After you're done bingeing your favorite movies, these art televisions are designed to liven up your wall. I have watched so many times I've lost count. For years, the Andrew Wyeth painting took a prominent place in my living room. Art televisions--the category of TV pioneered by Samsung's Frame and now rapidly expanding with models from many of the major TV producers --combine my passion for movies and shows with an even greater interest in art and photography. When it comes to their performance as televisions, even the best art TVs don't have quite the same punchy colors and speedy refresh rates found on similarly priced standard televisions. However, when the movie is finished, art TVs look a lot better in a room, displaying art and photos on a matte screen with a pristine clarity in a space otherwise wasted by a black box. Art televisions are typically just a little more expensive than a normal 4K TV.

Samsung's 2026 update to The Frame Pro brings meaningful upgrades to the company's already excellent art television line. Paywalled art work requires monthly subscription. The market for art televisions is hot right now. Hisense and TCL also make low-cost models. But if you want the best, Samsung's The Frame Pro is still king.

The stylish art television comes close to outclassing the Samsung Frame Pro. Beautiful design, especially when mounted on a wall. Includes one free set of bezels. Alexa+ is integrated and helpful. The video artwork looks stunning.

Although existing artistic style transfer methods have achieved significant improvement with deep neural networks, they still suffer from artifacts such as disharmonious colors and repetitive patterns. Motivated by this, we propose an internal-external style transfer method with two contrastive losses.

Artist Tom Jung's 1977 painting introduced the world to the look and feel of George Lucas' blockbuster adventure. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Darth Vader's reign has ended. For a brief time, he owned the mantle of "Most Expensive Piece of Star Wars Memorabilia," but before you could say "more wealth than you can imagine" he fell once again, with a new challenger rising to take his place. It was only this past September that a verified screen-used lightsaber hilt wielded by the Dark Lord of the Sith in and set a sales record by fetching $3.65 million.

Emotions are a fundamental aspect of artistic expression. Due to their abstract nature, there is a broad spectrum of emotion realization in artworks. These are subject to historical change and their analysis requires expertise in art history. In this article, we investigate which aspects of emotional expression can be detected by current (2025) vision language models (VLMs). We present a case study of three VLMs (Llava-Llama and two Qwen models) in which we ask these models four sets of questions of increasing complexity about artworks (general content, emotional content, expression of emotions, and emotion symbols) and carry out a qualitative expert evaluation. We find that the VLMs recognize the content of the images surprisingly well and often also which emotions they depict and how they are expressed. The models perform best for concrete images but fail for highly abstract or highly symbolic images. Reliable recognition of symbols remains fundamentally difficult. Furthermore, the models continue to exhibit the well-known LLM weakness of providing inconsistent answers to related questions.

A surrealist painting from the 1940s by Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7m (£41.8m) - shattering the auction record for an artwork by a female artist. The painting went for more than 1,000 times its original auction price in 1980, after a tense bidding battle between two collectors, according to the Sotheby's auction house. The auction also broke the previous record for the highest amount paid for a Kahlo portrait, which sold for $34.9 million in 2021. The work - titled El sueño (la cama), which is translated to The dream (The bed) - depicts Kahlo asleep in a canopy bed beneath a skeleton entwined with dynamite. It marks one of the Mexican artist's most psychologically charged self portraits, Sotheby's said, and was painted during a turbulent chapter in Kahlo's life - the year her former lover was assassinated and shortly after her divorce and remarriage.

The ancient ˁAin Samiya cup is one of the most remarkable finds of the Intermediate Bronze Age. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The message engraved in an ancient goblet's intricate artwork may have a different meaning than experts first believed. After reexamining the renowned ˁAin Samiya cup, an international team of archeologists argue the small, silver drinkware doesn't depict an early iteration of the Babylonian Enuma Elish creation myth. Instead, they now theorize that the engravings illustrate a much more peaceful origin story for the universe.

This position paper argues for the importance of open small AI models in creative independence for interactive art practices. Deployable locally, these models offer artists vital control over infrastructure and code, unlike dominant large, closed-source corporate systems. Such centralized platforms function as opaque black boxes, imposing severe limitations on interactive artworks, including restrictive content filters, preservation issues, and technical challenges such as increased latency and limited interfaces. In contrast, small AI models empower creators with more autonomy, control, and sustainability for these artistic processes. They enable the ability to use a model as long as they want, create their own custom model, either by making code changes to integrate new interfaces, or via new datasets by re-training or fine-tuning the model. This fosters technological self-determination, offering greater ownership and reducing reliance on corporate AI ill-suited for interactive art's demands. Critically, this approach empowers the artist and supports long-term preservation and exhibition of artworks with AI components. This paper explores the practical applications and implications of using open small AI models in interactive art, contrasting them with closed-source alternatives.

An artist sneaked an AI-generated print on to a gallery wall before bemused visitors alerted museum staff. The print was hung up at National Museum Cardiff by secretive artist Elias Marrow, who said his Empty Plate piece - depicting a young boy in school uniform holding a plate - was viewed by a few hundred people before it was removed. One visitor who noticed the artwork asked a member of staff about it, but said the museum worker admitted they had no idea about the piece or when it arrived. An Amgueddfa Cymru spokesperson said: An item was placed without permission on a gallery wall in National Museum Cardiff. We were alerted to this and have removed the item in question.