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Victoria Miro gallery launches sophisticated digital platform to put past and present exhibitions online

Using cutting-edge technology, Live / Archive hopes to expand the gallery's reach and "significantly reduce carbon emissions associated with traditional art viewing”

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‘You’re so close you can see how their toes grip the floor’: Wayne McGregor on his radical new immersive dance experience

The work, which is travelling to London’s Somerset House in October, comprises a panoramic installation featuring a 12k LED, 26-million-pixel screen

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Comment | As artists rage over changes to WeTransfer’s terms of service, here's why the company is now in its villain era

Our data has been up for grabs for years, but for many the prospect of AI being trained on users’ files was a step too far

AI portrait of footballer Lionel Messi's favourite goal raises $1.87m for charity

Refik Anadol's re-imagination of the Argentine star’s 2009 header sold in an online auction at Christie's New York

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

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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

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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”

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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

London Gallery Weekend 2025: must-see shows for digital art lovers

Artists whose work demonstrates the porous boundary between digital and physical formats are to the fore in exhibitions across the UK captial

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Augmented reality enjoys growing appeal as a tool for the art trade

Artists, auction houses and galleries are warming to the idea of virtual visits, attendance and sales

This new app aims to bring exhibition goers together—and invites anyone to be an art critic

New kid on the block gowithYamo enables users to check in at shows, leave reviews and connect with other visitors

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‘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

Football great Lionel Messi chooses favourite goal for Refik Anadol to transform into an AI portrait for charity

Anadol will reimagine the Argentine megastar’s famous 2009 header as a data sculpture which will be sold at Christie’s

‘There is not enough money for education’: French philanthropist to fund museum visits for 100,000 UK children

Frédéric Jousset will provide £1m over four years to send school children to cultural venues, including the British Museum

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Can graphic imagination wake audiences up to the climate emergency? This multimedia artist believes so

Berlin-based Michael Najjar has been working with scientists in Greenland to tell stories with images designed to replace familiar memes of environmental journalism

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