Only at Art Basel Miami Beach could you turn a corner and find Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg — as hyper-realistic animatronic robot dogs — trotting through a convention hall and literally pooping out NFTs.

Welcome to “Regular Animals,” the latest mind-melting installation from digital art superstar Beeple (Mike Winkelmann), which instantly became the buzziest, most surreal, and most talked-about work of the fair during Wednesday’s VIP preview.

The concept: six uncanny robot dogs wearing disturbingly lifelike celebrity masks (crafted by horror-effects legend Landon Meier) that roam the floor, snap photos, and then squat to “digitally defecate” art prints in the visual style of the figure they’re modeled after.

Zuckerberg’s robo-hound drops prints in glowing, Metaverse-inspired palettes.
Musk’s? A grayscale techno-robot motif.
Picasso’s is unapologetically cubist.
And Warhol’s is bright, pop-art chaos.

Bezos’ dog doesn’t poop at all — which, according to Beeple, is the entire point.

“He’s another person who shapes how we see the world… so he needed to be in the piece,” Beeple told Page Six.
“We increasingly see the world through the eyes of AI, robots, and a handful of billionaires controlling algorithms. I wanted to play with that idea.”

Fairgoers oscillated between fascination and horror.

“It’s so creepy!” one person gasped.
“It’s so freaky!” another shrieked.

Mission accomplished.

Collectors Are Already Eating It Up — Literally

All six robot dogs have already been purchased by private collectors — for $100,000 each — though the new owners are letting them “go on tour” instead of locking them away in vaults.

But visitors can still claim a piece of the madness:
The dogs will ultimately eject 1,028 prints, each stamped “Excrement Sample” and emblazoned with a mock warning label stating the artwork may be:

“disgusting to most patrons of the arts,”

and may cause “uncontrollable erections in degenerate art collectors.”

Of the prints, 256 come with a “scan-to-claim” barcode that converts the piece into an actual NFT — a cheeky nod to Beeple’s own $69.3 million auction record at Christie’s in 2021.

Given his track record? Those “samples” may become gold mines.

Billionaires, Beefs & Basel Cameos

The installation’s billionaire theme matched its billionaire audience.

Spotted roaming Art Basel’s aisles:

Sergey Brin, Google co-founder

Barry Sternlicht, Starwood Capital

David Solomon, Goldman Sachs CEO

Craig Robins, Miami mogul

David Grutman, nightlife king

Omer & Jennifer Horev, Pura Vida founders

No word on whether Brin visited the robot wearing the mask of the man he was once rumored (incorrectly, per both parties) to have beef with. A 2022 report alleging an affair between Musk and Brin’s then-wife Nicole Shanahan was emphatically denied:

“We didn’t have an affair,” Shanahan said. Musk also dismissed the story as fiction.

There’s no mask for that — yet.