Blockchain
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
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”
Quantum leap: how a decade of NFTs has changed digital art
Two books take a look at the past and future of the non-fungible token. Once seen as the creature of market hype, the NFT now promises the first shared technical standard for the digital art world
AI to Z: an art and tech alphabet for 2023
Our guide to a fast-moving year in artificial intelligence, blockchain contracts, stadium-scale video, NFTs and social media
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
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
From VR to NFTs: in the year of AI, how should we define digital art?
The opening of Digital Art Fair in Hong Kong is a moment to take stock of how technological developments have changed the nature of digital art
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
What's the score in a reputation economy? How the art world gets paid (or doesn't)
New technology, and old-world online reviews, have an impact on accounts and accountability in the art market
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
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
'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
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
Twelve institutions join Web 3.0 fellowship—including Musée d'Orsay and Vienna's Belvedere Museum—to harness the power of blockchain
Programme is designed to mentor museums in the ways of the decentralised third generation of the Web that is home to blockchain, cryptocurrencies and NFTs
Mysterious NFT collector—who may actually be the rapper Snoop Dogg—gifts 22 blockchain works to Lacma
Pseudonymous NFT collector Cozomo de’ Medici gives Los Angeles County Museum of Art "largest collection of its kind in a US museum"
Artist Gabriel Massan uses video game world-building and the blockchain to reimagine the meaning of 'Third World'
The Brazilian digital artist is creating a multi-level collaborative game as part of the Serpentine Galleries' Artist Worlds programme, and minting tokens with the Tezos Ecosystem blockchain
Ethereum, the NFT market's blockchain of choice, cuts its CO2 output by 99%
The long-awaited shift looks set to make the world of NFTs considerably less harmful to the environment
Christie’s partners with renowned French antiques dealer Benjamin Steinitz on blockchain-recorded sale
The collaboration with Artory is the first in the history of the decorative arts
Christie’s launches venture capital fund for art tech startups with a focus on NFTs
Move follows concerted drive by the auction house to gain ground in the blockchain and fintech domains
Tezos blockchain's foundation launches £1m fund to collect NFTs by African and Asian artists
Misan Harriman, the first Black photographer to shoot a British Vogue cover, has been entrusted with the collection—which launches as cryptocurrency markets plummet in value
Brazil's SP-Arte fair to focus on design and digital art sectors
The 18th edition of the Brazilian art fair features around 30 design galleries, a recently introduced sector, and a selling exhibition of digital art
Founder of Hic et Nunc pulls the plug on the leading digital art marketplace—but its half a million NFTs live on
Projects such as the Whitworth gallery’s NFT of a William Blake watercolour are now available on other platforms
Atlantis hotel in Dubai hosts major blockchain summit
Middle East's new blockchain hub will see art world leaders meet with angel investors with crypto regulations high on agenda
Basquiat drawing to be auctioned as an NFT—and winning bidder will be given the option to destroy the original
Drawing is being sold in an auction sponsored by the firm behind David Bowie’s online bank
NFT breakthrough: Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin creates 99% energy efficient blockchain—and Damien Hirst is its first artist
Hirst launches the Palm platform with a drop of 10,000 works on paper linked to NFTs that “explore the boundaries of art and currency”
Who is Beeple? The art world disruptor at the heart of the NFT boom
From concert designer to sell-out artist, we talk to Mike Winkelmann about making millions and selling with Christie's
The NFT craze encapsulates the absurdity of the art world—and its obsession with authenticity
Why would someone buy a non-fungible token of a rainbow-toting cat, which already exists in millions of identical copies?
Banksy-style NFTs have sold for $900,000—but are they the real deal and does it even matter?
One marketplace has already blocked the artist who goes by the name of Pest Supply
‘The future of the art market’: Christie’s to become first major auction house to sell a standalone NFT work of art
With investors such as Elon Musk and Chamath Palihapitiya backing the purely digital art form, the trade is beginning to take notice
NFTs: a new disruptor in the art market?
Interest is growing in Non-Fungible Tokens, which represent digital works and proof of ownership