ReviewArt & Technology
Black Lives Matter murals: Can truly public art exist on private platforms policed by private algorithms?
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality
NewsOpenings
Company behind blockbuster immersive art experiences expands to New York former bank and Dubai shopping mall
French organisation Culturespaces plans fifth and sixth locations for shows of digitised paintings
AnalysisArt & Technology
The model challenge: how to capture art in 3D for augmented and virtual reality
As the art world rushes to digitise we look at the different ways to create digital renderings of works
ReviewArt & Technology
Physically sanitised, spiritually liberating: Gazelli Art House’s Enter Through The Headset
A special guest panel offers our first review of an in real life (IRL) virtual reality exhibition, held, with extensive hygiene measures, at a London gallery
ReviewArt & Tech 2020
Kiki Smith, I am a Wanderer is a satisfying digital show organised without a tech team or an app
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality
ReviewArt & Technology
Cammie Staros evokes environmentally apocalyptic scenarios on the Lux Art Institute app
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers
ReviewArt & Technology
Zemí Cohoba Stand: an AR experience with exceptional 3D modelling from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality
NewsArt & Technology
Going Dutch: teamLab to launch permanent exhibition in the Netherlands in 2024
Immersive installations by the Japan-based collective will be the centrepiece of Nowhere, a new digital art space in Utrecht
ReviewArt & Technology
Vortic Collect: a promising virtual reality tool for galleries and a welcome getaway for art collectors
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality
NewsCathedral of Notre Dame
New VR experience recreates Notre Dame in its former glory—and after its devastating fire
The 360 degree film Rebuilding Notre-Dame—on show in Paris—allows visitors to once again "step inside" the cathedral
ReviewArt & Technology
Untitled, Art Online fair and Artland: vast data collecting capabilities and some great art
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality
NewsArt & Technology
Superblue experiential art centre to launch in Miami this December
New commercial venture aims to capitalise on the rise of immersive artworks by selling tickets rather than objects
NewsObituaries
Frank Popper—the historian at the forefront of art’s digital revolution—has died, aged 102
Expert in art and technology led the way in documenting the development of "virtual art"
ReviewArt & Technology
Wunderkammer review: this augmented reality app is the giftshop postcard of Olafur Eliasson's work
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality
FeatureArt & Technology
Three-dimensional lift off: The Art Newspaper launches reviews of virtual art
The Covid-19 pandemic has seen the art world renew its engagement with virtual and augmented reality. Now is the time to give this format a critical framework
NewsArt market
Brave new world: Francis Bacon triptych sells for $84.5m in Sotheby's first major live-streamed evening sale
Marathon online high-tech auction was the first of its kind attempted by Sotheby's and totalled $363.2m, boosting confidence that a top-end market still exists
BlogMedia
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
NewsArt market
London galleries launch concurrent exhibitions on AR app
New co-operative grew out of a WhatsApp group set up in March for galleries to share advice in the wake of UK’s coronavirus lockdown
NewsArt market
How artists are adapting their work to virtual fairs and online viewing rooms
As Art Basel's online viewing room opens, Tracey Emin, Jim Shaw and Avery Singer speak about lockdown and creating for the digital sphere
NewsOpenings
Netherlands gets first 'startup' museum for new media art
Nxt Museum to open in Amsterdam on 29 August with immersive installations by pioneering artists, designers, technologists and scientists
BlogDiary
From sunrise to sunset, you can now virtually meditate inside Ellsworth Kelly’s Texas fantasia
NewsBiennials & festivals
AI you ready for this? Bucharest Biennale to be curated by artificial intelligence called Jarvis
The 2022 edition will exist in virtual reality and use data harvested from universities, galleries and art centres to select artists
AnalysisArt & Technology
Extended reality: what future do AR and VR offer the art world?
Potential of new digital technologies comes to the fore as 5G connectivity expands and specialist equipment becomes more user-friendly
NewsArt market
Untitled, Art turns to virtual reality to improve the online fair experience
The organisers are using video game technology to recreate the “element of discovery” of wandering the aisles of a physical event
NewsArt & Technology
With a haunting sculpture, the Met expands its push into augmented reality
Curator provides audio narration for 3D experience of a Taíno religious figure
NewsArt & Technology
Olafur Eliasson brings the Northern Lights or a blazing sun into your bedroom
The artist is releasing his first collection of augmented reality digital objects through the Acute Art app
AnalysisArt market
Frieze New York exhibitors bring a domestic touch to online viewing rooms
Why some galleries are trying to make the sterile virtual environment more homely, plus some early sales
PreviewArt market
Whisky drinking, dog walking and gardening: art dealers' plans for the alternative Frieze New York
With the "real-life" fair cancelled due to coronavirus, exhibitors give their thoughts on the event's first online viewing room experience
NewsArt market
Flash sale: Darren Bader launches online platform Inventory for artists and galleries
Prices are clearly marked under each work and some are even marked down by anywhere from 30% to 90%
FeatureSocial media
The art world has thrown itself into live broadcasts online—but are they any good?
Livestreaming on platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Zoom has exploded in the past few months
InterviewArtist interview
Eva and Franco Mattes: ‘Technology does not create the social problems we so often criticise’
As the lockdown forces the art world to migrate online, the Italian duo, who embraced the internet in its infancy, are moving in the opposite direction
FeatureConservation & Preservation
Digital technologies allow us to create precise copies of artefacts—but what does this mean for the idea of 'authenticity'?
Online book demonstrates the groundbreaking work by Factum Foundation to create high-resolution facsimiles but also raises questions of value
FeatureDigital art
'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
FeatureVideo games
Game on: artists turn to the virtual world of video games during the pandemic
As lockdown continues, video games are proving to be ripe territory for artists and budding curators to experiment (and play)
AnalysisArt market
How Covid-19 has forced the art market’s speedy digital conversion
In lockdown, many galleries have had a Damascene moment with online programming
NewsArt & Technology
If the sea destroys Venice, can digital technology rebuild it?
The Art Newspaper is co-hosting a live YouTube discussion on digital innovations and the preservation of cultural heritage on 1-3 May
BlogVideo games
Dodgy dealer offers famous fakes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons video game
NewsEarth Day
Art meets (indoor) activism to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day
Judy Chicago launches Create Art for Earth with the Serpentine Galleries while a new documentary foregrounds how Indigenous peoples are fighting climate change
InterviewArt & Technology
‘Longevity feels a bit elusive at the moment’: artist Julia Christensen explores upgrade culture in new book and postponed show
The artist has rummaged through e-waste facilities in India, and has envisioned an updated Golden Record with NASA to send into space
FeatureVideo, film & new media
Reality check: is VR set to revolutionise museums?
With the Louvre revealing its virtual reality Mona Lisa, museums ponder the power of tech experiences
NewsBlockchain
Artory partners with the Winston Art Group appraisal firm to offer free vetting services
The partnership is the latest collaboration undertaken by the growing blockchain-based art registry to increase “transparency” in the art market
NewsArt & Technology
Leading online database to remove 600,000 images after art project reveals its racist bias
Artist Trevor Paglen and AI researcher Kate Crawford have investigated the troubling ways in which ImageNet classifies people
ReviewArt & Technology
The natural world meets the virtual in Jakob Kudsk Steensen's augmented reality experience at Serpentine Galleries
Marking the galleries' first Augmented Architecture commission, explores the sights and sounds of the flora and fauna in London’s Hyde Park
FeatureArt Basel 2019
The human side of AI
How do algorithms see and shape the world? An exhibition at Basel’s HeK explores the often uncomfortable coexistence of humanity and AI
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'
NewsArt market
Artory bags Spotify backer in first funding round
The blockchain-based art registry announces a $7.3m group investment, following the acquisition of Auction Club and partnerships with Christie’s
ReviewBook Shorts
A catalogue of break-throughs in the history of printing and books
Book collects the first illustrations, scores, maps and children's books
NewsBlockchain
Blockchain-based art registry Artory acquires Auction Club database
The acquisition will make public 4,000 international auction house sale records
NewsTechnology
Marina Abramovic to make digital appearance at London's Serpentine Galleries
Performance using cutting-edge Magic Leap One device is world first
NewsConservation & Preservation
Conservation starts on Liverpool’s Neolithic stones
The Calderstones are being studied, recorded and restored before their reinstallation
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
FeatureArt Basel 2018
Artists as cryptofinanciers: welcome to the blockchain
Curious new relationships between art and capital are being enabled by cryptofinance, which places “monetary value” at the heart of the creative process
NewsAntiquities & Archaeology
Google and the World Monuments Fund highlight Iraqi heritage under threat
Using drone footage, 3D models and videos, the tech giant is working with cultural institutions to make preservation efforts accessible to a larger public
NewsConservation & Preservation
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
NewsExhibitions
Douglas Coupland’s work in plastic is fantastic
The writer and artist unveils an ecological work inspired by the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and a 3D-printed national portrait of Canada
News
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
ArchiveJeff Koons
Koons at cutting edge with giant stone mills: The techniques behind his creations
Koons' sculptures may look like child's play, but behind the play-doh is a long and complicated process
ArchiveChristie's
Christie’s buys digital management system
Collectrium is a digital multi-tool for art collection
ArchiveBarnett Newman
Menil reveals secrets of Newman’s technique
An eight-year effort to restore a major work by Barnett Newman (1905-70) has shed new light on the artist’s methods.
ArchiveCooper Hewitt
Smithsonian Design Museum reopens with array of high-tech displays
Cooper Hewitt puts can-do spirit into the house Carnegie built
ArchiveFilms
Let the video roller coaster ride begin : Interview with Ryan Trecartin
Trecartin’s films, created with Lizzie Fitch, trace the impact of technology on modern life
ArchiveArt & Technology
(Inter)facing the future at Barbican's 'Digital Revolution'
Exploring the impact of digital technology on art, music, film and design
ArchiveSilicon Valley
Silicon Valley tech companies take novel approaches to art investment
Silicon Valley’s success stories are applying their non-corporate ethos to art investment, finding innovative ways of building their collections
ArchiveThe Art Institute of Chicago
How to avoid digital boom and bust
There are plenty of grants for new digital projects but finding long-term funding could be much harder
ArchiveDigital Age
Web of intrigue: How has the 'post-internet' era changed the contemporary art world?
In the ‘post-internet’ age, digital artists are reassessing their relationship with galleries and collectors.
ArchiveDigital Age
Let’s get digital with "post-internet" art
The frontier spirit of post-internet artists.
ArchiveDigital Age
The digital age meets design classics at Design Miami
Galleries test the market for innovation, but there is also a wealth of Modernism on show
ArchiveDigital Age
The art book digital takeover: not if but when
Art books for tablets will leave printed works as elite items
ArchiveDigital Age
Digital access to Italian banks’ art
300,000 works owned by banks belonging to the Associazione Bancaria Italiana to become available to view online
ArchiveDigital Age
The race to digitise the world’s heritage
Non-profit organisation has big plans to gather data from 500 sites over the next five years
ArchiveArt & Technology
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
ArchiveMax Ernst
Investigating under Ernst’s surfaces at the Fondation Beyeler
Technical analysis could reveal secrets of rare Ernst plaster sculpture
ArchiveForgeries
How the detection of titanium white gave away Beltracchi
The pigment proved Beltracchi's version was inauthentic, since it was not in use at the time that the original was painted
ArchiveBerlin
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'
ArchiveWashington, DC
US could stop artists using drones
New regulations may restrict the use of surveillance technology in their work
ArchiveSan Francisco
How printmaking made Rembrandt an international star
New technology and growing middle class consumption opened up his works and those of his contemporaries to new markets
ArchiveRotterdam
Thieves foil high-tech security at Kunsthal Rotterdam
Seven works were stolen as unmanned overnight protection fails
ArchiveArt & Technology
Who’s in the picture? Anti-terror software might tell us
Face recognition software used to spot terrorists may be the answer to identifying unknown sitters in portraits.
ArchiveVIP Art Fair
The future has yet to arrive for online art fairs
VIP Art Fair expands its business model and improves technology, but big-name dealers are unconvinced
ArchiveNational Gallery
Books: The National Gallery’s latest Technical Bulletin makes some great discoveries
The volume is a compendium of papers presented at the Gallery in September 2009
ArchiveArt Basel
This year's Art Basel prepares to surpass last year with adjustments to layout
Art Parcours heads indoors to the city’s historic quarter, while the Messeplatz remains sculpture-free
ArchiveInternet
Website could be holy grail of private market prices
Art.sy will unite would-be collectors with art and dealers they may not know—and it’s all built on trust
ArchiveDigital Age
Digital display: Introducing the Adobe Museum of Digital Media
The latest venture from the creators of Photoshop is a virtual art gallery
ArchiveFilms
New York’s digital shorts: 'Made Here' explores artists’ relationships with the city
The web-based videos looks into the lives of performers and artists
ArchiveArt & Technology
Latest online startup aims for 3D sales
The creators of a new software venture think that adding an extra dimension will get things moving
ArchiveVideo art
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?
ArchiveArt & Technology
VIP online art fair overwhelmed by early technical setbacks
Majority of dealers claim disappointment as organisers defend privacy settings and vow to overcome glitches
ArchivePiranesi
Inside Piranesi’s prisons on show at the Venice Architecture Biennale
An immersive, digital film at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini reimagines the artist’s dark fantasies as if in three dimensions
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
Museums need to go much further in adapting to the digital age
Are new media museums the future?
ArchiveFrieze
The work of art in the age of cut and paste
Can the law keep up with the speed of digital appropriation, reproduction and distribution? And should it even try?
ArchiveArt & Technology
Infrared-light technology gets funding boost
Technology could foresee deterioration of artworks
Archive
Ten years after the hysteria of dotcom boom and bust, the web is finally finding its place in the art market
Leaving the house has never seemed more unnecessary
ArchiveAncient Egypt
"Naked scanners" being used to research mummies
A new use for airport screening technology
ArchiveArt & Technology
An advance in iron preservation aids conservators
Work on Civil War submarine leads to pioneering technique
ArchiveCaravaggio
Technology reveals Caravaggio self-portrait
Searching for underdrawings, conservators discover the artist’s reflection
ArchivePhotographs
Stopping the passage of time: Colour photography conservation
A new technique aims to prevent colour prints from fading—but is it legal?
ArchiveArt & Technology
Hollywood technology used to examine new Herculaneum find
Researchers see future applications for this cross-over science
CommentArt market
Who are the art market's virtual winners?
As digital fatigue sets in, a little editing goes a long way with online viewing rooms—and sometimes a humble PDF with a few human touches makes a welcome break
Melanie Gerlis