Technology
Comment | Art Basel’s Zero 10 grows up and outgrows the digital community that led to its inception
The digital art showcase’s third edition, at Art Basel’s hometown fair, offered much-needed historical context while prompting a fundamental question: who is this for?
Meta and YouTube’s recent losses in youth social media addiction cases may put artists and activists at risk
Recent rulings in California and New Mexico against the social media giants seem to promise greater accountability, but in practice they may erode free and creative expression online
Black mirror: a conceptual artist’s new mobile app helps you be a better texter
Created as part of Jennifer Rubell’s current show at Meredith Rosen Gallery in New York, Attune Official is for anyone who obsesses over text messages
Inside Refik Anadol's Dataland, the world’s first AI art museum
An immersive “laboratory of imagination” from Anadol's studio boots up in Downtown Los Angeles
Gaudí goes viral: Sagrada Familia tower inauguration livestreamed on TikTok
The Spanish cathedral will create a TikTok Live of the Pope’s blessing of the Tower of Jesus Christ on 10 June
Comment | Furore over ‘colourised’ Ansel Adams photo reflects problems with the art market, not AI
The issues raised by the dealer James Danziger’s AI-generated photo are profoundly and irrevocably human
French project uses AI to visualise how climate change will affect heritage sites
The tool in development analyses photographs and audio as well as meteorological and material data to create an augmented reality model
Bad moon rising: AI debate erupts over ‘colourised’ version of a classic Ansel Adams photo
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
Muscle memory: Natasha Tontey’s wild Venice installation explodes perceptions of Indonesian history
The artist’s B-movie inspired project at Ateneo Veneto reimagines the story of Len Karamoy, an overlooked member of the resistance movement Permesta
Comment | Artnet-Artsy merger: 'a Bloomberg for art?'
Initial cost-cutting measures have seen some excellent journalists laid off—will new owner Andrew Wolff manage to turn the business around?
How US museums are adapting to a new era for technology-based art
New and old institutions in New York, pop-up show of video art in Los Angeles and moving-image artist’s archive crystallise the unique pressures that come with showing and preserving art made with recent technologies
Trevor Paglen wins $100,000 LG Guggenheim Award
The artist and investigator of digital surveillance infrastructures will deliver a hybrid lecture-performance at the Guggenheim in New York in May
Comment | Climate change is forcing tough choices—how much heritage can we save before it is too late?
As increasingly extreme weather threatens cultural sites, archaeologists are turning to technology to try and record them before they are lost forever
Understanding Nifty Gateway’s demise is paramount for NFTs’ fans and critics alike
The platform never reached its goal of converting one billion people into NFT collectors, but its rise and fall revealed much about the digital art ecosystem
Nifty Gateway has shut down, but NFTs are not dead—they are evolving
Crypto-based art is more than just cartoon apes and Beeple works
In the age of AI, can art expertise be digitised?
Artificial intelligence attempts to offer objectivity in the inherently subjective field of authentication
AI helps to reconstruct Cimabue basilica masterpiece shattered by earthquakes
Assisi fresco celebrated by Giorgia Meloni was reduced to tiny fragments in 1997
‘Endless scrolling induces permanent craving’: panGenerator highlights our unhealthy relationship with technology
The artist collective takes elements of the digital world and turns them into physical installations to bring alive the dangers
Collector of Beeple’s $69.3 million NFT work launches space in Singapore
Vignesh Sundaresan, who purchased Everydays: The First 5000 Days in 2021, has unveiled Padimai Art & Tech Studio—which opens with an exhibition made in collaboration with Olafur Eliasson
Inside the new AI-driven platform generating ‘adviser-grade’ art market insights
Sam Glatman, the co-founder of Artsignal, which recently received a major vote of confidence in the form of investment from Christie’s Ventures, predicts that it will become the “dominant intelligence layer for the art world”
In his own words: Antwerp museum uses AI to recreate Magritte's voice
A 1938 lecture given by the notoriously tight-lipped Surrealist can be heard as part of the exhibition “Magritte. La ligne de vie”
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
How art social media accounts are being turned into books
Having lots of followers on Instagram does not guarantee a publishing deal but it helps
Artificial installation: artist hangs own AI-generated work in Welsh museum
The rogue print was on show at National Museum Cardiff for a few hours before it was spotted by staff
‘Culture at the heart of global change’: J Paul Getty Trust and World Economic Forum to join forces during Art Basel Paris
Creators working at the junction of art, technology and business will take part in a “cultural table” in a room at the Meurice hotel where Pablo Picasso and Olga Khokhlova held their 1918 wedding reception
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
Indigenous artists transform works at Metropolitan Museum in unsanctioned augmented reality project
The digital interventions by 17 Native artists, launched on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, put pointed twists on works in the museum’s American Wing
Unesco’s Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects goes live
The digital project, which was funded by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, presents looted objects in 3D form
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
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




























