A skate through cyberspace: on the edge with the Now Play This festival of experimental video games
This week, Somerset House houses a selection of avant garde games on the theme of liminality
August 2023
‘I was sleeping on a gravesite’: Rottnest Island’s complex history brought to light
Western Australia’s idyllic tourist spot is better known for quokkas – but Wadjemup, as it’s known to Noongar people, has a 30,000-year history, and a painful colonial past
May 2023
Benny, Björn and Frida drop in for first anniversary of London’s Abba Voyage
Show in which youthful digital avatars of the group perform on stage has sold more than 1.3m tickets
March 2023
Hong Kong department store removes artwork with hidden ‘political content’
‘Keir Starmer just ordered an alpaca airstrike!’ The game that holds up a dystopian mirror to the UK
November 2022
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TechScape: Enter the multiverse – the chat-room game made of AI art
An exciting multiplayer Discord game asks you to find things in the multiverse through an AI image generator. The hallucinatory results could mark a new frontier for AI art
October 2022
The Guardian view on Damien Hirst’s NFTs: posing a burning question
Editorial: The artist is not alone in looking to cash in on content-free art. Only time will separate the stunts from the lasting innovations
Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu; Richard Mosse: Broken Spectre review – the world worn down
The cavernous Turbine Hall has become a spectral memory forest as Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuñamourns the destruction of the Amazon rainforest
‘An incredible work’: David Hockney’s new 5-metre digital artwork unveiled
The 85-year-old British artist plays with traditional still life in his latest exhibition – and stars in its enigmatic centrepiece
September 2022
The web has expanded the reach of art but nothing beats standing in front of a Picasso
Kenan Malik
As MoMa raises funds for online works, let’s remember the thrill of viewing actual objects
The Kuala Lumpur-based artist found an echo of mountains and valleys in the feline form
July 2022
Venice Dance Biennale review – Wayne McGregor delivers sinners and shapeshifters
The British choreographer’s programme includes beguiling digital dance created by Tobias Gremmler, a reckoning with desire from Rocío Molina and seven visions of vice
April 2022
Hack on Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs leads to $3m simian oblivion
Latest mass theft of digital art assets is carried out by phishing post on Instagram
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Alienarium 5 review – an all-together-now of beautiful minds
Fellow aliens Alan Turing, Georgia O’Keeffe, David Bowie et al convene in outer space in the French artist’s beguiling tribute to earthly genius
‘Painting is like a cockroach or a shark, perfectly evolved’: artist Seth Price
He’s made films, written books and is excited by NFTs. So why has the technology-loving New York artist decided to break out his easel?
March 2022
Are NFTs really art?
Collectible and cartoonish, these digital multiples, traded in cryptocurrency, confer membership of an exclusive club – sometimes literally. But do they have any aesthetic value? A critic weighs in
February 2022
‘Profiting off suffering’: AP cancels sale of migrant boat NFT amid backlash
The news agency has since deleted the tweet promoting the sale and called it ‘poor choice of imagery’
January 2022
Julian Lennon to auction NFT of Paul McCartney’s notes for Hey Jude
The Bored Ape NFT craze is all about ego and money, not art
Jonathan Jones
November 2021
Royal Ballet dancer to auction world’s first ballet NFTs
Natalia Osipova hopes to ‘broaden appeal’ of ballet by selling unique digital copies of performances
