Dataland, the First AI Art Museum, Opens in June at Gehry's Grand L.A.

Refik Anadol's Dataland, promoted as the world's first AI art museum, will open in June inside Frank Gehry's Grand L.A. complex. The announcement comes as a new Google DeepMind paper argues that large language models will never achieve consciousness, highlighting a gap between AI marketing and rigorous science. Meanwhile, an analysis of Sora's stalled adoption questions why creative AI tools attract initial users but fail to retain them. In other news, Venice's La Fenice opera house fired incoming music director Beatrice Venezi after she criticized the institution and its audience in an Argentine newspaper. Chicago arts leaders have publicly stated they no longer rely on federal funding as a stable source. A 6th-century New Testament text, long thought lost from reused parchment, has been recovered using 'ghost imaging' technology.