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Generative art
3 February 2026

Saudi painter Safeya Binzagr outshines Picasso at Sotheby’s second sale in Diriyah

Having refined its strategy for the nascent market, the sale landed a $2.1m record for Binzagr but found less success for major Western names

Kabir Jhala
21 January 2026

Serpentine announces 25th pavilion artists—and anniversary project honouring Zaha Hadid

Mexico's Lanza atelier to design 2026 Serpentine Pavilion inspired by curved English garden walls

Gareth Harris
6 January 2026

A taster of the British Museum's Hawaii show in three objects

The curator Alice Christophe delves into the catalogue and picks out some key objects ahead of the exhibition in London

Alice Christophe. With an introduction by Gareth Harris
19 December 2025

'We can imagine alternatives to the present': Cannupa Hanska Luger on his exhibition at the Joslyn Art Museum

For his new show, the multidisciplinary artist drew inspiration from 19th-century watercolours of Indigenous communities by the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer

Torey Akers
6 December 2025

New tech and old names drive sales at Art Basel Miami Beach

A new section for digital art at the fair this year, Zero 10, coincides with a flight to secondary material, suggesting that an adapting market may also be a bifurcating one

Kabir Jhala
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

Torkwase Dyson and Alia Farid among artists commissioned for next Carnegie International

More than a dozen participating artists have been announced for the 2026 edition of the longest running recurring exhibition in North America

Elena Goukassian
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
27 September 2025

Director of Contemporary Istanbul 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
13 September 2025

Ukraine-Russia war remains front and centre for Viennacontemporary fair exhibitors

The fair continues to act as a bridge between eastern and western Europe

Georgina Adam
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
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
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
29 March 2024

Robert Alice breaks new ground with auction of generative art NFTs on Christie's 3.0

Auction house sees maturing of market since the heady days of 2021 as works by the digital art pioneer are sold in combination with launch of their catalogue raisonné-like historical survey "On NFTs"

Louis Jebb
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
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
17 February 2025

Generative artists unite to back research into degenerative disease

For the Cure3 exhibition at Bonhams, to raise money for research into Parkinson’s disease, contributing artists Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn talk about the cause

Alex Estorick
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
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
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
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
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
24 June 2024

As winner of renamed ABS Digital Art Prize is announced, have we reached a turning point for conversations around NFTs and culture?

Geneva-based RVig, who was awarded the prize for a piece inspired by Baudelaire, is hoping for a more nuanced understanding of what NFTs bring to the art world

Louis Jebb
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
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
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
21 August 2023

Venture capital and other tech-industry funding methods come to the art world

There is more variety than ever in how and why art is funded and the Silicon Valley models have arrived

Gretchen Andrew
5 July 2022

From a new recording of the song that made Bob Dylan famous to a gay rights protest artefact: our pick of the highlights from this summer's sales

Plus, a “crypto-jukebox”, a striking piece of Modern British silver and a sea battle by a Dutch Old Master

Riah Pryor
20 April 2023

'AI photography is here to stay—here's why we should be worried'

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

Lewis Bush
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
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
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
18 February 2022

NFT art—a sales mechanism or a medium?

The boom in non-fungible tokens is diminishing public understanding of what digital art actually is

Christiane Paul
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
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
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
4 July 2025

Mechanical engineer develops AI-generated digital masks to restore damaged paintings

Alex Kachkine, a PhD student at MIT, art-lover and self-taught restorer, wanted to provide conservators with another “tool in the toolbox”

Kimberly Hatfield
26 April 2022

Doug Aitken’s new 360-degree video looks to the horizon, with a chorus of AI voices

'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

Ellen Frances
23 October 2020

An AI bot has figured out how to draw like Banksy. And it's uncanny

GANksy aims to produce images that bear resemblance to works by the UK's most famous street artist

Kabir Jhala
19 November 2015

"I have no idea what that means"—decoding art world gibberish

The Art Newspaper
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
1 May 2024

How ‘more mature’ collectors are powering the NFT market’s comeback

While Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies reach new highs, the market for digital art has not experienced the same frenzy of speculation as in 2021. Recent auction results, however, suggest that an appetite is once more growing

Daniel Grant
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
21 September 2023

Art Basel reaches outside art trade for new chief officers of growth and digital

Hayley Romer and Craig Hepburn will work to bolster the brand's year-round presence and "engage ever broader cultural audiences"

Kabir Jhala
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
23 February 2023

What are DAOs? How blockchain-governed collectives might revolutionise the art world

Egalitarian and democratic, Decentralised Autonomous Organisations are powerful collecting forces with the potential to reshape the industry

Gretchen Andrew
22 October 2018

Will the market for artificial intelligence art take off?

With no auction precedent and little primary market data, Christie's sale of a work made by an algorithm tests demand

Margaret Carrigan
17 October 2023

Proposed US legislation would penalise use of AI to generate someone’s likeness without their consent

The No Fakes Act has been proposed by four US Senators and garnered support from organisations representing creative industries

Theo Belci
27 July 2023

$29m Beeple sculpture goes on display at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

The artwork is being shown in the US for the first time since Swiss venture capitalist Ryan Zurrer bought it at a New York auction 2021

Torey Akers
2 December 2022

James Baldwin and Doris Salcedo's Turbine Hall chasm: Gilane Tawadros on her greatest influences

The Whitechapel Gallery director tells us about her favourite writer, what she has been watching recently, and the cultural experience that changed the way she sees the world

Ben Luke
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
18 March 2025

Marina Abramović in her Element: performance artist announces new NFT drop designed to create a ‘bridge’ to young generation

Her first NFT collection since 2022 is inspired by different aspects of her life and work

Louis Jebb
4 November 2020

Marina Abramovic work to show on 'world's largest digital canvas' in London

Curator Marco Brambilla says public art programme on vast screens off Tottenham Court Road will rival Tate's Turbine Hall commissions in impact

Gareth Harris
3 March 2025

By ‘giving space’ to generative AI, Hollywood director Bennett Miller is creating mysterious and surreal images

Miller’s images, produced with a “primordial” version of OpenAI’s Dall-E text-to-image model, arose from his work on a yet-to-be released documentary where leading thinkers address existential questions around artificial intelligence

Louis Jebb
26 June 2023

'Go outside and protect what already exists': AI-generated dawn chorus of songbirds has a sinister edge

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's immersive collaboration with Superblue highlights declining numbers of songbirds

Kimberly Hatfield
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
13 January 2022

NFTs IRL: Seattle to be home to first museum dedicated to blockchain art

New institution will include exhibitions about digital art, as well as QR codes for visitors to view NFT works

Tom Seymour
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
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
11 November 2016

Can you digit? A media art pioneer celebrates 15 years

New York's bitforms gallery brings show of digital works to San Francisco

Jane Morris
4 July 2025

Art’s new hybrid economy: who is making creative waves in a sector where analogue and digital media exist together?

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

Alex Estorick
14 February 2023

Paris's Centre Pompidou breaks new ground by acquiring 18 NFTs

The acquisition, the first of its kind by a major French public museum, includes works by Jonas Lund, Robness, Agnieszka Kurant and Sarah Meyohas

Dorian Batycka
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
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
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
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
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
28 October 2022

Artist Bones Tan Jones on how a six-day walk from London to Stonehenge inspired them to make their own huge monolith

The exhibition "Tunnel Visions" at Queercircle explores the threat of urbanisation and pollution

Gareth Harris
20 September 2021

'I was always fascinated by the paintings of Goya': Philippe Parreno on his new video work at the Beyeler

The French-Algerian artist discusses how Goya’s Black Paintings provided inspiration for his latest piece in Switzerland

Ben Luke
17 June 2022

From anti-Putin Pussy power to Chance the Rapper's new track: the latest gossip from Art Basel

Plus, a super exclusive club, Tezos takes on 1970s tech and the door to Switzerland swings wide open

The Art Newspaper
28 July 2024

Arlene Shechet’s sculptures are animated through dance at Storm King sculpture park

Ritualistic performance piece by Annie-B Parson amid monumental, brightly coloured steel sculptures marks Upstate Art Weekend in New York’s Hudson Valley

Helen Stoilas
25 February 2022

How an artist’s East London studio threatened by developers turned into an experimental space of queer solidarity

Ridley Road Project Space, which ran for six months in Dalston, will close in March

Kabir Jhala
8 February 2022

How Nari Ward’s hearse installation went from the Whitney Biennial to a permanent home (with a detour via partial destruction)

Ward re-created the funerary work in 2020, decades after a standout debut at the Whitney Biennial; it has now been acquired by the Baltimore Museum of Art

Jacoba Urist
7 March 2022

Art Dubai flexes city’s futuristic credentials with focus on NFTs and crypto

Art fair opens in the UAE this week with a new digital arts section and a series of talks on all things metaverse

Aimee Dawson
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
29 November 2022

Miami—once touted as an NFT hub—suffers through enduring ‘crypto winter’

Amid high-profile bankruptcies of cryptocurrency companies and a dramatically shrinking NFT market, some art world players are pulling back while others double down

Daniel Grant
10 December 2021

NFTs, Banksy and Asia’s ascent: 2021, the year the art market was turned on its head

The past year will mostly be remembered for the ongoing social and economic convulsions caused by Covid-19. But in the art trade, the old world order was being demolished

Georgina Adam
18 May 2023

Dia Art Foundation to help steward Cameron Rowland project involving land on South Carolina island

Materials related to the conceptual artist’s multilayered project, “Depreciation”, will go on view at Dia Chelsea

Claire Voon
27 September 2024

Beeple unveils generative work with an urgent environmental message

The sale of the work, unveiled at Italian Tech Week, supports non-profit initiatives like food justice and the protection of millions of acres of land and sea

Annabel Keenan
23 May 2025

‘It is not good or bad’: in a frantic age, Beeple seeks a more nuanced take on technology

The media artist Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) increasingly sees his interactive video sculptures—one of which goes on show this month at the SXSW London festival and another at The Shed in New York—and social media posts as public art

Louis Jebb
2 June 2025

Sun Woo: ‘I’m interested in how the body navigates unfamiliar territory’

Meet the artist who has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today

Louisa Buck
29 November 2024

‘Most of the value comes from the internet’: collector Justin Sun discusses the future of digital art and his newly acquired banana work at Hong Kong event

The crypto entrepreneur spoke to The Art Newspaper about his journey into collecting, how he feels technology is transforming the art market, and more

Aaina Bhargava
25 April 2025

Chicago's Intuit Art Museum set to unveil $10m renovation

The small but mighty museum for outsider art is reopening after a two-year overhaul

Ruth Lopez
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
1 February 2024

How we should regulate AI is the trillion-dollar question

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

Tim Blum and Eloise Calder
29 November 2024

Comment | Why it's important to find hope for—and through—the arts after the US election

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

Jamie Bennett and Suzy Delvalle
2 March 2022

Fresh off a $1.7m crypto sale, light sculptor Leo Villareal explains NFTs to my sceptic self

The artist, famous for lighting up bridges across the Thames, tells me how he created his first NFT drop—which sold out within an hour

Linda Yablonsky
8 June 2023

Curator named for John Akomfrah's British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Tarini Malik, formerly of the Whitechapel Gallery and the Hayward Gallery, will seek to "extend the reach" of Akomfrah's work at a "critical, transitional moment" for the UK's visual sector

Tom Seymour
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
26 January 2022

The Seattle NFT Museum wants to mint a new art world

The museum’s founders organised an inaugural exhibition that is acutely aware of its place in history

Rain Embuscado
18 January 2024

Technology for social good: how digital artists are using their work to promote inclusivity

San Francisco’s Gray Area Festival and the Bay Area Now 9 Exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts show how art can be used to form—and strengthen— communities

Lauren Gallow and Gretchen Andrew
1 June 2023

Can London's commercial galleries help save regional museums?

The Art Fund and London Gallery Weekend have launched a focus group with the aim of helping public institutions acquire works and organise exhibitions

Anny Shaw
16 February 2023

Goodbye pink marble, farewell 1980s office vibe: inside the Hammer Museum’s 24-year transformation

A radical renovation and expansion overseen by director Ann Philbin and architect Michael Maltzan is just weeks from completion

Jori Finkel
25 November 2024

Vancouver’s floating artist residency finds safe harbour in new location

The Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency, based in the refurbished former home and studio of Carole Itter and Al Neil, is now moored near Vancouver’s Maritime Museum

Hadani Ditmars
18 April 2023

The camera never lies? Creator of AI image rejects prestigious photo award

Boris Eldagsen has accused the Sony World Photograph Awards of failing to distinguish between a photograph and a DALL-E 2-created image, while the organisers condemn a ‘deliberate attempt at misleading us’

Tom Seymour
5 September 2019

Christian Marclay communes with Snapchat in a barrage of sounds and images at Lacma

Visitors undergo a chain of experiences generated by engineers’ algorithms

Kenneth Baker
29 February 2024

Mercedes Dorame: ‘Borders shift and change with perspective’

The artist’s commission for the Getty Center’s rotunda replicates the forms and colours of abalone shells that were once ubiquitous on the Los Angeles coast

Gabriella Angeleti
30 September 2009

Interview with Robert Storr: Most theory has little bearing on art

The critic and curator spoke to The Art Newspaper about the role of art theory, and what advice he is giving to his students in today’s artistic climate.

Helen Stoilas
13 January 2025

Moon paintings and fictitious flowers: Our pick of the art on show at Art SG

Silkscreens, videos and abstract paintings are among the works to look out for

Aimee Dawson
6 December 2023

Anne Duk Hee Jordan: ‘We live on a very old, grumpy, fragile planet’

At The Bass, the interdisciplinary artist explores weather and technology in her first US solo show

Annabel Keenan
17 March 2017

A Bigger Stage

From Sharjah to Venice, the Indian-born, Dubai-based artist Vikram Divecha’s star is in the ascendant

By Kevin Jones
24 November 2023

Mail art meets NFTs for all in the ‘MoMA Postcard’ programme

New York museum invites online audience to make and own non-fungible tokens communally on the blockchain in 15-person groups

Clara Che Wei Peh
2 March 2018

National Gallery of Art show integrates the outliers

Outliers and American Vanguard Art in Washington, DC, makes clear that schooled and self-taught artists have never been that far apart

Pac Pobric
10 May 2017

A weak sketch of influence: on John Latham at the Serpentine Galleries

The influential artist's work does not inspire the richest ideas in the exhibition

By Orit Gat
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