Technology
From ordinals to ownership: Christie's explores new frontiers of blockchain-based provenance
The auction house runs two auctions that place web3 increasingly at the heart of the traditional art market
Can artists protect their work by suing AI companies?
When it comes to copyright infringement, establishing culpability and illegality in the age of artificial intelligence is murky
Can London establish itself as digital art capital of the world?
In the game-changing era of NFTs and AI, the city’s diversified art ecosystem has helped it play catch-up as the medium’s global hub
Polish bank works with blockchain company and an Arctic vault to safeguard country's artistic heritage
Bank Pekao and the Aleph Zero platform collaborate to keep secure data by tokenising the digitised records of important works of art
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
The ‘pearly triangle’: neurological investigation reveals secret of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring
The study also found that when volunteers looked at five works of art in the Hague’s Mauritshuis museum, their brains responded ten times more positively than when they viewed reproductions
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
Beeple unveils generative work with an urgent environmental message
The sale of the work, unveiled at Italian Tech Week, supports non-profit initiatives like food justice and the protection of millions of acres of land and sea
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
Despite the real (and artificial) fears of many, AI is not the enemy of the art world
Concerns about access, expertise and data sourcing have overshadowed the enormous power and potential that AI image generators offer
‘An enormous milestone for museums’: platform designed to host 100 million object records launches in UK
Those behind the Museum Data Service hope it will eventually host the details of objects held by 1,750 “accredited” museums and other collections
How tech is powering the art market’s expansion into luxury, finance and science
Three years on from the NFT explosion, growth in new markets continues
Refik Anadol's AI tribute to Czech composer Antonín Dvořák takes the stage in Washington, DC
The work, on view this month at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Reach Plaza, is “not about replacing or erasing him, about remembering him”, Anadol says
Can internet-born platforms fashion a print market fit for Gen Z collectors?
Digital players focus on transparent, algorithmically driven analytics to appeal to a younger base for whom the medium is cool. But that data still needs informed interpretation
'What is the museum of the future?' The National Gallery's forward-looking digital strategy
Experimentation, freedom and in-house content are key to how the gallery engages with its five million followers on social media
What if women ruled the world? The Art Newspaper takes part in summer celebration of Judy Chicago at the Serpentine
The London art world came out in force to celebrate the American visionary's exhibition “Revelations” and to enjoy a tech-powered interaction with her quest to create a world where power is equally shared
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
Unesco warns that AI could rewrite Holocaust history
What can museums and heritage institutions do about disinformation powered by artificial intelligence?
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
Where is the big museum blockbuster on AI?
Even the science-themed PST Art exhibitions, opening in Los Angeles in September, avoid the tech revolutions of our day
UK general election: can artists show the way for policymakers to enable a new digital economy?
With lessons learnt from NFTs, expert calls for legal guardrails to allow “trinity” of blockchain, responsible AI and smart contracts to launch an “automated economy”
A piece of the action: museum partnership in New York invites visitors to take home fragments of digital artworks
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
As winner of renamed ABS Digital Art Prize is announced, have we reached a turning point for conversations around NFTs and culture?
Geneva-based RVig, who was awarded the prize for a piece inspired by Baudelaire, is hoping for a more nuanced understanding of what NFTs bring to the art world
US authorities charge three UK nationals in Evolved Apes NFT fraud scheme
The charges, brought by the office of the Attorney for the Southern District of New York, signal a commitment to pursuing wide-ranging cryptocurrency cases
Digital deluge: how will Art Basel respond to a surge of digital-art initiatives in Switzerland?
The country is flexing its crypto-friendly credentials, while an art fair dedicated to all things digital is making its debut this week
AI on AI: Alex Israel uses artificial intelligence to re-engage with memory
The Los Angeles-based artist is presenting his "REMEMBR" installation, which riffs visually, musically and emotionally on users’ smartphone camera rolls, in London
Two (or more) into one: Urs Fischer invites owners of his digital sculptures to have them remade into a new work
The maverick artist is working with 1OF1, collectors of high-level digital art, to offer owners of his "CHAOS" video sculpture series the chance to have them "fused" into new animations
Podcast | A brush with... Lynn Hershman Leeson
An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Cézanne to the theatre of Tadeusz Kantor
The Week in Art podcast | Art’s AI reckoning, the rise of comic art and Degas’ Miss La La
Why the art world must tackle the questions posed by artificial intelligence head on, plus comics celebrated in two European locations and Degas’ portrait of the circus artist Anna Albertine Olga Brown