Ai Weiwei Uses 650,000 Lego Bricks for Recreation of Monet’s Monumental ‘Water Lilies’
Art fans can already build Lego sets of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe screen prints, Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night, and Hokusai’s The Great Wave. Chinese...
Centre Pompidou Confirms Plans for Seoul Museum, Expanding its Global Network of Outposts
On Monday, the Centre Pompidou in Paris confirmed rumors that it will open a branch in Seoul, expanding a network of outposts that spans Metz, in France, Shanghai,...
‘We ❤️ NYC’ Logo, Intended to Usher in a Community-Centered Future, Sparks Online Debate
New York has a new logo as part of a recent citywide campaign intended to quell concerns about the city’s future and foster civic pride—unfortunately,...
US Copyright Office: AI Generated Works Are Not Eligible for Copyright
The US Copyright Office released a statement of policy last week concerning the copyrighting of works made with artificial intelligence. “These technologies, often described as...
The Dreamlike Haze of Monet’s Work Was Inspired by Air Pollution, New Study Claims
A recent study published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) claims to have proven a theory that air pollution inspired the painter...
New Museum Taps Vivian Crockett and Isabella Rjeille as Curators of the Sixth New Museum Triennial in 2026
Lisa Phillips, the director of the New Museum and Massimiliano Gioni, the Museum’s artistic director, announced Tuesday that Vivian Crockett and Isabella Rjeille have been picked...
Google Releases Bard, Its AI Chatbot, a Rival to ChatGPT and Bing
For more than three months, Google executives have watched as projects at Microsoft and a San Francisco start-up called OpenAI have stoked the public’s imagination...
New Investigation Finds More than 1,000 Objects in Met’s Collection Linked to Antiquities Trafficking
Controversies surrounding the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s antiquities collection continue to mount as a new investigation has identified more than 1,000 objects in the museum’s...
Inside the 3 Months That Could Cost Fox $1.6 Billion
As part of the suit, Dominion obtained thousands of internal Fox emails and text messages and deposed dozens of Fox employees. That evidence shows in...
Book Review: ‘Meganets,’ by David B. Auerbach
“Just one word. Are you listening?” Mr. Maguire said to Benjamin Braddock in “The Graduate” (1967). “Plastics.” Twenty-five years later a puckish French horn player...
Elizabeth Peyton to Debut with New Gallery David Zwirner at Art Basel Hong Kong with a Portrait of the Dealer’s Son
Elizabeth Peyton’s first art fair showing with gallery David Zwirner includes a portrait of Zwirner scion and head of content at the gallery, Lucas Zwirner,...
BONUS: Hard Fork Live! Big Tech’s Arch Nemesis + Bot or Not?
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Multimedia Artist Anna Marie Tendler Faces Backlash from Taylor Swift Fans After TikTok Goes Viral
Photographer and multimedia artist Anna Marie Tendler is facing backlash from fans of Taylor Swift after posting a TikTok last week in which she said...
New Museum Planned for Mexico’s Ancient Maya Complex Chichén Itzá
A new museum will be built at the ancient Maya complex Chichén Itzá in Mexico, considered the country’s most-visited archaeological site, with roughly 2 million...