Image Skateboards, produced in collaboration with the Brussels-based art and social impact company The Skateroom, bearing images from Ai’s “Study of Perspective” series (1995-2017), affixed ...

You might expect a world-famous artist like Ai Weiwei — who has poked critically at value systems and institutions for decades with his provocative, interrogating art — to be more bombastic.

Christie’s Augmented Intelligence sale, its first dedicated to art made using artificial intelligence (AI), which ran from 20 February until 5 March, has been contentious to say the least.

Aside from turning text prompts into high-quality images, it also supports a catalog of AI models, each of which is fine-tuned for different art styles. That makes it a popular choice among ...