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Art & AI
27 September 2025

Contemporary Istanbul fair director urges Turkish art to remain 'radical and clever' in face of political tension

The 20th edition of the fair brings together 51 galleries from 16 countries

Payal Uttam
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
19 September 2025

Picasso or Bitcoin? How art’s status is changing among the super-rich

The art market is failing to attract the highest spenders, whose sights are set on other investments as the trade plateaus

Scott Reyburn
19 September 2025

Talking point: visitors to Versailles can now meet the AI Apollo

An new app allows visitors to ‘speak’ with 20 statues in three languages

The Art Newspaper
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
11 September 2025

Pop-up Giphy Gallery makes the case for GIFs as fine art

A partnership between Giphy and the Museum of Modern GIFs has birthed a new way to look at the short-form animated image files we all use to punctuate text exchanges

Torey Akers
9 September 2025

Christie’s shuts down pioneering digital art department

With the NFT market still a fraction of its recent heights, the auction house has reportedly let go of key staffers

Vittoria Benzine
5 September 2025

The Armory Show jumpstarts New York art market after summer of hand-wringing

The fair is unfolding amid market jitters and following a string of gallery closures, but dealers were upbeat and reporting solid sales during the VIP preview

Carlie Porterfield
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
2 September 2025

New York's digital art gallery reboot

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

Annabel Keenan
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
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
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
10 February 2025

Thousands call on Christie’s to cancel AI art auction in open letter

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

Carlie Porterfield
26 November 2024

Elon Musk serves up disconcerting AI art

The controversial billionaire failed to spot a contemporary car in Caillebotte picture altered using artificial intelligence by Luma

The Art Newspaper
30 September 2015

Ai Weiwei to write art history of China

Javier Pes
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
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
27 September 2023

Artists, writers, performers and their advocates call on US Congress to ban companies from copyrighting AI-generated art

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

Daniel Grant
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
7 February 2025

Christie’s staging auction made up entirely of AI art

The Augmented Intelligence sale is the first of its kind to be held at a major auction house

Carlie Porterfield
1 September 2023

What the latest US court ruling means for AI-generated art’s copyright status

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

Sarp Kerem Yavuz
23 December 2024

AI to Z: an art & tech alphabet for 2024

The art, artists and awards that pushed boundaries this year

Louis Jebb
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
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
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
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
26 September 2024

Barbed art critic Brian Sewell is back—in AI form

The late writer known for his poison pen will make an appearance in a new London magazine

The Art Newspaper
5 May 2023

New US copyright rules protect only AI art with ‘human authorship’

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

Daniel Grant
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
5 March 2025

Christie's AI art auction outpaces expectations, bringing in more than $728,000

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

Anna Brady
7 December 2023

Art history meets Lego in two of Ai Weiwei’s latest works

Chinese artist recreates two famous historic paintings using the hundreds of thousands of Lego bricks

Alexander Morrison
31 August 2015

Emerging from Ai Weiwei’s shadow: China’s new art

As the Royal Academy hosts a major show of China’s best-known artist, the curators of a forthcoming exhibition of new commissions by Chinese artists argue that the latest art from the country is increasingly global in form and outlook<br>

Wenny Teo and Ella Liao
25 December 2018

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

The Art Newspaper
28 March 2023

AI and art: how recent court cases are stretching copyright principles

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

Hetty Gleave and Eddie Powell
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
26 December 2024

The art of the algorithm: new magazine dedicated to AI artworks launches

Biannual publication spotlights 'visual experiments and conceptually refined pieces'

Gareth Harris
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
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
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
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
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
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
15 September 2022

Ai Weiwei and museum architects Sanaa win £100,000 Praemium Imperiale art prizes

The annual award, under the patronage of Japan’s Imperial Family, spans five categories including painting, sculpture and architecture

Gareth Harris
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
20 April 2015

Ai Weiwei boosts value of art fund by 5% in 2014

Tiroche DeLeon collection focuses on works from developing countries<br>

Melanie Gerlis
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
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
25 November 2019

Public Art Fund adds four new members to its board, including artist Ai Weiwei

Ellen Celli, Andrea Krantz, and Ruthard Murphy also join the nonprofit to help bring more free arts programming to New York City

Zachary Small
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
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
17 March 2023

Stick 'em up! Ai Weiwei invites you to give the middle finger in new online art project

So far targets on the platform developed in collaboration with Avant Arte have included landmarks, political buildings and even artworks

Gareth Harris
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
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
11 January 2023

Artist Ai Weiwei reads Dalai Lama's new letter to the world: 'The Art of Hope'

The video and message are part of the digital art platform Circa's new art commissions for public screens and billboards around the world

The Art Newspaper
1 October 2021

The AI-powered app that claims to instantly price a work of art—we tried it out at Art Basel

Limna valued a painting by Conny Maier at a third of the ticket price

Tom Seymour and Catherine Hickley
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
13 June 2023

Cindy Sherman on AI experiments, lockdown pottery and being a woman in today's art market

Artist has created new body of work for solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in Zurich

Anny Shaw
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
9 October 2023

Trigger warning! Museum of Censored Art in Barcelona to display banned works by Ai Weiwei and Goya

Museu de l’Art Prohibit is founded by the Catalan businessman Tatxo Benet

Gareth Harris
7 December 2021

December Book Bag: Ai Weiwei spills the beans, a short history of Black British art and all of Leon Kossoff’s paintings

Our roundup of the latest art publications

Gareth Harris
3 December 2024

Artist being electrocuted to show the sinister implications of AI among highlights of the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 11

The work by Kawita Vatanajyankur and Pat Pataranutaporn was acquired by the Queensland Art Gallery, where the sprawling exhibition is being held

Elizabeth Fortescue
24 September 2020

New public art project in London will show works by Ai Weiwei and Eddie Peake on Europe's largest billboard

The digital art platform CIRCA will commission a new artist every month to create a work that reflects on the year 2020

Louisa Buck
1 September 2020

Ai Weiwei: If you do not question Chinese power, you are complicit with it—that goes for art organisations too

Dissident artist says that European museums in China are betraying their own values

Cristina Ruiz
28 May 2020

Three artist-led initiatives that are chronicling the coronavirus experience

From printed masks made by Ai Weiwei to art historical masterpieces recreated at home

José da Silva, Gareth Harris and Gabriella Angeleti
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
10 April 2025

‘We tried to train it like it was a kid in art school’: artist David Salle on using an AI model to enhance his painting practice

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

Louis Jebb
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
24 October 2024

Artists Amoako Boafo, Hans Haacke and Deborah Butterfield among thousands to sign statement against AI content scraping

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

Torey Akers
23 March 2022

Ceramics are central to humanity. To dismiss them as 'decorative' is absurd

Artists from Magdalene Odundo to Ai Weiwei are demonstrating that the art form goes way beyond the "applied"

Ben Luke
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
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
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
7 March 2025

Censorship and Australia’s Venice Biennale pavilion, a controversial AI auction, and Elizabeth Catlett in Washington—podcast

What might the fallout be after Creative Australia’s unpopular decision to cancel Khaled Sabsabi’s project? Plus, AI art beyond this week’s open letter and a chat about Catlett’s terracotta sculpture ‘Tired’

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack, Julia Michalska and Alexander Morrison
31 May 2024

The Week in Art podcast | Art’s AI reckoning, the rise of comic art and Degas’ Miss La La

Why the art world must tackle the questions posed by artificial intelligence head on, plus comics celebrated in two European locations and Degas’ portrait of the circus artist Anna Albertine Olga Brown

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack, Julia Michalska and Alexander Morrison
30 March 2016

Historic Chinese water village rivals Beijing and Shanghai as new art destination

Inaugural Art Wuzhen features works by Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing, Marina Abramovic and Damien Hirst but Ann Hamilton steals the show in old-style theatre

Lisa Movius
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
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
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
31 October 2023

Judge dismisses most of artists’ copyright lawsuit against AI image generators

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

Carlie Porterfield
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
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
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
21 February 2020

Artists explore the dark side of AI in Silicon Valley's backyard

The exhibition of 13 artists, at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, will include works about automation and machine bias

Federico Florian
25 April 2019

Ai Weiwei denies his porcelain works borrow from Lebanese artist's prize-winning vases

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

Aimee Dawson
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
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 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
4 January 2024

Leaked: the names of more than 16,000 non-consenting artists allegedly used to train Midjourney’s AI

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

Theo Belci
6 November 2023

Artist and AI pioneers use DeepDream to create ‘hallucinatory’ depictions of landscapes by Capability Brown

Daniel Ambrosi used Google's AI to reimagine high-res photographs of parkland designed by the 18th-century landscape architect

Louis Jebb
11 March 2024

A definite Dürer? AI research says German artist 82% likely to have painted portrait of peasant woman

A European private collection asked the Swiss company Art Recognition to authenticate the piece

Gareth Harris
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
13 June 2023

Artist Refik Anadol brings climate crisis to a scorching Basel with AI-generated glacier installation

Glacier Dreams is being projected on the façade of Theater Basel this week

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
30 July 2018

West Coast wave of Ai Weiwei shows puts Chinese artist in Los Angeles spotlight

Activist launches Jeffrey Deitch’s new Hollywood gallery and will show works with talent agency UTA

Gareth Harris
27 May 2020

AI you ready for this? Bucharest Biennale to be curated by artificial intelligence called Jarvis

The 2022 edition will exist in virtual reality and use data harvested from universities, galleries and art centres to select artists

José da Silva
12 September 2015

Shanghai Art Week events find strength in numbers

Standout works include an installation by Ai Weiwei, one of the first at a Chinese fair since the government lifted a ban on his art

Lisa Movius
28 March 2025

From artisans to AI: London exhibition explores the legacy of William Morris

A show in Walthamstow examines the influence of the British artist, designer and political activist through a plethora of objects—many donated by the public

Alexander Morrison
16 July 2019

New US visa policy could stifle outspoken artists on social media

Several high-profile artists including Ai Weiwei have spoken out against the policy

Aimee Dawson
16 December 2024

The artist bringing Van Gogh's paintings to life—without the use of AI

Andrey Zakirzyanov’s video animations of famous paintings are drawing in millions of views on across social media

Aimee Dawson
23 September 2019

Leading online database to remove 600,000 images after art project reveals its racist bias

Artist Trevor Paglen and AI researcher Kate Crawford have investigated the troubling ways in which ImageNet classifies people

Cristina Ruiz
10 May 2024

DeviantArt and Midjourney deny wrongdoing in copyright infringement lawsuit over in AI image generators

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

Torey Akers
3 July 2023

AI helps artist think outside the frame

Kody Young fills in the blanks for Leonardo, Hopper and Botticelli

The Art Newspaper
30 April 2021

Indian museum brings artist M F Husain back from the dead using AI

Visitors to the Museum of Art and Photography in Bangalore can pose questions to a "digital twin" of the late Bombay Progressive Group painter

Kabir Jhala
27 October 2020

Ai Weiwei, Anish Kapoor and John Akomfrah among artists condemning Thai state violence against democracy protestors

Almost half of the artists participating in the Bangkok Art Biennale opening this week have expressed "support for the struggle for democracy"

Lisa Movius
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
15 August 2024

US artists score victory in landmark AI copyright case

A federal judge in California has blocked an attempt by several AI companies to have portions of a copyright case dismissed

Torey Akers
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
13 May 2015

Smashing works to feature in Art Basel’s Unlimited

Ai Weiwei, David Shrigley and Kader Attia amongst 74 artists taking part this year

José da Silva
19 October 2016

Peripatetic curator Hans Ulrich Obrist tops ArtReview's 2016 Power 100 list

Three artists—Hito Steyerl, Wolfgang Tillmans and Ai Weiwei—are in the top ten this year

Pac Pobric
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