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New Technology Shows Museum Visitors How Art Activates Their BrainsThe technology reveals how our brains react differently to an Impressionist masterpiece of an abstract painting.
Gucci and Christie’s Team Up for an Auction Exploring Fashion, Art, and TechnologyAuction house Christie’s and fashion brand Gucci are collaborating on a new digital auction featuring eight generative artists who have created work for the brand.
Take back control of your art exhibitionsAs the art world embraces technological advancements, the implementation of innovative art exhibition software emerges as a beacon of efficiency, saving both time and money. By automating tedious tasks, improving collaboration, and enhancing the overall experience for art exhibition professionals…
Chimeric creature descends on the Whitney Museum in new augmented reality commissionA mesmerising hybrid creature—part mycelium, part cephalopod, part bird and part machine—will loom over New York’s Meatpacking District starting 3 October as part of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s latest digital-art commission, CENTO (2023), by the new-media artist Nancy Baker Cahill. A…
Want to Wear Van Gogh’s Hat? A New App From the Met Invites Users to Virtually Interact With the Museum’s Costumes and CThe augmented reality app lets your Roblox avatar collect—and wear—replicas from the Met's collection.
A.I.-Generated Versions of Art-Historic Paintings Are Littering Google’s Top Search ResultsGoogle is apparently rolling tools that should make it easier to assess the context and credibility of search results.
Sotheby’s Has Launched a Secondary Marketplace for NFTs, Allowing Artists to Sell Digital Works Directly to CollectorsThe platform, part of the auction house's ongoing bid to corner the blue-chip NFT market, kicks off with works from 13 high-profile artists.
The dawn of blockchain?Brand Lead for Yug Labs- makers of the wildly popular Bor Ap Yacht Club NFT (non-fungible token) and, since March 2022, owner of one of the widely collected Larva Labs creations, cryptopunks—says that an exhibition of NFT works that opened earlier this week at the Center Pompidou in Paris is “at…
AI will become the new normal: how the art world's technological boom is changing the industryArt created using artificial intelligence (AI) is burgeoning. From commercial gallery shows—including Jon Rafman’s large-scale, algorithmically generated paintings at Sprüth Magers in London (Ebrah k’dabri, until 25 March)—to the PATH-AI artist residency organised in collaboration with London’s…
How Will Technology Shape the Museum of Tomorrow?As technology grows ever more present in the cultural institution—reshaping its operations, how it engages audiences, and what it exhibits—the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) is hosting a forum to contemplate what the digital frontier means for the museum of today and tomorrow.