Pierre Huyghe’s Bracing Dark Mirror of A.I. Has Its U.S. Debut

Tech boosters and doomers alike wonder when A.I. will be truly be sentient, able to think or feel. Pierre Huyghe asks a less predictable question: What is machinelike about human beings? Reflexes, impulses, routines: His show at Marian Goodman Gallery in Lower Manhattan, titled “In Imaginal,” hints at how alien so-called artificial intelligence really is…

Dutch museum exhibits Victorian-era condom adorned with erotic art of a naughty nun and clergymen

The Hague, Netherlands — The Netherlands’ national museum has a new object on display that merges art with Amsterdam’s infamous Red Light District: a nearly 200-year-old condom, emblazoned with erotic art. The Rijksmuseum said in a statement that the playful prophylactic, believed to be made around 1830 from a sheep’s appendix, “depicts both the playful and…