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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
27 January 2026

Museum wall texts are an art in their own right—but will they survive the digital age?

With shortened attention spans and constant technological distractions, some museums are getting rid of labels altogether

Emma Riva
21 January 2026

The Davos arts programme: ‘Art ventures where policy briefs and position papers cannot go’

This year’s Arts and Culture Programme at the World Economic Forum encompasses a wide range of creativity under the theme of A Spirit of Dialogue

The Art Newspaper
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
26 December 2025

AI helps to reconstruct Cimabue basilica masterpiece shattered by earthquakes

Assisi fresco celebrated by Giorgia Meloni was reduced to tiny fragments in 1997

James Imam
12 December 2025

Comment | The worlds of analogue and digital art may be splintering

At Art Basel Paris, “the art world seemed to be staging a rally for art created by flesh-and-blood people”

András Szántó
11 December 2025

Despite turmoil, the cultural plan to mark the 250th anniversary of the US is taking shape

After government shutdown and firing of organising committee leader, plans for shows and events advance

Helen Stoilas
11 December 2025

From hard borders to soft power: how did the art world fare in 2025?

In a year of turbulence and uncertainty, new museums and dazzling shows were proof of art as a positive force

J.S. Marcus
5 December 2025

‘I think of immersion as a state of perception’: Lawrence Lek on his exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach

The artist, who says his practice is “like a continuously expanding universe”, spotlights nonhuman intelligence in his exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art

Alex Estorick
4 December 2025

Who let the dogs out? Beeple unleashes uncanny robot canines at Art Basel Miami Beach

The installation in the fair's new Zero 10 digital art section features robotic creatures with hyper-realistic heads resembling tech moguls

Gareth Harris
20 November 2025

Inside the new AI-driven platform generating ‘adviser-grade’ art market insights

Sam Glatman, the co-founder of Artsignal, which recently received a major vote of confidence in the form of investment from Christie’s Ventures, predicts that it will become the “dominant intelligence layer for the art world”

Aimee Dawson
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
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
11 October 2024

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

Louis Jebb
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
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
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
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 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
11 October 2022

Artist robot goes to UK parliament—and gives politicians nightmares

“Contemporary art project” Ai-Da gave evidence to the House of Lords, taking questions from bemused members

Gareth Harris
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
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 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
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
25 March 2024

London's Serpentine Galleries calls for artists and institutions to become ‘stewards’ of data in face of rising interest in AI

The London gallery's fourth annual Future Arts Ecosystems report addresses a pressing need for bodies to address the use of artificial intelligence, for their own benefit and for the public good

Louis Jebb
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
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
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
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
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
26 January 2024

Lawrence Lek on the pitfalls of artists making work about artificial intelligence

Lek has taken over a disused mall in Berlin for his latest speculative fiction show on self-driving cars

Kabir Jhala
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
22 May 2024

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

Louis Jebb
3 May 2024

Photography or ‘promptography’: a year on from the Sony Awards AI furore, what is the nuanced view?

Boris Eldagsen made waves in 2023 by refusing a prize in order to highlight the use of text-to-image models in art photography. A new show in London seeks to reframe the debate

Simon Bainbridge
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
2 September 2025

Comment | 'AI will transform the art market—just not how you expect'

The unglamorous world of art market logistics is set to become much more efficient, says Convelio shipping founder Edouard Gouin

Edouard Gouin
27 April 2023

Press officers move over: Gagosian employs ChatGPT to announce new exhibition

The artificial intelligence chat bot was credited with creating the text for Alex Israel's show in Rome

Gareth Harris
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
26 April 2022

Doug Aitken’s new 360-degree video looks to the horizon, with a chorus of AI voices

'Wilderness' breaks conceptual boundaries by leading its viewer into a multi-layered allegory, questioning what it means to exist on this planet as we are enveloped by the digital realm

Ellen Frances
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
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
8 March 2018

Big data meets Old Masters at Tefaf Maastricht

As artificial intelligence becomes more common, the market is embracing tools that might help to bring digital natives into the Golden Age

Anna Brady
13 March 2023

Online storm erupts over AI work in Dutch museum’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ display

Mauritshuis currently has 170 works on display as part of its “My Girl with a Pearl” initiative while Vermeer’s masterpiece is on loan

Gareth Harris
11 July 2025

Why artificial intelligence artists can be seen as ‘builders’, ‘breakers’—or both at once

Times of crisis have produced constructive or chaotic art strategies. With AI art in 2025, the picture is complex

Peter Bauman
18 April 2023

The camera never lies? Creator of AI image rejects prestigious photo award

Boris Eldagsen has accused the Sony World Photograph Awards of failing to distinguish between a photograph and a DALL-E 2-created image, while the organisers condemn a ‘deliberate attempt at misleading us’

Tom Seymour
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
10 March 2025

An architect’s dream: Refik Anadol launches AI tribute to Frank Gehry at Guggenheim Bilbao

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

Louis Jebb
5 April 2024

On process: Refik Anadol seeks to demystify AI art by showing how it is put together

The media artist's "Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive" at Serpentine Galleries, London, goes for radical clarity on its raw data sources and the make-up of Anadol's artificial intelligence Large Nature Model

Louis Jebb
27 August 2019

Ai Weiwei: 'Hong Kong is on fire and the world is indifferent'

Chinese artist and activist’s team has been documenting the intensifying anti-government protests over the weekend

Anny Shaw
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
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
5 April 2023

‘It is a crime against humanity’: Ai Weiwei discusses refugees in the UK, moving on from Covid and why Lego is his medium of choice

Design Museum exhibition brings together more than a million pieces collected by the artist including spouts and Stone Age tools

Gareth Harris
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
14 November 2023

Lisson Gallery puts Ai Weiwei London show on hold over Israel-Hamas war tweet

The artist-activist defends free speech in a lengthy response, but says that the gallery’s decision is “for his own well-being”

Anny Shaw
25 June 2025

‘A dialogue about rationality and irrationality’: Ai Weiwei to present new installation in Ukraine

The Chinese artist’s work, which is inspired by Leonardo da Vinci illustrations, will be housed in a former Soviet-era exposition hall in Kyiv

Gareth Harris
4 October 2024

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

Louis Jebb
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
6 January 2025

‘It surprised me’: artist finds inspiration in what AI art gets wrong

Charlie Engman is creating a counter to the “internet nerd culture” imagery widely associated with generative art

Simon Bainbridge
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
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
8 July 2024

Getty’s PST Art initiative will open with a colossal Cai Guo-Qiang fireworks display

The artist’s daytime fireworks event, incorporating drones and artificial intelligence, will take place in and above the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on 15 September

Benjamin Sutton
23 August 2019

Despite Brexit, Ai Weiwei has moved to the UK

The Art Newspaper
6 June 2025

How Gretchen Andrew’s AI art is revealing the societal scars of ‘facetuning’

The American artist, whose work is currently on show in New York, makes the invisible impacts of technology visible

Aimee Dawson
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
25 December 2018

Aican the AI artist: putting the art in to artificial intelligence

The Art Newspaper
23 December 2024

AI to Z: an art & tech alphabet for 2024

The art, artists and awards that pushed boundaries this year

Louis Jebb
12 September 2023

Mexico’s Sfer Ik launches $100,000 award to support creation of AI art project

The Tulum-based art space is putting out an open call, with the winner receiving cash and a two-month residency

Benjamin Sutton
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
6 February 2024

Ai Weiwei criticises ‘fragile’ state of Western democracy following Sky News interview

The dissident artist argues that restrictions manifest more subtly in Europe and the US

Gareth Harris
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
24 September 2024

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

Louis Jebb
14 June 2017

Your mind is not a computer: on Ian Cheng at MoMA PS1

The artist has a techno-determinist view of human development

By Mike Pepi
21 March 2023

Artificial intelligence is helping researchers identify and analyse some of the world’s oldest art

New applications for artificial intelligence can help researchers identify millennia-old rock art more easily

Kimberly Hatfield
28 August 2022

A black chandelier of skeletons and surveillance cameras: Ai Weiwei unveils his first show of glass sculptures in Venice

The dissident artist has created the one of the world's largest suspended Murano glass artworks

Jad Salfiti
17 March 2020

'Stay home and stay together': Ai Weiwei offers coronavirus advice in new video

Chinese artist's video is part of Palazzo Strozzi's new digital project for users during lockdown

Aimee Dawson
19 November 2025

In his own words: Antwerp museum uses AI to recreate Magritte's voice

A 1938 lecture given by the notoriously tight-lipped Surrealist can be heard as part of the exhibition “Magritte. La ligne de vie”

Stephanie Sporn
16 April 2015

Go wild in Jackson Hole and grow tall in Grand Rapids with Ai Weiwei

The Art Newspaper
18 August 2025

‘Their resolve is incredibly strong’: Ai Weiwei visits soldiers on Ukrainian front lines

As Ukraine’s president prepared for a high-stakes visit to Washington, DC, the Chinese artist and activist visited Eastern Ukraine

Sophia Kishkovsky
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
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
17 January 2025

Refik Anadol: the AI artist sounding the alarm on glacial destruction

For his third artwork presented at Davos 2025, the artist uses artificial intelligence to highlight the devastating impact of climate change

Louis Jebb
18 October 2024

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

Louis Jebb
1 May 2025

The key takeaways from the Abu Dhabi Culture Summit

Artificial intelligence's impact on the arts and the changing face of global art institutions were among the main themes at the illustrious event on Saadiyat Island

Jane Morris
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
15 August 2019

Puccini gets political: Ai Weiwei to direct opera in Rome about Hong Kong crisis

The Chinese artist will also design the sets and costumes for the production at the Teatro dell'Opera next year

Gareth Harris
17 October 2023

From VR to NFTs: in the year of AI, how should we define digital art?

The opening of Digital Art Fair in Hong Kong is a moment to take stock of how technological developments have changed the nature of digital art

Gretchen Andrew
9 May 2023

'In the age of AI, putting creativity at the heart of education is more important than ever'

The UK Labour Party is gearing up for the next election and should be talking about how we are educating children

John McTernan
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
29 November 2024

Rijksmuseum launches AI tool to help make connections in 800,000-strong collection

The “art explorer” project allows the Dutch museum's vast holdings to be more searchable

Senay Boztas
16 June 2022

Ai Weiwei’s cage sculpture in Stockholm takes on new meaning following war in Ukraine

Work is a “warning and reminder” that world will see more humanitarian crises

Gareth Harris
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
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
2 January 2025

From AI growing pains to influencer power: five social media trends shaping the art world in 2025

Digital consultant Haydn Corrodus shares his predictions, highlighting meme culture and viral trends

Aimee Dawson
18 May 2023

Pioneering AI artist wins inaugural $100,000 award from New York's Guggenheim and LG

Stephanie Dinkins wins prize that celebrates excellence in works at the intersection of art and technology

Torey Akers
20 June 2018

Trevor Paglen lets you view the world as the machines see it

Ahead of his retrospective at Washington, DC's Smithsonian American Art Museum, the artist discusses his interest in the social and political implications of technologies, including mass surveillance systems and artificial intelligence

Helen Stoilas
17 April 2024

Artificial intelligence takes a deep dive in new Venice show

Josèfa Ntjam‘s exhibition depicts a fantasy world inhabited by AI-created creatures that recalls both the deep ocean and outer space

Alexander Morrison
22 October 2018

Who needs artists? Rise in works made by artificial intelligence raises real questions for the art market

A new portrait produced by an algorithm, expected to sell for around $10,000 at Christie’s this month, prompts new debates over authorship

Anny Shaw
3 March 2025

By ‘giving space’ to generative AI, Hollywood director Bennett Miller is creating mysterious and surreal images

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

Louis Jebb
22 September 2025

Ai Weiwei: ‘Nothing scares me anymore—being terrified does not help’

The Beijing-born artist and activist has recently spent time near the front line in Ukraine and is unveiling a major new commission in Kyiv—a large-scale installation responding to armed conflict—as well as a site-specific intervention made from Lego on a Ukrainian train

Gareth Harris
17 September 2018

Josh Roth, Hollywood deal-maker who was the head of UTA's fine arts division, has died, aged 40

His death comes just weeks after the opening of the agency's new gallery in Beverly Hills, designed by the artist Ai Weiwei

Jori Finkel
31 October 2020

Halloween with Ai Weiwei: artist's new film screens in Piccadilly Circus and online tonight

The Chinese dissident artist is stopping the regular advertisements in the famous square for an hour

Louisa Buck
12 May 2020

Ai Weiwei will address the Rohingya refugee crisis in a forthcoming documentary

The Chinese dissident artist and director of Human Flow is also currently filming a new documentary about the coronavirus pandemic

Gabriella Angeleti
22 May 2025

Football great Lionel Messi chooses favourite goal for Refik Anadol to transform into an AI portrait for charity

Anadol will reimagine the Argentine megastar’s famous 2009 header as a data sculpture which will be sold at Christie’s

Louis Jebb
7 March 2018

Ai Weiwei: 'I'm impressed Qatar wants my show about refugees'

The dissident Chinese artist on why he's tackling the global refugee crisis in his first exhibition in the Gulf

Aimee Dawson
10 July 2025

New York City art schools see surge in Gen Z applications

As economic uncertainty looms, young people are bucking former trends and betting on creativity

Torey Akers
4 July 2025

Art’s new hybrid economy: who is making creative waves in a sector where analogue and digital media exist together?

Practitioners such as Simon Denny, Chris Dorland, Sara Ludy and Jenna Basso Pietrobon are doing thought-provoking, transmedia work while being offline and online simultaneously

Alex Estorick
27 April 2015

Just because you’re paranoid doesn't mean they aren’t after you

The Art Newspaper
27 May 2025

Tracey Emin and Ai Weiwei pay tribute to BBC broadcaster Alan Yentob

BBC executive, who has died aged 78, profiled artists in his Arena and Imagine series

Gareth Harris
23 September 2021

‘Artists aren't able to defend human values anymore’: Ai Weiwei on how the art market is king and why Western museums are courting China

The Chinese artist will unveil a new work this week at the Southbank Centre for the English PEN 100 festival championing freedom of expression

José da Silva
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