Olafur Eliasson launches a virtual reality work and NFT commissioned by MetaKovan—the man who paid $69.3m for 'that' Beeple
The Icelandic-Danish artist talks exclusively to The Art Newspaper about his viewer-first approach to his work Your view matter, which is available to all in AR and VR
Remembering Raymond Briggs: pioneering illustrator and creator of beloved book The Snowman
Briggs used his charming, low-tech visual style to devastating emotional effect in his adult, anti-war books as much as in his beloved children's tales and their film adaptations
Issey Miyake, ground-breaking Japanese fashion designer and favourite of museum costume institutes, has died, aged 84
After surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as a child, Miyake turned to clothes as a modern, optimistic form of creativity, and revived the use of pleats to create wearable, free-flowing, unisex clothes
Getty Museum and Apple team up to recreate William Blake's terrifying visions in augmented reality
Launched at Apple's new shop in London, the artist duo Tin&Ed worked with hip-hop producer Just Blaze to create a new immersive experience
Past futures: Triennale Milano embraces virtual reality to recreate design landmarks from its 99-year history
Tech developers are collaborating with museum curators to build a digital “time machine” to revisit lost installations
Peter Brook, a giant of international theatre whose stage work moved in sympathy with the visual arts, has died, aged 97
Brook's influential "white-cube" 1970 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and his epic 1985 realisation of the Sanskrit epic The Mahābhārata find echoes in art history
New virtual reality work takes us through Albert Oehlen's 'throat, mind and hand' into a drawing
Abstract artist has collaborated with VR specialists to create a work for Art Basel
Acquisitions round-up: Gordon Parks photographs head to the 'mecca of Black education' Howard University in Washington, DC
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
John Sainsbury, former supermarket boss and major patron of British museums, has died aged 94
Benefactors of his gifts include London's National Gallery, Tate Britain, Dulwich Picture Gallery, the British Museum, the Ashmolean Museum and the Royal Opera House
Remembering Patrick Reyntiens, a pivotal artist in the history of stained glass
After making his name on historic projects at Coventry Cathedral and Metropolitan Cathedral in Liverpool, he became an innovative practitioner and influential teacher
Remembering Jackie Matisse, a pioneer of kite art and art in virtual reality who had a special feel for chance and the power of collaboration
She saw 'flying art' as a collaboration with wind and light and found ways to 'fly' her kites underwater and in galleries, kept in motion with blown air and mechanical reels
Remembering Kenzo Takada, the designer and artist who created the first global, multicultural, fashion brand
In everything he made—clothes, spectacles inspired by his trademark round lenses, home furnishings, parfumerie—Takada's love of fine art remained close at hand
Divine People: first biography of Ambrose McEvoy reveals how portrait artist became a darling of London and New York society a century ago
The typescript of Eric Chilston's book, based on primary sources and eye-witness accounts, was rediscovered in 2018 after being thought lost for nearly 40 years
The model challenge: how to capture art in 3D for augmented and virtual reality
As the art world rushes to digitise we look at the different ways to create digital renderings of works
Remembering Luchita Hurtado, painter, eco-warrior and witness to a century of art
The Venezuelan artist— associated with the founders of European Surrealism and the New York School in the 1940s—centred her art on nature and her own life story, and became a sensation in her 99th year
Three-dimensional lift off: The Art Newspaper launches reviews of virtual art
The Covid-19 pandemic has seen the art world renew its engagement with virtual and augmented reality. Now is the time to give this format a critical framework
Extract | The late Peter Beard on being the only photographer to capture Francis Bacon’s work in progress
An excerpt, photographs and collages from the photographer’s re-released book
Remembering Peter Beard, photographer and artist, champion of East African wildlife, friend and collaborator of Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol
Photographer, diarist, and collagist who highlighted the destruction of the African elephant's habitat and bestrode New York society in the era of Studio 54
Peregrine Pollen, who revitalised auction industry and laid the ground for the booming art market of the 21st century, has died, age 89
One of the most dynamic figures in the international expansion of Sotheby's in the 1960s and 1970s, descended from generations of collectors and men of action
Obituary: Nathalie Brooke, a leading figure in the preservation of Venice
A remarkable cultural ambassador in London's art, political, and musical scene and on return visits to her native Russia. One of the founders of Venice in Peril