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

The organisations, which together represent more than 100,000 visual artists, have issued a fresh call for an end to the unauthorised scraping of copyrighted visual works

Cultural and business leaders from around the world highlight the central role of artists in shaping human-centred futures at a time of rapid advances in artificial intelligence, blockchain and quantum computing

Following recent reports that Prime Minister Keir Starmer wants to dismantle the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, experts and politicians weigh up the pros and cons of such a move

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

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

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

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

The divisions within American society cannot be ignored, but let’s focus on where the country is united, and how the cultural sector can foster that unity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The lists were both partially included in a recent class-action lawsuit and accidentally shared via a public Google spreadsheet

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

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

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

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

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

Artificial intelligence art projects are popping up everywhere, forcing difficult questions around artist agency, copyright and market value

US Supreme Court justices debate whether obliging a Colorado woman to create wedding websites for same-sex couples violates her free speech rights as an artist

The Whitney Museum of American Art is spotlighting the late art and technology innovator's prescient "AARON" series

Image recognition and data scraping technology are increasingly being used by the NFT community to protect intellectual property online

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

We trawled through museum shops, galleries and bookstores to bring you the finest arty delights

How did his forecasts weather the roughest turbulence the trade has experienced in years? Read on to find out

In what looks likely to be the continuation of a declining market, we may see more litigation in the art world this year

Plus, the AI copyright debate in the US and the end of China’s museum boom

Maybe we should direct our attention less on whether these images count as photographs, and more on the moral right or wrong of how they work