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3 February 2026

New Doha museum celebrates M.F. Husain’s global legacy

Launched by Qatar Foundation, Lawh Wa Qalam: M. F. Husain Museum is dedicated to the restlessly energetic Indian artist, who spent his final years in Qatar working on an ambitious new body of work

Hanan Nasser
19 January 2026

Workers at the Metropolitan Museum vote to form union

More than three quarters of eligible employees voted in favour of forming a union with the United Auto Workers, which will represent hundreds of employees

Anni Irish
5 January 2026

How Australia’s social media ban could affect art institutions

Museums may need to rethink their content and find new ways to engage with young fans online

Aimee Dawson
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
10 December 2025

The spirit of the north: Oulu is about to begin its year as European Capital of Culture

The Finnish city, close to the Arctic Circle, will play host to hundreds of arts and cultural events

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

Two more mega museums open in Abu Dhabi

The Zayed National Museum, designed by Norman Foster, and the Natural History Museum, are both located on the emirate’s Saadiyat Island

Melissa Gronlund
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
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
12 November 2025

Do museums need to crack down on selfies?

The Uffizi in Florence is restricting selfies, and New York’s Frick Collection bans all photography—but other museums encourage them

Philippa Kelly
30 October 2025

Ten essential Barbara Hepworth works to see in the UK

Barbara Hepworth was one of the most important artists of the 20th century, who helped shape what we think of as Modern sculpture today

Eleanor Clayton
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
31 March 2001

"Digital craft" project at Frankfurt's Museum of Applied Arts aims to change the way we think about museums and technology

Director James M. Bradburne is a passionate believer in new technologies

James M. Bradburne
31 March 2016

Visitor research? There’s an app for that

Museums are using mobile technology to engage directly with their audiences and in future may use this data to boost their bottom lines too

Victoria Stapley-Brown
16 August 2019

Liverpool World Museum used facial recognition technology on visitors to Terracotta Warriors show

Privacy group condemns move but the museum says people were made aware of the surveillance measures

Gareth Harris
11 July 2018

Brexit reshuffle means Jeremy Wright is seventh UK culture secretary in eight years

Museum admission charges will be on the agenda of MP who cites “James Bond films and playing golf badly” as interests

Gareth Harris
1 December 2010

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

Are new media museums the future?

András Szántó
5 August 2019

Ancient cities rise again: Introducing virtual archaeology

Technology developed by a California-based firm has made it possible to walk through vanished sites.

Peter Schauer
25 March 2024

‘We remember who we are through culture’

M+ Museum Director Suhanya Raffel on Hong Kong’s first international cultural summit and why it matters

In partnership with West Kowloon Cultural District Authority
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
7 February 2018

Tate awarded $1.5m research grant to explore models to conserve contemporary works 'that challenge the structure of the museum'

The project, funded by the Mellon Foundation, will concentrate on time-based media, digital and performance art

Emily Sharpe
26 June 2024

A piece of the action: museum partnership in New York invites visitors to take home fragments of digital artworks

The Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) and the Tezos Foundation have teamed up to offer the public a chance to acquire—for no cost—parts of works projected onto a screen in the lobby

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
8 December 2023

American Second World War museum uses AI to tell veterans’ stories

As the generation that served in the war ages, an experiential museum in New Orleans seeks to keep their voices alive

Allison C. Meier
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
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
30 October 2018

Top museum directors on the challenges of climate change and mass tourism

Vatican conference on preventive conservation warns of environmental impact of short-term politics

Anna Somers Cocks
1 December 2021

Alex Israel turns the Bass museum into an AR playground

Los Angeles-based artist joins with Snapchat’s tech team to produce AR works designed to make even the most jaded art audiences smile

Wallace Ludel
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
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
17 January 2023

SFMoMA acquires its first NFT, a work by tech art pioneer Lynn Hershman Leeson

The museum is one of the most prominent to date to acquire a blockchain-backed digital artwork for its permanent collection

Torey Akers
30 June 2008

New media exhibition as the "the coming of age show" for the National Museum of China

The country’s first major survey of new media took place in June—with a little help from MoMA, Tate, and several others

Chris Gill and Helen Stoilas
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
13 July 2017

What the V&A’s director actually said about digitisation

Contrary to media reports, Tristram Hunt says museum is "very passionate" about unlocking its collections online

By Martin Bailey
1 February 2005

Harvard’s barcode revolution: the University makes plans to digitise its huge art collection

By 2007 Harvard will be able to track the collection digitally, and everything will be accessible

Martha Lufkin
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
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
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 2012

Web salvation for workers’ art as GDR artists are digitally rehabilitated

Shunned since the Wall fell, East German works are now catalogued on the 'Bildatlas'

Julia Michalska
31 May 2013

Art enters the third dimension as 3-D printing goes mainstream

Assessing the impact of technological advances in 3-D printers and scanners on the art world, and what it means for the future

Julia Halperin
10 May 2017

Artists’ commissions, tech gifts and guns: the legal issues facing US museums

Delegates at a Smithsonian-sponsored law conference in Dallas heard about the challenges testing institutions as they move into the “new future”

By Martha Lufkin
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 May 2024

The art world's AI dilemma: informed insight from industry experts

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

Louis Jebb and Gareth Harris
23 September 2024

Despite the real (and artificial) fears of many, AI is not the enemy of the art world

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

Sarp Kerem Yavuz
13 August 2015

Vatican fundraising: there’s an app for that

Patrum aims to bring in donations for restoration projects, and connect patrons around the world

Gareth Harris
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
18 December 2018

Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery develops blockchain app to bring Russian art to the world

Digital initiative will invite users to explore and sponsor more than 190,000 works in the collection

George Nelson
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
5 September 2025

Smithsonian under fire from Trump, Frieze Seoul, Dara Birnbaum and Quantum—podcast

The Art Newspaper's editor-in-chief in the Americas discusses the Trump administration’s interference in museums, we take an inside look at the season's first art fair and discuss landmark video art

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack, Alexander Morrison and Philippa Kelly
17 November 2020

‘From bad to worse’: over half of US museums have laid off or furloughed staff, survey shows

Museums expect to lose an average of 35% of budgeted income this year, plus an additional 28% in 2021

Nancy Kenney
13 June 2022

Uffizi gallery makes only €70,000 from Michelangelo NFT that sold for €240,000

Deal with Cinello company fuels debate about ownership of Old Master masterpieces in the metaverse age

Gareth Harris
13 February 2023

Mysterious NFT collector—who may actually be the rapper Snoop Dogg—gifts 22 blockchain works to Lacma

Pseudonymous NFT collector Cozomo de’ Medici gives Los Angeles County Museum of Art "largest collection of its kind in a US museum"

Claire Voon
4 May 2020

The unsung agency working to maintain museum and library access in the US

The leader of the Institute of Museum and Library Services tells us what his organisation is doing to help spaces reopen

Brian Allen
20 November 2023

Can location-specific digital technologies help to resolve debates on restitution?

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

Aimee Dawson
30 April 1996

Guggenheim goes virtual with new high-tech installations

Deutsche Telekom backs struggling SoHo branch

Jason Edward Kaufman
12 June 2023

Largest museum union in the US ratifies its first contract

More than 500 workers at the Carnegie Museums in Pittsburgh voted to ratify their first contract after 18 months of negotiations

Anni Irish
25 November 2019

Boris Johnson’s Conservative manifesto promises £250m funding for culture

Although Tory announcement calls it the “largest cultural capital programme in a century”, pledge is only quarter of Labour’s £1bn culture fund

Martin Bailey
9 November 2022

San Francisco museums will waive admissions for a weekend thanks to anonymous donation

Twenty-one museums across the city will be free during the inaugural San Francisco Free Museum Weekend on 3-4 December

Torey Akers
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
31 May 1996

How fares the digital revolution: A look at the Corbis Corporation

We assess the benefits that have accrued to museums and publishers so far

Jason Edward Kaufman
8 August 2018

Chengdu MoCA quashes rumours of demise but its problems are endemic in China’s art museums

Institution’s difficulties echo experiences of other new Chinese cultural spaces linked to property developments

Lisa Movius
27 April 2018

Met hosts international directors for the Global Museum Leaders Colloquium

The event, launched in 2014, is a unique experience freed from “stage-managed dialogue”, its moderator says

Victoria Stapley-Brown
26 April 2018

The dark web, surveillance dolls and Van Gogh’s zombie ear: technology’s role in art debated at Boston conference

While artists and museums embrace futuristic tools, legal experts point to a number of pitfalls with cutting-edge work

Martha Lufkin
4 April 2019

Boom or bust for DC museums: how the US government shutdown affected visitor figures

In January, the 19 Smithsonian institutions had just 13% of the footfall they had experienced the year before

Vanessa H Larson
17 February 2023

Twelve institutions join Web 3.0 fellowship—including Musée d'Orsay and Vienna's Belvedere Museum—to harness the power of blockchain

Programme is designed to mentor museums in the ways of the decentralised third generation of the Web that is home to blockchain, cryptocurrencies and NFTs

Dorian Batycka
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
26 June 2019

Next edition of Pacific Standard time looks at the intersection of art and science

The Getty-led PST: Art x Science x LA is due to be held in 2024

Victoria Stapley-Brown
23 March 2016

UK government publishes its first Culture White Paper in half a century

Key proposals from culture minister Ed Vaizey’s statement include widening access to the arts and a protection fund for cultural heritage in combat zones

Martin Bailey
30 April 2021

Indian museum brings artist M F Husain back from the dead using AI

Visitors to the Museum of Art and Photography in Bangalore can pose questions to a "digital twin" of the late Bombay Progressive Group painter

Kabir Jhala
22 November 2019

New Berlin foundation turns AI into immersive art

Light Art Space wants visitors to understand the world through a computer’s eyes

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
4 October 2024

New display at Tate Modern highlights role technology can play in expanding the scope of UK museum collections

Works by four artists were created as part of the Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage research project

Gameli Hamelo
11 September 2023

Mauritshuis show looks to find a future for objects with a dubious past

Loot—Ten Stories, opening this week, explores new ways to represent looted objects after they have been repatriated

Senay Boztas
18 November 2015

There is more to Malevich’s Black Square than a hidden racist joke, Moscow curators reveal

Tretyakov museum may invite foreign experts to conduct further research on the radical work

Sophia Kishkovsky
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
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
4 December 2015

Design is about the human intent

Yves Béhar, the Swiss-born, San Francisco-based designer behind Jawbone’s Up fitness tracker and One Laptop Per Child, is the winner of Design Miami’s 2015 Visionary Award

Nicole Swengley
22 October 2024

'Courageous and resilient individuals': why the Illinois Holocaust Museum is embracing virtual reality to share survivors’ stories

New technologies are helping to protect and preserve the vital eye-witness perspectives of a dwindling but determined community

Kimberly Hatfield
28 November 2017

UK museums' right to charge image fees is called into question

Campaign for institutions to free up photographs of out-of-copyright works is backed by legal experts

Ivan Macquisten
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
29 March 2021

Can museums really make digital visits pay?

As venues experiment with selling virtual exhibition tours, talks and workshops online, the key to success may be an emphasis on the expert, bespoke and exclusive

Hannah McGivern
7 April 2023

The dawn of blockchain? CryptoPunks evangelist Noah Davis on why the Centre Pompidou NFT show is a game-changer

Davis oversaw $69m Beeple NFT sale at Christie’s in 2021

Gareth Harris
16 December 2015

Swiss scholar Corinne Diserens to curate Taipei Biennial

Tenth edition will focus on the role of museums and institutional bureaucracy

Gareth Harris
11 October 2018

Fire consumes depot at Deutsches Museum

Burned storage depot housed 8,000 exhibits; museum fears “heavy damages”

Catherine Hickley
19 April 2016

Palmyra arch destroyed by Isil rises over Trafalgar Square

Replica is going up in London today, then New York and Dubai

Cristina Ruiz
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
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
29 June 2017

Outlook is sunny for museum employees, AAMD survey finds

According to the organisation's 2017 Salary Survey, released today, US institutional pay has increased at a higher rate than the overall jobs market

Victoria Stapley-Brown
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
19 May 2018

How do you conserve time-based media? Museums invest in research to keep up with new technologies

Symposium on the subject to open at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts

Jillian Steinhauer
15 July 2024

Where is the big museum blockbuster on AI?

Even the science-themed PST Art exhibitions, opening in Los Angeles in September, avoid the tech revolutions of our day

Jori Finkel
31 May 2024

The Week in Art podcast | Art’s AI reckoning, the rise of comic art and Degas’ Miss La La

Why the art world must tackle the questions posed by artificial intelligence head on, plus comics celebrated in two European locations and Degas’ portrait of the circus artist Anna Albertine Olga Brown

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack, Julia Michalska and Alexander Morrison
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
3 March 2022

NFTs of Old Masters—good or bad?

Are the digitally produced copies of museum works sold as NFTs for six-figure sums simply very expensive digital posters?

Georgina Adam
1 November 1992

Laser scanners becoming central to stone conservation

Merseyside museums lead the way in applying new technology to stone conservation

The Art Newspaper
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
22 July 2020

One out of three US museums may shut down forever, a survey confirms

Institutions report decline in operating reserves and planned reductions in museum services like education

Nancy Kenney
27 February 2023

The Art Newspaper is looking for a Senior Editor, Museums (New York)

An exciting opportunity has opened up for a talented art journalist to join our US team

The Art Newspaper
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
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
8 December 2023

After the boom and bust, an era of ‘greater maturity’ for art and the blockchain?

Despite the collapse of the NFT market and scandals involving cryptocurrency exchanges, experts still see potential in the technologies’ potential art world applications

Daniel Grant
4 October 2019

The Sistine Chapel's system upgrade: Nam June Paik's immersive video to be recreated for Tate

The late artist’s award-winning Venice Biennale presentation has been painstakingly reconstructed at Tate Modern—clunky old tubes and all

Emily Sharpe
8 April 2020

Don't let your guard down: three things you can do now to protect your art during the pandemic

With sparse personnel and visitors, some criminals will try to see if the “closed” sign actually means “open”, say K2 Intelligence FIN's art crime experts

Jordan Arnold and James Wynne
1 November 1994

Sue Runyard on how to market the modern museum

A guide to selling the modern museum

Celina Fox
24 November 2023

Mail art meets NFTs for all in the ‘MoMA Postcard’ programme

New York museum invites online audience to make and own non-fungible tokens communally on the blockchain in 15-person groups

Clara Che Wei Peh
1 June 2023

186 Roy Lichtenstein works donated to museums in honour of the artist’s 100th birthday

Gifts will go to five institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Carlie Porterfield
18 March 2020

America's virtual museums take on new significance as Covid-19 lockdown deepens

Art Institute of Chicago and Smithsonian are among institutions that have embraced technology, and more are set to ramp up their efforts

Daniel Grant
7 February 2023

Detroit arts organisations receive $23m in grants for digital initiatives from the Knight Foundation

The philanthropic organisation has named ten grantees of tech-focused investments

Torey Akers
27 February 2020

Van Gogh’s Sunflowers caught up in Tokyo coronavirus quarantine

Japanese government instructs national art museums to close for two weeks — shutting the door on London’s National Gallery travelling show, on the eve of opening

Martin Bailey
13 February 2018

Trump wants to axe NEA and other culture agencies—again

The president’s 2019 budget includes a similar proposal to last year’s failed plan to defund America’s arts bodies

Helen Stoilas
5 November 2015

Emdash Award relaunches to focus exclusively on performance

Austrian collector previously supported Frieze Projects with her prize

Anny Shaw
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