ReviewArt & Technology
Disembodied Behaviors: an ultra-real virtual art show that sears the mind-haze of 2020's unending March back to a state of clarity
An expert view brought to you by our XR Panel of artists and storytellers who create in virtual reality and augmented reality
BlogDiary
Ring in the New Year with Patti Smith performance on Piccadilly Lights screen
ReviewVideo art
As Trump baselessly cries voter fraud, one artist surveys the rise of conspiracy theories in US politics
Cassandra Zampini's short film Media Warfare compresses four years of fake news into a harrowing 25-minute survey of America's shattered psyche
InterviewRachel de Joode
'Instagram makes you feel part of the art world—but it's a lie': artist Rachel de Joode on art and the digital
Berlin-based multimedia artist talks about her new works on show at London's Annka Kultys Gallery
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
NewsBanksy
An AI bot has figured out how to draw like Banksy. And it's uncanny
GANksy aims to produce images that bear resemblance to works by the UK's most famous street artist
NewsPublic art
New public art project in London will show works by Ai Weiwei and Eddie Peake on Europe's largest billboard
The digital art platform CIRCA will commission a new artist every month to create a work that reflects on the year 2020
NewsArt fairs
Online market place for art continues to grow as new digital fair announced during Frieze week
Daata fair is dedicated to video and digital works and aims to reach collectors who “simply don’t have the patience” to watch films at real-life fairs
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
BlogSocial media
Boner Lisa? Dating app Grindr launches art section
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
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
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
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
AnalysisOnline sales
As the art world urgently moves online, some galleries fear digital displacement
Just as mega dealers have bought up prime real estate, so too are they dominating bandwidth in the virtual landscape
NewsDigital art
Finding room for creativity on Zoom, eL Seed creates a collaborative collage online
The French-Tunisian street artist will sell prints of the work to raise funds for hospitals in Paris and Gabes
NewsEarth Day
Olafur Eliasson wants us to see the world differently through his new Instagram animations
The Danish-Icelandic artist is releasing the participatory social media project in celebration of Earth Day
ReviewDigital art
Online GIF show Well Now WTF is a strong start for a net art revival
The energetic exhibition, broken up into several chatroom-like galleries, brings together a digital art community that had become dispersed in recent years
NewsDigital art
Conservators and computer scientists join forces to update older internet works for today’s browsers
Work on Mark Napier’s 2002 piece net.flag was recently completed by the Guggenheim
ReviewThree to see
Three arty things to do at home this weekend
From the Getty's challenge to re-create masterpieces using three items to Firstsite’s activity pack with Antony Gormley and Gillian Wearing
FeatureDigital Age
Top online museum and art tours to enjoy from home
Here are the best digital initiatives to feed your need for art
NewsArt market
New digital art fair in Paris hopes to attract tech tycoons
Cadaf Paris claims to be Europe's only fair dedicated to new media and will coincide with Vivatech conference in June
NewsBillie Eilish
Teenager from remote Russian town draws pop superstar Billie Eilish for Vogue cover
Sixteen-year-old Nastya Kovtun is the youngest person ever to design a Vogue digital cover
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach
Cirque du Soleil co-founder Guy Laliberté’s immersive, multi-media art pyramid will not come to Miami
PY1's laser and acrobatics filled show promised to be a trip "through space and time" but was a box office disappointment during its premiere in Montreal this summer
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
AnalysisArt market
Will the market for AI art take off?
With no auction precedent and little primary market data, Christie's sale of a work made by an algorithm tests demand
AnalysisDigital art
Who needs artists? Rise in works made by AI raises real questions for the art market
A new portrait produced by an algorithm, expected to sell for around $10,000 at Christie’s, prompts new debates over authorship
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
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
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
NewsArt Dubai 2018
State of the art in Dubai
Works at Art Dubai mirror city’s vision of high-tech future
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Joan Jonas checks out digital double whammy of Ian Cheng and Sondra Perry shows
NewsCommissions
Kuwaiti artists awarded inaugural Art Jameel commission for new Dubai culture complex
Alia Farid and Aseel AlYacoub will create a light-up botanical garden linking both wings of the Jameel Arts Centre
NewsChina
Chinese art world goes fur crazy for cats on WeChat
Feline-themed group is providing a talking point for artists, curators and administrators
ArchiveNew Museum
Young artists get their big moment in the Big Apple at the New Museum's Generational Triennial
The New Museum bets on future stars who deal with our digital world
ArchiveChristie's
Christie’s buys digital management system
Collectrium is a digital multi-tool for art collection
ArchiveContemporary art
Rising contemporary art stars from on and off the net
Outstanding new talent from the international art world, in the physical and digital realms
ArchiveDigital art
Collectors net website art by Rafaël Rozendaal
You can buy an animated fried egg for $6,000
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 art
Seattle to unveil Doug Aitken’s digital Land Art
The US artist Doug Aitken has created an “urban earthwork” for the façade of the Seattle Art Museum, which is due to be unveiled this month (24 March).
ArchiveDigital art
Digital art available on S[edition]
Robert Norton and Harry Blain brings the art world online
ArchiveDigital Age
Digital display: Introducing the Adobe Museum of Digital Media
The latest venture from the creators of Photoshop is a virtual art gallery
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
Museums need to go much further in adapting to the digital age
Are new media museums the future?
ArchiveDigital art
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
ArchiveDigital art
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