Art & Tech An Astonishing New Image of the ‘Pillars of Creation’ Shows Off the Magic the James Webb Telescope Is Capable Of The Pillars of Creaton, the subject of one of art history's most beloved space images, gets an infrared makeover. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 21, 2022
Art & Tech Microsoft Is Unveiling Its Own A.I. Art Generator, Powered by a DALL-E 2 Algorithm The new program will be available through the company’s Microsoft’s Bing search engine, Edge web browser, and Designer graphics app. By Artnet News, Oct 21, 2022
Art & Tech The World’s Oldest Map of the Stars, Lost for Thousands of Years, Has Been Found in the Pages of a Medieval Parchment The ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus catalogued the coordinates of the stars. Now, his efforts have finally been uncovered. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 20, 2022
Art & Tech Robot Artist Ai-Da Just Addressed U.K. Parliament About the Future of A.I. and ‘Terrified’ the House of Lords The robot is part of an experimental art project that aims to let the technology speak for itself. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Oct 12, 2022
Art & Tech Artist Simon Denny Resurrects Dead Companies From the Dotcom Crash and Imagines How Their Logos Might Look Today Stakes in the resurrected Web1 companies have been made available for purchase via A.I.-generated NFTs. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Oct 11, 2022
Art & Tech The National Gallery of Art Just Discovered That One of Its Four Vermeer Paintings Wasn’t Actually Painted by Vermeer A new exhibition, "Vermeer's Secrets," presents the intriguing possibility that the Golden Age lone wolf may have had an apprentice. By Kriston Capps, Oct 7, 2022
Art & Tech Want to Make Some Mind-Blowing AI Art at Home? DALL-E Is Now Freely Available to All Humans OpenAI also announced that it is testing an API that would allow develops to build on top of the A.I. system. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Sep 29, 2022
Art & Tech ‘A.I. Should Exclude Living Artists From Its Database,’ Says One Painter Whose Works Were Used to Fuel Image Generators The digital artist Greg Rutkowski has seen his style copied in thousands of images created using artificial intelligence. By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 20, 2022
Art & Tech Meet Judy Schmidt, the ‘Citizen Scientist’ Turning Webb Telescope Data Into Stunning Images And see some of the stunningly detailed new imagery of our cosmos she and other researchers helped create. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 14, 2022
Art & Tech Will A.I. Usher in the End of Human Artists? Fear Not, Some Say A.I. art has been banned from some online art communities but it still has many high-profile backers. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Sep 14, 2022
Art & Tech Experts Identified a New Species of Dinosaur After Realizing a Fossil Owned by a German University Had Been Miscategorized for a Century The new identification gives paleontologists a better view of the diversity of prehistoric life in Europe. By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 12, 2022
Art & Tech Meet ‘Loab,’ the Latest Example of A.I.-Generated Art Creeping Out the Internet (Sorry in Advance for the Nightmares) Is she a digital demon from another realm? Wherever she came from, Loab is here to stay. By Dorian Batycka, Sep 12, 2022
Art & Tech What Is Vermeer’s Beloved ‘Milkmaid’ Hiding? Scholars Have Used New X-Ray Technology to Find the Secrets Beneath Its Surface To complete the study, the Rijksmuseum enlisted an interdisciplinary team of conservators and scientists. By Dorian Batycka, Sep 8, 2022
Art & Tech In a Series of Behavioral Experiments, Viewers Preferred Works by Women Artists—But Assumed Works by Men Were More Famous and Valuable The study shows how gender bias reinforces itself. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 7, 2022
Art & Tech We Asked DALL-E to Imagine What’s Just Beyond the Frame of 10 World-Famous Works of Art. Here’s What the A.I. Saw DALL-E's new Outpainting tool lets users see beyond the bounds of any image, including the ones art historians know best. By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 7, 2022
