Contxt

Introducing Contxt Data: a live view into our archive process, the backbone of our fight against slop in the conversation on contemporary art. We're building the most comprehensive, canonical archive of art. Agentic research runs autonomously, 24/7. Across 2,700 runs, we've added half a million entities to our knowledge graph — 150k claims in the last week alone. And we're only just starting to scale; that number will get wild fast. What sets us apart from pure LLM + web search: no hallucinations. Every fact grounded in verified, citation-ready sources — who said what about whom, when, where, and how. Because culture is only as good as the care you put into it, and slop is not the way. If we want AI to accurately reflect how art can make us feel, we need to give it a way to understand how art is truly spoken about. We're getting ready to share more of the actual archive soon. In the mean time: contxt.art/data @contxt_archive

Imagine building a contxt machine... As a kid I always wondered how you were even supposed to look at a painting. It was often too easy to get overwhelmed when there is a lot going on visually. Unfortunately when overwhelmed, you miss most of what makes them good. So in my quest for more contxt, I built this. A small page, built with @claudeai with insights mostly based off of @Wikipedia, that helps you rabbit hole. Live at contxt.art/howtolook

On your way to Venice? Try Contxt Venice! --> contxt.art/venice

Spoke to @CTerryObserver about @contxt_ai. We'll be rolling out a few very fun things over the next two weeks! observer.com/2026/04/arts-in…

Today we are launching the Public Research Preview for @contxt_ai in collaboration with @bitforms. Try it now: contxt.art/bitforms

Artists can now sign up for the waitlist for @contxt_ai's Footnote. Footnote lets you curate and publish the references, context, and story you want the world to see. 1. You point it at your social media accounts and links, Footnote's agents do the rest. They pull in exhibitions, interviews, reviews, artist statements, appearances, and announcements around your work, building the archive you always wanted without the headache of annotating it yourself. 2. It creates a unified source of truth about you and your work, optimized for both human and AI readability. We believe artists should own their narratives, especially the ones AI is trained on. Your Footnote page is your canonical, structured source of truth. So that when AI talks about your work, it cites what you want it to. 3. If you wish, Footnote lets visitors ask questions. Give curators and collectors a frictionless deep-dive into whats important. Not as a carbon copy of your voice, but as a neutral archivist unearthing your best stories at the right moment.