Technology

Quantum leap: Turner Prize-winning artist Laure Prouvost creates new work with Google’s next-generation computing team

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

National Portrait Gallery partners with immersive institution to tell the human stories behind its collection

New experience produced by Frameless Creative with London museum to launch national and international tour at MediaCity, Salford, in May 2025

Art and technology shows in London and Los Angeles, a restored 17th-century cosmic atlas—podcast

Curators at Tate and Los Angeles County Museum of Art discuss the ways in which technology has shaped artists’ work, plus a chat about the “mesmerising” Harmonia Macrocosmica

Paintboxed! Artists invited to work with 1980s digital art tool once championed by Keith Haring and Richard Hamilton

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

Toledo Museum of Art uses cryptocurrency to acquire digital art piece

The museum used USD Coin to buy an NFT in a new series by the artist collective Yatreda ያጥሬዳ

Vatican launches AI-generated version of St Peter’s Basilica

Co-developed by Microsoft, the project also identified conservation issues at the world-famous church

Painting by the AI robot Ai-Da sells for more than $1m at Sotheby’s

It’s a new record for a work of art created by a robot, the auction house says

Meiro Koizumi brings Prometheus back to life to explore AI dystopia

New Tokyo show follows artist's trilogy of technology-focused works exploring the Greek god

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Technologyanalysis

How auction houses are embracing artificial intelligence

New services such as AI-enhanced translation are proving popular, even as human involvement remains crucial

Crime news

Co-creator of UndeadApes NFTs found guilty of fraud and money laundering in 'rug pull' scheme

Berman Jerry Nowlin Jr, known in the NFT community as "Repulse" and “Zayous”, faces up to five years in federal prison

'A real leap of faith': Swiss auction house to offer works authenticated by AI

The move fuels the debate about whether artificial intelligence can replace the human eye and expertise in assessing a picture’s authorship

Bobbly lines and an unfinished doodle: super-high-res scans may show William Blake's first-ever engravings

New research argues that works discovered on the rear of 18th century copperplates can be attributed to a teenaged Blake

Painting by AI robot Ai-Da could bring more than $120,000 at Sotheby's

The robotic brainchild of British gallerist Aidan Meller will make her auction debut on Halloween

'Courageous and resilient individuals': why the Illinois Holocaust Museum is embracing virtual reality to share survivors’ stories

New technologies are helping to protect and preserve the vital eye-witness perspectives of a dwindling but determined community

Abu Dhabi bets on repeating Las Vegas's success: Sphere to open second giant immersive institution

Capital of United Arab Emirates to build block-sized showcase for stadium-scaled concerts and giant video works by leading digital artists

Prizesnews

Dana-Fiona Armour wins Sigg Art Prize for work that integrates artificial intelligence

German artist-researcher receives €10,000 award for “Alvinella Ophia”, depicting a hybrid serpent creature’s exploration of a dystopian desert future

Theresa Reiwer wins top award at Lumen Prize for digital art

German-born artist working on ethics and AI leads the winners in nine categories of 13th annual edition of the world’s leading prize for art created with technology

Digital art dazzles at Frieze London

Five of the best works to see at the fair created using artificial intelligence and other technologies

From ordinals to ownership: Christie's explores new frontiers of blockchain-based provenance

The auction house runs two auctions that place web3 increasingly at the heart of the traditional art market

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Can artists protect their work by suing AI companies?

When it comes to copyright infringement, establishing culpability and illegality in the age of artificial intelligence is murky

Can London establish itself as digital art capital of the world?

In the game-changing era of NFTs and AI, the city’s diversified art ecosystem has helped it play catch-up as the medium’s global hub

Polish bank works with blockchain company and an Arctic vault to safeguard country's artistic heritage

Bank Pekao and the Aleph Zero platform collaborate to keep secure data by tokenising the digitised records of important works of art

Technologyinterview

All together now: Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst on their AI choir at the Serpentine

The groundbreaking musicians and artists see every part of their London show as a form of art

The ‘pearly triangle’: neurological investigation reveals secret of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring

The study also found that when volunteers looked at five works of art in the Hague’s Mauritshuis museum, their brains responded ten times more positively than when they viewed reproductions

Blue light: Jason Bruges reimagines the inside of a Tiffany diamond for 130,000 daily passers-by in London

The London artist joins Rana Begum, James Righton and Damien Hirst in making installations for the shop windows of Selfridges department store that react to the multi-faceted history of the New York jeweller

Beeple unveils generative work with an urgent environmental message

The sale of the work, unveiled at Italian Tech Week, supports non-profit initiatives like food justice and the protection of millions of acres of land and sea

Refik Anadol Studio reveals plans for world’s first museum of AI arts

Dataland is due to open in 2025 at the Frank Gehry-designed The Grand LA development in Los Angeles's downtown arts district

Awardsnews

Community curators: artists chosen by public vote for exhibition at Museum of the Moving Image

Finalists will be shown on the New York museum’s media wall with visitors able to mint a fragment of each work on the Tezos blockchain

Technologycomment

Despite the real (and artificial) fears of many, AI is not the enemy of the art world

Concerns about access, expertise and data sourcing have overshadowed the enormous power and potential that AI image generators offer