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
Rijksmuseum gives place of honour to newly acquired still life by Golden Age artist Maria van Oosterwijck
Painting by 17th-century Dutch painter has been researched and restored as part of the Women of the Rijksmuseum project supported by Chanel
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
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
Jack Vettriano, immensely popular artist whose market success reflected 'an appetite for the glamorous', has died, aged 73
The sale of “The Singing Butler” at Sotheby’s in 2004, for a record price for a painting by a Scottish artist, caused a sensation and turned attention on Vettriano's critical and institutional neglect
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
On Parade: Berwick-upon-Tweed communities go up in lights, ten times life size, on historic Hawksmoor building
Matthew Rosier's film "Parade" projects border town's diverse community back to itself as National Heritage Lottery Fund awards £4.5m grant for restoration of Berwick barracks as arts centre
National Gallery launches new learning centre, the first bicentenary capital project to open to the public
The architect Hannah Lawson and the London museum’s education chief Karen Eslea consulted school children, teachers and parents to give the Roden Centre for Creative Learning a welcoming character
South by Southwest London aims to deliver ‘sensible optimism’ at a time of global uncertainty
The Shoreditch-based festival's chief executive looks forward to presenting the cross-disciplinary work of “good, clever people with open minds”, including the actor Idris Elba and the artist and film-maker Jenn Nkiru
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
From Refik Anadol and Sougwen Chung to Misty Copeland and Tom Daley: what to see and listen to at Davos
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum features a glacier-themed opening concert, specially commissioned exhibitions from leading digital and craft-based artists and a cultural table featuring global figures from arts and sport
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
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
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
Jann Haworth: a work in progress for recognition of women
The American Pop art pioneer’s mural project is closely tied to the concerns of the World Economic Forum’s annual gender gap report
Immersive inspirations: three key developments from 2024
It was a big year for immersive art, with major institutions getting involved, new virtual reality kit, and a groundbreaking event in Venice
Dublin celebrates three pioneering women who changed the face of 20th-century art in Ireland
The Hugh Lane Gallery and the National Gallery of Ireland are showing the work of the modernists Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone and of their predecessor Sarah Purser—artist, collector, organiser and a force of nature behind the revival of Irish arts and crafts
AI to Z: an art & tech alphabet for 2024
The art, artists and awards that pushed boundaries this year
New perspectives: Annabelle Selldorf brings a fresh angle to the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing
A tour of the remodelled building, five months before its reopening, shows the New York architect has created a spectacular main entrance closely integrated with the rest of the London institution and with the public space of Trafalgar Square
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
National Portrait Gallery partners with immersive institution to tell the human stories behind its collection
New experience produced by Frameless Creative with London museum to launch national and international tour at MediaCity, Salford, in May 2025
How Craig Robins became a collector with an eye to the future, seen through the prism of the past
The Miami-based art lover and real estate developer refined his approach to acquisition and to promoting public art through a four-decade friendship with the conceptual art pioneer John Baldessari
Rotterdam’s new museum of migration, Fenix, to open in May
Droom en Daad foundation funds new collection and renovation of dockside warehouse centred on spectacular new double-helix Tornado
Paintboxed! Artists invited to work with 1980s digital art tool once championed by Keith Haring and Richard Hamilton
ArtMeta art fair and Tezos ecosystem are taking Quantel Paintbox—used by contemporary art giants four decades ago—on a global tour to introduce it to a new generation of creators
‘A house of opportunities’: the changing fortunes of England’s largest country home
Seven years ago Wentworth Woodhouse was in a sorry state, now it turns over £3.5m a year—but how did this palace-sized property achieve such success?
‘Like Picasso, everything he touched was wonderful’: the art world pays tribute to Frank Auerbach
Curators, institutions and critics remember a “humble giant of figurative painting” who worked from the same London studio for 70 years and made his home city, its art collections and inhabitants the subject of his unique output
Goodwood contemporary: Rachel Whiteread to headline new foundation’s first exhibition at Sussex woodland site
The artist’s sculpture and photography will feature at Goodwood Art Foundation, the ducal estate that once nurtured the work of George Stubbs and Canaletto, alongside semi-permanent installations by Veronica Ryan and Hélio Oiticica
‘Transformative encounters’: Henry Moore seen through the prisms of Ancient Greece and Georgia O’Keeffe
A recent exhibition in Athens highlighting Moore’s concern with light and the history of sculpture is part of a broader mission to shed new light, gradually, on his life and work
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
Dana-Fiona Armour wins Sigg Art Prize for work that integrates artificial intelligence
German artist-researcher receives €10,000 award for “Alvinella Ophia”, depicting a hybrid serpent creature’s exploration of a dystopian desert future