The exhibition, opening in March 2027, will pair one of MoMA’s prized possessions, “Broadway Boogie Woogie”, with “Victory Boogie Woogie” on loan from the Netherlands
The app generates personalised experiences for visitors to museums and institutions
The bill, signed into law by the governor on 2 June, allows artists to create companies to help them monetise their labour and retain intellectual property rights
The Arkansas museum now has 50% more space for its ever-expanding collection and art-and-wellness programming
The tool in development analyses photographs and audio as well as meteorological and material data to create an augmented reality model
Museum Rietberg exhibition showcases more than a dozen artists from around the world whose work reimagines mostly colonial-era images
A storm of opinion is raging in the arts world on whether an admission fee is needed, with some museums arguing the income would be offset by a loss of other revenue
The initiative funds institutions to process, digitise, preserve and activate archival collections related to Black art in the US
The gift, from the foundation of Jennifer Rubio and Stewart Butterfield, is the latest example of donors offering targeted support that goes beyond funding institutional acquisitions
Writer and researcher András Szántó speaks to art-world movers and shakers for predictions and insights
Caravaggio and Rubens works destroyed by fire in Second World War are brought back to (digital) life
The Gemäldegalerie in Berlin has digitised hundreds of works that were held in a tower for safety but were l
Digital technologies are at the heart of a declaration by major museums and heritage organisations to record and sometimes reproduce works of art
The museums of Modern art in New York and San Francisco are leading the way on promoting digital content on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
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?
As the Musée d’Orsay in Paris appoints an Instagram-artist-in-residence, we look at the growing trend in museums for social media takeovers and collaborations
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
Director James M. Bradburne is a passionate believer in new technologies
In his contribution to Palazzo Strozzi's digital project In Touch, the artist says Italian museums will "give humankind a light" to help find its way after coronavirus
Museums are stepping up efforts to return physical objects to their original owners—but repatriation policies often do not consider the digital information associated with them
Chiara Zuanni wants to capture the outpouring of online art offerings both as an archive of the Covid-19 era and as a source of inspiration for art organisations all over the world
There are plenty of grants for new digital projects but finding long-term funding could be much harder
Exploring the impact of digital technology on art, music, film and design
We assess the benefits that have accrued to museums and publishers so far
Museums, curators and art professionals endorse traditional art, but who will be the gatekeepers for the online world?
Are new media museums the future?
Move follows €240,000 sale of NFT of Michelangelo work, with Uffizi taking a share of the profits
Exhibitions editor José da Silva breaks down the results from our Visitor Figures 2020 survey and digital expert Chris Unitt explains how museums have pivoted to digital
As new technology is increasingly adopted by artists, can curators and collectors keep up?
Podcasts, social media channels and virtual exhibitions are experiencing unprecedented traffic but do not make up for lost revenue
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
Replicas of works from four institutions, including the Uffizi, will be sold as NFTs by Unit London gallery
Campaign for institutions to free up photographs of out-of-copyright works is backed by legal experts
As new technology is increasingly adopted by artists, can curators and collectors keep up?
Contrary to media reports, Tristram Hunt says museum is "very passionate" about unlocking its collections online
Move reflects how museums could cash in on digital initiatives
"Digital Benin" catalogue gathers together information on objects stolen from the Kingdom of Benin and now held in collections around the world
As an advertising agency pays Instagram influencers to promote museums, is it really worth shelling out thousands of dollars for added publicity and to reach new audiences?
French museums operator Culturespaces has launched a space in South Korea and is planning another in Bordeaux in 2020
Museums are addressing a lack of in-house expertise in creating digital content by hiring from a growing pool of social-savvy freelancers
Deal with Cinello company fuels debate about ownership of Old Master masterpieces in the metaverse age
Art space in Belo Horizonte found an innovative way to engage with its audience during the pandemic—and now it's here to stay
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
At Art Basel Paris, “the art world seemed to be staging a rally for art created by flesh-and-blood people”
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
We look at how the 100 most-visited museums in our Visitor Figures survey performed online
Brush up on your Instagram skills and you could be earning over $100,000
The event, launched in 2014, is a unique experience freed from “stage-managed dialogue”, its moderator says
Technological wizardry in replication is improving, alongside claims to relocate far-flung treasures
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
Among the winners is Lumin, a mobile app tour of the Detroit Institute of Arts that uses augmented reality and 3D animations to guide visitors through the museum
By 2007 Harvard will be able to track the collection digitally, and everything will be accessible
When British troops plundered the Royal Palace of Benin in the 19th century, at least 3,000 objects were dispersed internationally. A new online database is bringing them together
From dealing with cyberattacks on newly implemented digital offerings, to figuring out how to renegotiate a postponed loan, the coronavirus has raised a whole new crop of issues for museums
Techno-design is go for museum collections
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
Big museums are missing a trick by refusing to embrace the youth- and fun- oriented platform
We ask The Art Newspaper's art market editor about the mood in Basel, discuss the Dutch museum tackling the difficult topic of human remains, and speak to Jo Applin, the co-curator of the Courtauld's newest show
Ossian Ward investigates European and US perspectives and the issues of conservation and ownership
Immersive installations by the Japan-based collective will be the centrepiece of Nowhere, a new digital art space in Utrecht
The Google Cultural Institute’s We Wear Culture fashion stories are its latest museum collaboration, its director Amit Sood tells us.
Although “thumbstoppable” social media content is essential, the online world has dark consequences too, says Tristram Hunt, the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum
The Art Newspaper is co-hosting a live YouTube discussion on digital innovations and the preservation of cultural heritage on 1-3 May
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
Other acquisitions this month include a Bronze Age Peebles stone hoard, and Yatreda Art Collective’s Abyssinian Queen NFT
Virtual symposium streamed from United Arab Emirates explores why museums matter in the age of Covid
The webinar will feature speakers including Max Hollein and Mikhail Piotrovsky and will be co-hosted by Louvre Abu Dhabi and NYU Abu Dhabi
New and old institutions in New York, pop-up show of video art in Los Angeles and moving-image artist’s archive crystallise the unique pressures that come with showing and preserving art made with recent technologies
Chancellor Rishi Sunak digs deep, adding £300m to the £1.57bn Cultural Recovery Fund, £90m more for museums, and £18m for cultural community projects
Museums must widen the ways in which they serve their audiences to reflect new forms of social interaction
The institution has partnered with French start-up LaCollection to auction the non-fungible tokens, coinciding with its exhibition of the Japanese artist's work
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
Student-run Shadows Project aims to defend Ukraine’s cultural history and has in its sights Western institutions that identify Ukrainian art and artists as Russian
Even the science-themed PST Art exhibitions, opening in Los Angeles in September, avoid the tech revolutions of our day
Digital initiative will invite users to explore and sponsor more than 190,000 works in the collection
The London gallery and Frameless Creative, a leading maker of immersive experiences, have combined to create an unforgettable touring experience, with its first location at Salford Quays
Project is backed by the Ernst von Siemens art foundation, which seeks “a more factual focus to the discussions about restitution”
Visitors to the Museum of Art and Photography in Bangalore can pose questions to a "digital twin" of the late Bombay Progressive Group painter
Livestreaming on platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Zoom has exploded in the past few months
Contemporary initiative also includes new book with contributions from more than 60 artists such as Adrian Villar Rojas, Lara Favaretto and Michael Rakowitz
Frédéric Jousset will provide £1m over four years to send school children to cultural venues, including the British Museum
The Melbourne museum of screen culture reopens with a contactless device that allows visitors to curate virtual collections
A virtual museum in the popular game counteracts players who deny or distort the history of antisemitism
Number of people visiting art museums in the country has dropped by 7.4 per cent
Leading institutions absent from meeting in Nigeria to foster international co-operation
The funding will benefit emerging and mid-career curators from 19 US and international museums
Galleries on lockdown connect online during coronavirus pandemic using #CollectionsUnited
Recipients range from Grey Art Gallery at NYU to a truck that transports art books to underserved communities
Visitor numbers at some of the world’s most popular art venues have nosedived and uncertainty for the future remains
The museum is one of the most prominent to date to acquire a blockchain-backed digital artwork for its permanent collection
Centre for Contemporary Art Derry-Londonderry, Experience Barnsley, Firstsite, Thackray Museum of Medicine and Timespan chosen as five finalists for Art Fund's coveted £100,000 prize
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
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'
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
No US museums were represented at the meeting.
Metapurse, the company owned by the buyer of the $69.3m NFT, plans to create an online “monument this piece deserves"
Will 2022 see a return to normal for exhibition schedules? Or will surging cases mean plans have to be torn up again? We asked museum directors and head curators how confident they are for the year ahead
Here are the best digital initiatives to feed your need for art
Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivers first post-Brexit spending pledges
Two surveys supported by the National Endowment for the Arts show that in-person art activities remain below pre-Covid levels, while many Americans continue to experience culture virtually
Art UK's Curations initiative enables “anyone anywhere with internet access” to create an exhibition using the national image database
Officials at the Grand Palais hope a new strand of multimedia exhibitions will tap into a growing global market
French organisation Culturespaces plans fifth and sixth locations for shows of digitised paintings
New virtual initiative theVOV also aims to generate funds for the creative sector, potentially unlocking "new streams of income"
It was tempting to simply put “everything and everyone” in the bad-year column. But even this most challenging of years was not entirely terrible
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
An extended reality platform being developed by a Scottish university allows users to “teleport” around virtual museums
Activists plan day of action, online and at New York museums, against social media censorship of art
After collecting signatures outside art institutions, the group Don’t Delete Art will deliver its manifesto to Meta’s Manhattan headquarters
As Israel and Denmark introduce Covid-19 status certificates, institutions are concerned that government schemes may keep visitors away
Partnerships are on the rise as ways to sell the moving image proliferate
Suay Aksoy, president of Icom, says museums closed by Covid-19 lockdowns "need to champion themselves because their survival may depend on it"
Art Institute of Chicago and Smithsonian are among institutions that have embraced technology, and more are set to ramp up their efforts


































































































