Artificial intelligence attempts to offer objectivity in the inherently subjective field of authentication

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”

Japanese galleries return in full force this year, while the percentage of women photographers shown has increased

Ahead of the sale of a Robert Alice blockchain-based painting at Sotheby's New York, Smith discusses his support for bitcoin and collecting digital art

A group of business leaders, cultural figures, innovators, and curators, and institutional leaders met in Paris in October to discuss the health benefits and political soft power of art and culture

Sparkly accolades punctuate the art world calendar and are honey pots for museums and artists alike

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 art market is failing to attract the highest spenders, whose sights are set on other investments as the trade plateaus

The fair is unfolding amid market jitters and following a string of gallery closures, but dealers were upbeat and reporting solid sales during the VIP preview

The unglamorous world of art market logistics is set to become much more efficient, says Convelio shipping founder Edouard Gouin

Cultural and business leaders from around the world highlight the central role of artists in shaping human-centred futures at a time of rapid advances in artificial intelligence, blockchain and quantum computing

Tiroche DeLeon collection focuses on works from developing countries<br>

The Chinese artist will unveil a new work this week at the Southbank Centre for the English PEN 100 festival championing freedom of expression

The robotic brainchild of British gallerist Aidan Meller will make her auction debut on Halloween

The artist-activist defends free speech in a lengthy response, but says that the gallery’s decision is “for his own well-being”

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

Artificial intelligence art projects are popping up everywhere, forcing difficult questions around artist agency, copyright and market value

Mauritshuis currently has 170 works on display as part of its “My Girl with a Pearl” initiative while Vermeer’s masterpiece is on loan

Investment in public data libraries and technology skills is welcomed, but the human creativity at the heart of art needs protection from unconstrained generative AI

Ai-da is an artist, she marks a challenge to the category, and it is in this sense that she becomes Duchampian, argue her creators

Design Museum exhibition brings together more than a million pieces collected by the artist including spouts and Stone Age tools

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

Danish parliament has approved plans to allow police to seize cash and valuables from refugees entering the country

Only humans can make proper sense of the world, Bendor Grosvenor argues

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

Charlie Engman is creating a counter to the “internet nerd culture” imagery widely associated with generative art

How do algorithms see and shape the world? An exhibition at Basel’s HeK explores the often uncomfortable coexistence of humanity and AI

With no auction precedent and little primary market data, Christie's sale of a work made by an algorithm tests demand

The New York-based painter’s work with machine learning generates backgrounds based on his previous work, which he then transforms into new paintings—with some of the results now on show in London

With lessons learnt from NFTs, expert calls for legal guardrails to allow “trinity” of blockchain, responsible AI and smart contracts to launch an “automated economy”

Institutions including the Tate, V&A and Pompidou are forging partnerships with the country despite terrible human rights abuses

Collecting power couple and honorary alumni Peter and Paula Lunder’s gift will launch a new research centre for American art

The country is flexing its crypto-friendly credentials, while an art fair dedicated to all things digital is making its debut this week

The artist marries nature and technology in the ambitious new exhibition

From languages to historic artefacts, the company will use technology to preserve and celebrate traditional cultures

Three years on from the NFT explosion, growth in new markets continues

Our chief contributing editor Gareth Harris will examine attacks on freedom of artistic expression and issues like ‘cancel culture’, providing valuable insights and context

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

The artist Sky Hopinka and three recipients will receive $25,000 and residencies at an Ai Weiwei-designed home in upstate New York

Is this change in China a cause for celebration?

New York museum made decision after initially resisting wave of protests

The Turner Prize-winning artist delves into the subatomic make-up of nature with the tech giant, working with quantum hardware—the next big technological wave after AI

How did his forecasts weather the roughest turbulence the trade has experienced in years? Read on to find out

With a focus on melting ice caps, Joseph Fowler, the World Economic Forum’s head of arts and culture, completes an environmental trilogy of opening concerts at the forum's annual meeting in Davos

Further weak auction results, plus economic turmoil, raise fears the trade may have passed its peak

Recently, some major galleries have signed high-profile women, many of whom launched artistic careers long before the industry cared

As Phillips presents the first ever auction dedicated to the medium, we consider what it is and how it is curated

New Tokyo show follows artist's trilogy of technology-focused works exploring the Greek god

Team led by neuroscientist used stem cells originating from Alvin Lucier's blood to create sound installation

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

Trustees’ £142m property deal commutes their current lease

Philip B. Lind left the Toronto museum a trove of works by Stan Douglas, Jeff Wall, Ai Weiwei, William Kentridge, Laurie Simmons and others

The pandemic-delayed expansion features an interactive exhibition by the Japanese contemporary art collective that was designed to disorient

The crypto entrepreneur spoke to The Art Newspaper about his journey into collecting, how he feels technology is transforming the art market, and more

Hong Kong, Shanghai, Paris, Bicester—the retail trend is all about boosting “dwell time”

As we enter the final weeks of the season, check out these riveting reads, from “the best novel about painting” to a book with no words at all

Artists from Magdalene Odundo to Ai Weiwei are demonstrating that the art form goes way beyond the "applied"

The boom in digital art tokens may have turned to bust, but the Dubai fair is putting them front and centre as the NFT market in the city flourishes

The work on paper, purchased at Christie’s New York in 2014, was allegedly paid for with money embezzled from Malaysia’s 1MDB sovereign investment fund

This year's city-wide event is emphasising London as a location in which to experience non-traditional image-making

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>

Dealers need to participate in international art fairs and have spaces abroad to gain respect back home

The selection of 80 works is a peek at the Swiss collector Uli Sigg’s comprehensive collection of contemporary Chinese art

Having for years viewed each other with suspicion, relations between agencies and galleries may start warming up

Royal Academy’s artistic director is an unexpected choice

Connect BTS will take place across five cities and involve commissions by artists such as Antony Gormley and Tomás Saraceno

Figures are going beserk for work that looks good on Instagram—but the market struggles to find the same fervour for conceptually ambitious, politically engaged art

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

Actor’s tortured solo performance as a thief fails to steal the show

Auction house's head of sale Max Moore has already personally bought a work by the artist

Sales analyses show a clear reversal in growth trajectory as the top end continues to cool

Last month’s edition was the last for Rita Aoun, who has made the event a popular annual fixture since its first appearance in 2008

In lieu of an October fair, the blue-chip galleries will congregate around the Mayfair street during what would—under normal circumstances—be the London art market's busiest month

The artist discusses his materials and his potentially explosive new book

Art has long been hitched to luxury goods, but it is now becoming a more democratic—or commercial—concept as malls begin to incorporate exhibition space

The spotlight tends to fall on big spenders, but what of “professional class” buyers, who often feel intimidated by the art world?

The donation, from the Vancouver-based collector and businessman Bob Rennie, is the largest in the gallery's history

In three exhibitions in Southern California this September the artist imagines future worlds for Indigenous peoples — and allows children to create their own world with Velcro

An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality

Our beleaguered art colleagues need our help and we must not turn our backs on Chinese art institutions, says Philip Dodd, head of Made in China

The technology offers the promise of a world in which a work of art’s provenance is held on a single database—if it lives up to the hype

Art as a blue-chip investment has had its day, as buyers chase the latest "red-chip" names

The German capital once attracted talent from across the world with its cheap rents, but gentrification is making an exodus already seen in London and New York

The artist on portraying ordinary people and travelling the world with a “local spirit”

Some 50 galleries and institutions participated this year in the Art Basel-backed event

While ancient art and ceramics remain popular, Contemporary Chinese art is taking off at home, and buyers outside the mainland are slowly looking toward Western art

Our expert panel of artists and storytellers review extended reality exhibitions and events

Asian buyers are now the biggest spenders at international auctions and these digitally-native collectors are happy to splurge online

The non-profit organisation is hosting a dozen shows at its glittering French outpost, with many exemplifying the potency of its mission

As the mayor pledges to move Silicon Valley to the city, Art Basel in Miami Beach ramps up its NFT offerings

First survey of gallery and auction house staff reveals problems with job security, career paths and inequality

The newly appointed museum director plans to promote site-specific and politically engaged projects

Museums must widen the ways in which they serve their audiences to reflect new forms of social interaction

The artist has unveiled an otherworldly work for the Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana that envelops a frontier-era school with swells of willow saplings

The heads of Christie's, Bonhams and Phillips speak on market shifts, challenges and why they believe their model will succeed

Georgina Adam speaks with three leading art world figures on the key events of last year and what 2019 may hold

The Art Newspaper is co-hosting a live YouTube discussion on digital innovations and the preservation of cultural heritage on 1-3 May

The Italian curator, who has organised exhibitions and events throughout the world, reveals the thinking behind her female-dominated exhibition The Milk of Dreams

Trade condemns the move and prepares for mayhem of no-deal Brexit

Two books take a look at the past and future of the non-fungible token. Once seen as the creature of market hype, the NFT now promises the first shared technical standard for the digital art world

Concerns about access, expertise and data sourcing have overshadowed the enormous power and potential that AI image generators offer