Articles for The Art Newspaper
29 April 2026
Comment | The slopification of political art
Artificial intelligence has made it incredibly easy to create pointed visuals in response to crises in real time, but the resulting videos and images have little poignancy or staying power

22 December 2025
Comment | Digital art today has a narcissism problem
Beeple’s anarchic entry into Art Basel Miami Beach doubled down on cult of personality at the expense of artistic substance

14 April 2025
The future is sexy—at least in Syd Mead’s visionary science-fiction art
The late artist’s first retrospective, at a pop-up space in Manhattan, offers an idealised, futuristic take on the 21st century

23 September 2024
Despite the real (and artificial) fears of many, AI is not the enemy of the art world
Concerns about access, expertise and data sourcing have overshadowed the enormous power and potential that AI image generators offer

29 May 2024
Marlborough Gallery ends historic run with gloriously unhinged Martin Eder show
For anyone who ever wondered what Dolores Umbridge’s 2004 MySpace page might have looked like, Eder has the answer

1 September 2023
What the latest US court ruling means for AI-generated art’s copyright status
A judge said the absence of a “guiding human hand” disqualified the AI-generated image from copyright protection, but other generative art may still qualify

18 March 2026
Understanding Nifty Gateway’s demise is paramount for NFTs’ fans and critics alike
The platform never reached its goal of converting one billion people into NFT collectors, but its rise and fall revealed much about the digital art ecosystem

28 July 2025
Comment | As artists rage over changes to WeTransfer’s terms of service, here's why the company is now in its villain era
Our data has been up for grabs for years, but for many the prospect of AI being trained on users’ files was a step too far

9 October 2024
Can artists protect their work by suing AI companies?
When it comes to copyright infringement, establishing culpability and illegality in the age of artificial intelligence is murky

16 July 2024
In Guggenheim exhibition, Jenny Holzer grapples with the post-internet world she helped inspire
A lacklustre show begs the question: can Holzer survive the scrutiny that her institutional exaltation invites in 2024?

26 February 2024
Harold Cohen's pioneering AI works provide essential context for conversations about generative art
The Whitney Museum of American Art is spotlighting the late art and technology innovator's prescient "AARON" series
