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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

New app for antiques dealers hopes to make streamlining inventory ‘less daunting’

Online software platform Ronati Studio, which is aimed primarily at vendors of antiques and collectable artefacts, manages inventory from acquisition to resale

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This art historian is on a quest to ensure the story of Arab art is not lost

Salwa Mikdadi’s Abu Dhabi-based institution is digitising and cataloguing tens of thousands of documents and artefacts

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How AI models are helping to reveal South America's archaeological sites

Analysis of aerial and satellite images has rapidly identified ancient sites, but human expertise is still essential in refining the outcomes

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Comment | Metadata is not just a major pillar of online access, it is a step towards decolonising the museum

The written descriptions of works of art are more than just labels—they are a record of evolving cultural understanding, writes Curationist's Amanda Figueroa

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‘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

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

‘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

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How a new online database is bringing an African focus to restitution cases

Open Restitution Africa’s digital resource based on pan-continental research counters elevation of Western narratives

Did AI just authenticate a version of one of Rubens’s most famous works?

A Swiss company has examined a version of Rubens’s ‘The Bath of Diana’, which was long thought to be a copy, and believes it could be authentic—the leading authority on the artist takes a different view

How technologies applied in Florence are revolutionising fresco conservation

Traditionally, checking for damage was a manual job, but a combination of diagnostic technologies used in the restoration of the Brancacci Chapel offers much greater precision

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Here's how the EU is aiding artists in tackling social media moderation issues

Out-of-court dispute settlement bodies are an important development in supporting creative expression

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

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

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Comment | The UK is attempting to pry open a notorious data ‘backdoor’—here's why that's alarming for artists

Emma Shapiro on the UK government's secret order to break end-to-end encryption and allow access to all citizens’ Apple iCloud data

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Electroshock conversion survivor’s experience made visceral in new VR project

Cameron Kostopoulos’s new immersive project, debuting at the SXSW festival, is especially timely in light of the Trump Administration’s policies and rhetoric vilifying trans people

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

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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

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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

Ayoung Kim, builder of vivid digital worlds, wins $100,000 LG Guggenheim Award

The artist is known for creating futuristic, interactive environments that reflect on contemporary geopolitical and socioeconomic issues

A quantum era is coming. What does this mean for art?

New technology will support artists as they produce enquiring new work

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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

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

Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Gates revived, in exhibition and augmented reality, 20 years later

An AR experience in Central Park and a show at The Shed bring the sprawling Land art installation in Central Park back to life

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

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

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

Technology reveals ancient text inside burnt Herculaneum scroll

Scientists used artificial intelligence and X-ray imaging to decipher the Roman object's contents

Artists can copyright works made using AI as an ‘assistive tool’, US Copyright Office concludes

The Copyright Office’s new report also concluded that “the incorporation of AI-generated content into a larger copyrightable work” is acceptable