Immersive inspirations: three key developments from 2024
It was a big year for immersive art, with major institutions getting involved, new virtual reality kit, and a groundbreaking event in Venice
Dublin celebrates three pioneering women who changed the face of 20th-century art in Ireland
The Hugh Lane Gallery and the National Gallery of Ireland are showing the work of the modernists Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone and of their predecessor Sarah Purser—artist, collector, organiser and a force of nature behind the revival of Irish arts and crafts
AI to Z: an art & tech alphabet for 2024
The art, artists and awards that pushed boundaries this year
New perspectives: Annabelle Selldorf brings a fresh angle to the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing
A tour of the remodelled building, five months before its reopening, shows the New York architect has created a spectacular main entrance closely integrated with the rest of the London institution and with the public space of Trafalgar Square
Quantum leap: Turner Prize-winning artist Laure Prouvost creates new work with Google’s next-generation computing team
The Turner Prize-winning artist delves into the subatomic make-up of nature with the tech giant, working with quantum hardware—the next big technological wave after AI
National Portrait Gallery partners with immersive institution to tell the human stories behind its collection
New experience produced by Frameless Creative with London museum to launch national and international tour at MediaCity, Salford, in May 2025
How Craig Robins became a collector with an eye to the future, seen through the prism of the past
The Miami-based art lover and real estate developer refined his approach to acquisition and to promoting public art through a four-decade friendship with the conceptual art pioneer John Baldessari
Rotterdam’s new museum of migration, Fenix, to open in May
Droom en Daad foundation funds new collection and renovation of dockside warehouse centred on spectacular new double-helix Tornado
Paintboxed! Artists invited to work with 1980s digital art tool once championed by Keith Haring and Richard Hamilton
ArtMeta art fair and Tezos ecosystem are taking Quantel Paintbox—used by contemporary art giants four decades ago—on a global tour to introduce it to a new generation of creators
‘A house of opportunities’: the changing fortunes of England’s largest country home
Seven years ago Wentworth Woodhouse was in a sorry state, now it turns over £3.5m a year—but how did this palace-sized property achieve such success?
‘Like Picasso, everything he touched was wonderful’: the art world pays tribute to Frank Auerbach
Curators, institutions and critics remember a “humble giant of figurative painting” who worked from the same London studio for 70 years and made his home city, its art collections and inhabitants the subject of his unique output
Goodwood contemporary: Rachel Whiteread to headline new foundation’s first exhibition at Sussex woodland site
The artist’s sculpture and photography will feature at Goodwood Art Foundation, the ducal estate that once nurtured the work of George Stubbs and Canaletto, alongside semi-permanent installations by Veronica Ryan and Hélio Oiticica
‘Transformative encounters’: Henry Moore seen through the prisms of Ancient Greece and Georgia O’Keeffe
A recent exhibition in Athens highlighting Moore’s concern with light and the history of sculpture is part of a broader mission to shed new light, gradually, on his life and work
Abu Dhabi bets on repeating Las Vegas's success: Sphere to open second giant immersive institution
Capital of United Arab Emirates to build block-sized showcase for stadium-scaled concerts and giant video works by leading digital artists
Dana-Fiona Armour wins Sigg Art Prize for work that integrates artificial intelligence
German artist-researcher receives €10,000 award for “Alvinella Ophia”, depicting a hybrid serpent creature’s exploration of a dystopian desert future
Theresa Reiwer wins top award at Lumen Prize for digital art
German-born artist working on ethics and AI leads the winners in nine categories of 13th annual edition of the world’s leading prize for art created with technology
Digital art dazzles at Frieze London
Five of the best works to see at the fair created using artificial intelligence and other technologies
All together now: Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst on their AI choir at the Serpentine
The groundbreaking musicians and artists see every part of their London show as a form of art
Blue light: Jason Bruges reimagines the inside of a Tiffany diamond for 130,000 daily passers-by in London
The London artist joins Rana Begum, James Righton and Damien Hirst in making installations for the shop windows of Selfridges department store that react to the multi-faceted history of the New York jeweller
Refik Anadol Studio reveals plans for world’s first museum of AI arts
Dataland is due to open in 2025 at the Frank Gehry-designed The Grand LA development in Los Angeles's downtown arts district
Community curators: artists chosen by public vote for exhibition at Museum of the Moving Image
Finalists will be shown on the New York museum’s media wall with visitors able to mint a fragment of each work on the Tezos blockchain
Sophie Calle and Doris Salcedo win £73,000 Praemium Imperiale prizes
The annual award, under the patronage of Japan’s Imperial Family, covers five categories including painting, sculpture and architecture
A thoroughly modern master of the horse: George Stubbs at 300
Some of the British artist’s finest works return to Wentworth Woodhouse, the Yorkshire mansion where they were painted in 1762, for an eye-opening anniversary exhibition
The National Gallery: a place of learning in its (public) archive
The London museum has a remarkable archive and library, available to all, and a research strategy that includes the opening of a new research centre in 2028
A very national gallery: how the London museum's collection is being shown around the UK this summer
Under the National Treasures scheme, 12 UK museums are mounting exhibitions around the loan of masterpieces from the National Gallery
More than 1,100 works by 400 artists: how the National Gallery collection will be redisplayed
In May 2025, after a nine-month programme of refurbishing, redesigning and relighting rooms, a new interpretation of the museum will be unveiled
National Gallery's £85m anniversary capital projects to offer visitors a new welcome
Gabriele Finaldi, the gallery’s director, speaks of the opportunities and challenges that come with the sheer scale of the NG200 programme, and beyond
South by South West festival to integrate visual art at 2025 London debut
The curator Beth Greenacre has been appointed visual arts adviser to the festival
Stellar eclipse: pioneering light and sound art duo NONOTAK prepare for first London solo show
Noemi Schipfer and Takami Nakamoto will present three installations at a warehouse space in south London
Remembering Bill Viola, the artist whose video work expresses the heights and depths of human emotions
The influential American pioneer produced a ground-breaking body of work in partnership with his wife, Kira Perov, over more than 45 years