The World’s First AI Art Museum Has a Strange Way of Honoring the Rainforest

Louis Bury | Art in America | 23rd June 2026

Anadol, a prominent AI artist, has opened the “world’s first AI museum”. Visitors register their biometric data so the show is personalised to them, even down to customised scents. Yet the digital pyrotechnics leave the reviewer unimpressed. The show’s “inaugural exhibition wants to have things both ways—a full-speed-ahead future that also mourns what’s being left behind. Its awkward compromises beget tepid innovations upon stale cultural products”.