From the New York Times: Digital Creations Come of Age.

The British artist David Hockney caused a small sensation in May by creating “paintings” on his iPhone, using a special application to draw with his fingers on the screen – a consecration, if one was needed, of digital technology as a medium of contemporary art.

Around the world, major institutions including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York have opened departments devoted to the genre. Avant-garde collectors, too, like Richard and Pamela Kramlich in San Francisco, are homing in.