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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
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
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
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
AI on AI: Alex Israel uses artificial intelligence to re-engage with memory
The Los Angeles-based artist is presenting his "REMEMBR" installation, which riffs visually, musically and emotionally on users’ smartphone camera rolls, in London
Two (or more) into one: Urs Fischer invites owners of his digital sculptures to have them remade into a new work
The maverick artist is working with 1OF1, collectors of high-level digital art, to offer owners of his "CHAOS" video sculpture series the chance to have them "fused" into new animations
Podcast | A brush with... Lynn Hershman Leeson
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Cézanne to the theatre of Tadeusz Kantor
The Week in Art podcast | Art’s AI reckoning, the rise of comic art and Degas’ Miss La La
Why the art world must tackle the questions posed by artificial intelligence head on, plus comics celebrated in two European locations and Degas’ portrait of the circus artist Anna Albertine Olga Brown
The art world’s AI dilemma: how can artists and museums thrive when big tech controls the monetising of artificial intelligence?
The presence of AI in every aspect of life has been a fact for the past 20 months. With the publication of the Stanford AI Index, two areas have come into focus. For museums, how to work with industry giants, without having their offering "distanced" by the summarising power of AI. For artists, how to thrive where sources of production are being monetised in Silicon Valley
The art world's AI dilemma: informed insight from industry experts
The artist Refik Anadol, the museum director Thomas Campbell and the Future Art Ecosystems team at Serpentine share insights on how to thrive while working with artificial intelligence in 2024
The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Index Report: what is it and why does it matter?
In Tokyo, teamLab's giant new immersive space opens glittering portals of the imagination
The light-filled, interactive, spaces at teamLab Borderless offer “full-body joy” to the author's school-age children—as well as some cool selfies
Frank Stella, a painter's painter and one of the leading abstract artists of his generation, has died, aged 87
His landmark "Black Paintings" series marked Stella as a Minimalist in the 1960s before he expanded his range to include brightly coloured pieces on shaped canvases, relief paintings, large-scale sculpture and work with architects
Artificial intelligence takes a deep dive in new Venice show
Josèfa Ntjam‘s exhibition depicts a fantasy world inhabited by AI-created creatures that recalls both the deep ocean and outer space
Aleksandra Artamonovskaja is appointed head of arts for TriliTech, the entrepreneurship team supporting Tezos blockchain
Artamonovskaja, a leading consultant and moderator in the Web3 world, will oversee development of opportunities for artists across the Tezos ecosystem
On process: Refik Anadol seeks to demystify AI art by showing how it is put together
The media artist's "Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive" at Serpentine Galleries, London, goes for radical clarity on its raw data sources and the make-up of Anadol's artificial intelligence Large Nature Model
Not-so-new kid on the block: Pinterest moves in on museums
The platform is making use of its reputation as a visual search engine to collaborate with art institutions
Quantum leap: how a decade of NFTs has changed digital art
Two books take a look at the past and future of the non-fungible token. Once seen as the creature of market hype, the NFT now promises the first shared technical standard for the digital art world
Robert Alice breaks new ground with auction of generative art NFTs on Christie's 3.0
Auction house sees maturing of market since the heady days of 2021 as works by the digital art pioneer are sold in combination with launch of their catalogue raisonné-like historical survey "On NFTs"
Big brother is watching: museum visitors are being monitored by AI-powered cameras
Sophisticated technology is helping institutions count people but it also has the capability of tracking demographic data, ensuring people are well behaved and even detecting if visitors are enjoying themselves
London's Serpentine Galleries calls for artists and institutions to become ‘stewards’ of data in face of rising interest in AI
The London gallery's fourth annual Future Arts Ecosystems report addresses a pressing need for bodies to address the use of artificial intelligence, for their own benefit and for the public good
Ten art world things that have happened in VR since Meta bought Oculus 10 years ago
Virtual reality has not taken the art world by storm in the past decade, despite the attention given to the format during the global pandemic of 2020-21, but the advent of powerful new mixed-reality headsets, led by the Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest, promise a new experience for creators and users
Ten years on: art world is still in search of its virtual reality Eden
In March 2014, Facebook bought Oculus VR, heralding a new era in extended reality. Will the arrival of the Apple Vision Pro move the medium from artistic experiment to widespread use?