Tech-led art businesses are starting to attract venture capitalist funding, with the NFT platform MakersPlace recently gaining $30m investment

Buyers and sellers will never know each others identity when transacting through the online site, but its founders say such privacy encourages trust and transparency

Big enough to cross the Atlantic, the high-tech research vessel Alfred Merlin ushers in a new era for French underwater heritage

X-rays and computer algorithms preserve the complicated technique of letterlocking, which turn writing paper into envelope

The Melbourne museum of screen culture reopens with a contactless device that allows visitors to curate virtual collections

High-resolution images of Renaissance treasures go online, revealing the tiniest details of Raphael’s creative process

After a months-long shut down of in-person visits, a group of dealers have turned to online reservation systems initially built to support restaurants

When British troops plundered the Royal Palace of Benin in the 19th century, at least 3,000 objects were dispersed internationally. A new online database is bringing them together

The 2022 edition will exist in virtual reality and use data harvested from universities, galleries and art centres to select artists

Potential of new digital technologies comes to the fore as 5G connectivity expands and specialist equipment becomes more user-friendly

Plus, Rebecca Salter on Léon Spilliaert. Produced in association with Christie's

Plus, Sophie Matisse on her great-grandfather Henri. Produced in association with Christie's

One of the world's oldest rock art sites is now accessible through virtual reality

The unofficial websites were used to sell tickets to the Florentine museum at inflated prices

Digital visualisations gathered for online exhibit will be a “blueprint” for heritage managers planning climate adaptation in the future

With the Louvre revealing its virtual reality Mona Lisa, museums ponder the power of tech experiences

The rise of Big Data means that connoisseurship is being replaced by "intel", which has far-reaching implications for the art world

How often on our walks do we get to an enticing old church, only to find that it’s locked? Mobile phones provide the 'open sesame'

French museums operator Culturespaces has launched a space in South Korea and is planning another in Bordeaux in 2020

Performance using cutting-edge Magic Leap One device is world first

Digital initiative will invite users to explore and sponsor more than 190,000 works in the collection

The AI work that was sold at Christie's is profound in its conservatism, but others reflect how the technology can impact on art in fascinating ways

New technology allows novices and scholars to zoom in on the artist’s sketches and notes

The social media giant also deleted her comments and friends

The missing and crowd averse work has been recovered in Palm Springs, a bit banged up but otherwise intact

Christie’s summit weighs up pros and cons of the technology and how it might bring greater transparency to the art market

Ahead of his retrospective at Washington, DC's Smithsonian American Art Museum, the artist discusses his interest in the social and political implications of technologies, including mass surveillance systems and artificial intelligence

Al-Ula, the most important cultural heritage site in the north-west of the kingdom, will benefit from international standards in heritage preservation and planning

Symposium on the subject to open at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts