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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
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
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
13 November 2025

In a risk-averse market, Paris Photo offers diversity

Japanese galleries return in full force this year, while the percentage of women photographers shown has increased

Tom Seymour
13 November 2025

K11 founder Adrian Cheng on Hong Kong’s art scene, the future of collecting and the creative potential of AI

The Hong Kong entrepreneur also spoke about his love for Monet, Matthew Wong and the Medici family in an interview hosted off the back of the latest K11 Art Foundation Salon

Louis Jebb
11 November 2025

World Economic Forum and J. Paul Getty Trust bring art world leaders together to find ‘Connection in Times of Division’

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

Louis Jebb
30 October 2025

In London, hotels are where the art is

From Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst, London's finest establishments are packed with breathtaking works

Claire Wrathall
24 October 2025

What does winning an arts prize really mean?

Sparkly accolades punctuate the art world calendar and are honey pots for museums and artists alike

Philippa Kelly
20 October 2025

Artists should receive retrospective payments for works used to train AI, arts organisations say

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

Joe Ware
6 October 2025

Aichi Triennale confronts war, memory and environmental collapse

The opening festivities for the exhibition’s timely sixth edition were marked by protests over local ties to Israel

Carlie Porterfield
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
28 February 2023

'AI will become the new normal’: how the art world's technological boom is changing the industry

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

Gareth Harris
22 May 2024

The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Index Report: what is it and why does it matter?

Louis Jebb
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
25 December 2018

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

The Art Newspaper
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
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
27 April 2015

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

The Art Newspaper
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
14 August 2025

More than 200 geoglyphs discovered in Nazca Desert with help of AI

The newly found Nazca Lines include depictions of human sacrifice and a priest carrying a human head

Maria Luisa del Río
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
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
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
16 July 2025

Artists give cultural relevance and nuance to technological advances, new British Council report reveals

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

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
12 February 2025

New heritage body will use AI tools to help protect key sites from war and environmental crises

HeritageWatch.AI aims to provide real-time data, based on analysis of satellite imagery, to plan and deploy effective disaster management

Louis Jebb
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
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 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
8 December 2023

American Second World War museum uses AI to tell veterans’ stories

As the generation that served in the war ages, an experiential museum in New Orleans seeks to keep their voices alive

Allison C. Meier
7 December 2023

Inaugural $100,000 Sfer Ik Award will support creation of AI-powered habitat for bats

The winning artist, Antoine Bertin, will develop "The Bat Cloud" during a two-month residency in the Mayan jungle

Benjamin Sutton
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
17 January 2025

How the World Economic Forum is offering a global stage for collaboration between art and technology

With a focus on melting ice caps, Joseph Fowler, the World Economic Forum’s head of arts and culture, completes an environmental trilogy of opening concerts at the forum's annual meeting in Davos

Louis Jebb
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
1 December 2024

Can AI shed new light on how much of The Polish Rider was painted by Rembrandt?

One of the jewels of the Frick Collection in New York has been analysed using Art Recognition’s Artificial Intelligence model

Noah Charney
1 July 2024

UK general election: can artists show the way for policymakers to enable a new digital economy?

With lessons learnt from NFTs, expert calls for legal guardrails to allow “trinity” of blockchain, responsible AI and smart contracts to launch an “automated economy”

Alex Estorick
26 February 2024

Harold Cohen's pioneering AI works provide essential context for conversations about generative art

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

Sarp Kerem Yavuz
4 January 2022

Researchers train AI to attribute paintings based on detailed brushstroke analysis

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

Benjamin Sutton
31 March 2013

Warning over Qatar’s human rights record

UK museums’ close ties questioned after poet imprisoned for 15 years

Cristina Ruiz
17 January 2025

Sougwen Chung: meet the boundary-pushing pioneer of robot art

The Chinese Canadian artist is presenting a new kinetic work as part of the arts and culture programme at the 2025 World Economic Forum

Louis Jebb
10 December 2024

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

Louis Jebb
9 October 2024

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

Chris Michaels
17 February 2021

After more than two decades together, artist duo Broomberg and Chanarin commit 'creative suicide'

A "posthumous retrospective" in Barcelona will divide their joint estate

Louisa Buck
16 July 2024

In Guggenheim exhibition, Jenny Holzer grapples with the post-internet world she helped inspire

A lacklustre show begs the question: can Holzer survive the scrutiny that her institutional exaltation invites in 2024?

Sarp Kerem Yavuz
15 February 2022

Inaugural Hawaii Triennial considers social activism, climate change and the Westernisation of Asia-Pacific

The exhibition, which began as a biennial, has been curated by Melissa Chiu, Miwako Tezuka and Drew Kahu‘āina Broderick

Gabriella Angeleti
1 November 2023

Public art tribute planned for codebreaker Alan Turing as AI summit opens in the UK

Funding for the selected work will come from the government's Town Fund, designed to level up regions outside London

Gareth Harris
6 September 2023

The market for photography is on a roll

The launch of Photofairs New York during Armory Week reflects a resurgent market for photographs and related media

Alexandra Bregman
1 September 2020

Museums grapple with ethics of China projects

Institutions including the Tate, V&A and Pompidou are forging partnerships with the country despite terrible human rights abuses

Cristina Ruiz
9 November 2021

Art Basel in Miami Beach to host first 'interactive' NFT exhibition in new collaboration with blockchain Tezos

Show will be accompanied by a talks programme at the Florida fair next month, while visitors will be able to create an AI “generative self-portrait" which they can mint as a takeaway NFT

Daniel Cassady
9 March 2020

Coronavirus in Italy: Ai Weiwei criticised for 'insensitive' pasta meme and Raphael blockbuster closes

An emergency decree means that all museums in the country are on lock down until 3 April

Gareth Harris
9 August 2024

What if women ruled the world? The Art Newspaper takes part in summer celebration of Judy Chicago at the Serpentine

The London art world came out in force to celebrate the American visionary's exhibition “Revelations” and to enjoy a tech-powered interaction with her quest to create a world where power is equally shared

The Art Newspaper
8 March 2022

Can slime mould grow into artificial intelligence? Centre Pompidou show considers interactions between human and non-human entities

Group exhibition is the fifth in the Paris museum's Mutations/Creations series

Ben Luke
11 September 2020

Reap what we sow: Trevor Paglen’s new flower works take an allegorical view of AI

Created during quarantine, the artist’s Bloom series is about the fragility of life, and how computer systems interpret the complexity of humanity

Tom Seymour
12 June 2024

Digital deluge: how will Art Basel respond to a surge of digital-art initiatives in Switzerland?

The country is flexing its crypto-friendly credentials, while an art fair dedicated to all things digital is making its debut this week

Aimee Dawson
30 May 2024

More than 600 artefacts worth a total of €60m are repatriated to Italy from the US

Italian authorities are using artificial intelligence to identify works of art up for sale that may have been stolen or trafficked

Carlie Porterfield
6 August 2020

Out of respect for Beirut, huge Hiroshima memorial work moved from Piccadilly Circus

Louisa Buck
13 September 2019

Three exhibitions to see during Berlin Art Week

From an artist occupation in an abandoned building to Ai Weiwei's return to his roots

Catherine Hickley
7 March 2022

Collector Budi Tek donates contemporary Chinese works to Lacma, including Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Heads

The seven pieces, the first Tek has donated since forming a partnership with the Los Angeles institution in 2018, are featured in a current exhibition

Scarlet Cheng
24 July 2025

AI portrait of footballer Lionel Messi's favourite goal raises $1.87m for charity

Refik Anadol's re-imagination of the Argentine star’s 2009 header sold in an online auction at Christie's New York

Louis Jebb
28 September 2018

Deutsche Bank opens Berlin palace fit for its vast art collection

The Palais Populaire will be a permanent exhibition space for the bank's 55,000 works

Catherine Hickley
12 August 2021

Initiative to support Indigenous artists announces inaugural residencies and grants

The artist Sky Hopinka and three recipients will receive $25,000 and residencies at an Ai Weiwei-designed home in upstate New York

Gabriella Angeleti
18 October 2024

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

Louis Jebb
4 January 2024

Fairs, auction houses and AI: five predictions for the art market in 2024

Will Patrick Drahi sell a stake in Sotheby’s? Will Frieze acquire more regional fairs? Watch this space…

Tim Schneider
25 April 2018

From royal blue to Yves Klein blue: Blenheim Palace to host show of Modern master

Body paintings and sponge sculptures in artist’s signature ultramarine blue will fill rooms of stately home this summer

Gareth Harris
11 December 2015

The Art Newspaper's 12 best Christmas gifts

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

Hannah McGivern, Aimee Dawson, José da Silva, Julia Michalska, Melanie Gerlis and Katherine Hardy
7 April 2022

Flamenco, floating stages and a Stravinsky revival: programme for Venice's 2022 dance biennial revealed

Biennale Danza director Wayne McGregor has given the 16th international festival of contemporary dance the title of "Boundary-less" to reflect the current state of global flux

Louisa Buck
14 December 2021

Miami NFT artist Refik Anadol looks to Nasa for new UK experiential art show

The Reel Store in Coventry is the UK’s first permanent immersive digital art gallery

Gareth Harris
16 September 2024

How tech is powering the art market’s expansion into luxury, finance and science

Three years on from the NFT explosion, growth in new markets continues

Alex Estorick
28 January 2024

Going big: digital artists who show on a grand scale at immersive institutions

The rise of huge immersive venues, with giant, wraparound programmable LED screens, has provided a new canvas, and potential new audience, for digital artists. We look at four of the main players, from widely varied backgrounds

Louis Jebb
25 March 2024

Hong Kong arts hub West Kowloon Cultural District opens summit with raft of global agreements

Digital challenges and the social and economic changes sparked by cultural transformation are among issues aired

Gareth Harris
5 May 2020

'Born digital': the stalwart institutions that have been producing online art since long before Covid-19

As museums rush to upload online content during lockdown, we speak to some of the people who have been championing innovative digital work for years

José da Silva
3 March 2023

Art Dub-AI: artificial intelligence is latest buzzword at fair

The event's 16th edition has an expanded digital section—here’s what sold so far

Aimee Dawson
13 August 2025

A brush with... Natalie Kane, curator of digital design, Victoria and Albert Museum

The curator’s cultural life—from James Turrell’s comfortable immersive orbs to Laura Carreira’s film On Falling

Ben Luke
29 March 2019

Shortlist for inaugural Sigg Prize announced

Six artists in line for Uli Sigg’s $64,000 Chinese contemporary art prize

Julia Michalska
24 September 2024

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

Louis Jebb
20 November 2023

Can location-specific digital technologies help to resolve debates on restitution?

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

Aimee Dawson
31 January 2024

London's newest gallery seeks to combat a market obsessed with painting

The pair behind Palmer Gallery hope to be a “spiritual successor” to neighbouring Lisson Gallery by showing works that might struggle to get a commercial platform

Alexander Morrison
18 July 2022

What is generative art and why does it matter?

As Phillips presents the first ever auction dedicated to the medium, we consider what it is and how it is curated

Gretchen Andrew
15 June 2016

Design Miami branches out in Basel by doubling its cutting-edge Design Curio section

Thought the fair was all about French Modernism? Director Rodman Primack wants you to think again

Hannah McGivern
25 February 2020

New digital art fair in Paris hopes to attract tech tycoons

Cadaf Paris claims to be Europe's only fair dedicated to new media and will coincide with Vivatech conference in June

Anna Brady
31 May 2017

Norman Foster unites his archives and art under one roof

Cristina Iglesias’s sculptural canopy joins Henry Moore reclining figure in Madrid

By Javier Pes
27 March 2025

Fra Angelico Deposition altarpiece back on display in Florence after transformative two-year restoration

The work has resumed its place at the Museo di San Marco after conservation work that has brought the Italian Renaissance artist’s masterly skill with colour and form to the fore

Alexander Morrison
7 May 2025

‘It’s a dream vessel for me’: Defne Ayas appointed new director of the Van Abbemuseum

Ayas replaces Charles Esche, who has been in post for two decades, taking the reins ahead of the museum’s 90th anniversary in 2026

Gareth Harris
5 May 2020

Game on: artists turn to the virtual world of video games during the pandemic

As lockdown continues, video games are proving to be ripe territory for artists and budding curators to experiment (and play)

Helen Stoilas
10 October 2019

Bubbling pools and animatronic snakes in Pierre Huyghe's Okayama Art Summit

Second edition of the Japanese triennial includes works by 18 artists that interact and overlap with each other

Osman Can Yerebakan
22 January 2021

Fragile yet forceful glass works by Ai Weiwei, Fred Wilson, Fiona Banner and others travel from Venice to Florida

An exhibition of contemporary glass art opens at the Boca Raton Museum of Art

Karen Chernick
6 November 2020

Three outdoor exhibitions to see in London this weekend

From empathetic documentary photography in King's Cross to Cauleen Smith's Covid Diary broadcast at Piccadilly Circus Lights

Kabir Jhala
27 March 2025

‘Brain’ of late composer lives on in show at the Art Gallery of Western Australia

Team led by neuroscientist used stem cells originating from Alvin Lucier's blood to create sound installation

Elizabeth Fortescue
1 March 2009

Lady Foster opens gallery and bookshop in Madrid

A former garage becomes an art space, as the Ivory Press publisher inaugurates building designed by her husband

Cristina Carrillo
31 August 2012

The world after Warhol: MoMA exhibition tracks the Pop artist's influence

They hope to back up their bold claim that Warhol "had the greatest impact of any artist in the past 50 years"

Eric Magnuson
5 September 2022

Rachel Whiteread and Roger Hiorns shortlisted for major new UK land art project

The Deep Time initiative on West Cumbria coastline also includes works by Susan Philipsz and Ryan Gander

Gareth Harris
9 January 2025

The art world according to Marc Spiegler: former Art Basel boss launches online course

In collaboration with the events platform Art Market Minds, the ten-hour programme will dissect the rapidly shifting contemporary art ecosystem

Kabir Jhala
17 April 2025

SXSW London's exhibitions line-up puts emphasis on art and technology and artists from London’s Caribbean diaspora

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

Louis Jebb
24 April 2024

Forge Project art space in Upstate New York transitions into a non-profit

The Indigenous social-justice art initiative has transferred ownership as part of an organisational restructuring

Carlie Porterfield
18 May 2021

Art Basel in Hong Kong: fair still on track to open amid calls to boycott city and tough coronavirus restrictions

Exhibitors are down from 242 to 104 in a condensed fair that runs alongside Art Central in the same venue from 21 to 23 May

Lisa Movius
14 January 2020

Korean wave hits the art world: K-pop stars collaborate on major artist projects

Connect BTS will take place across five cities and involve commissions by artists such as Antony Gormley and Tomás Saraceno

Kabir Jhala
11 August 2025

‘You’re so close you can see how their toes grip the floor’: Wayne McGregor on his radical new immersive dance experience

The work, which is travelling to London’s Somerset House in October, comprises a panoramic installation featuring a 12k LED, 26-million-pixel screen

Ben Luke
5 October 2018

Artists’ battle for refugees is beginning to pay off

Amid the din of cynical populists the voices of these fragile communities are needed more than ever

Ben Luke
8 November 2024

Prague to get new museum dedicated to Alphonse Mucha

The institution will be housed in the Savarin Palace, close to the city’s historic Old Town Square

Richard Unwin
12 November 2020

Holiday gift guide 2020: artworks for every budget

From a £14.95 Fuck You 2020 bauble by Jeremy Deller to a £125,000 woodcut by Edvard Munch, we've assembled some our favourite arty stocking fillers

The Art Newspaper
17 September 2020

Lisson, Sadie Coles HQ and Stephen Friedman to open (temporarily) on London's Cork Street during Frieze week

In lieu of an October fair, the blue-chip galleries will congregate around the Mayfair street during what would—under normal circumstances—be the London art market's busiest month

Kabir Jhala
1 September 2020

European museums defend their partnerships in China

As China faces growing criticism over its detention of Uyghers and crackdown in Hong Kong, Tate, V&A and the Pompidou explain why it is important to continue working in the country

Statements from Tate, V&A and Centre Centre Pompidou
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