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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | James Imam |Louis Jebb |Judith Dobrzynski
Caravaggio was born Michelangelo Merisi in 1571 in the small town of Caravaggio, near Milan. He arrived in Rome around 1592, a young artist hungry for success, and spent the next 14 years of his life there. The city's chaos fuelled both his genius and his troubles. His criminal records tell of brawls, arrests and the murder that forced him into exile. Yet his years in Rome also sparked an artistic revolution.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Louis Jebb |Alex Estorick |Gretchen Andrew
The celebrated performance artist Marina Abramović will issue her first NFT drop for three years when Marina Abramović Element (MAE), created by Abramović in partnership with the curated digital art marketplace TaEx, goes live on Ethereum blockchain in May. The project is made up of four NFT drops, designed to immerse people in Abramović’s distinctive practice through both interactive elements and new artworks.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Louis Jebb |Martin Bailey |Gareth Harris
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is celebrating the addition to its permanent collection of a prized work by Maria van Oosterwijck, one of the leading Dutch women painters of the Golden Age. The painting, Vanitas Still Life (around 1690)—featuring a human skull as a memento of human mortality and of the worthlessness of worldly goods—has been placed in the museum’s gallery of honour.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Riah Pryor |Louis Jebb |Daniel Grant |Chris Michaels
The UK Labour government’s recently unveiled AI opportunities action plan will position the UK as a global leader in artificial intelligence by investing in infrastructure, talent and innovation. “A battle for the jobs of tomorrow is happening today,” said the UK prime minister Keir Starmer in a 13 January speech announcing the plan.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Anna Brady |Louis Jebb |Carlie Porterfield |Sarah P. Hanson
Christie’s Augmented Intelligence sale, its first dedicated to art made using artificial intelligence (AI), which ran from 20 February until 5 March, has been contentious to say the least. An open letter posted online on 8 February and garnering almost 6,500 signatures called on Christie’s to cancel the auction (it did not). “Many of the artworks you plan to auction were created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a license,” the (brief) letter alleges.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Louis Jebb |Margaret Carrigan |Gareth Harris |Aimee Dawson
The world of artificial intelligence (AI) art is one where people move fast and collect ground-breaking things. It is also one that can generate thought-provoking creative approaches that mirror how social and business entities might organise themselves in the future—socially and economically—in a demonstration of how artists, curators and art institutions are often the first to uncover the cultural relevance of new technologies.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Louis Jebb |David D'Arcy |Maev Kennedy
Berwick-upon-Tweed is sited in historically and famously contested land, set hard by the border between the English and the Scots and changing hands between the two nations some 14 times.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton |Louis Jebb
The Korean digital artist Ayoung Kim, known for using cinematic techniques and video-game engines to build vast interactive environments, has won the third LG Guggenheim Award. The annual prize, awarded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the multinational electronics company LG, recognises artists doing important and innovative work at the intersection of art and technology. It comes with an unrestricted $100,000 honorarium and a future public programme at the museum.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Alex Estorick |Gareth Harris |Carlie Porterfield |Louis Jebb
Since 2017, Cure³ has brought together prominent contemporary artists to raise money for Cure Parkinson’s, a UK charity dedicated to supporting research into a cure for Parkinson’s disease. Spearheaded by Susie Allen, Laura Culpan and Serena Starr of the international practice Artwise Curators, the project’s fifth edition promises to be the largest so far with more than a hundred artists participating in a special exhibition at Bonhams auction house in London from 1 to 5 February.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Louis Jebb |Melissa Gronlund
The cultural heritage sector will soon have new artificial intelligence-powered tools to improve planning for the protection of sites from the effects of natural disasters, acts of war and environmental crises, thanks to a new Paris-based four-party collaboration, HeritageWatch.AI. The independent, non-commercial body was launched on 10 February at the French Ministry of Culture as part of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris.
