digital art

Inside Concrete at Alserkal Avenue, a glowing 7-metre globe of Earth takes centre stage — this is Gaia by UK artist Luke Jerram. Created from detailed NASA imagery and illuminated from within, the installation formed a highlight of Quoz Arts Festival, inviting visitors to reflect on our planet’s beauty, fragility, and shared future.
Dubai Highlights Culture to Build a Better Future

As government funding for cultural programs decreases in Western countries, a different trend appears in the Middle East, where culture is increasingly viewed as a key driver for…

Digital artwork by Mike Winkelmann showing a giant white and orange torus with greebles in a barren landscape that also features a tree and a man approaching the torus. One of the images used in Everydays: The First 5000 Days by Mike Winkelmann (known professionally as Beeple). License
What Is the Future of NFTs and Digital Art?

The impending closure of Christie’s digital…

Barry x Ball Studio
A Look at the Advancements of Tech in Art With Barry X Ball

The first time I experienced the work of artist Barry…

Yan Wang Preston, Egongyan Park, Chongqing, China, 2017, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund
An Intersection of Art & Science at PST Art

In a broad sense, art and science have always occupied two…

This piece, Self reflection, was made by a student from Oregon in the grades 10-12 Group. In explanation of the artwork, this student wrote: “I care for myself by seeing the best in me,” adding, “When I look in the mirror, I try reminding myself of the beautiful parts of me. I hope that if I feel better about myself, I can help others feel better about themselves as well.”
Highlights from Google’s Student Doodle Challenge
Google’s Student Doodle Challenge is wrapping up its stage of public voting and we thought we’d take a moment to share some of our favorite illustrations. This year's U.S. contest called for…
Corona Quarantine by Omani artist Alia Al Farsi. Image: Courtesy of Alia Al Farsi.
The Best Art Stories from Sekka Magazine - December 2021
Each month, Art & Object is highlighting Sekka's best art stories. Here are the best art stories from Sekka from December 2021.
00:00:23 seconds (1710 x 1294 pixels) Executed in 2021. This lot is accompanied by a physical painting and 18 additional 1/1 archival non-fungible tokens.
Teenage NFT Artists Who Have Achieved Shocking Success
Teens, who grew up on social media and meme culture, have taken to the online art world organically, where NFTs are like physical collector’s items only digital: instead of an oil painting to hang on…
Petra Cortright, Deep URL Submission, 2014. Digital painting on aluminum. 59 x 78 1/2 in. (149.9 x 199.4 cm.) Estimate $15,000 - 20,000, SOLD FOR $43,750.
Digital Artists You Need to Follow on Instagram 
Many of the most prolific and thoughtful digital artists have backgrounds in industries outside of the fine art world such as animation or advertisement. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, they tend to be…
On the Demolition of Al Sawaber by Dana Al Rashid.
Dana Al Rashid’s "Architecture of Memory" at Khaleeji Art Museum
Architecture of Memory tells the story of the construction and reconstruction of modern Kuwait, and presents Dana Al Rashid’s perspectives on the frequent demolition of buildings and houses that are…
Singer Installation view, Avery Singer: Reality Ender, Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street, 2021. Picturing:  Technique, 2021; China Chalet, 2021; Edgelord, 2021.
Reality Ender: The Hits & Misses of Avery Singer’s NYC Premier
In 1988, artist Lynn Hershman Leeson told an interviewer to “imagine a world in which there is a blurring between the soul and the chip.” That mental blur—and the ways in our internet lives, and…
Lovescript Genesis, 2021. Detail.
The NFT Art Market Explained & How to Participate Safely

Even if you can’t hold it in your hands, it is still art—at least, that appears to be the consensus as of mid-2021, when the NFT art market has mushroomed by more than 800 percent—or $429 million—…

A man with dark skin, wearing a suit floats in a pool amongst three pineapples.
Gulf Arab Artists Are Ready for You to See Their Work
The artists’ work represents an authentic depiction of a region that is widely underrepresented and misrepresented. The eruption of social media in recent years is broadcasting their work to the…
Larva Labs Est. 2005, CryptoPunk #6347, 2018.
Five Rare Physical CryptoPunks to be Auctioned at Sotheby’s
Later this month, Sotheby’s will offer five exceptionally rare CryptoPunks. Of the 10,000 Cryptopunks created, only twenty-four were issued in physical form, as certified prints signed by co-creator…
emojis
Illustrating the Power of Emoji
No word would suffice to express the fluency with which these shorthand icons, which have supplanted words in texts and emails and on social media, have become a language unto themselves.…
Green and blue textured painting that abstractly resembles a cascading valley that runs into a sky.
Wo Schiffman and Davey Whitcraft in Aardvarks in Reykjavik
An exhibition of new encaustic paintings and digital art by Wo Schiffman and Davey Whitcraft that confronts complex perceptions of place, belonging, and isolation.