhibitions, to guide students in curating the works of living artists. In addition to readings and insight into the hands-on production process, Freiman emphasized to her students the need for an overall logic to the exhibition.

“Once they started realizing that there were a lot of works that were addressing family – whether it be memories both traumatic and positive, or histories or any number of associations that come with that – [her students] chose specific works, and it was the works that stood out,” Freeman said.

The seminar matched eight art history, history and museum studies graduate students with about 30 VCUarts studio art graduate students in the departments of Craft/Material Studies, Painting + Printmaking, Photography + Film, and Sculpture + Extended media who volunteered to be a part of the project.

“It seemed like such a logical thing to have an exhibition be the medium for cross-pollination between the two programs,” Freiman said.

Among other readings, her seminar included the book “The Curator’s Handbook” by Adrian George, but the face-to-face meetings with fellow graduate students in their art studios were a highlight for the curators.

“The most exciting part of it was when they came back from their studio visits and were doing presentations of each of the MFA candidates,” Freiman said. “They said, ‘The studio visits were amazing. It was so interesting to look at this work and to hear what the artists thought about it, and to be able to have a conversation with them about it.’”

The seminar’s history and museum studies students scheduled group meetings outside of class to parse out and organize the exhibition theme. Fifteen VCUarts graduate students were highlighted initially, with about a dozen featured in the final exhibition.

Mary McLean, a master’s student in history in the College of Humanities and Sciences, took the Curating Exhibitions class to broaden her interpretive skills, and the assignments took her out of her comfort zone.

“One of the biggest challenges has been knowing how to communicate with artists,” she said. “I tend to like to stay in my office, do my research, maybe share it with a couple people. And what this class has challenged me to do is actually reach out to artists and ask them hard questions about their art, like, ‘Why did you make this? Why was this important?’ Those aren’t really questions that you ask somebody. It’s their precious art that they’ve spent so much time on. You’ve got to be a little gutsy. And it’s definitely challenged me.”

McLean said she learned to ask the artists: What are you trying to communicate? How can the audience interact with this? The answers often would make conceptual art relatable.

She was matched with Stacie Sabady, a craft/material studies graduate student in the School of the Arts who used yarn that pays homage to the matriarchs in her family.

“The yarn that she used was from her great-aunt who had passed away,” McLean said. “It’s a sentimental piece. So when I’m writing my interpretation of the piece to go into the exhibition, I want to make sure that I’m not being disingenuous to the memory of her great-aunt.

I want to make sure that I’m getting her rendition correct. And that’s really challenging because I want to be able to convey it to the audience that this is a sentimental piece without exploiting it.”

McLean, who is focusing on Colonial America for her thesis research, added that working with living artists, unlike historical studies of objects, has helped bring empathy to her interpretations.

Nana Ferdnance, a seminar student who is studying art history with a museum studies concentration, relished learning about the artists’ passion and the significance of their work.

“Sometimes when people see contemporary modern art, it may look simple, but there’s so much meaning behind that,” she said. “And sometimes for artists, it could be a process of processing trauma, family, emotions and relationships. And that was a through line in our theme where we talked to a lot of artists. They were expressing their family connections and their relationships through their artwork. It was just really gorgeous.”

With a keen interest in diverse contemporary artists, Ferdnance enjoyed interacting with painting/printmaking graduate student Ali Kaeini. His work in the “(Kin)dred Ties” exhibition is a drop cloth framed with Iranian-style miniature objects and architecture, along with poetry painted on it that conveys the experience of displacement.

Ferdnance said the hands-on seminar echoed her recent experience as an intern at the National Gallery of Art and will support her career aspirations in the museum world. In addition to working with people of different backgrounds and interests, she got insight into creating exhibition proposals and contracts, coordinating with artists for delivery of their work, and event production and promotion.

Freiman said her seminar students responded robustly to interacting with artists close to their age, and in turn, the MFA students were excited at having peers look at their work.

Shannon Kurzynec’s piece in the exhibition, “Pill Pack Brooch Two,” is crafted of bronze, silver and steel.

“My experience with pills all started with my grandmother,” said Kurzynec, a first-year MFA student in craft/material studies. “When I was younger, she broke her neck, and I remember sitting at the kitchen table with her and watching her take pills by the handful – and her not being able to swallow them because of the accident. I couldn’t even tell you how many she had to take a day. That really impacted the way I viewed pills.”

Losing family members and friends to opioid use and disposing of many pills after her grandmother passed away, also made a big impression on Kurzynec. By creating art out of pharmaceuticals that abound, she wants to make a statement about the commodification of medication.

“It was a great experience getting to have a conversation about my work and the ties to my family,” Kurzynec said of the seminar students and the “(Kin)dred Spirits” exhibition. “By my work being chosen to be in there, it’s quite fantastic for me, because that’s a side of my work that isn’t always shared. It’s not a family portrait. It’s my version of a family portrait. Or a family tree in a really indirect way. It’s been an experience to be able to share that with others.”

“(Kin)dred Ties” will run through May 10. Gallery hours are 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. daily.

Imagine being paid for your homework. 

Every year, students in the College of Communication’s CM423 and CM424 advertising portfolio classes are asked to dream up creative work for real-world clients, albeit with lower stakes: These are imaginary campaigns, and the “client” will never see the finished work. But students come out of the classes with portfolio pieces that showcase their talents in art direction, copywriting, and strategy, crucial for landing those first internships and jobs. 

However, two recent projects were so stellar that Doug Gould, a COM professor of the practice of advertising and longtime industry pro, knew they had professional potential. 

“The work was so impressive that I said, ‘I don’t know if we’ll be able to sell this idea, but it’s so good, we need to get it in front of the client and see if they are interested,’” Gould says. 

His instincts were correct: student work created for the World Wildlife Fund, the world’s largest conservation organization, and Night Shift Brewing, located in Everett, Mass., have now become actual campaigns for the clients. And the students, who have now all graduated and are working in the industry, were paid as freelancers.

Photos courtesy World Wildlife Fund

One of Gould’s assignments called for students to choose a nonprofit they were passionate about, and then craft a campaign to market it. Caroline Richardson (COM’21) and Amanda Berman (Questrom’21) began their WWF campaign in the spring of 2021. 

Richardson, now an associate art director at TBWACHIATDAY, and Berman, currently an art director at RAPP, say they chose WWF as their hypothetical client for several reasons, among them the organization’s large reach. They also both happen to be animal lovers. 

“Their project, which officially launched in March 2023, is a set of gorgeously illustrated alphabet flashcards for elementary school children that intertwines letters and animal photographs (“A” is for African elephant, “B” is for bison, “C” is for coral, etc.) on one side, and a short description of the animal on the back. The flashcards are being used in more than 1,000 classrooms throughout the country as part of WWF’s Wild Classroom program, which provides free resources to guide teachers in developing lessons about conservation.

To get their concept in front of the WWF, Gould cold-messaged the organization’s art director on LinkedIn. The strategy worked. “We hopped on a bunch of Zooms with [the art director] throughout this process, and he was really great at showing us things that we weren’t super well versed in, such as photo editing techniques,” Richardson says. 

The client also helped focus the concept. “Our original idea was more adult-oriented, and was designed to appear on subway posters,” Berman says. It was conversations with the client that led to the illustrated cards. 

Richardson and Berman’s work recently won a Young Ones prize, given for outstanding student design and advertising work, as well as a Hatch award, which recognizes creative branding and marketing created in New England or for a New England client.

In spring 2022, Gould assigned his students to choose a microbrewery and create a campaign to help grow its business. Classmates Hannah Glickenhaus (COM’22), India Pearman (COM’22), and Olivia Strauss (COM’22) say they chose Night Shift Brewing because they were impressed with the company’s existing branding and were familiar with the product, having seen it at the BU Pub, as well as at local bars.Each ad in their campaign starts with the words, “So you…” and ends with a funny, head-scratching conundrum: “So you dropped your ballpark frank and still ate it,” “So you tried to adopt a squirrel on your walk home.” The tagline for each ad reads, “Not every idea brewed at night is a good one. We are. Night Shift Brewing.” The campaign launched on social media in March 2023, and digital billboards featuring the ads published around Boston this month. 

Originally, the trio pitched the “So you…” lines as raucous moments that happen when you’ve had too much to drink. When they pitched the idea in class, Gould encouraged them to find funny moments that could happen even without a drink, in an effort to make the campaign more relatable…and legally less problematic, Strauss says.

Gould had a mutual friend at Night Shift and was able to find the contact info for the company’s founder, Michael Oxton, who loved the work. Oxton and his team then worked with the students to develop the campaign. 

“We landed on the premise of the idea—‘The best stories are brewed at night’—through our conversations with Michael,” Strauss says. “From the first week we pitched the idea in class, to the end of the freelance campaign, it’s unrecognizable,” says Glickenhaus, currently working as a junior copywriter at MMB in Boston. “It went through a lot of iterations, for sure.”

“We sold the idea to them to use in any capacity they want,’ Pearman says. “And they told us it’s going to live on as an evergreen campaign for them, and they can apply it to product launches or events they have.” Their idea was short-listed for this year’s Young Ones award. 

“Honestly, it’s just a brilliant campaign idea,” says Oxton. “It connects what we do and our origin story [homebrewing at night] to funny, relevant anecdotes that everyone can identify with. The best campaigns are ones where people think, ‘Oh I gotta take a picture of that!’ or ‘Oh I gotta share that!’ and I think this campaign achieves that. It’s also constantly refreshable—there are nearly limitless examples of funny, great stories or ideas that people ‘brew’ at night. Everyone identifies with it. We love it.” 

Beyond the classroom, students say their COM portfolio classes prepped them for life in the advertising industry, teaching them, for example, how to negotiate pay as a freelancer. And the pieces they produced helped them land that all-important first job. 

“In my interview for my current job [as a copywriter at RPR in Santa Monica], the hiring manager said, ‘I called you because I saw your Night Shift Brewing campaign in your book, and I think that’s really great work,” Strauss says. “The campaign jump-started my career.”

Pearman, currently an associate social strategist at Digitas in Boston, says Gould’s feedback wasn’t dictatorial, but rather made the students think. “The class emulates real-life professional work because it’s all feedback based, and then you develop your idea further,” she says. “That’s the same process we do over and over in our day-to-day lives.”

“Our goal is to have our students be as creative as possible—not to create middling advertising, which the world is full of, but to demonstrate that they can produce at the highest possible levels given their relative lack of experience,” Gould says. “We often have students create work that is every bit as good as what is made in the professional environment.”

Happy Friday,

It’s not every day journalists find themselves translating Morse code, so when Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey responded to a recent Forbes inquiry on his $10 million donation to nonprofit OpenSats in all dots and dashes, I was delighted to see that my colleague Michael del Castillo was up to the task.

Sure beats the “💩” emoji (ahem).

BREAKING NEWS

Senate Republicans are casting doubt on Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s June 1 deadline for raising the debt ceiling—a sentiment that bolsters their bid to buy time to negotiate spending cut demands, and one that aligns with views among financial experts.

It’s not just PacWest: Regional bank stocks plummeted amid contagion fears, including Phoenix-based Western Alliance Bancorporation, falling by more than a third, its lowest point since 2013, and Memphis’ First Horizon, falling more than 32% after it announced a mutual agreement to terminate a merger with TD Bank.

BUSINESS + FINANCE

Seattle transplant Chris Howard carved out a spot among the world’s best seed investors after a decade of grinding his way to Silicon Valley’s inside track. He launched Fuel Capital in 2013 and uses his marketing background to define the pitch—after an early investment in Teespring, he moved into their office to help run its marketing team. More: The Midas Seed List 2023

Adidas is still feeling the financial impact of cutting ties with Kayne West and his Yeezy brand last year after the rapper’s antisemitic outbursts. Despite reporting better-than-expected first quarter profits of $66 million, the discontinuation of Yeezy led to a $441 million year-over-year drop in overall sales.

WEALTH + ENTREPRENEURSHIP

It sure is good to be king. Ahead of his coronation this weekend, King Charles III oversees a $46 billion portfolio of assets held in trust for the kingdom—including billions in investments, opulent palaces, glittering jewels and priceless art. Charles also inherited an estimated $500 million from Queen Elizabeth II. The late monarch’s will likely be sealed for at least 90 years, so the exact distribution of her personal assets is unknown.

New financial disclosures show that former President Donald Trump is flush with cash after leaving the White House, thanks to refinancing a San Francisco office tower and the sale of his D.C. hotel. Most of his estimated $425 million war chest is held in safe investments, which makes sense for a guy who is 76 years old, maintains a portfolio of riskier real estate assets, and might need a few hundred million to handle legal issues.

TECH + INNOVATION

No company has done more than ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, when it comes to getting VCs onto the Forbes Midas List, including No. 1 Neil Shen. But Washington politics and regulatory limbo still cast “dark clouds” over the world’s most valuable startup.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey announced he will donate $10 million to help bitcoin “become the native currency of the internet,” with $5 million set aside to further develop the decentralized social protocol Nostr. It levels the playing field after a $13 million investment he made into a similar open-source social protocol before leaving Twitter last year, which is now being developed as Bluesky.

Coinbase took to the courts last week hoping to force the SEC to act on its request for broader federal regulation of cryptocurrency and digital assets, a move that appears to have paid off, at least for now. A federal appeals court gave the agency 10 days to explain why it sat on the leading U.S. crypto exchange’s July 2022 request. It’s “not a signal that Coinbase will win,” a lawyer cautioned, and another predicted the agency is likely to keep its response as vague as possible.

SPORTS + ENTERTAINMENT

A jury found singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran not liable in a copyright infringement lawsuit that alleged his hit “Thinking Out Loud” stole elements from the iconic 1973 Marvin Gaye song “Let’s Get It On.” It’s a victory for the music industry—in closing arguments, Sheeran’s lawyer warned the alternate decision could have “a devastating impact on future musicians.”

New York and California launched a joint investigation into allegations of workplace discrimination within the NFL. It will focus on the league’s alleged “hostile work environment” at its offices in the two states, including potential violations of state and federal pay equity and anti-discrimination laws.

TRAVEL + LIFESTYLE

The cruise industry is officially back. Royal Caribbean dramatically upped its earnings forecast for 2023 by nearly 50%. Shares for the world’s largest cruise line were up 8%, and competitors Carnival and Norwegian also saw a 4% bump on the optimistic forecast. Cruise bookings are at their highest level ever, and occupancy is on pace to hit a record rate by year’s end, according to analysts.

DAILY COVER STORY

Ben & Jerry’s Cofounder Gets Fully Baked With New Nonprofit Cannabis Company

TOPLINE Ben Cohen, the “Ben” from Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, was smoking a joint one summer night in 1970 when he and a friend got busted by the cops. At that time, marijuana was just as illegal in New York as heroin and a small doobie could land you in jail. “Eventually, as we were white middle-class guys, we ended up getting tickets for littering a lighted cigarette butt on the beach,” he told Forbes.

The experience stuck with Cohen, who believes that if he had been Black, that night would have ended very differently. He’s not far off: Even as 38 states have legal medical marijuana programs and 22 allow adult-use sales, Black Americans are still more likely to be arrested for possession than white people in every state that has legalized or decriminalized marijuana possession (through 2018).

And with only about 2% of cannabis businesses being Black-owned, Cohen wanted to do something to address the harms of America’s prohibition on pot and help more Black entrepreneurs get a foothold in the industry.

Cohen’s newest venture, Ben’s Best Blnz (or B3), is launching its first sales of cannabis and pre-rolled joints in dispensaries throughout Vermont. While Ben & Jerry’s donated about 8% of its pre-tax profits to human rights, environmental and social justice causes, B3 is set up as a nonprofit and will donate 100% of its profits to organizations focused on funding Black-owned cannabis companies and helping get people released from prison on cannabis charges.

WHY IT MATTERS “I don’t need more money,” Cohen says. “But I’m an entrepreneur and what motivates me is justice. I’m very motivated by the idea of trying to create a more just world. And it’s a beautiful pairing of using this substance that had created all this oppression for Black people to create, hopefully, wealth for Black people.”

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FACTS AND COMMENTS

Apple beat Wall Street expectations for its first quarter earnings, thanks to its strongest ever-sales in its services unit, which includes iCloud, the App Store and its credit card business:

$94.8 billion: First quarter sales, smashing analyst estimates of $92.9 billion.

$2.65 trillion: Apple’s market capitalization, making it the most valuable company in the world.

$555 billion: How much market cap Apple has gained this year, alongside a 32% rally in share price.

STRATEGY AND SUCCESS

While there are benefits to having a higher credit score, before you stress it’s worth understanding their purpose and how they’re calculated. Credit scores measure whether you’re good at borrowing money, not managing it. Here are the five components of a credit score, according to FICO, and it says it all about you and your money.

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QUIZ

The Biden administration outlined plans to tackle which one key emerging risk in the technology space over growing calls for regulation?

A. Semi-autonomous robots

B. Artificial intelligence

C. Drones

D. Facial recognition

Check if you got it right here.

ACROSS THE NEWSROOM

Deadline next week: The Forbes Cloud 100 recognizes the leading privately-held cloud companies in the world. Know a company that deserves a spot? Submissions for the eighth annual list are now open through May 12.

BEYOND THE NEWSROOM

• The 2023 Forbes Future Of Work Summit will take place in New York and virtually on June 1. Here, we’ll explore the forthcoming impact of artificial intelligence, shifting dynamics between workers and employers, and more. Sign up to stay tuned for updates.
• The Forbes Iconoclast Summit will convene the world’s most iconic visionaries, financial titans, pioneering technologists, and key executives for high-level conversations on the most critical issues impacting our economy and markets today. Join us in New York City on June 12.

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