Digitalization, the third technological revolution of history, is transforming societies globally and driving the third paradigm revolution in the liberal arts. The liberal arts paradigm refers to a coherent framework that spans from concept to practice, from teaching to research, and from academia to knowledge. While rooted in Kuhn's concept of a paradigm, it specifically denotes a coherent and integrated system of resources/materials, methods/technologies, and theoretical perspectives within the liberal arts. The first paradigm revolution in the liberal arts was the academic revolution, the second was the quantitative revolution, and the third is the ongoing human-machine intelligent revolution. The digital and intelligent transformation of the liberal arts facilitates an exploratory mode of knowledge creation, progressing from material pixelation to theory production intelligence. The “New Liberal Arts” initiative, advocated and promoted by the state, represents an organizational practice of this paradigm revolution in China. If this unfolding paradigm revolution is conceptualized in four stages—material pixelation, pixel-to-data conversion (datamation), data driven theorization, and theory produced from intellectualization—current efforts are predominantly in the first two stages. The subsequent stages are likely to advance interactively.