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State of the Art: A Reanimated Greta Garbo Stars in a Ball Bearing Ad

"Every one of us lives his life just once," Greta Garbo once said, adding, "if we are honest, to live once is enough." In the age of AI, however, living more than once is an option. More than a century after her screen debut and decades after her ashes were laid to rest in a Swedish woodland cemetery, the Hollywood superstar's descendants are ready to consider an AI version of her taking a 21st-century film role. Her likeness has already been reanimated with AI for an ad for a Swedish industrial company, a practice some critics call "ghostploitation."

The DART Board: 10.21.2026

  When award-winning graphic novelist, illustrator, and long-time DART contributor Peter Kuper first spent time in Oaxaca, Mexico back in 2006, he fell hopelessly in love with the majestic monarch butterfly. During his first two-year stay, he regularly posted his richly illustrated Oaxaca Journal—which later became the acclaimed book, Diario de Oaxaca. It was almost inevitable that his fascination with our six-legged friends would eventually culminate in a si...