The two foremost satellite fairs of Mexico City Art Week are drawing record crowds and feature strong presentations by artists and galleries from across Mexico and throughout the Americas

As part of the US's 250th anniversary celebrations, the museum is looking for 50 digital content creators to make short-form videos in response to its collection

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

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

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

From the idyllic Slovenian countryside to the heart of Los Angeles, here are ten of the biggest new and expanded museums opening this year

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

Charity's “Reimagine” programme will fund a variety of initiatives, from developing a new model for provenance research to preserving digital heritage

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

Balshaw will see out her nine-year tenure by co-curating the largest-ever survey of the artist Tracey Emin in spring 2026

The cutting-edge institution, which opens tomorrow, fuses museum and library in decommissioned military airport

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

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

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

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?

Move reflects how museums could cash in on digital initiatives

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

"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

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

Big museums are missing a trick by refusing to embrace the youth- and fun- oriented platform

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

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

The webinar will feature speakers including Max Hollein and Mikhail Piotrovsky and will be co-hosted by Louvre Abu Dhabi and NYU Abu Dhabi

Chancellor Rishi Sunak digs deep, adding £300m to the £1.57bn Cultural Recovery Fund, £90m more for museums, and £18m for cultural community projects

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

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

Museums must widen the ways in which they serve their audiences to reflect new forms of social interaction

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

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

Livestreaming on platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Zoom has exploded in the past few months

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

Number of people visiting art museums in the country has dropped by 7.4 per cent

A virtual museum in the popular game counteracts players who deny or distort the history of antisemitism

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

'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

Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivers first post-Brexit spending pledges

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

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

As Israel and Denmark introduce Covid-19 status certificates, institutions are concerned that government schemes may keep visitors away

After collecting signatures outside art institutions, the group Don’t Delete Art will deliver its manifesto to Meta’s Manhattan headquarters

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

In a new book Farah Nayeri says that “cancel culture” is nothing new, politics and art have always been intertwined—but now it is citizens, not kings and popes, who call the shots

The time is ripe for artists and curators to reconfigure what can actually be done within the walls of a museum