With shortened attention spans and constant technological distractions, some museums are getting rid of labels altogether
Our columnist gazes into her crystal ball to spot the major trends—from London regaining its lustre to AI fatigue—that are set to dominate the trade over the coming 12 months
At Art Basel Paris, “the art world seemed to be staging a rally for art created by flesh-and-blood people”
Sam Glatman, the co-founder of Artsignal, which recently received a major vote of confidence in the form of investment from Christie’s Ventures, predicts that it will become the “dominant intelligence layer for the art world”
The Hong Kong entrepreneur also spoke about his love for Monet, Matthew Wong and the Medici family in an interview hosted off the back of the latest K11 Art Foundation Salon
The Beijing-born artist and activist has recently spent time near the front line in Ukraine and is unveiling a major new commission in Kyiv—a large-scale installation responding to armed conflict—as well as a site-specific intervention made from Lego on a Ukrainian train
The Norval AI tool is being used to determine the authenticity of works alleged to by the Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau
The work, which is travelling to London’s Somerset House in October, comprises a panoramic installation featuring a 12k LED, 26-million-pixel screen
Cuts in federal, state and county funding—sometimes to nil—are pushing South Florida’s arts ecosystem to the brink
The 15th-century prayer book, commissioned by the Duc de Berry, is on display at the Condé Museum
Following recent reports that Prime Minister Keir Starmer wants to dismantle the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, experts and politicians weigh up the pros and cons of such a move
Legal experts discussed the pressing topics for institutions at a recent conference in Washington, DC
The presence of AI in every aspect of life has been a fact for the past 20 months. With the publication of the Stanford AI Index, two areas have come into focus. For museums, how to work with industry giants, without having their offering "distanced" by the summarising power of AI. For artists, how to thrive where sources of production are being monetised in Silicon Valley
The Chinese artist will unveil a new work this week at the Southbank Centre for the English PEN 100 festival championing freedom of expression
A special roundtable conversation touching on some of the biggest issues facing museums: from the need to address colonial histories to sponsorship and AI
The artist Refik Anadol, the museum director Thomas Campbell and the Future Art Ecosystems team at Serpentine share insights on how to thrive while working with artificial intelligence in 2024
Concerns about access, expertise and data sourcing have overshadowed the enormous power and potential that AI image generators offer
Even the science-themed PST Art exhibitions, opening in Los Angeles in September, avoid the tech revolutions of our day
The proposed museum would probably be in New York
Raed Yassin says there are "striking similarities" between his ceramic series on the Lebanese civil war and Ai's pieces on the Syrian war and refugee crisis
As the generation that served in the war ages, an experiential museum in New Orleans seeks to keep their voices alive
What can museums and heritage institutions do about disinformation powered by artificial intelligence?
How do algorithms see and shape the world? An exhibition at Basel’s HeK explores the often uncomfortable coexistence of humanity and AI
'Wilderness' breaks conceptual boundaries by leading its viewer into a multi-layered allegory, questioning what it means to exist on this planet as we are enveloped by the digital realm
Light Art Space wants visitors to understand the world through a computer’s eyes
The Tulum-based art space is putting out an open call, with the winner receiving cash and a two-month residency
A Swiss company has examined a version of Rubens’s ‘The Bath of Diana’, which was long thought to be a copy, and believes it could be authentic—the leading authority on the artist takes a different view
The “art explorer” project allows the Dutch museum's vast holdings to be more searchable
Artists have a history of giving cultural and social relevance to new technology. Recent exhibitions of artificial intelligence art and a sale at Christie's New York highlight new approaches to collective ownership and governance that are applicable to the wider community
Artificial intelligence's impact on the arts and the changing face of global art institutions were among the main themes at the illustrious event on Saadiyat Island
Plus, the AI copyright debate in the US and the end of China’s museum boom
One of the jewels of the Frick Collection in New York has been analysed using Art Recognition’s Artificial Intelligence model
Plight of thousands fleeing war zones inspires creative humanitarian responses
An emergency decree means that all museums in the country are on lock down until 3 April
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
UK museums’ close ties questioned after poet imprisoned for 15 years
Dissident artist says that European museums in China are betraying their own values
The artist was 'shocked and surprised' after 'Porcelain Cube' was destroyed by a man at Palazzo Fava in Bologna
The dissident Chinese artist on why he's tackling the global refugee crisis in his first exhibition in the Gulf
Twenty-eight pieces have been purchased from collector Larry Warsh
Is this change in China a cause for celebration?
Institutions including the Tate, V&A and Pompidou are forging partnerships with the country despite terrible human rights abuses
The annual award, under the patronage of Japan’s Imperial Family, spans five categories including painting, sculpture and architecture
Our chief contributing editor Gareth Harris will examine attacks on freedom of artistic expression and issues like ‘cancel culture’, providing valuable insights and context
Italian authorities are using artificial intelligence to identify works of art up for sale that may have been stolen or trafficked
Brazen incident raises questions about museum security in Russia
The Swiss collector is donating 1,463 Chinese contemporary works, with plans to sell another 47
In the game-changing era of NFTs and AI, the city’s diversified art ecosystem has helped it play catch-up as the medium’s global hub
Multi-millionaire collector lures director away from Amsterdam to lead contemporary art space
Digital challenges and the social and economic changes sparked by cultural transformation are among issues aired
How the Basel-based architects were influenced by the ideas and art of Donald Judd and Rémy Zaugg
Exhibitions in Russia of homegrown artists attract proportionally greater numbers than blockbusters in other countries
As The Art Newspaper marks its 25th anniversary, the optimistic world of 1989 has given way to a more troubled age
Public and private institutions in Venice, Milan and Turin will stay closed for at least a week as more than 200 cases of Covid-2019 are confirmed
As museums rush to upload online content during lockdown, we speak to some of the people who have been championing innovative digital work for years
The V&A’s new, German-born director Martin Roth on what he learned in Dresden—and Beijing
As lockdown continues, video games are proving to be ripe territory for artists and budding curators to experiment (and play)
Thomas Campbell, former Met director, sizes up challenges for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
After more than a year in his new job, we interview the director about his priorities
The Palais Populaire will be a permanent exhibition space for the bank's 55,000 works
Many visitors responded to the change with a shrug, although some were more critical of the mandatory charge
Sophisticated technology is helping institutions count people but it also has the capability of tracking demographic data, ensuring people are well behaved and even detecting if visitors are enjoying themselves
The written descriptions of works of art are more than just labels—they are a record of evolving cultural understanding, writes Curationist's Amanda Figueroa
A show in Walthamstow examines the influence of the British artist, designer and political activist through a plethora of objects—many donated by the public
A host of artists and activists have followed in the footsteps of the pioneering artist who would have turned 100 this year
Three years on from the NFT explosion, growth in new markets continues
Denis Chuprikov took the landscape from State Tretyakov Gallery with the aim of "causing hype", he says
New York museum made decision after initially resisting wave of protests
In his contribution to Palazzo Strozzi's digital project In Touch, the artist says Italian museums will "give humankind a light" to help find its way after coronavirus
Jean Nouvel-designed museum opens in Doha with multi-sensory history galleries and contemporary art and film commissions
We trawled through museum shops, galleries and bookstores to bring you the finest arty delights
Ayas replaces Charles Esche, who has been in post for two decades, taking the reins ahead of the museum’s 90th anniversary in 2026
New report by Artsy finds that work by women accounted for less than 10% of auction sales in 2022
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 co-founder of Herzog & de Meuron architects on remodelling Messe Basel and the end of Modernity
From printed masks made by Ai Weiwei to art historical masterpieces recreated at home
We look at some of the best trending art campaigns by museums and those that have been a flop, plus how artists use them
Amid threats to freedom, career moves and censorship become hard to tell apart
Beating the most popular paid-for exhibition on home turf, it has been a big win for the museum—but ethical questions linger
But Taipei tops the most visited exhibition list, with a show of works by the 20th-century artist Chen Cheng-po
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?
Works by four artists were created as part of the Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage research project
All you ever wanted to know about the subject, from the story of Carpaccio and Bellini's narrative painting to a Venice guide for little explorers—selected by the curators Annette Hojer and Christine Follmann
Recently, some major galleries have signed high-profile women, many of whom launched artistic careers long before the industry cared
The reborn oil tanks host shows by teamLab, Adrián Villar Rojas and assorted Chinese artists
Collector David Walsh’s celebrated subterranean gallery marks tenth anniversary next month
Government has established €600,000 three-year pilot project called NEXUD to combat illegal trade in antiquities
Venue for socio-political art to open in converted armaments factory in Maubourguet
The death of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny last month, after years of confinement in a Siberian jail, and subsequent quelling of protest, emphasised the flourishing of censorship across a globe riven by geopolitical crises, in a year when democracy is put to the test in more than 70 countries. With the threat of electoral misinformation being boosted by AI-generated content and social media algorithms, artists have been warning of new kinds of censorship. The effect is being felt in real life, online and in social media
Works at Art Basel and beyond aim to stir the conscience and raise funds in aid of the “biggest challenge of our time”
Visitors to the Museum of Art and Photography in Bangalore can pose questions to a "digital twin" of the late Bombay Progressive Group painter
The museum will remove the opioid sellers’ name from multiple locations
Dealers need to participate in international art fairs and have spaces abroad to gain respect back home
Museums and galleries have a fresh opportunity to work with a new type of digital art venue that is spreading around the world, with the power to tell interactive stories of cultural heritage to multiple users using free-roam VR headsets
Charleston, a ramshackle farmhouse complete with painted interiors by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, has launched an emergency crowdfunding appeal
Frameless, which will open in Marble Arch this autumn, hopes to tap into a booming industry for multi-sensory and interactive art attractions
As the Royal Academy hosts a major show of China’s best-known artist, the curators of a forthcoming exhibition of new commissions by Chinese artists argue that the latest art from the country is increasingly global in form and outlook<br>
Ai Weiwei was a hit in Brazil, records were broken in London and Paris—but is this the final year of museum visitor growth?
The city will be taken over this summer by exhibitions and artist projects, including new work by Damián Ortega and Christian Boltanski
From ancient Crete to contemporary China
Pseudonymous NFT collector Cozomo de’ Medici gives Los Angeles County Museum of Art "largest collection of its kind in a US museum"
A former garage becomes an art space, as the Ivory Press publisher inaugurates building designed by her husband
In collaboration with the events platform Art Market Minds, the ten-hour programme will dissect the rapidly shifting contemporary art ecosystem
Cycles in the industry are getting shorter with trends now coming and going within a year
From empathetic documentary photography in King's Cross to Cauleen Smith's Covid Diary broadcast at Piccadilly Circus Lights