NewsArt & Technology
Get the app and the church door will open to you
How often on our walks do we get to an enticing old church, only to find that it’s locked? Mobile phones provide the 'open sesame'
NewsTechnology
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
NewsTechnology
Marina Abramovic to make digital appearance at London's Serpentine Galleries
Performance using cutting-edge Magic Leap One device is world first
NewsTechnology
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
Commentartificial intelligence
We must not let the art market hoodwink us in the AI debate
The AI work that was sold at Christie's is profound in its conservatism, but others reflect how the technology can impact on art in fascinating ways
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
Victoria and Albert Museum brings Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks to life online
New technology allows novices and scholars to zoom in on the artist’s sketches and notes
NewsCensorship
Facebook censors artist's work criticising male-dominated society because it features naked breasts
The social media giant also deleted her comments and friends
NewsTechnology
After a year-long journey in the California desert, Desert X's art rover Shybot is found
The missing and crowd averse work has been recovered in Palm Springs, a bit banged up but otherwise intact
NewsArt market
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
FeatureArtist interview
Trevor Paglen lets you view the world as the machines see it
Ahead of his retrospective at Washington, DC's Smithsonian American Art Museum, the artist discusses his interest in the social and political implications of technologies, including mass surveillance systems and artificial intelligence
CommentSaudi Arabia
Letter to the Editor: Saudi Arabia will collaborate with the world, not only France, to make its cultural heritage accessible
Al-Ula, the most important cultural heritage site in the north-west of the kingdom, will benefit from international standards in heritage preservation and planning
NewsConservation
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
NewsMuseums
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
FeatureArt Basel in Hong Kong 2018
From Abramovic to Kapoor: how artists are making VR a reality
Pair are the latest big names to step into the sixth dimension, with their first works using VR tools on show at this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong fair
NewsBuilding projects
New York art and technology organisation announces new programmes for its 20th anniversary
Eyebeam plans residencies, fellowships and exhibitions for its new Brooklyn headquarters
NewsTechnology
Elon Musks's Telsa Roadster: Is it art? Or is it ‘garbage in space’?
The entrepreneur has begun implementing his plan to colonise Mars and make us a “multi-planetary species”
NewsConservation
Where petroleum exploration meets art
Researchers use terahertz scanning to understand artist’s methods
BlogIn the frame
Leonardo DiCaprio lends star power to the Magnus art app
NewsBuilding projects
Royal College of Art's new £108m campus gets green light and will focus on art, technology and science
Building designed by Herzog & de Meuron will be a centre for robotics and drone technology
NewsArt market
Sotheby’s acquires tech startup Thread Genius
The company uses image recognition software to find works of art that match users’ tastes
InterviewArtist interview
Robot wars: Mark Pauline and Survival Research Laboratories
The Bay Area artist and his team build massive machines that act in dangerous performances—and they are opening their first gallery show in New York
BlogIn the frame
Is Donald Trump lurking in your art collection?
NewsExhibitions
Hirshhorn to show Lozano-Hemmer’s ‘Pulse’ works
Show will include several of artist's immersive works that use biometric technology
FeaturePodcast
Podcast episode eight: how hackers are attacking the art world
Galleries are losing huge sums to cybercrime, what makes them vulnerable? Plus: the dubious restoration along the Camino di Santiago.
BlogIn the frame
“Electronic passport” for artworks wins Investors Allstars award
Articheck enables art world professionals to create digital condition reports for works of art
NewsMuseums
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
NewsArt trafficking
Germany launches internet portal to fight art trafficking
Site gives information on international regulations and protected German heritage
AnalysisTechnology
Blockchain: how the revolutionary technology behind Bitcoin could change the art market
The software has the potential to improve transparency, copyright and ownership issues
CommentData
A crisis of faith: is Big Data the art world’s new religion?
The rise of Big Data means that connoisseurship is being replaced by "intel", which has far-reaching implications for the art world
Margaret Carrigan