The election of the new pope will be closely watched by supporters of the Argentinian pontiff’s legacy looking for a successor who will act as a progressive voice, highlighting global climate crisis and the needs of immigrants and the poor
The Argentinian pontiff was a powerful progressive voice in world politics, the first Jesuit priest to be spiritual leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics and the first from the Americas or the southern hemisphere to hold the office
Andy Warhol, Alvaro Barrington, Tavares Strachan, Beeple, Alberta Whittle, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst among featured visual artists in June shows in Shoreditch, east London
The New York-based painter’s work with machine learning generates backgrounds based on his previous work, which he then transforms into new paintings—with some of the results now on show in London
Her first NFT collection since 2022 is inspired by different aspects of her life and work
Painting by 17th-century Dutch painter has been researched and restored as part of the Women of the Rijksmuseum project supported by Chanel
The media artist presents “Living Architecture: Gehry”, generated from a new large architecture model containing visual data from the LA-based architect’s 65 years in practice
Artists have a history of giving cultural and social relevance to new technology. Recent exhibitions of artificial intelligence art and a sale at Christie's New York highlight new approaches to collective ownership and governance that are applicable to the wider community
The sale of “The Singing Butler” at Sotheby’s in 2004, for a record price for a painting by a Scottish artist, caused a sensation and turned attention on Vettriano's critical and institutional neglect
Miller’s images, produced with a “primordial” version of OpenAI’s Dall-E text-to-image model, arose from his work on a yet-to-be released documentary where leading thinkers address existential questions around artificial intelligence
Matthew Rosier's film "Parade" projects border town's diverse community back to itself as National Heritage Lottery Fund awards £4.5m grant for restoration of Berwick barracks as arts centre
The architect Hannah Lawson and the London museum’s education chief Karen Eslea consulted school children, teachers and parents to give the Roden Centre for Creative Learning a welcoming character
The Shoreditch-based festival's chief executive looks forward to presenting the cross-disciplinary work of “good, clever people with open minds”, including the actor Idris Elba and the artist and film-maker Jenn Nkiru
HeritageWatch.AI aims to provide real-time data, based on analysis of satellite imagery, to plan and deploy effective disaster management
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum features a glacier-themed opening concert, specially commissioned exhibitions from leading digital and craft-based artists and a cultural table featuring global figures from arts and sport
The Chinese Canadian artist is presenting a new kinetic work as part of the arts and culture programme at the 2025 World Economic Forum
With a focus on melting ice caps, Joseph Fowler, the World Economic Forum’s head of arts and culture, completes an environmental trilogy of opening concerts at the forum's annual meeting in Davos
For his third artwork presented at Davos 2025, the artist uses artificial intelligence to highlight the devastating impact of climate change
The American Pop art pioneer’s mural project is closely tied to the concerns of the World Economic Forum’s annual gender gap report
It was a big year for immersive art, with major institutions getting involved, new virtual reality kit, and a groundbreaking event in Venice
The Hugh Lane Gallery and the National Gallery of Ireland are showing the work of the modernists Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone and of their predecessor Sarah Purser—artist, collector, organiser and a force of nature behind the revival of Irish arts and crafts
The art, artists and awards that pushed boundaries this year
A tour of the remodelled building, five months before its reopening, shows the New York architect has created a spectacular main entrance closely integrated with the rest of the London institution and with the public space of Trafalgar Square
The Turner Prize-winning artist delves into the subatomic make-up of nature with the tech giant, working with quantum hardware—the next big technological wave after AI
New experience produced by Frameless Creative with London museum to launch national and international tour at MediaCity, Salford, in May 2025
The Miami-based art lover and real estate developer refined his approach to acquisition and to promoting public art through a four-decade friendship with the conceptual art pioneer John Baldessari
Droom en Daad foundation funds new collection and renovation of dockside warehouse centred on spectacular new double-helix Tornado
ArtMeta art fair and Tezos ecosystem are taking Quantel Paintbox—used by contemporary art giants four decades ago—on a global tour to introduce it to a new generation of creators
Seven years ago Wentworth Woodhouse was in a sorry state, now it turns over £3.5m a year—but how did this palace-sized property achieve such success?
Curators, institutions and critics remember a “humble giant of figurative painting” who worked from the same London studio for 70 years and made his home city, its art collections and inhabitants the subject of his unique output
