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Venice Biennale
4 November 2026

Sydney's new $641m Powerhouse arts and science museum to open amid crisis

Due to open on 7 November, the space is mired in controversy as senior executives stand aside during an ongoing misconduct and procurement investigation

Elizabeth Fortescue
4 November 2026

In uneasy times, Bangladesh launches its first art fair

Following landmark elections in February, Art Dhaka debuts as the city’s first commercial hybrid art fair, aiming to boost the country’s private art sector

Rebecca Anne Proctor
2 November 2026

‘Mariko Mori anticipated the zeitgeist’: curator Alexandra Monroe on her new show and how Japan's art scene has changed

The US curator who helped shape the narrative of Japan’s post-war art has returned to Tokyo to collaborate on a show by the acclaimed artist

Andrew Maerkle
21 October 2026

Art Basel Paris dispatch: what to see beyond the fair this week

Our reporters on the ground in Paris give their “around town” art highlights

Gareth Harris and Anny Shaw
17 October 2026

Is the energy of the 1990s returning to London’s art market?

A fascination with Cool Britannia is evident at exhibitions, auctions and art fairs—though some question whether a revival of this era is possible or wise

Kabir Jhala
16 October 2026

Not just bricks and mortar: how can gallerists operate without a permanent space?

With a raft of galleries, including blue-chip names, forced to scale back physical spaces, innovative dealers are side-stepping the high overheads associated with a traditional gallery

Precious Adesina
1 October 2026

Latest edition of Portland triennial offers powerful projects but lacks a cohesive theme

The New York-based curator Lumi Tan has brought together 28 artist projects that are captivating yet disparate for the Converge 45 triennial in Oregon

Hannah Sage Kay
29 September 2026

Art and copyright: How I learned to stop worrying and tolerate AI

Visual artists may have less to fear from AI than other creatives, but licensing agreements do point the way ahead

Alexander Herman
25 September 2026

Bogotá's Artbo fair remains boutique and local—is that enough?

Exhibitor numbers for the fair's 2026 edition are still down from pre-pandemic levels, and its collectors and galleries are largely from Colombia

Vanessa H Larson
22 September 2026

BBC art dealing game show reveals 'crisis of commodification' facing galleries

What is the future for the art market when monetary value trumps aesthetic value?

Scott Reyburn
24 August 2026

Art centre launches in Durham, UK with light-themed works by Tracey Emin, Dan Flavin

The Light in Durham—formerly the Durham Light Infantry Museum and Art Gallery—has reopened following £17m redevelopment

Wendyrosie Scott
15 May 2024

MFA Boston’s renovated Japanese art galleries seek to inspire deeper exploration of familiar objects

In the reopened galleries, rotating exhibits highlight collection gems—including seven newly conserved Buddha statues—and technology add-ons expand learning

Kimberly Hatfield
30 April 2011

Latest online startup aims for 3D sales

The creators of a new software venture think that adding an extra dimension will get things moving

Charlotte Burns
2 February 2024

Adriano Pedrosa unveils his plans for the 2024 Venice Biennale

Plus, the rise of immersive institutions and Barbara Kruger’s “Untitled (Forever)”

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack, Julia Michalska and Alexander Morrison
28 January 2025

Comment | How technology can help the art world take a big step towards sustainability

A new report published by the virtual reality platform Vortic makes clear the environmental benefits of going digital—and a hybrid approach could a way forward in the short term

Louisa Buck
1 February 1999

Techno-art in Tokyo with two new institutions focusing on new media

Japan’s technological expertise and interest in media art on display at the Inter Communication Centre and the Image and Technology Gallery

Sachiko Tsuchiya
18 June 2015

Digital romance blooms between art and technology

Computer animation, 3D printing and aerospace software are fast becoming tools of the trade for artists

Julia Halperin
24 June 2022

Art Basel is not just an art fair, it is a technology platform

The emergence of NFTs has ignited the concept of "platforms" in the art world, but they are already everywhere

Gretchen Andrew
31 August 2016

The art market comes to a mobile near you

Melanie Gerlis
30 May 2025

Augmented reality enjoys growing appeal as a tool for the art trade

Artists, auction houses and galleries are warming to the idea of virtual visits, attendance and sales

Adam Schrader
26 November 2020

New gallery platform South South launches to promote art from outside the dominant US-Europe axis

Goodman Gallery's Liza Essers came up with the idea in lockdown and plans an online selling event, called Veza, using auction technology in February

Anna Brady
4 March 2016

Can redesigning your stand boost your sales?

Forward-looking galleries are using everything from projector screens to specially commissioned soundtracks to engage a new generation of collectors, spending as much as £50,000 on a single project—but can tech really bring in more cheques?

Anna Brady
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
6 February 2019

Marina Abramovic to make digital appearance at London's Serpentine Galleries

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

Gareth Harris
24 February 2025

Ayoung Kim, builder of vivid digital worlds, wins $100,000 LG Guggenheim Award

The artist is known for creating futuristic, interactive environments that reflect on contemporary geopolitical and socioeconomic issues

Benjamin Sutton
5 May 2020

'How Covid-19 has forced the art market’s speedy digital conversion'

In lockdown, many galleries have had a Damascene moment with online programming

Melanie Gerlis
29 September 2016

Blockchain: how the revolutionary technology behind Bitcoin could change the art market

The software has the potential to improve transparency, copyright and ownership issues

Julia Michalska
31 August 2016

Blockchain: how the revolutionary technology behind Bitcoin could change the art market

The software has the potential to improve transparency, copyright and ownership issues

Julia Michalska
4 August 2016

Magnus app founder hits back at critics

Move towards "greater and greater" transparency cannot be stopped, he says

Melanie Gerlis
29 June 2020

With museums having been off limits, could AR works find a new home—in the home?

Augmented reality art has had a potentially huge captive audience during the coronavirus lockdown. We look at the pros and cons of the technology in a domestic setting

José da Silva
14 December 2015

United Talent Agency expands fine arts division

With the appointment of a new creative director, the firm looks to work with more artists and fund ambitious projects

Dan Duray
25 May 2022

UK's 'largest immersive arts experience'—showing huge digital images of Cezanne and Klimt—planned for London

Frameless, which will open in Marble Arch this autumn, hopes to tap into a booming industry for multi-sensory and interactive art attractions

Kabir Jhala
4 August 2017

Artlogic announces formal expansion in the US

Marian Goodman, Gagosian and Paul Kasmin among galleries to join the London-based technology firm

By Anny Shaw
15 March 2024

Ten art world things that have happened in VR since Meta bought Oculus 10 years ago

Virtual reality has not taken the art world by storm in the past decade, despite the attention given to the format during the global pandemic of 2020-21, but the advent of powerful new mixed-reality headsets, led by the Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest, promise a new experience for creators and users

Gretchen Andrew
31 August 2016

Founder of price transparency app hits back at critics

Melanie Gerlis
16 April 2026

‘I’m interested in breaking binaries, barriers and boundaries’: Sarah Rosalena on her new LACMA commission

The Angeleno academic and weaver has drawn on her family history to create a permanent artwork for LACMA

Hannah Sage Kay
1 February 2015

Young artists get their big moment in the Big Apple at the New Museum's Generational Triennial

The New Museum bets on future stars who deal with our digital world

Pac Pobric
11 March 2020

Augmented reality: the artists and museums pushing the limits of technology through Instagram

Sketch London's app that brings to life David Shrigley's prints is the latest in a string of developments from institutions like the New Museum and the Tate

Aimee Dawson
15 May 2020

Untitled, Art turns to virtual reality to improve the online fair experience

The organisers are using video game technology to recreate the “element of discovery” of wandering the aisles of a physical event

Margaret Carrigan
10 September 2018

Blockchain: Hot stuff or hot air?

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

Georgina Adam. , with additional research by Alec Evans
29 January 2016

Welcome to the virtual world

With the ground-breaking Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset hitting the mainstream later this year, a growing number of artists and museums are incorporating this and other new technologies into their work

Ben Luke
30 June 2016

New galleries return forgotten Scottish treasures to public view

Aimee Dawson
5 June 2024

Podcast | A brush with... Lynn Hershman Leeson

An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Cézanne to the theatre of Tadeusz Kantor

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack
1 April 2021

Pared down and profit sharing: here are the sales from Art Dubai, this year’s first physical fair

Meanwhile, a crypto-art cruise during the fair indicates which way the wind may be blowing for future editions

Dorian Batycka
17 December 2019

Reality check: is VR set to revolutionise museums?

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

Hannah McGivern
30 April 1996

Guggenheim goes virtual with new high-tech installations

Deutsche Telekom backs struggling SoHo branch

Jason Edward Kaufman
4 March 2011

Fast forward video art

Artists love it as a medium, but are collectors and dealers too busy for time-based work at an art fair?

Anny Shaw
1 March 2011

VIP online art fair overwhelmed by early technical setbacks

Majority of dealers claim disappointment as organisers defend privacy settings and vow to overcome glitches

Charlotte Burns and Melanie Gerlis
5 June 2023

What's the score in a reputation economy? How the art world gets paid (or doesn't)

New technology, and old-world online reviews, have an impact on accounts and accountability in the art market

Gretchen Andrew
21 November 2019

Marina Abramovic’s The Life to become first mixed reality work ever auctioned

Christie’s will sell the piece with a £600,000 price tag next October to coincide with artist’s Royal Academy retrospective

Anny Shaw
23 July 2021

Lost Art: Do NFTs mean the end of real-world art?

The digital works can be seen as just the latest overhyped trend, or the newest incarnation of using technology to create art

Noah Charney
24 July 2020

What will culture be like in the next decade?

Plus, Simon Schama on J.M.W. Turner. Produced in association with Christie's

Hosted by Ben Luke and Margaret Carrigan. Produced by Julia Michalska, David Clack and Aimee Dawson
1 February 2009

New Kinetica fair celebrates kinetic and hi-tech art

The event will be held 28 February to 2 March

Brook Mason
30 April 2014

Silicon Valley tech companies take novel approaches to art investment

Silicon Valley’s success stories are applying their non-corporate ethos to art investment, finding innovative ways of building their collections

Rachel Corbett
10 June 2022

Virtual reality brings convenience and practicality to art—but it is more than just a gimmick

A Doug Aitken exhibition in Venice shows how VR can be useful to the art world, but the medium has standalone merits

Gretchen Andrew
30 April 2015

Serpentine Galleries’ patron gives digital gift

Charlotte Burns
23 July 2018

Will blockchain deliver a registry of all traded works of art?

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

Anny Shaw
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
20 November 2025

Inside the new AI-driven platform generating ‘adviser-grade’ art market insights

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”

Aimee Dawson
17 June 2025

Jordan Wolfson: ‘An experienced artist doesn’t ask why they’re doing something’

The American artist, known for pushing the boundaries of technology, discusses his new VR installation at the Fondation Beyeler—a work he says he has been “trying to make since 2017”

Phin Jennings
12 January 2021

The Met invites you to play a game, and then ‘borrow’ a work of art

The Art Newspaper
1 May 2020

As the art world urgently moves online, some galleries fear digital displacement

Just as mega dealers have bought up prime real estate, so too are they dominating bandwidth in the virtual landscape

Margaret Carrigan
22 March 2018

State of the art in Dubai

Works at Art Dubai mirror city’s vision of high-tech future

Anny Shaw
29 October 2020

Ancient Greek bust of Hercules dug up in a garden will now appear in virtual reality at Tefaf Online

ArtAncient has created a VR experience of the marble bust to enliven the digital version of the now-cancelled New York fair

Anna Brady
13 June 2018

Artists as cryptofinanciers: welcome to the blockchain

Curious new relationships between art and capital are being enabled by cryptofinance, which places “monetary value” at the heart of the creative process

Ben Luke
11 February 2022

Eternal return: Italian museums to sell digital copies of masterpieces by Leonardo, Caravaggio and Modigliani

Replicas of works from four institutions, including the Uffizi, will be sold as NFTs by Unit London gallery

Kabir Jhala
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
1 December 2010

Museums need to go much further in adapting to the digital age

Are new media museums the future?

András Szántó
23 December 2020

A crisis hits the art market once a decade. What is different this time? Christie's president Dirk Boll assesses the impact of the pandemic

As his new book is published, the auction house chief compares coronavirus fallout to previous economic disasters

Catherine Hickley
28 June 2017

Tefaf focuses on online market in addendum to annual art market report

Findings detail the supply side of the digital sales equation, point toward hybrid models

By Sarah P. Hanson
31 May 2016

Ian Davenport heads to Meissen for a good cause

Javier Pes
17 June 2022

Why virtual reality is a medium still in need of ‘cradling’

Artists and developers using VR have made huge leaps, but a better user experience is long overdue

Ben Luke
26 November 2020

A top-tier way to explore art in the era of social distancing: Eazel, a platform for virtual galleries, presents White Cube Hong Kong's project 'Encounter'

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

The Art Newspaper's XR Panel
31 May 2011

Website could be holy grail of private market prices

Art.sy will unite would-be collectors with art and dealers they may not know—and it’s all built on trust

Charlotte Burns
28 February 2023

Amid property boom and influx of Russian cash, Art Dubai grows in size and scope—again

Dealers at the fair are hopeful for good sales, despite the prospect of a global recession

Aimee Dawson
26 March 2024

Big brother is watching: museum visitors are being monitored by AI-powered cameras

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

George Nelson
29 March 2017

Curators cautiously venture into virtual reality

Museums are following in the footsteps of artists such as Jordan Wolfson and Jon Rafman

By Hannah McGivern
17 April 2025

SXSW London's exhibitions line-up puts emphasis on art and technology and artists from London’s Caribbean diaspora

Andy Warhol, Alvaro Barrington, Tavares Strachan, Beeple, Alberta Whittle, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst among featured visual artists in June shows in Shoreditch, east London

Louis Jebb
15 November 2016

Why the ‘Uber effect’ is proving elusive for online platforms

Business is growing but no one has truly disrupted the market—yet

Melanie Gerlis
7 July 2016

New galleries at National Museum of Scotland present thousands of exhibits

Napoleon’s sister, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Dolly the Sheep feature in the art and science displays

Gareth Harris and Aimee Dawson
29 January 2025

The second wave of immersive institutions has arrived—how can traditional museums and galleries harness their power?

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

Chris Michaels
7 May 2019

When form plus function equals art

High-profile shows are breaking down the boundaries between designers and artists

Brook Mason
30 May 2019

Video pioneer Ericka Beckman gives patriarchal canon a bashing

The works and installations of the overlooked peer of Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince go on show at MIT List Visual Arts Center

Margaret Carrigan
15 September 2022

Is Art Basel launching a year-round ‘marketplace’ for galleries? A recent spate of job advertisements suggests so

The fair’s parent company MCH Group is developing "new digital formats" to support galleries

Anny Shaw
6 October 2016

Getting digi with it: why new media art still hasn't fully gone mainstream

As new technology is increasingly adopted by artists, can curators and collectors keep up?

Jane Morris
28 November 2016

The best of Amsterdam Art Weekend

Dustin Yellin's environmental apocalypse and Jordan Wolfson's creepy puppets among highlights of Dutch capital's annual art initiative

Cristina Ruiz
1 March 2024

Ten years on: art world is still in search of its virtual reality Eden

In March 2014, Facebook bought Oculus VR, heralding a new era in extended reality. Will the arrival of the Apple Vision Pro move the medium from artistic experiment to widespread use?

Ben Luke
7 September 2015

Scottish museum buys 17th-century Le Marchand ivories

Huguenot carver came to Edinburgh after facing persecution in his native France

Julia Halperin
23 July 2021

The Whitworth gallery in Manchester mints a William Blake NFT in aid of community causes

The museum will track the activity of the crypto work for the next two years for a 2023 exhibition on art economics

Gareth Harris
16 February 2016

A museum of many firsts in Muscat spans two million years of Omani history

Most of the 7,000 objects in the eclectic collection have never been shown, from weaponry and manuscripts to life-size replicas of ships and castle models

Anny Shaw
17 May 2021

National Museum of Women in the Arts will close for two-year renovation

The $66m project includes expanding galleries, creating research and education spaces and restoring its landmark 1908 building

Nancy Kenney
3 April 2020

Exhibition WALL-E: robot leads tour of Hastings Contemporary

Louisa Buck
1 January 2013

New galleries and keen collectors at Design Miami

The modern and contemporary design fair's profile is rising

Gareth Harris and Riah Pryor
15 April 2024

Aleksandra Artamonovskaja is appointed head of arts for TriliTech, the entrepreneurship team supporting Tezos blockchain

Artamonovskaja, a leading consultant and moderator in the Web3 world, will oversee development of opportunities for artists across the Tezos ecosystem

Louis Jebb
31 March 2001

What are museums doing to collect, store and show internet art?

Ossian Ward investigates European and US perspectives and the issues of conservation and ownership

Ossian Ward
3 June 2022

The limitless artistic possibilities of video games, from refugee journeys to wearable wombs, showcased in German exhibition

A new show curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist chronicles decades of artistic innovation employing the tools and technologies of video games

Jad Salfiti
20 February 2020

Neri Oxman harnesses the powers of 17,000 silkworms for New York show

The designer has employed natural processes and used materials from plants and shellfish for her exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art

Helen Stoilas
30 September 2016

Getting digi with it: how the art world is grappling with new media

As new technology is increasingly adopted by artists, can curators and collectors keep up?

Jane Morris
30 June 2017

Münster expands definition of what public sculpture can be

The survey show in Germany takes place only once every ten years, which gives it a unique perspective, says its organiser

By Julia Michalska
13 June 2025

New venue for video, sound and other durational art forms coming to Manhattan

Helmed by the philanthropist Robert Rosenkranz and the founding director of Mass Moca, Joe Thompson, Canyon will open on the Lower East Side in 2026

Torey Akers
10 December 2019

How to make museums more accessible for disabled people? Ask them

Research groups have designed new technologies and initiatives for the V&A, Kunsthistorisches Museum and Thyssen-Bornemisza

Hannah McGivern
9 April 2020

Hauser & Wirth announces new art and technology division with the launch of a custom-designed virtual reality platform

The ArtLab initiative will also offer a new tech residency programme for artists as blue-chip galleries race for digital dominance amid coronavirus lockdown

Margaret Carrigan
7 January 2016

Louvre-Lens director Xavier Dectot steps down after five years, and heads for Edinburgh

Medieval expert will head the department of art and design at the National Museum of Scotland

Gareth Harris
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
28 January 2022

What is the metaverse and why does it matter to the art world? Experts weigh in and predict its future impact

A dream or a marketing campaign? All hype or all-important? The Art Newspaper’s XR panel looks at the ways the metaverse has become a part of the field

The Art Newspaper's XR Panel
23 November 2023

Art Basel trials online gallery marketplace with a philanthropic edge

Access by Art Basel will launch at next month's Miami Beach fair

Anny Shaw
2 May 2019

Berlin collector turns Nazi-era Luftwaffe building into home for video art

Software entrepreneur Markus Hannebauer opens Fluentum to the public with Dutch artist Guido van der Werve

Catherine Hickley
28 January 2024

Tipping point: how new immersive institutions are changing the art world

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?

Chris Michaels
27 March 2017

Studio Swine joins stable of high-tech art organisation Future\Pace

Husband-and-wife design duo will join roster that already includes Random International and teamLab

By Gareth Harris
2 April 2026

National Museum of Korea Seoul sees a surge in visitor numbers

According to our 2025 Visitor Figures survey, the Seoul location of the museum is attracting more international guests

Lisa Movius
13 November 2025

K11 founder Adrian Cheng on Hong Kong’s art scene, the future of collecting and the creative potential of AI

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

Louis Jebb
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