The mixed reality headset offers astonishing visual quality. But, as it goes on sale at $3,500 a go, how will it enhance curators' dreams of giving global access to high-fidelity experiences of gallery and museum shows?

Digital art venues are a global phenomenon, attracting massive audiences with radical new forms of immersive experiences. Are they a threat or an opportunity for traditional galleries and museums?

The rise of huge immersive venues, with giant, wraparound programmable LED screens, has provided a new canvas, and potential new audience, for digital artists. We look at four of the main players, from widely varied backgrounds

San Francisco’s Gray Area Festival and the Bay Area Now 9 Exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts show how art can be used to form—and strengthen— communities

Works at the New Contemporaries exhibition at Camden Art Centre will be available to purchase on Gertrude

Think TikTok is just silly videos for kids? Think again—the platform now has seriously useful features and content

The coming year has buttons for everyone to press including a celebration of the computer artist Harold Cohen and Art Dubai Digital

U2’s video programme melds contemporary art, animation and special effects into pure 'spectacle'

Our guide to a fast-moving year in artificial intelligence, blockchain contracts, stadium-scale video, NFTs and social media

A hack that has limited the British Library’s access to its digital systems is the latest in a series of online raids on cultural institutions

Free expression groups and creatives believe the price of “safety” on the internet may be the exclusion of marginalised artists and groups, and an end to online privacy for all

Despite the collapse of the NFT market and scandals involving cryptocurrency exchanges, experts still see potential in the technologies’ potential art world applications

As the generation that served in the war ages, an experiential museum in New Orleans seeks to keep their voices alive

Tezos ecosystem and Arcual blockchain transaction platform disrupt the hedonistic exclusivity usually associated with the art world's winter party in Florida

Digital art platform Kinfolk has launched a four-artist exhibition that is available to view at designated sites through their application

New York museum invites online audience to make and own non-fungible tokens communally on the blockchain in 15-person groups

Many believe new applications—from AI and NFTs to 3D scanning—are game changing in returning objects to source communities. Lawyers say they can make the process harder

The social media platform's lifestyle and education team has been offering services to companies like Sotheby's to help improve content and grow followings

Daniel Ambrosi used Google's AI to reimagine high-res photographs of parkland designed by the 18th-century landscape architect

The initiative is a collaboration between the University of Oxford and Cities and Memory, which since 2015 has been forming a sound map of the world

The opening of Digital Art Fair in Hong Kong is a moment to take stock of how technological developments have changed the nature of digital art

Shows in London and Amsterdam and new works marking 300 years since Christopher Wren’s death reveal artists putting concept first, despite the paralysis of choice offered by infinitely programmable LEDs

Videos of bidding battles for the Queen frontman's possessions resulted in the auction house doubling its TikTok followers in less than a week

The AI Day of Action, scheduled for 2 October, comes as US officials consider whether and how to regulate material generated by artificial intelligence

The King reclaims his throne in an immersive video that will play during U2’s concerts at the city’s new $2.3bn entertainment complex

300 hundred years after the death of Christopher Wren, the London Design Festival has commissioned new pieces of light art for St Paul’s Cathedral and St Stephen Walbrook

New European regulations have required Instagram to reveal how some artists’ accounts have been deprived of visibility. But fears remain over who has access to the culture-shaping power of social media

Connoisseurs and app makers agree on one thing: artificial intelligence-driven apps may supplement but do not replace the human eye and expertise in assessing a picture’s authorship

Art world figures are forging new personalities on the new 'Twitter clone' from Meta

There is more variety than ever in how and why art is funded and the Silicon Valley models have arrived