Art & Tech Want to Wear Van Gogh’s Hat? A New App From the Met Invites Users to Virtually Interact With the Museum’s Costumes and Collections The augmented reality app lets your Roblox avatar collect—and wear—replicas from the Met's collection. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 2, 2023
Art & Tech A Global Project Is Sending Time Capsules to the Moon Containing Artworks and Objects by More Than 30,000 Creatives The works will be sent in commercial shipments in tandem with NASA's Artemis missions. By Adam Schrader, Jul 31, 2023
Art & Tech Animations, and 3-D Models, and 3,000 Drawings: Inside Google’s Massive Machine-Learning Masterclass on Leonardo da Vinci Thanks to machine learning, Leonardo's expansive codices have been broken down into different themes. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 27, 2023
Art & Tech A Painting Newly Attributed to Raphael by A.I. Facial Recognition Goes on View for the First Time The painting, long dismissed as a Victorian copy of Raphael's famed 'Sistine Madonna,' has never been on public display before. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 26, 2023
Art & Tech Nefarious Data Collection Masking as Public Art? An A.I. Company Has Placed Mirrored Spheres Around the World in a Massive Eye-Scanning Project Worldcoin's effort has been criticized by the likes of Edward Snowden, who tweeted, "Don't catalogue eyeballs." By Min Chen, Jul 25, 2023
Art & Tech The White House Struck a Deal With A.I. Companies to Manage the Technology’s Risks. Artists Say It ‘Does Nothing’ to Protect Them "The administration just isn't listening," said Molly Crabapple. By Adam Schrader, Jul 25, 2023
Art & Tech Meta Is Expanding Its Generative A.I. Arsenal With a New Tool It’s Touting as a ‘State-of-the-Art’ Breakthrough CM3leon recognizes both text and visuals, allowing both image-to-text and text-to-image generation. By Adam Schrader, Jul 17, 2023
Art & Tech An Australian Photographer Was Disqualified From a Photo Contest After Her Submission Was Mistakenly Deemed A.I.-Generated The contest organizers were apologetic, but "paranoid about A.I.," said Suzi Dougherty. By Adam Schrader, Jul 17, 2023
Art & Tech Influencers Are Realizing That A.I. Might Not Be a Magic Money-Making Machine For Artists After All The curious odyssey of Patryk Marketer. By Ben Davis, Jul 14, 2023
Art & Tech Meet A.I.C.C.A., Artist Mario Klingemann’s New A.I.-Powered Robot Dog That Generates—and Poops—Art Criticism But what is this "performative sculpture" really critiquing? By Min Chen, Jul 11, 2023
Art & Tech A Virginia Museum Repatriated a Nigerian Sculpture and Received a High-Tech Replica in Return. Could the Exchange Shape Future Restitutions? It is hoped that digital scans and replicas could help institutions reach an agreement over the return of disputed objects. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jul 7, 2023
Art & Tech A Gnarly Old Tooth Found in a Museum Cabinet Could Provide the Key to Understanding an Ancient Relative of the Hippo Desmostylus fossils have been found on the West Coast and in Japan. By Richard Whiddington, Jul 5, 2023
Art & Tech Can Impressionism’s Lack of Queer Representation Be Fixed… With A.I.? See How One Artist Uses the Tool to Offer an Alternate Art History ClownVamp presents 23 works at Canvas 3.0 By Richard Whiddington, Jun 30, 2023
Art & Tech Marvel Is Catching Flak for the A.I.-Generated Opening Sequence to Its New ‘Secret Invasion’ Series 'I'm devastated,' tweeted one artist. By Richard Whiddington, Jun 22, 2023
Art & Tech Yale’s Vast Collection of Millions of Artworks and Objects Is Now Searchable Online. Here Are 7 of the University’s Greatest Treasures Lux allows users to search across 17 million objects from the Yale University Art Gallery to the Yale Center for British Art. By Min Chen, Jun 21, 2023
