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An open letter with more than 600 signatures criticizes Beeple’s AI-driven artwork “Diffuse Control” (2025), scheduled to appear next month at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in Wisconsin,...
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“Strange Rules,” an exhibition at Venice’s Palazzo Diedo, presents a curatorial argument about how art should be defined amid technologies such as blockchain and generative AI. Curated by Mat...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Artist Trevor Paglen’s new book compiles his writings from the past decade on how computer vision and generative media have transformed visual culture and its relationship to power. The book argues...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Collateral exhibitions at the 61st Venice Biennale, running in Venice until late November, are highlighting digital art’s range and potential amid broader cultural skepticism. Shows hosted by the...
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Digital artist Lily Belmira has released a free video game that lets users virtually visit Michael Heizer’s land artwork “City” in the Nevada desert, which is otherwise tightly controlled and...
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The Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, Massachusetts, tested a generative-AI marketing concept that animated François Boucher’s 1750 portrait Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour and...
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Artist Refik Anadol presented Smithsonian Dreams, an immersive AI-driven light and sound projection mapped onto the façade of the Smithsonian’s red sandstone Castle during a pause in a renovation...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Midjourney, the AI image generator sued in 2025 by Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros for copyright infringement, filed a motion on 29 June asking a US district court in California to revisit a...
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IM Youngzoo’s solo exhibition “The Late,” on view at Brooklyn’s Space ZeroOne through July 25, combines 17 works that connect Korean folk ritual, spirituality, and emerging technologies such as NFTs,...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Art Basel’s digital art sector Zero10 made its Swiss debut in Basel’s Messeplatz in mid-June, presented as “The Condition” and co-curated by Eli Scheinman and artist Trevor Paglen. With 20...
Hyperallergic
Pratt Manhattan Gallery is presenting Beyond Digital: Living Systems & Distributed Intelligence, a group exhibition of seven artists drawn from Pratt Institute’s Digital Arts alumni community....
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An open letter published by the AI Moratorium Coalition and signed by about 500 New York City–based artists and cultural workers urges Mayor Zohran Mamdani to impose a two-year ban on artificial...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reported on a new 19-minute documentary, “How Creative Workers Are Impacted by AI” (2026), in which artists discuss practical and ethical concerns about generative AI, including client...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Art Basel’s digital art initiative Zero 10 is making its Swiss debut after launching at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2025 and appearing at Art Basel Hong Kong earlier in 2026. Co-curator Trevor Paglen...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara highlights major industry and cultural stories, led by Pace Gallery cutting one-third of its artists and one-fifth of its staff, including removing 50...
Hyperallergic
Pace Gallery has laid off 50 workers and cut 50 artists from its roster, according to Hyperallergic, amounting to about one-fifth of its staff and roughly one-third of its artists. CEO Marc Glimcher...
Hyperallergic
Pace Gallery has laid off 50 employees and dropped 50 artists, reducing its roster by about 30% and its staff by about 20% to around 200 from roughly 250, according to reporting confirmed by...
Artnet News
The estate of Piet Mondrian has partnered with web3 entertainment company Doodles to release a set of on-chain digital collectibles (NFTs) that remix five Mondrian works in Doodles’ pastel palette....
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Dubai has announced plans for a new Museum of Digital Art (MODA), a major institution dedicated to tech-driven art forms such as immersive and interactive experiences. MODA is part of Dubai’s $27...
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Robert Dunlap, 55, a Houston man, was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for a cryptocurrency fraud scheme that claimed to be backed by masterpieces by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Vincent van...
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ARTnews profiled digital-art pioneer Nancy Burson, 78, focusing on her “Quantum Entanglement” paintings—black canvases covered with white dots that appear to jitter and reveal color and depth when...
Artnet News
An Artnet News article by Jo Lawson-Tancred reports that galleries and auction houses are cautiously experimenting with A.I. after the 2022 NFT bust, with most art-market use cases still limited and...
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Foundation, a curated Ethereum-based NFT marketplace launched in February 2021 by Kayvon Tehranian and Matthew Vernon, is shutting down after a planned sale to digital art display company Blackdove...
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Beowolff Capital has combined Artsy and Artnet under the same ownership, consolidating two major online art platforms spanning data, media, auctions, and e-commerce, while keeping them as separate...
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ARTnews reported that Yuga Labs and artist Ryder Ripps, along with Ripps’s business partner Jeremy Cahen, reached a confidential settlement on Tuesday ending their legal dispute over the Bored Ape...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Italian Arte Povera artist Michelangelo Pistoletto launched Three Mirrors, a global digital-billboard project organized by the UK-based platform Circa, centered on his concept of “preventive peace.”...
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The Barclays Center in downtown Brooklyn is launching “Brooklyn Art Encounters,” a multi-year program expanding public art at the arena and introducing an artist-in-residence initiative led first by...
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Tad Smith, former Sotheby’s CEO and current chairman of Doodles, has agreed to buy most assets of the digital collectibles platform Candy Digital and said on X that he will become CEO when the...
Artnet News
OpenAI has shut down Sora, its A.I. video application, according to an Artnet News article published March 25, 2026. The report characterizes Sora as controversial and notes that the company has...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Conceptual artist Trevor Paglen has been named the recipient of the 2026 LG Guggenheim Award, an honor that includes a $100,000 prize from LG and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Based...
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ARTnews highlighted six recommended works available on CIFRA, a digital art streaming platform presenting time-based and screen-based artworks. The article positions CIFRA as a curated venue for...
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In ARTnews.com’s feature “What Does Censorship Look Like in the Age of AI?”, the publication examines how generative AI and automated moderation systems are changing the mechanisms and visibility of...
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ARTnews published a Q&A with Paul Slocum, an early advocate for digital art, about efforts to build a sustainable ecosystem for digital work. Slocum discusses how artists, collectors, and...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
At Sotheby’s “Origins II” auction in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, held on 31 January 2026, Saudi painter Safeya Binzagr set a $2.1 million record when her 1968 work Coffee Shop in Madina Road sold,...
Artnet News
Artnet News reported that the British Museum faced online backlash after publishing a social-media post containing A.I.-generated images. Commenters criticized the use of generative A.I., prompting...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reports that another NFT platform is shutting down, reflecting continued contraction in the market for non-fungible tokens. The article frames the closure as part of a broader pattern...