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16 December 2025

Ecuador's Bienal de Cuenca marks 40th anniversary with a playful theme but a serious tone

The biennial opens its 17th edition with a wide-ranging programme of 17 curators directing the projects of 51 artists across multiple venues

Veronica Pesantes and Charmaine Picard
5 December 2025

‘Endless scrolling induces permanent craving’: panGenerator highlights our unhealthy relationship with technology

The artist collective takes elements of the digital world and turns them into physical installations to bring alive the dangers

Aimee Dawson
3 December 2025

In pictures: flora and fauna at Design Miami

Works at the fair’s 20th edition feature organic shapes, leafy accents and creeping creature comforts

Torey Akers
3 December 2025

Immersive institution could replace South Beach cinema

The Superhuman Museum will combine ‘elements of theme parks, of art museums and of experiential museums worldwide’

Samuel Loetscher
2 December 2025

Art Basel Miami Beach aims to ‘end the year on a high note’

With emerging artists given more prominence, a new sector devoted to digital art and more Miami dealers, the fair has plenty to offer new and returning collectors

Carlie Porterfield
20 November 2025

Collector of Beeple’s $69.3 million NFT work launches space in Singapore

Vignesh Sundaresan, who purchased Everydays: The First 5000 Days in 2021, has unveiled Padimai Art & Tech Studio—which opens with an exhibition made in collaboration with Olafur Eliasson

Lisa Movius
5 November 2025

Five must-see shows this Dublin Gallery Weekend

Running from 6–9 November, the 2025 programme promises “bold, experimental and unapologetic” work

Richard Conway
31 October 2025

Indonesia's 'scarred' art scene regroups following nationwide protests

At Art Jakarta and ruangrupa's anniversary show, key figures from the local scene discuss the impact of the anticorruption demonstrations

Lisa Movius
23 October 2025

Wealthy women spent 46% more on art than male peers in 2024: findings from the latest Art Basel and UBS Survey of Global Collecting

The latest annual report looks at gender and generational differences when it comes to tastes and collecting behaviour

Anna Brady
22 October 2025

Es Devlin to build giant, rotating free library on Miami Beach

The monumental Faena Art commission will anchor a three-part intervention by Devlin, coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach

Benjamin Sutton
16 October 2025

In the frame: photography comes to the fore at Frieze London and beyond

A medium once marginalised in the art world finds new momentum at the fair and in exhibitions across the capital

Anny Shaw
26 August 2020

Going Dutch: teamLab to launch permanent exhibition in the Netherlands in 2024

Immersive installations by the Japan-based collective will be the centrepiece of Nowhere, a new digital art space in Utrecht

Hannah McGivern
17 October 2023

From VR to NFTs: in the year of AI, how should we define digital art?

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

Gretchen Andrew
22 July 2024

Stellar eclipse: pioneering light and sound art duo NONOTAK prepare for first London solo show

Noemi Schipfer and Takami Nakamoto will present three installations at a warehouse space in south London

Louis Jebb
1 November 2014

Rising contemporary art stars from on and off the net

Outstanding new talent from the international art world, in the physical and digital realms

Ben Luke
31 August 2001

Austria’s 15th digital arts festival

This year’s 15th Ars Electronica, the Austrian digital arts competition, is as strong as ever, despite the fact that the digital revolution has been going through its first real crisis

The Art Newspaper
3 June 2016

Berlin cements its lead as Europe’s digital art capital

DIS-curated biennial and the inaugural show of Julia Stoschek’s satellite play to city’s strengths

Laurie Rojas
27 February 2024

Are NFTs dead? Not at Art Dubai

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

Gareth Harris
18 February 2022

NFT art—a sales mechanism or a medium?

The boom in non-fungible tokens is diminishing public understanding of what digital art actually is

Christiane Paul
9 April 2015

Paul Chan: not much to see, but something to think about

The Hugo Boss Prize winner's exhibition at the Guggenheim is spare but smart

Orit Gat
2 June 2025

Sun Woo: ‘I’m interested in how the body navigates unfamiliar territory’

Meet the artist who has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today

Louisa Buck
25 April 2016

Five to see during Berlin Gallery Weekend

Make tracks to the German capital for the bank holiday art extravaganza

Laurie Rojas
21 November 2024

Paintboxed! Artists invited to work with 1980s digital art tool once championed by Keith Haring and Richard Hamilton

ArtMeta art fair and Tezos ecosystem are taking Quantel Paintbox—used by contemporary art giants four decades ago—on a global tour to introduce it to a new generation of creators

Louis Jebb
11 November 2016

Can you digit? A media art pioneer celebrates 15 years

New York's bitforms gallery brings show of digital works to San Francisco

Jane Morris
30 June 2001

Synthesiser’s synthetic synthesis: Interview with leading New Media artist Leo Villareal

He talks to The Art Newspaper ahead of his upcoming show at White Columns

Adrian Dannatt
13 March 2019

Van Ham to auction 4,000 contemporary works from SØR Rusche collection

Dutch Old Masters in the retailer’s corporate collection are to be sold at Sotheby’s

Catherine Hickley
24 August 2020

Photo London abandons socially distanced fair to go online

Decision "feels like natural progression for the market”, exhibitor says

Tom Seymour
1 December 2010

Art Institute of Chicago and London’s V&A keep pace with digital creativity in their collecting and curation

Techno-design is go for museum collections

Nicole Swengley
1 December 2009

Saving the ephemeral art gallery: The director of Tate Liverpool on preserving institutional history

'History is unpredictable, and we cannot know which obscure artist or minor exhibition may once be regarded as a groundbreaking historical event'

Christoph Grunenburg
25 October 2024

US election, the glory of Siena, Gabrielle Goliath — podcast

What is at stake for the US cultural sector as the nation chooses its next president? Plus, a tour of 14th-century Sienese masterpieces and a conversation with Goliath about her ongoing video series Mango Blossoms

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack, Julia Michalska and Alexander Morrison
9 April 2025

A brush with… Ed Atkins — podcast

Ed Atkins talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack
6 May 2022

From NFT pets to a dystopian video game, digital art stands out at Nada New York 2022

The New Art Dealers Alliance's fair returns to New York with a massive line-up of 120 exhibitors taking over Pier 36

The Art Newspaper
4 September 2024

In pictures: the Focus Asia section at Frieze Seoul 2024

Introducing ten new artists reshaping reality

Joselina Cruz
22 November 2022

Value for money? UK’s ‘Brexit’ festival organisers justify £120m cost of public funds with audience of 18 million

The National Audit Office will release detailed data on the eight-month "Unboxed" event next week

Gareth Harris
2 March 2022

Fresh off a $1.7m crypto sale, light sculptor Leo Villareal explains NFTs to my sceptic self

The artist, famous for lighting up bridges across the Thames, tells me how he created his first NFT drop—which sold out within an hour

Linda Yablonsky
9 October 2024

Can London establish itself as digital art capital of the world?

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

Chris Michaels
8 May 2025

‘We are all part of this intergalactic universe’: Saya Woolfalk’s solo show immerses viewers in her “Empathic Universe”

The artist’s exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design features works spanning more than 20 years of her world-building practice

Gabriella Angeleti
2 December 2019

Snap and go: the pros and cons of the art experience economy

Immersive experiences define the most popular contemporary exhibitions, but where does this leave the commercial art world?

Scott Reyburn
24 March 2021

'Complete bullshit': conceptual artist Matty Mo calls out Nifty Gateway after NFT platform pulls plug on sale of his works

Nifty Gateway executive says it is unable to keep up with the volume of drops released on its site

Dorian Batycka
16 April 2025

Inside teamLab’s vast new interactive art museum in Abu Dhabi

teamLab Phenomena is the first of several major museum due to open over the next 12 months in the UAE capital, including the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

Melissa Gronlund
15 March 2021

San Diego will get an Institute of Contemporary Art in September

An exhibition devoted to the Mexican conceptual artist Gabriel Rico will inaugurate the institute

Gabriella Angeleti
4 November 2020

Marina Abramovic work to show on 'world's largest digital canvas' in London

Curator Marco Brambilla says public art programme on vast screens off Tottenham Court Road will rival Tate's Turbine Hall commissions in impact

Gareth Harris
4 May 2020

See art from your car at ‘drive-by’ group show in Long Island this week

Artists in the South Fork will display their work near roads and highways so it can be viewed from a safe motorised distance

Wallace Ludel
20 May 2021

Experiential art space Superblue (finally) opens in Miami

The inaugural program will feature immersive experiences by Es Devlin, teamLab, James Turrell

Daniel Cassady
7 May 2020

Florian Schneider, co-founder of pioneering electronic band Kraftwerk, has died, aged 73

The experimental musician and his fellow “klangchemiker” Ralf Hütter were known for their highly visual, conceptual sensibility

Anna Sansom
4 March 2022

UK's £120m post-Brexit culture festival launches at last, lighting up Scotland cathedral

Government-funded initiative Unboxed costs £120m and will include an oil rig installation from the North Sea

Gareth Harris
7 February 2018

Art in the age of the internet: from democracy and dialogue to a new dystopia

One of the largest historical surveys in the US traces the history of the world wide web

Jane Morris
3 June 2020

Netherlands gets first 'startup' museum for new media art

Nxt Museum to open in Amsterdam on 29 August with immersive installations by pioneering artists, designers, technologists and scientists

Hannah McGivern
2 April 2025

Inspired by the Cantonese diaspora in Europe, Lap-See Lam wins $100,000 Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award

The Swedish artist has explored ‘Westernised’ Chinese restaurants through a magical realist lens

Gareth Harris
3 March 2023

Art Dub-AI: artificial intelligence is latest buzzword at fair

The event's 16th edition has an expanded digital section—here’s what sold so far

Aimee Dawson
25 June 2015

Volkswagen’s extended sponsorship deal to include Greater New York survey at MoMA PS1

MoMA is ‘das museum’, German carmaker says, as it expands support to cover digital education, exhibitions and events for the next two years

Richelle Simon
14 May 2020

Olafur Eliasson brings the Northern Lights or a blazing sun into your bedroom

The artist is releasing his first collection of augmented reality digital objects through the Acute Art app

Hilarie M. Sheets
18 November 2021

Pace to launch a custom-built NFT platform

Pace Verso launches on 22 November with digital artworks from Lucas Samaras’s 'XYZ' series.

Daniel Cassady
2 June 2022

Cornelia Parker, Isaac Julien and Chila Burman among UK arts figures awarded in Queen's Birthday Honours

Three cultural figures have been appointed Companions of Honour, the highest award, including the art critic Marina Warner

Martin Bailey
23 April 2021

Unfolding Shrines is some of the most ambitious augmented reality art we have seen in the last year

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

The Art Newspaper's XR Panel
15 February 2019

David Kordansky doubles gallery space and expands diverse artist roster

Last year, the LA gallery took on Michael Williams, Fred Eversley, Huma Bhabha and Lauren Halsey

Jori Finkel
12 January 2023

Art Night contemporary art festival moves out of London to the Scottish city of Dundee

The Turner Prize-winning artist Tai Shani has been confirmed for a new commission

Gareth Harris
14 July 2022

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

Louis Jebb
22 September 2017

New app invites art lovers to 'build a playlist across museums'

UK startup Smartify partners with major museums worldwide, from the Met to the Hermitage

Hannah McGivern
4 February 2025

Shows to see around Delhi during India Art Fair week

Our pick of the gallery shows in Delhi during the fair

The Art Newspaper
20 July 2021

Almost all galleries are back for Art Basel’s 2021 edition as Switzerland eases travel restrictions (for now)

Basel edition will continue hybrid model and satellite booths introduced in Hong Kong

Kabir Jhala
13 April 2016

It’s a jungle out there: interactive installation brings the Amazon to Times Square

Urban explorers just need a smartphone app and headphones to experience the sounds of the rainforest on Broadway

Gabriella Angeleti
27 September 2023

The National Museum of Women in the Arts reopens after $67.5m makeover

The Washington, DC, museum opens on 21 October with an ambitious show of previously unseen large-scale sculptures and immersive installations

Elena Goukassian
14 June 2016

Edgy art in Basel’s back yard

Head to Salts in the leafy suburbs to find brand new work in garages and gardens

Julia Michalska
21 July 2025

Bill Viola’s complete moving-image works and a William Dobson self-portrait: the latest museum acquisitions

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

Hannah McGivern
18 December 2018

Laure Prouvost to bring Brexit song to London underground passengers as part of 2019 commissions

Ahead of UK leaving the European Union, Art on the Underground programme looks at what it means to be "on edge"

Gareth Harris
1 November 2016

Zorionak! Guggenheim Bilbao to celebrate 20th birthday with jam-packed programme

Major exhibitions in 2017 by Bill Viola, Georg Baselitz and French avant-garde painters mark year of festivities <br> <br>

Anny Shaw
1 December 2021

Art and crypto: a marriage made in Miami

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

Anny Shaw
30 August 2018

Escaping New York's concrete jungle for the Governors Island Art Fair

The ‘artists for artists’ fair will be open each weekend of September with more than 100 works on view

Gabriella Angeleti
30 September 2015

Taste, sound, smell: have curators gone too far?

Two galleries recently staged shows that engaged other senses as well as vision. Our editor and a technology writer disagree on their merits

Jane Morris and Tom Chatfield
5 May 2020

Game on: artists turn to the virtual world of video games during the pandemic

As lockdown continues, video games are proving to be ripe territory for artists and budding curators to experiment (and play)

Helen Stoilas
19 June 2023

Never-before-seen South Asian miniature paintings from British Royal Collection to go on view in Milton Keynes

The exhibition at MK gallery will track the development of the art form from the 16th century to the present day and will explore how the works ended up in the UK to begin with

Gareth Harris
29 April 2022

From cosy to creepy: new displays at Bletchley Park muddle Britain's honourable Nazi-fighting history with a contested present

The museum—set inside a Buckinghamshire country house—has opened its largest ever gallery, called the Intelligence Factory, this week

Robert Bevan
18 January 2025

An insider's guide to Singapore Art Week: Yeo Shih Yun

The founder of INSTINC art space on the DIY spirit of Singapore’s art scene

The Art Newspaper
1 January 1999

German season in London

Rosemarie Trockel, Andreas Gursky and Stephen Balkenhol all show new work

The Art Newspaper
26 December 2023

AI to Z: an art and tech alphabet for 2023

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

Louis Jebb
18 May 2016

Photo London takes over Somerset House

New tent in the courtyard and ambitious public programme sees photography fair establish its presence in the capital

Ermanno Rivetti
30 June 2017

Guggenheim Bilbao celebrates 20th birthday with Bill Viola

Retrospective honours US artist who sparked museum’s commitment to video art

By Hannah McGivern
31 May 2023

Museum of Modern Art acquires more than 200 works by experimental film-maker Ken Jacobs

The museum has also restored Jacobs’s first film, “Orchard Street” (1955), which will be displayed in a gallery in November

Benjamin Sutton
24 June 2019

Shock tactics abound at 'carbon neutral' show in Moscow, with a live wolf, jellyfish and bees

Garage Museum's exhibition on the environmental crisis takes up the gallery’s entire space and could be the biggest yet on the topic

Aimee Dawson
19 August 2021

Here is a glimpse of what you can expect at Art Basel's return event in Switzerland next month

Visitor capacity is capped at 20%, but organisers are bringing back both Unlimited for large-scale works and the public art trail Parcours

Daniel Cassady
9 February 2022

With pop-up rents on the rise, formerly nomadic Guts Gallery opens permanent space in Hackney

The London gallery has made a name for championing underserved voices in the art world and will open its new space with Morris dancers and the "smell of Yorkshire"

Kabir Jhala
24 August 2022

Meta puts analogue art front and centre in sprawling new Manhattan office

The tech giant’s new complex inside the historic Farley Building features site-specific commissions by Baseera Khan, Timur Si-Qin, Liz Collins, Matthew Kirk, and Esteban Cabeza de Baca and Heidi Howard

Benjamin Sutton
4 March 2020

Social media addiction, a blood-soaked Salvator Mundi and more at the Spring Break Art Show

The ninth edition of the curator-centred fair presents more than 120 projects considering the theme of “in excess”

Gabriella Angeleti
22 November 2019

'We felt we had to make a choice and we chose scholarship': why Galerie St. Etienne went non-profit

Jane Kallir explains why, after 80 years as a commercial enterprise, the New York gallery has become a foundation

Jane Kallir
11 May 2018

Three to see: London

From a glimpse of the future at the V&A to a Charles II blast from the past at the Queen's Gallery

José da Silva and Louisa Buck
3 September 2020

New York-based residency for Russian artists goes ahead as 'East-West divide' intensifies

US-Russia tensions heightened in the run up to November's US presidential election

Gareth Harris
14 June 2019

Now showing: why do art fairs neglect video art?

Collector interest in videos is rising, but the medium still struggles to find floor space

Margaret Carrigan
21 October 2020

New York artists find second chance in Governors Island residency programme showcase

The free residencies were part of a multi-organisation initiative to replace the annual artist-run Portal art fair and other cultural programming cancelled due to Covid-19

Gabriella Angeleti
17 April 2023

Haroon Mirza and Mat Collishaw launch NFT projects in the wake of Ethereum’s eco-upgrade

The switch to a more sustainable blockchain system is encouraging artists to experiment with the collaborative potential of NFTs

Louisa Buck
21 December 2020

Cai Guo-Qiang returns to China with a (virtual) bang in major new show at Beijing's Forbidden City Palace Museum

The Chinese artist has gone back to the mainland after a long stint in the US—but publicity for his retrospective appears muted

Lisa Movius
18 February 2023

Growing global demand for emerging African artists helps pull the crowds to the Cape Town Art Fair

Major museum exhibitions, auctions and a new conference are all testament to the impact the fair is having on the local art ecosystem

Riah Pryor
19 May 2015

‘If you’re looking for me, you’ll probably find me in the galleries’

Matthew Teitelbaum—who starts his new job as the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in August—on what it takes to run an encyclopaedic museum today

Julia Halperin
27 March 2024

Ten artists receive €100,000 as winners of Chanel Next Prize 2024

The second edition of the biennial award, which acknowledges practitioners across art, film, theatre and more, also grants two years of mentorship and inclusion in a global networking programme

Alexander Morrison
30 September 2003

These are the Japanese artists in the international league

Two have already broken the $1 million barrier, and auction prices are rising

Georgina Adam
7 May 2021

For first time Turner Prize 2021 shortlist is made up entirely of artist collectives

From a Welsh community group to a neurodiverse arts hub in Hastings, the collectives' works will go on show in Coventry in September

Gareth Harris
22 September 2016

'Manhattan advancing, Chicago unafraid': what to see at Expo Chicago

International galleries bring works that appeal to the local scene and collectors

Ruth Lopez
1 April 2022

Latest volume of Gerhard Richter catalogue raisonné presents the contemporary German master’s vast, vivid output

Sixth book explores the artist’s oeuvre, from the Cologne Cathedral window in 2007 to his last sculptures in 2019

Alexander Adams
30 September 2022

Immersive Anne Imhof exhibition—planned for Moscow and cancelled due to war in Ukraine—opens in Amsterdam

The celebrated German artist has created an installation at the Stedelijk Museum that marks a step away from the elaborate performance works for which she is best known

Kabir Jhala
9 May 2024

In Tokyo, teamLab's giant new immersive space opens glittering portals of the imagination

The light-filled, interactive, spaces at teamLab Borderless offer “full-body joy” to the author's school-age children—as well as some cool selfies

Jori Finkel
23 May 2018

Giuseppe Penone on Arte Povera, Cézanne’s best work and never tiring of trees

The Italian artist speaks to The Art Newspaper ahead of his major show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Gareth Harris
8 February 2021

15 minutes of frame time: solve puzzles to bring a (virtual) Met masterpiece into your home

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

The Art Newspaper's XR Panel
18 May 2022

Frieze New York puts not-for-profit spaces centre stage

For its tenth anniversary, the fair celebrates achievements of artist-led, grassroots organisations

Daniel Cassady
20 March 2019

'It's not about shock value': Russian artist skins, eats and performs sex acts on dead animals in the name of art

New exhibition in Italy shows videos from Petr Davydtchenko's past three years living exclusively off road-kill

Kabir Jhala
31 August 1995

How are Britain's leading museums exploiting new multimedia technology?

Pundits inform us that the new media age is now upon us. Will this transform the museum sector?

Linda M. Weston
18 September 2020

Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend

From Jadé Fadojutimi's purposeful paintings at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery to Trevor Paglen's floral AI animations at Pace

Kabir Jhala and Tom Seymour
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