Digital Art | smithsonianmag.comhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/digital-art/RSS feed for Digital ArtenMon, 08 Jun 2026 18:04:03 +0000Which Memes Deserve Digital Preservation? See the Online Videos the British Film Institute Selected for a New Archivehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/which-memes-deserve-digital-preservation-see-the-online-videos-the-british-film-institute-selected-for-a-new-archive-180988912/Viral videos, tutorials, vlogs and livestream snippets produced across decades offer insight into modern culture and communication, archivists say. This material could be lost without efforts to save itMon, 08 Jun 2026 18:04:03 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/which-memes-deserve-digital-preservation-see-the-online-videos-the-british-film-institute-selected-for-a-new-archive-180988912/Fires in Berlin Destroyed Hundreds of Paintings During World War II. Now, a Museum Will Publish Photo Archives of the Lost Artworks Onlinehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fires-in-berlin-destroyed-hundreds-of-paintings-during-world-war-ii-now-a-museum-will-publish-photo-archives-of-the-lost-artworks-online-180988621/A proactive effort to document the collection of the Gemäldegalerie will pay off a century later as negatives of lost paintings by Rubens and Caravaggio are digitized and published onlineMon, 27 Apr 2026 20:25:04 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fires-in-berlin-destroyed-hundreds-of-paintings-during-world-war-ii-now-a-museum-will-publish-photo-archives-of-the-lost-artworks-online-180988621/The World's First Museum of A.I. Art Will Open in Los Angeles as the Art World Ponders Questions of Ethics and Sustainabilityhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-worlds-first-museum-of-ai-art-will-open-in-los-angeles-as-the-art-world-ponders-questions-of-ethics-and-sustainability-180988613/Dataland's immersive exhibitions, generated with artificial intelligence, will debut to the public on June 20, with an inaugural show about rainforests trained on millions of images of natureFri, 24 Apr 2026 20:28:04 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-worlds-first-museum-of-ai-art-will-open-in-los-angeles-as-the-art-world-ponders-questions-of-ethics-and-sustainability-180988613/David Hockney Used an iPad to Create This Sprawling 295-Foot-Long Frieze Inspired by the 11th-Century Bayeux Tapestryhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/david-hockney-used-an-ipad-to-create-this-sprawling-295-foot-long-frieze-inspired-by-the-11th-century-bayeux-tapestry-180988371/The artwork, which depicts the changing seasons in Normandy, is the centerpiece of "A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts About Painting," a new exhibition in LondonThu, 19 Mar 2026 16:02:45 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/david-hockney-used-an-ipad-to-create-this-sprawling-295-foot-long-frieze-inspired-by-the-11th-century-bayeux-tapestry-180988371/Artist Sneaks Framed A.I. Portrait and Accompanying Label Onto a Museum's Gallery Wallhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/artist-sneaks-framed-ai-portrait-and-accompanying-label-onto-a-museums-gallery-wall-180987691/The artificial-intelligence-generated image hung in Wales' National Museum in Cardiff for a few hours before staffers and museumgoers noticed its presenceMon, 17 Nov 2025 15:01:26 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/artist-sneaks-framed-ai-portrait-and-accompanying-label-onto-a-museums-gallery-wall-180987691/David Hockney’s iPad Drawings of Winter's Transformation Into Spring Blow Past Estimates at Auctionhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/david-hockneys-ipad-drawings-of-winters-transformation-into-spring-blow-past-estimates-at-auction-180987543/Seventeen works from the artist's 2011 series went for more than $8 million at a Sotheby's sale on October 17Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:31:45 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/david-hockneys-ipad-drawings-of-winters-transformation-into-spring-blow-past-estimates-at-auction-180987543/Christie's Helped Drive the Art World's NFT Craze. Now, the Auction House Is Shutting Down Its Digital Art Divisionhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/christies-helped-drive-the-art-worlds-nft-craze-now-the-auction-house-is-shutting-down-its-digital-art-division-180987306/Once a booming sector, the nonfungible token art market has been contracting for yearsTue, 09 Sep 2025 17:29:06 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/christies-helped-drive-the-art-worlds-nft-craze-now-the-auction-house-is-shutting-down-its-digital-art-division-180987306/Graduate Student Develops an A.I.-Based Approach to Restore Time-Damaged Artwork to Its Former Gloryhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/graduate-student-develops-an-ai-based-approach-to-restore-time-damaged-artwork-to-its-former-glory-180986799/The method could help bring countless old paintings, currently stored in the back rooms of galleries with limited conservation budgets, to lightFri, 13 Jun 2025 20:21:02 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/graduate-student-develops-an-ai-based-approach-to-restore-time-damaged-artwork-to-its-former-glory-180986799/At a Massive New David Hockney Retrospective, Spring Never Endshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/at-a-massive-new-david-hockney-retrospective-spring-never-ends-180986392/The exhibition features more than 400 of the 87-year-old artist's works, which are spread throughout the Louis Vuitton Foundation in ParisMon, 14 Apr 2025 19:35:37 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/at-a-massive-new-david-hockney-retrospective-spring-never-ends-180986392/See How Talking Portraits Bring the Greatest Living Shakespearean Actors to Lifehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-how-talking-portraits-bring-the-greatest-living-shakespearean-actors-to-life-180985677/A collection of ten digital portraits of famous thespians—including Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Harriet Walter—are on view at the Red Eight Gallery in LondonFri, 20 Dec 2024 18:48:47 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-how-talking-portraits-bring-the-greatest-living-shakespearean-actors-to-life-180985677/