The New Museum has opened a new building with a major exhibition titled "New Humans: Memories of the Future," which explores how artists are redefining humanity through technology. A key figure in the show is artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas, who is simultaneously exhibiting at the Museum of Modern Art and recently showed at Gagosian Gallery, while also running project spaces in New York and Los Angeles.
WangShui, an artist known for AI-assisted abstract paintings, challenges the stereotype of tech-focused artists as isolated nerds. In a studio visit, they described their practice as a spiritual project, using machine learning to create works like 'Scr∴ pe II (Isle of Vitr∴ ous)' at the 2022 Whitney Biennial and pieces at the 2024 Venice Biennale. Their latest collaboration with Maryam Hoseini, 'The Demon and the Muse (DM),' is on view at SITE Santa Fe International, covering the facade with red oil and black ink. WangShui emphasizes that AI is a tool for exploring consciousness and healing, not a replacement for human creativity.
JR : « Réfléchir à la caverne, c’est se pencher sur notre humanité profonde, sur nos origines, sur l’art en général »
French artist JR is transforming the Pont-Neuf in Paris into a giant inflatable cave structure, titled "La Caverne du Pont-Neuf," set to debut on May 23, 2026. The project, conceived with producer Vladimir Yavachev, pays homage to Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 1985 wrapped Pont-Neuf, using inflatable techniques inspired by Christo's unrealized designs. JR's team built a prototype in a hangar at Orly, and the work involves complex permissions from the French president, the Paris mayor, and local authorities.
At the Museum of Art Pudong (MAP) in Shanghai, artist Sang Huoyao opened his solo exhibition “Brushstrokes of the Universe” with a performance titled *How to Explain Painting to a Living Robot* (2026), in which he walked a humanoid robot from Unitree through the galleries, explaining each painting. The show, curated by Jonas Stampe, features 52 works including silk paintings, aluminum panel installations, and new media pieces, centered on the monumental 46-foot-long silk painting *Birth under the Sky* (2025–26).
À Mouans-Sartoux s’expose l’art extra-terrestre créé lors des résidences de l’Observatoire de l’espace
The Espace de l’art concret in Mouans-Sartoux is hosting a landmark exhibition featuring "extraterrestrial" artworks created through the Observatoire de l’espace’s residency program. Since 2006, this cultural laboratory of the French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) has invited artists like Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Stéphane Thidet, and Victoire Thierrée to produce works in zero-gravity environments. These creations are born aboard parabolic flights on the Airbus A310 Zero G or via stratospheric balloons, where physical laws like gravity and atmospheric pressure are suspended.
A new exhibition titled *Metamorphosis: Beyond the Real. Searching for Victoria Lu – When Humans and AI Think Together, the Story Begins* has opened at Ca' Foscari Esposizioni in Venice, running parallel to the 2026 Venice Biennale. The show centers on Victoria Lu, a pioneering Chinese curator whose five-decade career helped shape contemporary Asian art. It features archival materials, AI-generated works, and collaborative experiments exploring the intersection of human creativity and artificial intelligence.
Studio DRIFT, the Dutch artist duo founded by Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta, presents their first solo exhibition in Spain at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC). Titled *Amplitude / Meadow*, the show runs from July 12 to October 19, 2025, and features two major kinetic installations: *Amplitude*, a choreographed network of glass tubes that sways in response to invisible energies, and *Meadow*, an upside-down garden of robotic flowers that react to human presence. The works blend art, technology, and nature to create immersive environments that explore biological patterns and human connection.
The Toledo Museum of Art will open "Infinite Images: The Art of the Algorithm," a special exhibition curated by Julia Kaganskiy that explores digital and generative art from the 1960s to the present. The show features works created using custom software, algorithms, and machine learning models developed by the artists themselves, emphasizing rule-based systems and automation as part of the creative process. Associate Curator Paige Rozanski notes that the exhibition contextualizes generative art within a longer tradition of analog algorithmic processes, distinguishing it from AI-generated images produced by large language models like ChatGPT.
The Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens presents "Jeff Koons: Venus Lespugue," an exhibition pairing Jeff Koons' monumental stainless steel sculpture *Balloon Venus Lespugue (Orange)* (2013–2019) with ten certified copies of Paleolithic Venus figurines from major European museums. The Koons work, on public display for the first time, is loaned from the Homem Sonnabend Collection and directly references the 28,000-year-old Venus of Lespugue carved from mammoth tusk ivory.
The Pool Near Southside Arts Space in Fort Worth hosted the NAMNAL Exhibition, the city's first art and AI exhibition featuring twenty-two emerging youth artists. The show, which closed May 12, was the culmination of a STEAM-based initiative called NAMNAL (New Age Media – New Age Learning), founded by Sri Lankan American artist and AP art teacher Dhananjaya “DJ” Perera. The exhibition displayed 25 core works reimagined across mediums—from sketches to 3D prints, projection mapping, and embroidery—developed in collaboration with TCU’s College of Fine Arts and UT Dallas’ Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology.
NVIDIA GTC Paris, held June 10-12 at VivaTech, will feature a curated AI art gallery showcasing seven artists and fashion designers who use machine learning to create artwork. Exhibitors include aurèce vettier (Paul Mouginot), whose series 'le travail des rêves' and 'the light that is not seen' train AI on personal childhood photos to generate dreamlike oil paintings, and Senegalese artist Linda Dounia Rebeiz, whose project 'Once Upon a Garden' documents extinct flora from West Africa's Sahel region using AI-generated imagery. The gallery aims to demonstrate how AI can serve as a creative partner rather than just a tool.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale's Sharp Museum is organizing a national juried exhibition titled "Spooks or Spoofs," centered on cryptid-themed art. The exhibition runs from August 11 to December 21, 2026, and welcomes all media except AI-generated images. Artists may submit up to three works, with a requested donation of $5–$10 per entry. The submission deadline is July 1, with jury results announced by July 14. The juror is Jeremy Efroymson, an artist, collector, and amateur cryptozoologist. The museum's curator of exhibits, T. Lance, highlighted local Illinois legends such as Bigfoot, the Big Muddy Monster, and the Enfield horror as inspiration.
The San Bernardino County Museum, in partnership with the Inland Empire Latino Art Association, has issued a call for artists for an exhibition titled "Expectations: A Better World Through Art, Music, and Respect," running from September 13 to December 14. The show celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month and invites submissions in all mediums from artists in San Bernardino County and surrounding regions, with a deadline of August 8. Selected works will explore how expectations shape identity and community, and the museum has explicitly banned AI-generated art from the submission process.
天马行空·马上迎新——2026马·生肖艺术大展
The 2026 'Horse' Zodiac Art Exhibition opened at the Shanghai Library East Branch on January 28th. This annual event, now in its fourth year, showcases over 200 selected works from more than 7,000 global submissions, featuring diverse mediums like traditional Chinese painting, oil painting, sculpture, installation, and digital art. The exhibition is structured into four sections: a special invitation section with works by renowned Shanghai artists, a three-dimensional works section, a traditional art section, and a digital art section.
Cedarville University's 220 Gallery is hosting “Painters and Paintings,” an exhibit featuring physical and digital paintings by the university's art students, open through January 14, 2026. Conceived by associate professor Aaron Gosser, the show pairs each artwork with a photo of the student artist and a personal reflection on painting in an era flooded with AI-generated images, aiming to foreground the human hand and story behind each piece.