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A late entry for the most disturbing art installation of 2025, Beeple’s ‘Regular Animals’ features a pen of robotic dogs bearing the likeness of tech billionaires and revered artists. They canter around, snap photos, and take NFT dumps.
‘You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension,’ declared Nikola Tesla in 1898. I’d say we’re probably at that point.
Onlookers at Art Basel Miami Beach are transfixed in a state of bemusement and hilarity by Beeple’s latest art installation: ‘Regular Animals’.
The animals on show are frankly anything but.
Meandering around a glass pen, animatronic canines donning nightmarishly realistic masks of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg – and revered artists Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol – take photos of the crowd and crap out art prints and satirical NFTs.
Each has its own distinct thematic style, with Zuckerberg’s resembling the metaverse, the Musk robot producing high-contrast robotic imagery, and Picasso and Warhol plopping out cubist and pop art prints, respectively.
Art Basel show by Beeple has realistic Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg robot dogs pooping NFTs https://t.co/Wu4HWOkgkX pic.twitter.com/ojj7buP4AY
— New York Post (@nypost) December 3, 2025
There are also two Beeple (Michael Joseph Winkelmann) bots, not because he’s a billionaire, but presumably because it’s good for exposure. I kind of want my own version. Though, given each robot has been reportedly snapped up by private collectors for $100,000 each, maybe not.
If they can bear the shame of picking up the paper waste, attendees can at least take home a print in a doggy bag marked ‘Excrement Sample’, though the packaging warns that ‘exposure may cause uncontrollable erections in degenerate art collectors.’
Given there will be just 1028 of these prints, and 256 conceal a QR code to unlock a unique NFT, some could be worth a pretty penny.
All the uncanny faces, complete with realistic hair that fairgoers insist on ruffling and petting, were created by famed mask-maker Landon Meier.
Though the visual is undoubtedly hilarious, and as many patrons have described, ‘freaky’, there is a serious message behind the lunacy of it all.
Turning some of the world’s most influential men into creatures we associate with obedience feels pretty on the nose. In this instance, they’re not looking to colonise Mars, or reinvent reality. They’re trapped in a pen crapping out disposable merch.
@limousine2830The artist known as Beeple is at it again. His “Regular Animals” exhibit — part of Art Basel Miami Beach’s inaugural AI sector, Zero 10 — was an instant hit at Wednesday’s VIP opening. The project features flesh-colored robot dogs that resemble Rock ’Em Sock ’Em robots, each wearing the mask of a famous man: Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg. The dogs snap images of the crowd and “poop” out original artworks in the style of the person they represent — Musk’s “Cognitive Blueprint” series in black-and-white; Zuckerberg’s “Metaversal” in shades of blue; Picasso’s Cubist take, and so on.♬ original sound – user23182010266
