‘There’s so much of Scotland in them’: cuts to Edinburgh College of Art craft degrees spark backlash
The university’s decision to close its textiles, jewellery and silversmithing, and performance costume undergraduate courses has been framed as a threat to preserving some of the country’s cultural traditions
The pontiff has been outspoken in his criticisms of artificial intelligence, particularly as it relates to human creativity
The 21st edition of the fair occupied a new single-floor site at the Ottoman era shipping yard Tersane Istanbul
Titled “Mushrooms”, the work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia reflects nations’ feeble responses to crises and the artist's uncertainty about the future
In the second Gilded Age, the super-rich value luxury and collectibles over fine art
Artists Refik Anadol and Cao Fei are among the judges for the London-based Future Art Ecosystems R&D Fellowship
The Light in Durham—formerly the Durham Light Infantry Museum and Art Gallery—has reopened following £17m redevelopment
The fellowship, supported by the founders of the Klesch Collection, is looking for an early-career researcher ‘redefining how art history is studied in the age of artificial intelligence and digital technologies’
Both AI-generated art and digital art have had a tough time lately, but the 61st Venice Biennale offers the digitally-minded some work to feel good about
From the future of the Arts Council to AI, there are several complicated issues for the incoming culture secretary to tackle
According to a recent court filing, the company is adamant that Disney, Universal and Warner Bros reveal their internal use of artificial intelligence
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
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
‘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 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
The Canadian-Korean creative works with light and sound to create Zen for the digital age
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”
Ai-Da made her latest royal reveal at a UN summit in Switzerland this week
The AI Day of Action, scheduled for 2 October, comes as US officials consider whether and how to regulate material generated by 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
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
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
At Art Basel Paris, “the art world seemed to be staging a rally for art created by flesh-and-blood people”
Concerns about access, expertise and data sourcing have overshadowed the enormous power and potential that AI image generators offer
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
It is time to think about the extent to which technology itself has power over us, independent of people in tech companies
“Contemporary art project” Ai-Da gave evidence to the House of Lords, taking questions from bemused members
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
How do algorithms see and shape the world? An exhibition at Basel’s HeK explores the often uncomfortable coexistence of humanity and AI
Dataland is due to open in 2025 at the Frank Gehry-designed The Grand LA development in Los Angeles's downtown arts district
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
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'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
Ai Weiwei has created a new work for Warsaw that will be invisible to the public
German artist-researcher receives €10,000 award for “Alvinella Ophia”, depicting a hybrid serpent creature’s exploration of a dystopian desert future
A new behind-the-scenes documentary shows how the Chinese dissident artist brought his signature stylings to Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Turandot’
Charities will receive percentage of exhibition takings at Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens
After discussions, the institution voted to retain the artist as an Academician
The art, artists and awards that pushed boundaries this year
The Tulum-based art space is putting out an open call, with the winner receiving cash and a two-month residency
'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
Times of crisis have produced constructive or chaotic art strategies. With AI art in 2025, the picture is complex
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
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
Several high-profile artists including Ai Weiwei have spoken out against the policy
The country is flexing its crypto-friendly credentials, while an art fair dedicated to all things digital is making its debut this week
The UK Labour Party is gearing up for the next election and should be talking about how we are educating children
The “art explorer” project allows the Dutch museum's vast holdings to be more searchable
The groundbreaking musicians and artists see every part of their London show as a form of art
Teams produce five digital prototypes for acquainting people with images of museum objects online
Stephanie Dinkins wins prize that celebrates excellence in works at the intersection of art and technology
Chinese artist recreates harrowing scene at Israel Museum after Donald Trump visit
As artificial intelligence becomes more common, the market is embracing tools that might help to bring digital natives into the Golden Age
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
The photographer’s estate has accused the dealer James Danziger of leveraging an unauthorised AI-generated piece to push a commercial venture to colourise other artists' works
New applications for artificial intelligence can help researchers identify millennia-old rock art more easily
Josèfa Ntjam‘s exhibition depicts a fantasy world inhabited by AI-created creatures that recalls both the deep ocean and outer space
Ellen Celli, Andrea Krantz, and Ruthard Murphy also join the nonprofit to help bring more free arts programming to New York City
Plight of thousands fleeing war zones inspires creative humanitarian responses
Even the science-themed PST Art exhibitions, opening in Los Angeles in September, avoid the tech revolutions of our day
A lacklustre show begs the question: can Holzer survive the scrutiny that her institutional exaltation invites in 2024?
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
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
The artist is known for creating futuristic, interactive environments that reflect on contemporary geopolitical and socioeconomic issues
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”
The work by Kawita Vatanajyankur and Pat Pataranutaporn was acquired by the Queensland Art Gallery, where the sprawling exhibition is being held
Alex Kachkine, a PhD student at MIT, art-lover and self-taught restorer, wanted to provide conservators with another “tool in the toolbox”
GANksy aims to produce images that bear resemblance to works by the UK's most famous street artist
Animals abound in immersive exhibitions ruminating on the idea of utopia
The launch of Photofairs New York during Armory Week reflects a resurgent market for photographs and related media
Twenty-eight pieces have been purchased from collector Larry Warsh
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
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
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
The Chinese Canadian artist is presenting a new kinetic work as part of the arts and culture programme at the 2025 World Economic Forum
New art and design fair in the Chinese boom town of Shenzhen launched by organisers of Art021 in Shanghai and JingArt in Beijing
The sprawling gallery follows Faurschou’s spaces in Beijing and Copenhagen
Among those affected are the Hong Kong-based de Sarthe Gallery, which opened in Beijing in 2014, and X Gallery
The Chinese-Canadian artist explains the thinking behind the body of work she is presenting at Art Basel Hong Kong
The Palais Populaire will be a permanent exhibition space for the bank's 55,000 works
UK artist says exhibition at Blenheim Palace is a timely opportunity to examine the country's current tumult
An immersive “laboratory of imagination” from Anadol's studio boots up in Downtown Los Angeles
In an open letter started by Nan Goldin, world-renowned artists denounced the museum’s ties to the Sacklers due to the family’s role in the opioid crisis
Trustees’ £142m property deal commutes their current lease
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
The collapse of FTX has not only devastated the crypto world, but also threatened the ethics of “make money, do good”, touted by its founders
The digital art platform CIRCA will commission a new artist every month to create a work that reflects on the year 2020
Contemporary Istanbul is upping its game for its 12th edition.
Ayas replaces Charles Esche, who has been in post for two decades, taking the reins ahead of the museum’s 90th anniversary in 2026
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 late artist’s first retrospective, at a pop-up space in Manhattan, offers an idealised, futuristic take on the 21st century
Will Patrick Drahi sell a stake in Sotheby’s? Will Frieze acquire more regional fairs? Watch this space…
The donation includes works by Marcel Duchamp, Jeff Koons, Ai Weiwei and others from the collection of the late philanthropists Norah and Norman Stone
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
Website will provide a platform for contemporary artists to show—and possibly sell—works
The artist, who says his practice is “like a continuously expanding universe”, spotlights nonhuman intelligence in his exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art
A "posthumous retrospective" in Barcelona will divide their joint estate
The crypto entrepreneur spoke to The Art Newspaper about his journey into collecting, how he feels technology is transforming the art market, and more
Frameless, which will open in Marble Arch this autumn, hopes to tap into a booming industry for multi-sensory and interactive art attractions