We are excited to celebrate the recent acquisitions of Chromie Squiggles and CryptoPunks into @MuseumModernArt's permanent collection. We are all profoundly grateful to the artists and collectors who supported this important donation, uniting the collective generosity of this amazing community. MoMA has been championing transformative art of the modern era for nearly a century and remains at the vanguard as we peer into the digital frontier. Thank you to @ArtOnBlockchain, @CozomoMedici, @gmoneyNFT, @jdh, @judithESSS, @kukulabanze, @larvalabs, @NTmoney, @Rhyd0n, @squiggleDAO, and @VonMises14 for your profound generosity, as well as to MoMA’s Stuart Comer & Michelle Kuo for their extraordinary support and curatorial vision.

They said photography wasn’t art. They said cinema wasn’t art. They said video games weren’t art. Now they say AI arts/digital art isn’t art. I’ve spent over a decade with my studio team turning millions of data points into living, breathing artwork experiences ethically — at MoMA, at the Guggenheim, at the Venice Biennale. Not because a machine told me what to create, but because I had a vision that no traditional tool could realize. Denying all AI technologies as an artistic medium doesn’t protect art. It limits it. The artists who embrace new tools don’t replace the old masters — they join them. Art is not defined by the brush. It’s defined by the intention, the emotion, and the courage to see the world differently.

new yorkers: see you tonight! 💙

AI Art is also Digital Art. Period. If your critique starts and ends with "AI bad and theft etc," you're not protecting art — you're avoiding a conversation. Have you looked basically into how we collect our data? Ethically sourced recognized by United Nations. Have you asked what powers our AI research work? Sustainable compute recognized by UNEP. Have you heard of the Large Nature Model — an AI trained on the living data of nature itself, not scraped from the internet and collected by us last 3 three years to be open sourced? You don't have to use AI. I respect that and I got it. But dismissing something you haven't researched isn't criticism — it's fear wearing the mask of principle. Curiosity built every art movement in history. Why do you let yours end here?

• I closely followed the reactions to @refikanadol 's works at the exhibitions we visited twice, and I also brought along two friends who aren't particularly interested in art to add to my mini experiment. Some things I observed: 1. Some people say they see a dreamlike effect in Anadol's works, and these people are pointing to something unique. 2. This art makes even people who are not interested in art part of the story; people want to look back one more time even as they walk out the door. 3. Anadol's interdisciplinary fusion style is noticeable, and people want to see themselves in this seamless flow.

Refik Anadol: "There is also a professional tension embedded in this – I genuinely believe I am only ever as good as my next project. It is a demanding inner algorithm that ensures each new endeavor is more challenging than the last." From Beyond the Algorithm: Refik Anadol on AI, Art, and the Future of Museums for HYPE&HYPER Magazine, August 13, 2025.

guess what i’m bringing with me to nyc… 📚📗

Glenn Lowry: "[Anadol] wrote some algorithms that allowed the data from one object to evolve into the data of another object to become yet a third object or a fourth object never before seen... people found it deeply satisfying." Former Director of MoMA, for 60 Minutes.

Exactly my experience. That s a big reason why I hang Refik’s art in my living room. I always call his large works “perception altering experiences”. Fun to see science agree, almost literally.

I was honored to be one of the 31 people invited by MoMA and RAS to be part of this study. It was epic to spend 20 minutes sitting alone and in silence in front of Unsupervised. The results definitely match my experience, an increased sense of pleasure through the observation.

Yes, this is poetry. 💚 @MuseumModernArt

Glenn Lowry: "One has to recognize that works of art that challenge you are always going to be misunderstood by many at first." Former Director of MoMA speaking on @refikanadol’s UNSUPERVISED (Nov 19, 2022–Oct 29, 2023) for 60 Minutes.

Refik Anadol Studio: "The average amount of time that a visitor spends gazing at 'Unsupervised' is 38 minutes. For comparison, the average viewing time of a typical famous work of art, such as 'Starry Night,' is 27.2 seconds."

Digital art & Refik on 60 Minutes… love to see it 👏