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After the boom and bust, an era of ‘greater maturity’ for art and the blockchain?
Despite the collapse of the NFT market and scandals involving cryptocurrency exchanges, experts still see potential in the technologies’ potential art world applications
Openness and charity break out among art and technology players at Miami Art Week
Tezos ecosystem and Arcual blockchain transaction platform disrupt the hedonistic exclusivity usually associated with the art world's winter party in Florida
Mail art meets NFTs for all in the ‘MoMA Postcard’ programme
New York museum invites online audience to make and own non-fungible tokens communally on the blockchain in 15-person groups
Can digital technologies help to resolve debates on restitution?
Many believe new applications—from AI and NFTs to 3D scanning—are game changing in returning objects to source communities. Lawyers say they can make the process harder
Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT creators awarded nearly $1.6m in trademark infringement lawsuit
A district court judge has ruled in favour of Yuga Labs, whose lawsuit against artists Ryder Ripps and James Cahen accused them of "cybersquatting"
Bored Ape Yacht Club creators Yuga Labs announce layoffs as NFT market’s struggles continue
The layoffs come as the company shifts its focus toward metaverse gaming
Former OpenSea employee sentenced to three months in prison in first-ever NFT insider-trading case
Nathaniel Chastain's landmark case has come to a close, setting a new precedent in the realm of digital assets
NFT marketplace OpenSea ends its resale royalty policy, sparking industry-wide backlash
The leading NFT sales site is replacing its mandatory artist royalties with an at-will tipping model
Venture capital and other tech-industry funding methods come to the art world
There is more variety than ever in how and why art is funded and the Silicon Valley models have arrived
Bored Ape Yacht Club collectors sue Sotheby’s over NFTs auction
The auction house’s 2021 sale helped lend legitimacy to the line of cartoon apes, the plaintiffs claim, and was “misleading promotion”
Leonardo's $450m Salvator Mundi returns as an NFT
The Mona Lisa and Van Gogh’s Starry Night have also been released as digital assets
$29m Beeple sculpture goes on display at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
The artwork is being shown in the US for the first time since Swiss venture capitalist Ryan Zurrer bought it at a New York auction 2021
Not safe for work: Beeple donates 'censored NFT' to Italian museum
The image of an orgy in an office setting—a satire of the downfall of banking entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried—was allegedly blocked by YouTube due to nudity
Blockchain platforms promise resale royalties and provenance tracking for physical artworks
After NFT boom, blockchain technology is increasingly being used to help solve art industry's practical problems
From Frank Stella to the quilters of Gee's Bend: how Artists Rights Society is working in the world of NFTs
An NFT drop with Stella was the debut for ARS's digital platform, Arsnl. Now it brings bold patterns to the blockchain with a show of NFTs generated by the coder artist Anna Lucia working with the quiltmakers of Gee's Bend, Alabama
Former OpenSea employee found guilty in first-ever NFT insider trading trial
Former OpenSea product manager Nathanie Chastain has been convicted of wire fraud and money laundering in a landmark case
Art for Tomorrow conference | What can art do for our democratically depleted, digitally distracted societies?
The role of art in a time of crisis was the subject of a three-day discussion between leading cultural figures in Florence last week
Bored Ape Yacht Club creators score legal victory in lawsuit against artists who made copycat NFT collection
Yuga Labs has won a partial victory in its legal dispute with artists Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen; the decision could impact future copyright copyright rules in Web3
First-ever insider trading trial over NFTs set to begin in Manhattan court
A former OpenSea employee has been accused of insider trading; the outcome of the case may change the meaning of that phrase forever
Haroon Mirza and Mat Collishaw launch NFT projects in the wake of Ethereum’s eco-upgrade
The switch to a more sustainable blockchain system is encouraging artists to experiment with the collaborative potential of NFTs
The dawn of blockchain? CryptoPunks evangelist Noah Davis on why the Centre Pompidou NFT show is a game-changer
Davis oversaw $69m Beeple NFT sale at Christie’s in 2021
The revolution may be randomised: new Damien Hirst project lets buyers generate their own 'Spin' NFTs
The British artist's latest venture, a tech-heavy development of the Spin Paintings launched in 1992, touches all the tech buzzwords as collectors order one-off NFTs from a dashboard menu
‘Glad to see they are scared’: Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova added to Russia’s wanted list for criminals
A performance in which she burns an effigy of Vladimir Putin, and an NFT of a vagina-shaped Virgin Mary are thought to be behind new charges
After fallout, Sotheby’s seeks to fix ‘glitch’ in its NFT sale by including more women
Auction house faced online backlash over male-dominated digital art sale
New York court dismisses case over ownership of ‘world’s first NFT’ sold for $1.5m at Sotheby’s
Lawsuit is one of the first in the US to examine how blockchain technology affects the ownership of digital art
Acquisitions round up: the Met acquires 16th-century portrait of pope's banker
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
'The NFT bubble has popped, but there’s still untapped potential in digital art'
Artists have long mined cyberspace for inspiration, as two current exhibitions underscore
Art Dub-AI: artificial intelligence is latest buzzword at fair
The event's 16th edition has an expanded digital section—here’s what sold so far
'From "wet painting" to NFTs: the art market is moving on faster and faster'
Cycles in the industry are getting shorter with trends now coming and going within a year
What are DAOs? How blockchain-governed collectives might revolutionise the art world
Egalitarian and democratic, Decentralised Autonomous Organisations are powerful collecting forces with the potential to reshape the industry