Nederlands Fotomuseum has appointed a new director ahead of reopening in a former coffee warehouse on 7 February
With shortened attention spans and constant technological distractions, some museums are getting rid of labels altogether
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
After government shutdown and firing of organising committee leader, plans for shows and events advance
In a year of turbulence and uncertainty, new museums and dazzling shows were proof of art as a positive force
A group of business leaders, cultural figures, innovators, and curators, and institutional leaders met in Paris in October to discuss the health benefits and political soft power of art and culture
A new behind-the-scenes documentary shows how the Chinese dissident artist brought his signature stylings to Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Turandot’
The opening festivities for the exhibition’s timely sixth edition were marked by protests over local ties to Israel
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
The Norval AI tool is being used to determine the authenticity of works alleged to by the Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau
The opening of the NFT platform SuperRare’s physical space and Heft Gallery, both on the Lower East Side, signal growing collector interest and institutional acceptance
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”
Chinese artist recreates two famous historic paintings using the hundreds of thousands of Lego bricks
Our roundup of the latest art publications
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
Plus, the AI photography scandal at the Sony World Photography Awards
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
Artificial intelligence art projects are popping up everywhere, forcing difficult questions around artist agency, copyright and market value
Ai Weiwei has created a new work for Warsaw that will be invisible to the public
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
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
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
Biannual publication spotlights 'visual experiments and conceptually refined pieces'
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
Design Museum exhibition brings together more than a million pieces collected by the artist including spouts and Stone Age tools
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
The Canadian-Korean creative works with light and sound to create Zen for the digital age
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
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
'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
Artist surprised after four exhibitions are allowed to open in Beijing—but international travel is still off-limits
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
Even the science-themed PST Art exhibitions, opening in Los Angeles in September, avoid the tech revolutions of our day
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
‘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
The dissident artist has created the one of the world's largest suspended Murano glass artworks
Chinese artist’s biggest exhibition to date uses porcelain as a way of bridging Turkey’s historic connections with the East
The Chinese activist, detained in 2011, has visited prisons across the country
For his third artwork presented at Davos 2025, the artist uses artificial intelligence to highlight the devastating impact of climate change
Several high-profile artists including Ai Weiwei have spoken out against the policy
Digital consultant Haydn Corrodus shares his predictions, highlighting meme culture and viral trends
New applications for artificial intelligence can help researchers identify millennia-old rock art more easily
A new portrait produced by an algorithm, expected to sell for around $10,000 at Christie’s this month, prompts new debates over authorship
One of the jewels of the Frick Collection in New York has been analysed using Art Recognition’s Artificial Intelligence model
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
A project led by scientists at Case Western Reserve University uses machine learning to identify a distinctive ‘fingerprint’ in each artist’s way of applying paint
As economic uncertainty looms, young people are bucking former trends and betting on creativity
Anadol will reimagine the Argentine megastar’s famous 2009 header as a data sculpture which will be sold at Christie’s
The launch of Photofairs New York during Armory Week reflects a resurgent market for photographs and related media
The UK Labour Party is gearing up for the next election and should be talking about how we are educating children
The winning artist, Antoine Bertin, will develop "The Bat Cloud" during a two-month residency in the Mayan jungle
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
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
The artist was 'shocked and surprised' after 'Porcelain Cube' was destroyed by a man at Palazzo Fava in Bologna
This US television series offers insights into the history and practice of artists from Marina Abramovic to Ai Weiwei
A lacklustre show begs the question: can Holzer survive the scrutiny that her institutional exaltation invites in 2024?
Created during quarantine, the artist’s Bloom series is about the fragility of life, and how computer systems interpret the complexity of humanity
Multi-millionaire collector lures director away from Amsterdam to lead contemporary art space
New Yuz Museum will be located in a 8,000 sq m. building with plans to swiftly expand
From Manhattan to Beijing, with 30 years in between, Scully writes about his pupil
The country is flexing its crypto-friendly credentials, while an art fair dedicated to all things digital is making its debut this week
From Rashaad Newsome at the Park Avenue Armory to Hans Holbein at the Morgan Library and Museum
The artist talks about his refugee-orientated show in Hong Kong—and his plans for South America
Collecting power couple and honorary alumni Peter and Paula Lunder’s gift will launch a new research centre for American art
New art and design fair in the Chinese boom town of Shenzhen launched by organisers of Art021 in Shanghai and JingArt in Beijing
Boca Raton Museum of Art exhibition explores the evolution of illusion through a contemporary lens
From an artist occupation in an abandoned building to Ai Weiwei's return to his roots
A host of artists and activists have followed in the footsteps of the pioneering artist who would have turned 100 this year
As Phillips presents the first ever auction dedicated to the medium, we consider what it is and how it is curated
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
Digital challenges and the social and economic changes sparked by cultural transformation are among issues aired
UK artist says exhibition at Blenheim Palace is a timely opportunity to examine the country's current tumult
Goldsmiths graduate will draw inspiration from the 18th-century UK stately home
Fireworks by the Chinese artist ran counter to the point of many PST Art projects
A "posthumous retrospective" in Barcelona will divide their joint estate
Institutions including the Tate, V&A and Pompidou are forging partnerships with the country despite terrible human rights abuses
The bursaries support Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students on postgraduate courses in the arts at Goldsmiths
The written descriptions of works of art are more than just labels—they are a record of evolving cultural understanding, writes Curationist's Amanda Figueroa
David Hockney was latest white male artist to set a record this year
As we enter the final weeks of the season, check out these riveting reads, from “the best novel about painting” to a book with no words at all
As The Art Newspaper marks its 25th anniversary, the optimistic world of 1989 has given way to a more troubled age
Ahead of the Biennale's closing week, we highlight the talking-point exhibitions and events that there's still time to catch
The show, which was met with protest before it even opened, packs a punch
Kang Sunkoo’s bronze Statue of Limitations shows a black flag at half-mast
The promised gift from Walther and the Walther Family Foundation includes photographs, albums and time-based works by artists including Malick Sibidé, Ai Weiwei, Thomas Struth, Stephen Shore and others
Scholarly assessment is greatly hampered by the lack of detail on where and how the objects were acquired
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Exhibition’s opening night was packed with luminaries from the Chinese art world
Refik Anadol's re-imagination of the Argentine star’s 2009 header sold in an online auction at Christie's New York
History repeats for avant-garde Beijing artists reflecting on groundbreaking exhibition and protests in 1979
Jean Nouvel-designed museum opens in Doha with multi-sensory history galleries and contemporary art and film commissions
Many believe new applications—from AI and NFTs to 3D scanning—are game changing in returning objects to source communities. Lawyers say they can make the process harder
After postponing for more than a year, the museum’s second location celebrates with a debaucherous Halloween party
Andrey Zakirzyanov’s video animations of famous paintings are drawing in millions of views on across social media
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
Amid threats to freedom, career moves and censorship become hard to tell apart
The former head of the Serpentine will take over as senior global director of the commercial gallery in September
Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why
Philip B. Lind left the Toronto museum a trove of works by Stan Douglas, Jeff Wall, Ai Weiwei, William Kentridge, Laurie Simmons and others
Sigg reveals that he didn’t necessarily like some of the contemporary art he bought
All you ever wanted to know about the subject, from the story of Carpaccio and Bellini's narrative painting to a Venice guide for little explorers—selected by the curators Annette Hojer and Christine Follmann