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Rahel Aima
6 February 2026

Gwen John—the quiet ‘seer of strange beauties’—gets major show in Wales

The exhibition, dedicated to the painter who sold few works during her lifetime and was largely overlooked in favour of her brother, will also travel to Scotland and tour the US

Maev Kennedy
6 February 2026

Mexico City’s Zona Maco fair continues to draw upbeat crowds and eager buyers

Latin America’s foremost art fair, now in its 24th year, remains a magnet for collectors, curators and museum groups from across the Western Hemisphere and beyond

Benjamin Sutton
5 February 2026

Saudi Arabia looks to its Modern art history as the art world eyes up the Gulf

With the inaugural Art Basel opening in Qatar, and with Frieze in Abu Dhabi later this year, the Kingdom is looking to the past with its exhibitions and auctions

Anny Shaw
5 February 2026

A Gerhard Richter pavilion and a new creative visa—Qatar’s Sheikha al-Mayassa reveals future plans

The pavilion—ten years in the making—is part of the upcoming Rubaiya Qatar quadrennial in November

Gareth Harris
4 February 2026

What the US’s removal of Nicolás Maduro means for Venezuela’s heritage

Longstanding preservation challenges are likely to be exacerbated by the current political instability

Hadani Ditmars
4 February 2026

Art Basel Qatar VIP day: fair’s debut encourages patience

The inaugural edition's unusual structure and focus on regional talent has garnered praise—but its reliance on state support raises existential questions

Kabir Jhala
4 February 2026

India Art Fair strengthens its role as launchpad for South Asian talent

The New Delhi stalwart, which has raised the profile of many artists, increasingly reflects the growing interest in Indigenous art

Kabir Jhala
4 February 2026

Exhibitions to see during Mexico City Art Week

From audio-tape portraits to the mother-daughter relationship, we share some must-see shows

Paul Laster, María del Carmen Barrios Giordano and Benjamin Sutton
3 February 2026

Mexico City exhibition explores dynamic exchange between Americas and Southeast Asia

An exhibition marking 50 years of relations with Singapore is organised around the Philippines-Mexico galleon trade system

Lisa Movius
3 February 2026

‘An institution where you delve into works’: details of AlUla Contemporary Art Museum announced

The vision and name for the new institution, opening in the AlUla culture and heritage site in northwest Saudi Arabia, were revealed on 1 February

Melissa Gronlund
2 February 2026

Dutch national photo collection opens in new Rotterdam home

Nederlands Fotomuseum has appointed a new director ahead of reopening in a former coffee warehouse on 7 February

Senay Boztas
14 June 2019

The human side of AI

How do algorithms see and shape the world? An exhibition at Basel’s HeK explores the often uncomfortable coexistence of humanity and AI

Ben Luke
19 February 2019

Ai Weiwei’s contribution to Berlin movie scrapped amid censorship fears

“It was infuriating to find our involvement had been erased,” Ai says

Catherine Hickley
18 July 2025

Crowning AI-chievement: robot artist creates portrait of King Charles

Ai-Da made her latest royal reveal at a UN summit in Switzerland this week

The Art Newspaper
28 April 2023

Art world AI-nxiety: what is artificial intelligence and how are artists using it?

Plus, the AI photography scandal at the Sony World Photography Awards

Hosted by Ben Luke. With guest speakers Aimee Dawson and Gretchen Andrew. Produced by David Clack and Julia Michalska
31 May 2014

Ai Weiwei digs deep in Warsaw's Brodno Sculpture Park project

Ai Weiwei has created a new work for Warsaw that will be invisible to the public

Julia Michalska
10 February 2025

Thousands call on Christie’s to cancel AI art auction in open letter

The sale has sparked backlash from critics who say AI programmes exploit human artists

Carlie Porterfield
15 August 2024

US artists score victory in landmark AI copyright case

A federal judge in California has blocked an attempt by several AI companies to have portions of a copyright case dismissed

Torey Akers
11 March 2025

UK government AI drive spreads optimism—but copyright thorn remains

Investment in public data libraries and technology skills is welcomed, but the human creativity at the heart of art needs protection from unconstrained generative AI

Riah Pryor
20 May 2021

‘I’ll be back’: the return of AI art

After being pushed out by NFTs, machine-made art is making a comeback with London shows ranging from the "world's first ultra-realistic AI robot artist" to the first artificial intelligence ink artist

Gareth Harris
31 January 2025

Artists can copyright works made using AI as an ‘assistive tool’, US Copyright Office concludes

The Copyright Office’s new report also concluded that “the incorporation of AI-generated content into a larger copyrightable work” is acceptable

Benjamin Sutton
1 September 2023

What the latest US court ruling means for AI-generated art’s copyright status

A judge said the absence of a “guiding human hand” disqualified the AI-generated image from copyright protection, but other generative art may still qualify

Sarp Kerem Yavuz
6 November 2023

Artist and AI pioneers use DeepDream to create ‘hallucinatory’ depictions of landscapes by Capability Brown

Daniel Ambrosi used Google's AI to reimagine high-res photographs of parkland designed by the 18th-century landscape architect

Louis Jebb
23 September 2024

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

Sarp Kerem Yavuz
17 December 2018

We must not let the art market hoodwink us in the AI debate

The AI work that was sold at Christie's is profound in its conservatism, but others reflect how the technology can impact on art in fascinating ways

Ben Luke
10 May 2024

DeviantArt and Midjourney deny wrongdoing in copyright infringement lawsuit over in AI image generators

Two giants of the image generation industry rejected copyright infringement claims from artists who allege their work was used to train an AI tool

Torey Akers
30 May 2024

The art world’s AI dilemma: how can artists and museums thrive when big tech controls the monetising of artificial intelligence?

The presence of AI in every aspect of life has been a fact for the past 20 months. With the publication of the Stanford AI Index, two areas have come into focus. For museums, how to work with industry giants, without having their offering "distanced" by the summarising power of AI. For artists, how to thrive where sources of production are being monetised in Silicon Valley

Chris Michaels
28 March 2025

Ho Tzu Nyen on how AI leads to the cinematic past

‘Night Charades’, an AI animation by the Singaporean artist that will be projected on to the facade of the M+ museum, uses classic Hong Kong films to also look towards the uncertain future

Eddy Frankel
16 September 2025

How AI-trained robots are helping to root out fake paintings tied to a notorious forgery case

The Norval AI tool is being used to determine the authenticity of works alleged to by the Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau

Hadani Ditmars
24 October 2024

Artists Amoako Boafo, Hans Haacke and Deborah Butterfield among thousands to sign statement against AI content scraping

Artists and organisations across the creative industries have come out in opposition to the practice of AI firms training their technology with copyrighted, unlicensed material

Torey Akers
27 September 2023

Artists, writers, performers and their advocates call on US Congress to ban companies from copyrighting AI-generated art

The AI Day of Action, scheduled for 2 October, comes as US officials consider whether and how to regulate material generated by artificial intelligence

Daniel Grant
28 February 2023

What are the implications of artificial intelligence for the future of art? The robot artist Ai-da and her creators discuss

Ai-da is an artist, she marks a challenge to the category, and it is in this sense that she becomes Duchampian, argue her creators

Lucy Seale and Aidan Meller
7 March 2025

Censorship and Australia’s Venice Biennale pavilion, a controversial AI auction, and Elizabeth Catlett in Washington—podcast

What might the fallout be after Creative Australia’s unpopular decision to cancel Khaled Sabsabi’s project? Plus, AI art beyond this week’s open letter and a chat about Catlett’s terracotta sculpture ‘Tired’

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack, Julia Michalska and Alexander Morrison
22 October 2024

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

Carlie Porterfield
11 December 2015

Ai wows Oz

Hannah McGivern
31 August 2009

Ai Weiwei assaulted

He was prevented from testifying in defence of activist Tan Zuoren

Chris Gill
22 May 2024

The difference between ‘open’ AI and ‘closed’ AI—and what it means

Louis Jebb
11 June 2024

AI on AI: Alex Israel uses artificial intelligence to re-engage with memory

The Los Angeles-based artist is presenting his "REMEMBR" installation, which riffs visually, musically and emotionally on users’ smartphone camera rolls, in London

Louis Jebb
8 November 2024

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

Carlie Porterfield
22 July 2015

London welcomes Ai Weiwei

The Art Newspaper
23 February 2022

A brush with... Ai Weiwei

An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Marcel Duchamp to ancient Chinese ceramics—and why Romanticism is not for him

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Julia Michalska, David Clack, Aimee Dawson and Henrietta Bentall
6 May 2016

Ai Wewei heads to the USA

The artist will make his first trip back to the US since getting his passport back from Chinese authorities

Melanie Gerlis
11 September 2015

Ai Weiwei praises Germany’s response to refugee crisis

Artist reveals he was only granted full UK visa for Royal Academy show in London while in the air heading to Munich

Javier Pes
31 August 2015

No way to treat Ai Weiwei

Lisa Movius
16 February 2021

AI robot Ai-Da gets first major exhibition at London's Design Museum—but beware of the (lustful) critics

The Art Newspaper
14 January 2016

Lego changes policy after Ai Weiwei backlash

Chinese artist describes U-turn as “victory for freedom of speech”

Hannah McGivern
26 November 2024

Elon Musk serves up disconcerting AI art

The controversial billionaire failed to spot a contemporary car in Caillebotte picture altered using artificial intelligence by Luma

The Art Newspaper
21 August 2020

CoroNation: Ai Weiwei releases lockdown documentary about Wuhan

Film aims to show “surveillance, ideological brainwashing, and brute determination used to control every aspect of society” by China’s leaders

Catherine Hickley
24 July 2024

Unesco warns that AI could rewrite Holocaust history

What can museums and heritage institutions do about disinformation powered by artificial intelligence?

Kimberly Hatfield
23 June 2022

Move aside Paul McCartney! Ai Weiwei and Ai-Da the robot to debut work at this year's Glastonbury Festival in England

At the Somerset music event, the Chinese dissident artist is screening a film about his family's history as prisoners of conscience

Gareth Harris
30 September 2015

Ai Weiwei to write art history of China

Javier Pes
20 March 2023

Lego Lilies? Ai Weiwei recreates Monet's giant masterpiece

Reinterpreted "Water Lilies"—with the addition of a mysterious dark door—debuts at London's Design Museum in April

The Art Newspaper
3 July 2023

AI helps artist think outside the frame

Kody Young fills in the blanks for Leonardo, Hopper and Botticelli

The Art Newspaper
9 March 2023

'Why I can't get excited about AI art'

Only humans can make proper sense of the world, Bendor Grosvenor argues

Bendor Grosvenor
26 August 2016

Ai Weiwei dropped from Yinchuan Biennale in China

Museum's artistic director reveals how decision was taken out of her hands by “higher officials”

Lisa Movius
17 September 2015

Ai and Kapoor complete walk for refugees

Blankets carried by participants, as symbol of concern, will go to charity

Javier Pes
27 March 2017

Ai Weiwei bends fences in New York

By The Art Newspaper
10 August 2015

Ai Weiwei meets the Moomins in Helsinki

The Art Newspaper
23 July 2015

Have passport, will travel: where will Ai Weiwei go?

The Chinese artist-activist is due to visit Berlin, London and Melbourne

Gareth Harris
7 February 2025

Christie’s staging auction made up entirely of AI art

The Augmented Intelligence sale is the first of its kind to be held at a major auction house

Carlie Porterfield
1 November 2021

Ai Weiwei goes back to Piccadilly

The Art Newspaper
15 July 2024

Where is the big museum blockbuster on AI?

Even the science-themed PST Art exhibitions, opening in Los Angeles in September, avoid the tech revolutions of our day

Jori Finkel
6 August 2018

Chinese authorities demolish Ai Weiwei's studio in Beijing

The space is latest artistic casualty in the city's gentrification campaign

Lisa Movius
19 May 2016

Ai Weiwei unveils new works highlighting plight of refugees

Chinese artist's show at Cycladic Museum of Art in Athens includes a flag depicting drowned Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi

Anny Shaw
22 November 2019

New Berlin foundation turns AI into immersive art

Light Art Space wants visitors to understand the world through a computer’s eyes

Catherine Hickley
23 December 2024

AI to Z: an art & tech alphabet for 2024

The art, artists and awards that pushed boundaries this year

Louis Jebb
23 August 2019

Despite Brexit, Ai Weiwei has moved to the UK

The Art Newspaper
9 October 2024

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

Sarp Kerem Yavuz
29 June 2023

AI might now be powerful enough to be ‘using’ artists

It is time to think about the extent to which technology itself has power over us, independent of people in tech companies

Gretchen Andrew
4 July 2016

Ai Weiwei to festoon Palazzo Strozzi facade with lifeboats

The Art Newspaper
6 July 2015

China relaxes de facto ban on showing Ai Weiwei’s art

Artist surprised after four exhibitions are allowed to open in Beijing—but international travel is still off-limits

Lisa Movius
30 May 2024

The art world's AI dilemma: informed insight from industry experts

The artist Refik Anadol, the museum director Thomas Campbell and the Future Art Ecosystems team at Serpentine share insights on how to thrive while working with artificial intelligence in 2024

Louis Jebb and Gareth Harris
6 April 2016

Ai Weiwei’s first show in Greece will aid refugees

Charities will receive percentage of exhibition takings at Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens

Anny Shaw
25 April 2019

Ai Weiwei denies his porcelain works borrow from Lebanese artist's prize-winning vases

Raed Yassin says there are "striking similarities" between his ceramic series on the Lebanese civil war and Ai's pieces on the Syrian war and refugee crisis

Aimee Dawson
5 February 2019

Met unveils its AI experiment with Microsoft and MIT

Teams produce five digital prototypes for acquainting people with images of museum objects online

Nancy Kenney
26 December 2023

AI to Z: an art and tech alphabet for 2023

Our guide to a fast-moving year in artificial intelligence, blockchain contracts, stadium-scale video, NFTs and social media

Louis Jebb
16 January 2026

In the age of AI, can art expertise be digitised?

Artificial intelligence attempts to offer objectivity in the inherently subjective field of authentication

Jane Kallir
17 February 2020

Ai Weiwei's censored films to go on show in Berlin

The works cannot be shown in China where the dissident artist says his identity has been erased

Anny Shaw
30 April 2016

Ai Weiwei's first feature-length film to focus on refugees

Chinese artist documents humanitarian crisis from Lesbos to Lebanon

Anny Shaw
16 March 2018

Ai Weiwei makes triumphant return to Sydney to open biennial

Giant refugee lifeboat is one of two works by Chinese dissident artist in the Biennale of Sydney

Elizabeth Fortescue
30 April 2014

Collector Christopher Tsai wants to open first Ai Weiwei museum

The proposed museum would probably be in New York

Melanie Gerlis
14 April 2025

How AI models are helping to reveal South America's archaeological sites

Analysis of aerial and satellite images has rapidly identified ancient sites, but human expertise is still essential in refining the outcomes

Garry Shaw
29 January 2016

Tennis star Milos Raonic is Ai Weiwei's biggest fan

The Art Newspaper
4 December 2019

Ai Weiwei confronts Amazon destruction in new unreleased film work

Dissident artist is exploring the disappearance of the Brazilian rainforest alongside China’s growing influence in South America

Anny Shaw
11 September 2023

A question of attribution: just how useful can AI tools be?

Connoisseurs and app makers agree on one thing: artificial intelligence-driven apps may supplement but do not replace the human eye and expertise in assessing a picture’s authorship

Gareth Harris
26 September 2024

Barbed art critic Brian Sewell is back—in AI form

The late writer known for his poison pen will make an appearance in a new London magazine

The Art Newspaper
27 October 2025

How Ai Weiwei gave a classic Italian opera a political twist

A new behind-the-scenes documentary shows how the Chinese dissident artist brought his signature stylings to Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Turandot’

Scarlet Cheng
1 February 2024

How we should regulate AI is the trillion-dollar question

With cases of breaches to artists' copyright escalating, an international framework is vital

Tim Blum and Eloise Calder
28 March 2024

Krista Kim: the entrepreneurial artist who is taking on AI

The Canadian-Korean creative works with light and sound to create Zen for the digital age

Amy Raphael
5 May 2023

New US copyright rules protect only AI art with ‘human authorship’

The US Copyright Office has eased its stance in new guidelines, and a decision on a comic book created using artificial intelligence

Daniel Grant
27 March 2018

Ai Weiwei: ‘I’m like a high-end refugee’

The artist talks about his refugee-orientated show in Hong Kong—and his plans for South America

Aimee Dawson
31 May 2017

Ai Weiwei poses as drowned Syrian refugee toddler once again

Chinese artist recreates harrowing scene at Israel Museum after Donald Trump visit

By Anny Shaw
3 September 2025

Ai Weiwei's cat-mouflage takeover of New York City park

Artist’s cat silhouettes in Four Freedoms Park work reinterprets camouflage pattern used by the military

Hilarie M. Sheets
16 April 2019

Ai Weiwei creates Lego portraits of missing Mexican students

The installation investigating their disappearance is part of the artist’s show at MUAC

Gil Camargo
13 November 2024

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

Gareth Harris
31 October 2023

Judge dismisses most of artists’ copyright lawsuit against AI image generators

The artists have indicated they will amend their complaints and continue the legal battle against what they say is unfair use of their work by artificial intelligence image generators

Carlie Porterfield
3 August 2017

Ai Weiwei’s refugee film Human Flow picked up by Amazon

The media production arm of the online retailer giant plans to release the documentary theatrically this autumn and stream it online

By David D'Arcy
31 May 2011

Anish Kapoor rejects China show in support of Ai Weiwei

He has described the Chinese artist's detention as “barbaric”

Martin Bailey
30 June 2023

Is AI generating an ‘averaged’, one-sided, view of art history?

Artists are getting creative to counter visual language being skewed by image-generating apps that average out scraped stock photos and social media files into “mean images”

Clara Che Wei Peh
3 November 2023

Can AI unlock the ancient Herculaneum scrolls?

Plus, the appointment of the new Venice Biennale president sparks a political row, and a tender portrait by Dorothea Lange

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack, Julia Michalska and Alexander Morrison
3 February 2016

Greek island donates 14,000 refugee lifejackets to Ai Weiwei

Chinese artist and activist to create work to draw attention to people smuggling

Anny Shaw
5 March 2025

Christie's AI art auction outpaces expectations, bringing in more than $728,000

In all, 28 of the Augmented Intelligence sale's 34 lots found buyers, including pieces by Refik Anadol, Charles Csuri and Harold Cohen

Anna Brady
26 October 2015

Brick by brick: Ai Weiwei crowdsources Lego for new political work

Toy maker has refused to supply materials for artist’s installation in Melbourne

Hannah McGivern
11 July 2019

Microsoft aims to harness AI for heritage projects

From languages to historic artefacts, the company will use technology to preserve and celebrate traditional cultures

Nancy Kenney
15 February 2023

Artists and visual media company sue AI image generator for copyright breach

Lawsuits against firm behind Stable Diffusion image generator are recent attempt to define the legal status of such images

Daniel Grant
7 December 2023

Art history meets Lego in two of Ai Weiwei’s latest works

Chinese artist recreates two famous historic paintings using the hundreds of thousands of Lego bricks

Alexander Morrison
4 March 2025

Semi-autonomous artists can offer society new means of working with AI

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

Louis Jebb
13 November 2017

Ai Weiwei to auction cat toy sculpture for Syrian children

Proceeds from Berlin sale, which also includes works by Rosemarie Trockel and Tomás Saraceno, will benefit Kayany Foundation

Catherine Hickley
28 March 2023

AI and art: how recent court cases are stretching copyright principles

Two specialists from a leading London law firm analyse the issues raised in recent lawsuits relating to the use of artwork images by tech companies in order to “train” their artificial intelligence tools

Hetty Gleave and Eddie Powell
10 February 2022

Ai Weiwei sparks outcry by posting ‘vaccine-sceptic’ video on Instagram

Chinese artist and activist says society does not have the right to make the Covid-19 vaccine compulsory

Anny Shaw
12 January 2026

Ai Weiwei’s first India solo exhibition to open in New Delhi

A selling show at Nature Morte gallery will include work from across the outspoken Chinese artist’s career—amid reports of rising censorship in India

Kabir Jhala
7 April 2025

Jeu de Paume puts on wide-ranging survey of work created by artists working with artificial intelligence

With “Le Monde Selon L’IA”, the Paris media art centre takes a broad look at work made using both analytical AI and generative AI

Eana Kim
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