AI Art Curators: Can Machines Really Judge “Good” Art?
In 2022, a colossal 24-foot installation filled the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Refik Anadol’s Unsupervised trained an artificial intelligence on the publicly available metadata of MoMA’s entire collection — 200 years of art history compressed into a fluid, ever-shifting visual dream. Visitors were transfixed. Studies showed the average person […]
Algorithmic Curation: How Instagram and TikTok Are Deciding What Art We See (And What It Means for Artists in 2026)
In January 2023, researchers at Oxford University’s Internet Institute conducted a fascinating experiment. They asked Instagram’s algorithm and a human artist—London-based Fabienne Hess—to each curate an exhibition from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection. Both sorted through thousands of images and selected 20-30 to display in a particular order and layout. The results revealed something […]