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Why artificial intelligence artists can be seen as ‘builders’, ‘breakers’—or both at once

The Art Newspaper

Take Sougwen Chung, the Chinese Canadian artist and researcher into human-machine collaboration. “I I draw with decades of my own movement data or create proprioceptive mappings triggered by alpha [brain] waves. Builders leverage AI to embrace the artistry of system creation, novel aesthetics and human-machine collaboration.

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Renewed Bern Kunsthalle works to reframe Switzerland's history

The Art Newspaper

Mekondjo’s research delved into the erasure of ancestral cultural practices in Africa—another kind of extraction wrought by European colonialism.

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Raphael’s experiments with innovative painting technique revealed by Vatican Museums restoration

The Art Newspaper

The museums’ scientific research department also played a crucial role, using infra-red imaging and targeted chemical analysis, say officials who added that “the entire project was also documented through a 3D model created with laser scanning—now considered a benchmark for the integrated study of large-scale artistic decorations”.

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‘Research powerhouse’: Abu Dhabi's Zayed National Museum confirms 2025 opening

The Art Newspaper

The building itself is a draw, rivalling the nearby Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. The towers heat up and act as thermal chimneys, drawing cooling currents up through the museum. Researchers have found Qur’anic verses concealed beneath an intricate decorative layer of gold leaf on one of its pages.

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Hoard of stolen documents—including logbook of the ‘saviour of the Netherlands’—recovered by art detective

The Art Newspaper

His suspicions were confirmed upon seeing the objects in person, and he agreed to take the box on the condition that if the contents were stolen he would return them to their rightful owner. Despite being gone for a decade, he says the documents were in “perfect condition.”

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Home of murdered Pakistani artist Ismail Gulgee becomes a museum

The Art Newspaper

Pointing to the bold, spare lines of a black-and-white drawing on display, Amin says: “You can really feel Zainul Abedin in some of his sketches.” By opening his doors to researchers, school groups, and individual art lovers on an appointment basis, Amin has rescued his father from that obscurity.

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Resistance is febrile at this summer's Rencontres d’Arles

The Art Newspaper

Echoes from a Near Future , a solo show by the Canadian artist Caroline Monnet, draws on her Anishinaabe heritage to give a platform to Indigenous women, while Brandon Gercara’s Magma in the Ocean presents a transgressive queer narrative from his homeland, Reunion Island.