An artist was banned from a popular Reddit art community based on accusations that his artwork was an AI-generated design -- or looked too much like one. Ben Moran, an artist based in Vietnam, posted an image of his work "A Muse in Warzone" (2022), which he says was created using Photoshop, on r/Art, a subreddit with nearly 22 million members. The piece depicts Elaine, the protagonist of the Beneath the Dragoneye Moons fantasy series. Shortly after, the image was flagged by r/Art's moderators, and Moran sent a complaint, offering to provide the original .PSD file of the artwork for review. "I'm not using any AI supported [sic] and the punishment is not right," Moran said.

People get up in arms whenever the hand of the artist is detached from the final artwork. "Are photographs real art?" they muttered in the 19th Century. "God I hate this Pollock guy," cried haters witnessing a splattered canvas that the artist seemingly never touched. So it's no wonder that AI image-generators have got art historians in a twist, as more artists make use of these tools to inform their practice. I love diving into what gets people's blood boiling in the art world, and this summer AI crept its way onto the leaderboard of irritants.

The Kusama show at the Broad is raising the crowds (if not our critic's inspiration). Los Angeles just had a Philip Glass moment. There's been an architectural furor over possible changes to a work by Philip Johnson. Yayoi Kusama's exhibition of Infinity Mirror Rooms at the Broad is the hot museum show in L.A. right now. But Times art critic Christopher Knight says if you didn't score a ticket, you're not missing much.