“Creativity scores for 1710 paintings from Artchive dataset. Each point represents a painting. The horizontal axis is the year the painting was created and the vertical axis is the creativity score.” ...

When it comes to fine art, there is scarcely a collector who hasn't been fooled or almost fooled by an extremely well-crafted fake being passed off as a masterpiece by an artistic giant like Raphael, ...

Art history academics and geeks, prepare to be disappointed: Scientists have developed a computer algorithm that accurately rates the creativity of artworks throughout history, with Pablo Picasso, ...

It takes a trained eye to assess all the different components of a painting, and it’s even more difficult to amass the knowledge needed to put that work in historical context. But what if a computer ...

Making broad differentiations between modern and classic paintings can be fairly easy for the untrained eye, but telling the difference between an Impressionist and a Post-Impressionist painting may ...

Few areas of academic inquiry have escaped the influence of computer science and machine learning. But one of them is the history of art. The challenge of analyzing paintings, recognizing their ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. We live in a world that’s increasingly controlled by what might be called “the algorithmic gaze.” As we cede ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

[Photo: Depixelizing Pixel Art] I love gaming on an HDTV, but I still keep an old CRT around just so I can play some Genesis or Nintendo games, because 8-bit graphics blown up in resolution by three ...