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Women Art Dealers Digital Archives
7 August 2026

‘What’s good for the planet is good for artists’: group launches new Green Manifesto

Recently rebranded artist membership organisation Artists Now has created a guide on how to make creative practices more eco-friendly

Louisa Buck
6 August 2026

As local museums in the UK face closure, government promises help

A recent report revealed that 524 UK museums closed between 2000 and 2025. But while the government has offered short-term help, structural issues remain unresolved

Dale Berning Sawa
6 August 2026

Huge nuclear bunker in Italy is set to become a Cold War museum

West Star, a former Nato HQ near Verona, is expected to host 100,000 visitors annually

James Imam
4 August 2026

London mayor Sadiq Khan calls for city's public museums to remain free to enter

‘Free museums and galleries are a fundamental part of London life’, says the long-serving Labour mayor in a new op-ed

Gareth Harris
3 August 2026

Royal Museums Greenwich workers vote to strike over pay and working conditions

The strike across the east London museums will occur on 11 and 12 August as Prospect union pledges to step up industrial action across the heritage sector this summer

Gareth Harris
30 July 2026

Artist starts legal case against Meta for deleting her Instagram account

Emma Shapiro and her lawyers are fighting the “loss of her artistic archive, audience, professional visibility and space for public debate”

Aimee Dawson
23 July 2026

Appeals court sides with Jeff Koons in copyright-infringement dispute over ‘Made in Heaven’ series

The lawsuit was brought by the artist Michael A. Hayden, who created a sculpture that appears in some of the images from the series

Benjamin Sutton
16 July 2026

Tower of London’s architectural archive to be opened up to public as part of planned £70m revamp

A new Archive Study Centre will open as part of a multi-year programme by Historic Royal Palaces

Joe Ware
15 July 2026

Jacolby Satterwhite awarded inaugural Artists Living with Cancer Grant

The new grant, funded by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and the Rema Hort Mann Fund, supports New York City artists undergoing cancer treatment

Gabriella Angeleti
10 July 2026

Phillips counts on luxury watches for sales in first half of 2026

Three timepieces are among the house's top five highest-priced lots this year

Anna Brady
9 July 2026

Icom adopts new code of ethics for museums in bid to address a ‘rapidly changing world’

The new code provides revised principles on how institutions should handle issues ranging from education to their relationship to society

Gareth Harris
12 June 2024

Digital deluge: how will Art Basel respond to a surge of digital-art initiatives in Switzerland?

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

Aimee Dawson
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
13 December 2024

Saudi Arabia launches digital art institute as part of $62.2bn Diriyah complex

A vast new digital art institute, Diriyah Art Futures in Riyadh, opened earlier this month with "cutting-edge labs and immersive exhibition spaces"

Gareth Harris
5 April 2022

Brazil's SP-Arte fair to focus on design and digital art sectors

The 18th edition of the Brazilian art fair features around 30 design galleries, a recently introduced sector, and a selling exhibition of digital art

Gabriella Angeleti
15 April 2025

Podcast | Art Dubai 2025: is the city emerging as a global hub for digital art?

As Art Dubai 2025 kicks off this week, Aimee Dawson speaks with experts in the digital art world to find out if the emirate’s art scene is as futuristic-looking as its skyline

Hosted by Aimee Dawson. Produced by David Clack
1 April 2024

Quantum leap: how a decade of NFTs has changed digital art

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

Chris Michaels
26 June 2026

Comment | Art Basel’s Zero 10 grows up and outgrows the digital community that led to its inception

The digital art showcase’s third edition, at Art Basel’s hometown fair, offered much-needed historical context while prompting a fundamental question: who is this for?

Sarp Kerem Yavuz
17 June 2026

First Swiss edition of Zero 10, Art Basel’s digital art initiative, explores medium’s ‘historical arc’

Co-curated by the artist Trevor Paglen and the digital art director Eli Scheinman, the new strand, which debuted at last year’s Miami Beach fair, aims to address the scepticism towards the medium

Shanti Escalante De Mattei
1 March 2022

This digital archive brings women art dealers back into the story of Modern art

The Women Art Dealers Digital Archives explores the role of historical women gallerists as powerful forces in once-niche markets that have since become major sectors of the art world

Karen Chernick
1 May 2023

New York, London, Los Angeles, Dubai, Linz ... Which city has the best digital art?

With the power to show works simultaneously in different countries, digital art does not really need to "be" anywhere. But where it is being created, exhibited and funded has a deep impact on how the work is made

Gretchen Andrew
27 December 2023

From Apple's Vision Pro goggles to digital NG200—six things to look out for in art and tech in 2024

The coming year has buttons for everyone to press including a celebration of the computer artist Harold Cohen and Art Dubai Digital

Louis Jebb
6 June 2025

London Gallery Weekend 2025: must-see shows for digital art lovers

Artists whose work demonstrates the porous boundary between digital and physical formats are to the fore in exhibitions across the UK captial

Louis Jebb
2 September 2025

New York's digital art gallery reboot

The opening of the NFT platform SuperRare’s physical space and Heft Gallery, both on the Lower East Side, signal growing collector interest and institutional acceptance

Annabel Keenan
1 December 2011

Digital art available on S[edition]

Robert Norton and Harry Blain brings the art world online

Charlotte Burns
1 December 2013

Let’s get digital with "post-internet" art

The frontier spirit of post-internet artists.

Julia Michalska
9 September 2025

Christie’s shuts down pioneering digital art department

With the NFT market still a fraction of its recent heights, the auction house has reportedly let go of key staffers

Vittoria Benzine
30 September 2013

Digital access to Italian banks’ art

300,000 works owned by banks belonging to the Associazione Bancaria Italiana to become available to view online

Ermanno Rivetti
22 December 2025

Comment | Digital art today has a narcissism problem

Beeple’s anarchic entry into Art Basel Miami Beach doubled down on cult of personality at the expense of artistic substance

Sarp Kerem Yavuz
6 January 2022

Who will be the gatekeepers of digital art?

Museums, curators and art professionals endorse traditional art, but who will be the gatekeepers for the online world?

Georgina Adam
17 June 2015

Collectors join forces to co-commission digital art

Partnerships are on the rise as ways to sell the moving image proliferate

Anny Shaw
15 March 2024

Endemic obsolescence: the shortened lifespan of digital art

In the supposed permanence of cyberspace, modifications to software and the demands on processing power mean artwork has a shorter life than might be expected

Gretchen Andrew and Jasper Spires
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
30 September 2013

The art book digital takeover: not if but when

Art books for tablets will leave printed works as elite items

Edward Lucie-Smith
1 November 1999

Digital art at the forefront of Art Cologne 1999

The contemporary fair switches on to new technology

The Art Newspaper
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
18 November 2024

Toledo Museum of Art uses cryptocurrency to acquire digital art piece

The museum used USD Coin to buy an NFT in a new series by the artist collective Yatreda ያጥሬዳ

Elena Goukassian
31 May 2024

Legal fight brewing over Pérez Art Museum Miami’s digital billboard

Miami’s city commissioners voted to repeal a law passed last year to allow the museum to build an extra-large billboard

Benjamin Sutton
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
25 February 2020

New digital art fair in Paris hopes to attract tech tycoons

Cadaf Paris claims to be Europe's only fair dedicated to new media and will coincide with Vivatech conference in June

Anna Brady
12 December 2025

Comment | The worlds of analogue and digital art may be splintering

At Art Basel Paris, “the art world seemed to be staging a rally for art created by flesh-and-blood people”

András Szántó
1 December 2007

Louis Soutter: Corbusier’s favourite digital art

Soutter's art on view at Berlin's Galerie Haas & Fuchs

Nadim Samman
11 October 2024

Digital art dazzles at Frieze London

Five of the best works to see at the fair created using artificial intelligence and other technologies

Louis Jebb
10 June 2022

Paris Hilton helps Lacma launch fund to acquire digital art by women

The heiress and NFT evangelist is supporting a new acquisition fund at the museum, which has a history of supporting artists working with cutting-edge technology

Claire Voon
16 October 2020

'Comatose' pre-war American art market gets a digital jolt

Forced online due to Covid-19, this year's American Art Fair boasts more exhibitors as auction houses see new records set for late 19th century works

Brian Allen
22 July 2022

New art from the ruins of Pompeii: archaeological site launches digital fellowships

Contemporary initiative also includes new book with contributions from more than 60 artists such as Adrian Villar Rojas, Lara Favaretto and Michael Rakowitz

Gareth Harris
12 January 2022

Mona Lisa to go digital as boom for immersive art shows grows

Officials at the Grand Palais hope a new strand of multimedia exhibitions will tap into a growing global market

Gareth Harris
7 April 2026

Artist Michelangelo Pistoletto sends message of ‘preventive peace’ on digital billboards around the world

New public art project entitled "Three Mirrors"—commissioned by digital art platform Circa—will be shown in nine cities

Gareth Harris
11 October 2024

Theresa Reiwer wins top award at Lumen Prize for digital art

German-born artist working on ethics and AI leads the winners in nine categories of 13th annual edition of the world’s leading prize for art created with technology

Louis Jebb
23 April 2021

NFTs in IRL: the rise of digital art galleries in physical spaces

Bricks-and-mortar commercial spaces are bringing crypto art to life, "providing an experience beyond the artwork living on a cell phone”

Reena Devi
6 December 2024

‘It was Pak’s work that truly ignited our love for digital art’: Desiree Casoni and Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile on their trendsetting collection

The Miami-based designer and NFT platform founder have long championed digital artists, but they still have a love of the great painters

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
21 September 2023

Art Basel reaches outside art trade for new chief officers of growth and digital

Hayley Romer and Craig Hepburn will work to bolster the brand's year-round presence and "engage ever broader cultural audiences"

Kabir Jhala
12 May 2015

Website launching this week aims to make collecting digital art easier

Daata Editions commissions original sound, video and online works of art

Corinna Kirsch
10 March 2023

'The NFT bubble has popped, but there’s still untapped potential in digital art'

Artists have long mined cyberspace for inspiration, as two current exhibitions underscore

Ben Luke
13 August 2021

Lynn Hershman Leeson, digital art pioneer, traces the tangled web of virtual life

A sprawling exhibition at the New Museum, featuring early online works and recent projects exploring DNA, proves how farsighted her work has been

Gabriella Angeleti
22 February 2019

Paris digital art venue Atelier des Lumières is a hit, and expanding abroad

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

Anna Sansom
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
1 February 2013

Seattle to unveil Doug Aitken’s digital Land Art

The US artist Doug Aitken has created an “urban earthwork” for the façade of the Seattle Art Museum, which is due to be unveiled this month (24 March).

Charlotte Burns
29 April 2021

How a new digital art market could mimic the traditional one—including in bad ways

The new breed of art buyers are likely to need administrators, curators and lawyers much like those in the conventional art world

Georgina Adam
21 June 2021

How a crypto and digital art fair is using Instagram to show—and sell—works

CADAF has opened its second online edition but the social media app—paired with QR codes and AR filters—is helping the fair to physically interact with visitors in Paris

Aimee Dawson
21 October 2022

Sell your soul: how digital signatures and NFTs are creating a market for intangible art

Some of the works being minted on the blockchain are all hype—but some are brilliant conceptual works

Gretchen Andrew
3 February 2023

Bangalore's new Museum of Art & Photography looks to attract India's digital generation

While the pandemic held up MAP's construction it made 100 exhibits available online—a strategy that will continue beyond its physical opening

Alexandra Bregman
14 January 2019

New London fair in crowded art calendar looks at drawing in the digital age

Exhibitors at Draw Art Fair London in May will juxtapose drawings with related paintings and sculptures

Gareth Harris
4 October 2022

Mark Wallinger launches digital art project to raise legal funds for London pollution group

The Islington-based campaigners Nocado are fighting to prevent retailers Ocado and Marks & Spencer from setting up a depot adjacent to a primary school

Louisa Buck
30 October 2020

The Art Newspaper at 30: how has art criticism changed in the digital age?

Through blogs, websites and social media, there is more writing than ever on the arts. But whether it adds meaningful insight, or just noise, is a matter of debate

Ben Luke. with additional reporting by Gareth Harris
5 May 2020

'Born digital': the stalwart institutions that have been producing online art since long before Covid-19

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

José da Silva
16 February 2022

New NFT platform with art world bona fides launches marketplace with Fang Lijun digital editions

The renowned Chinese painter’s first NFTs, commissioned by Outland, will be followed by US artist Rachel Rose’s latest works in the format

Benjamin Sutton
31 May 2024

New UK digital art school provides artist workshops and supplies for NHS mental health units

Online sessions will be led by artists such as Sutapa Biswas and Sarah Dwyer

Gareth Harris
14 March 2022

Digital art company claims it is owed millions from NFT sales in lawsuit against artist

DigiArt is suing artist Danny Casale, also known as Coolman Coffeedan, for allegedly producing more than 10,000 NFTs in breach of their contract

Wallace Ludel
29 April 2022

teamLab pushes on with plans for major new digital art museum in Saudi Arabia

Tokyo-based technology art organisation attends groundbreaking ceremony in Jeddah

Gareth Harris
14 September 2020

Saudi Arabia pushes soft power by launching new teamLab digital art museum in Jeddah

The hi-tech Tokyo-based collective will create trademark immersive experiences for the new space

Gareth Harris
26 February 2021

Calling all (digital) bookworms: virtual art book fair gives publishers a lifeline during the pandemic

Printed Matter's online venture offers new, rare and out of print publications alongside panels, trailers and prints

Gareth Harris
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
28 October 2022

Digital Art Week comes to London with editions planned for Paris, Lisbon, New York, Miami, Seoul and Tokyo

Backed by crypto art denizens and web3 startups, the inaugural edition brings six free events to the capital

Gareth Harris
13 September 2021

‘We have no doubt NFTs are art’: after selling tokenised Leonardo, Hermitage plans exhibition of born-digital works

Russian museum will look beyond the market hype to address deeper questions about "the specific possibilities of this medium", says contemporary art curator Dimitri Ozerkov

Sophia Kishkovsky
21 September 2020

Online market place for art continues to grow as new digital fair announced during Frieze week

Daata fair is dedicated to video and digital works and aims to reach collectors who “simply don’t have the patience” to watch films at real-life fairs

Gareth Harris
30 September 2001

Art publishers cover everything from traditional art history and exhibition catalogues to the heroes of digital games

From Dürer to digital beauties

Sebastian Schütze
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
9 May 2019

Screen time: digital art eclipses painting in Ralph Rugoff's 'mightily impressive' Venice Biennale show

With multi-artist spaces and the split between the Arsenale and Giardini, May You Live in Interesting Times offers a new way of looking at a biennial exhibition

Ben Luke
6 August 2018

Surrealism in the digital age: Beirut exhibition looks at new wave of 20th-century art movement

Show at Lebanon's Aishti Foundation is last in a trilogy exploring its vast private collection before its first solo presentation of Albert Oehlen

Aimee Dawson
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
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
19 July 2024

Art-world social media specialists are on the rise—but is the sector really ready for digital success?

Museums are addressing a lack of in-house expertise in creating digital content by hiring from a growing pool of social-savvy freelancers

Aimee Dawson
14 September 2022

Sotheby's to sell $70m of art stored at MoMA to benefit New York museum's digital initiatives

Francis Bacon triptych and Renoir still life among works from the collection of CBS founder William S. Paley that have been "under the museum's stewardship" since his death

Kabir Jhala
23 May 2017

A beacon of digitised art: Pharos consortium builds massive digital database

By The Art Newspaper
21 March 2022

In a world of digital innovation, what if art becomes… boring?

A virtual reality visit to the Sistine Chapel made me realise that museums are going to have to up their game in order to maintain visitors' interest

Bendor Grosvenor
24 May 2022

The Met creates digital project tied to $70m upgrade of African, ancient American and Oceanic art galleries

The venture, made in collaboration with the World Monuments Fund and several African art and culture scholars, will examine historical sites in sub-Saharan Africa

Gabriella Angeleti
27 January 2026

Museum wall texts are an art in their own right—but will they survive the digital age?

With shortened attention spans and constant technological distractions, some museums are getting rid of labels altogether

Emma Riva
23 August 2021

Van Gogh meets Dubai Mall: a look inside the huge immersive digital art space that has opened in the UAE

Infinity des Lumières is the largest centre of its kind in the region

Rawaa Talass
26 October 2022

New digital art archive launched to help Yazidi community rebuild after genocide

Available on the Google Arts & Culture platform, the project is the result of a year-long series of workshops in northern Iraq

Melissa Gronlund
24 June 2024

As winner of renamed ABS Digital Art Prize is announced, have we reached a turning point for conversations around NFTs and culture?

Geneva-based RVig, who was awarded the prize for a piece inspired by Baudelaire, is hoping for a more nuanced understanding of what NFTs bring to the art world

Louis Jebb
8 June 2022

Verse, NFT platform with a former Tate curator in its corner, hopes to bring order to the digital art market

The site's first selling exhibition, a collaboration with 12 leading artists and curators, hopes to bring trusted sources to the mad world of Web3 collecting

Daniel Cassady
1 February 2015

Christie’s buys digital management system

Collectrium is a digital multi-tool for art collection

Richelle Simon
30 June 2014

(Inter)facing the future at Barbican's 'Digital Revolution'

Exploring the impact of digital technology on art, music, film and design

Ben Luke
30 September 2012

New owner plans digital future for Phaidon

Leon Black says art publisher to launch digital products

Javier Pes
17 June 2021

NFTs of a different stripe: Joe Exotic gets into the digital art trend

The Art Newspaper
22 January 2022

San Francisco’s Fog art fair returns with rapid sales of tangible works and rising interest in the digital

The fair, which was canceled in 2021 due to Covid-19, has seen strong participation from local galleries and collectors, as well as institutions

Leora Lutz
26 May 2022

NFTs are accelerating the pace of art crime—here's how digital sleuths are sharpening their tools to fight wrongdoers online

Lawmakers must now contend with a new era of discord channels, smart contracts and open-source intelligence to combat cyber criminals

Riah Pryor
31 March 2001

A round up of Manhattan art moments reveal a Hirst hidden in the digital dustbin, cuban prints and Kiki's perfectionism

Or your very own “Warhol” portrait for $265

Adrian Dannatt
13 March 2020

Top online museum and art tours to enjoy from home

Here are the best digital initiatives to feed your need for art

Aimee Dawson
16 June 2015

Crowdfunding for art is a burgeoning business

Digital-based schemes launched to encourage the production of new art

Julia Halperin
12 June 2023

'I tend not to wait around; I think it’s a millennial mindset': collector Fiorenzo Manganiello on ignoring the critics

The tech entrepreneur and blockchain professor has a passion for street and digital art

Anna Brady
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
1 December 2007

Louis Soutter: Artists at Art Basel Miami Beach 2007

Corbusier's favourite digital art

Nadim Samman
14 December 2021

Miami NFT artist Refik Anadol looks to Nasa for new UK experiential art show

The Reel Store in Coventry is the UK’s first permanent immersive digital art gallery

Gareth Harris
29 March 2023

After fallout, Sotheby’s seeks to fix ‘glitch’ in its NFT sale by including more women

Auction house faced online backlash over male-dominated digital art sale

Riah Pryor
29 November 2024

‘Most of the value comes from the internet’: collector Justin Sun discusses the future of digital art and his newly acquired banana work at Hong Kong event

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

Aaina Bhargava
5 December 2024

At Miami Beach's Untitled Art fair, three artists win Vortic prize

The digital art platform bestowed its top prize on a decidedly analogue work

Benjamin Sutton
4 July 2023

The co-founder of luxury art publisher Assouline on why its books ‘are really haute couture’ and how they will ‘never’ go digital

Prosper Assouline also tells us about doing everything in-house and how 80% of a book is what is on the outside

Gareth Harris
14 March 2023

We're hiring! Associate Digital Editor, London office

The Art Newspaper is looking for an experienced digital editor to join its London team

The Art Newspaper
19 May 2021

It took 300 years for the art world to recognise Artemisia Gentileschi—now NFTs are reinforcing the bias towards Western male artists

The latest digital craze is only perpetuating the structural sexism inherent in art history

Bendor Grosvenor
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