Think of your favorite piece of art—a painting, a song, a novel, a movie or even a video game—and try to remember why it made such a strong impression on you. Was it the color, the cadence of notes, ...

Angelo Sotira started the online digital art platform DeviantArt when he was just a teenager, growing a formative community for millions of artists in the 2000s. Twenty-five years later, Sotira wants ...

When artwork is invented by a machine, it loses its most important power: to help people connect. In an already lonely era, that is particularly dangerous The artificial intelligence (AI) giant OpenAI ...

Imagine standing in front of a painting, its colors and shapes pulling you into a world of emotion and thought. Perhaps you feel joy, nostalgia, or even sadness. What is happening in your brain at ...

Not every art institution could, or should, be everything to everyone. Tucked away in big cities, leafy suburbs and college towns, some of America’s most beloved museums offer intimate and surprising ...

Artists and writers all over the world have spent the past two years engaged in an existential battle. Generative-AI programs such as ChatGPT and DALL-E are built on work stolen from humans, and ...

No matter how powerful generative AI becomes, writer Ted Chiang says it will never create true art. Chiang is one of the most admired science-fiction authors writing today, best known for the novella ...

Have you ever had pent-up stress that you couldn’t express in words? Or feelings you didn’t want to share because they felt too painful or shameful? Art therapy is one way to release stress. It’s all ...

AI art isn’t just showing up on the platform in droves, but DeviantArt is actively promoting the bots that pedal it, writes Slate. And those bots are reportedly earning tens of thousands of dollars, ...

Two companies that have developed artificial intelligence (AI) image generators argued for the dismissal of a class action lawsuit brought by artists who claim the businesses scraped their work ...

Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a contributing editor of City Journal. Updated December 4, 2014, 9:16 AM Anyone who glorifies graffiti needs to answer ...