Chicago's Merchandise Mart will use its facade as the world's largest digital art projection

Keeping in line with Chicago’s storied commitment to public art, River North’s Merchandise Mart (now known as theMART) is transforming into the largest and longest running digital art projection in the world starting this fall. Featuring a 25-story tall video across 2.5 acres of...read more.

Paris’s first digital art museum: all lit up at Atelier des Lumières

It’s 11.30am on a sunny Tuesday and I’m in rue Saint-Maur, in Paris’s 11th arrondissement, queuing to collect pre-booked tickets for the noon showing at L’Atelier des Lumières – Paris’s first digital museum of fine art. It’s worth the wait.  Read more.

Surrealism in the digital age: Beirut exhibition looks at new wave of 20th-century art movement

While some may argue that Surrealism died along with its founder André Breton in 1966, the art world’s fascination with the irrational, complex inner-workings of the mind—and the Surrealist aesthetic—lives on. The Trick Brain (until 20 September) at the Aishti Foundation in Beirut, Lebanon, looks at the idea of “neo-Surrealism”, described by Massimiliano Gioni, the show’s curator and the associate director of...read more.