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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

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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

Theresa Reiwer wins top award at Lumen Prize for digital art

German-born artist working on ethics and AI leads the winners in nine categories of 13th annual edition of the world’s leading prize for art created with technology

Digital art dazzles at Frieze London

Five of the best works to see at the fair created using artificial intelligence and other technologies

From ordinals to ownership: Christie's explores new frontiers of blockchain-based provenance

The auction house runs two auctions that place web3 increasingly at the heart of the traditional art market

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Can artists protect their work by suing AI companies?

When it comes to copyright infringement, establishing culpability and illegality in the age of artificial intelligence is murky

Can London establish itself as digital art capital of the world?

In the game-changing era of NFTs and AI, the city’s diversified art ecosystem has helped it play catch-up as the medium’s global hub

Polish bank works with blockchain company and an Arctic vault to safeguard country's artistic heritage

Bank Pekao and the Aleph Zero platform collaborate to keep secure data by tokenising the digitised records of important works of art

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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

The ‘pearly triangle’: neurological investigation reveals secret of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring

The study also found that when volunteers looked at five works of art in the Hague’s Mauritshuis museum, their brains responded ten times more positively than when they viewed reproductions

Blue light: Jason Bruges reimagines the inside of a Tiffany diamond for 130,000 daily passers-by in London

The London artist joins Rana Begum, James Righton and Damien Hirst in making installations for the shop windows of Selfridges department store that react to the multi-faceted history of the New York jeweller

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

Refik Anadol Studio reveals plans for world’s first museum of AI arts

Dataland is due to open in 2025 at the Frank Gehry-designed The Grand LA development in Los Angeles's downtown arts district

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Community curators: artists chosen by public vote for exhibition at Museum of the Moving Image

Finalists will be shown on the New York museum’s media wall with visitors able to mint a fragment of each work on the Tezos blockchain

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Despite the real (and artificial) fears of many, AI is not the enemy of the art world

Concerns about access, expertise and data sourcing have overshadowed the enormous power and potential that AI image generators offer

‘An enormous milestone for museums’: platform designed to host 100 million object records launches in UK

Those behind the Museum Data Service hope it will eventually host the details of objects held by 1,750 “accredited” museums and other collections

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

Refik Anadol's AI tribute to Czech composer Antonín Dvořák takes the stage in Washington, DC

The work, on view this month at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Reach Plaza, is “not about replacing or erasing him, about remembering him”, Anadol says

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Can internet-born platforms fashion a print market fit for Gen Z collectors?

Digital players focus on transparent, algorithmically driven analytics to appeal to a younger base for whom the medium is cool. But that data still needs informed interpretation

'What is the museum of the future?' The National Gallery's forward-looking digital strategy

Experimentation, freedom and in-house content are key to how the gallery engages with its five million followers on social media

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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

South by South West festival to integrate visual art at 2025 London debut

The curator Beth Greenacre has been appointed visual arts adviser to the festival

Unesco warns that AI could rewrite Holocaust history

What can museums and heritage institutions do about disinformation powered by artificial intelligence?

Stellar eclipse: pioneering light and sound art duo NONOTAK prepare for first London solo show

Noemi Schipfer and Takami Nakamoto will present three installations at a warehouse space in south London

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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

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”

A piece of the action: museum partnership in New York invites visitors to take home fragments of digital artworks

The Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) and the Tezos Foundation have teamed up to offer the public a chance to acquire—for no cost—parts of works projected onto a screen in the lobby

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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

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US authorities charge three UK nationals in Evolved Apes NFT fraud scheme

The charges, brought by the office of the Attorney for the Southern District of New York, signal a commitment to pursuing wide-ranging cryptocurrency cases

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