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Toledo Museum of Art uses cryptocurrency to acquire digital art piece

The museum used USD Coin to buy an NFT in a new series by the artist collective Yatreda ያጥሬዳ

Crime news

Co-creator of UndeadApes NFTs found guilty of fraud and money laundering in 'rug pull' scheme

Berman Jerry Nowlin Jr, known in the NFT community as "Repulse" and “Zayous”, faces up to five years in federal prison

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 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

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”

Digital artanalysis

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

Crime news

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

'Almost everyone I talk to has an interesting story and something to teach me': Ryan Zurrer on getting the most out of Art Basel

The venture capitalist, an early champion of digital art through his collective 10F1, admits that his heart belongs to his home city of Zug, Switzerland

Donald Trump dines with NFT mega-collectors during break from New York hush-money trial

Between days of testimony by Stormy Daniels, the adult-film star who claims she had sex with Trump in 2006, the former president is meeting NFT collectors at Mar-a-Lago

Frank Stella, a painter's painter and one of the leading abstract artists of his generation, has died, aged 87

His landmark "Black Paintings" series marked Stella as a Minimalist in the 1960s before he expanded his range to include brightly coloured pieces on shaped canvases, relief paintings, large-scale sculpture and work with architects

How ‘more mature’ collectors are powering the NFT market’s comeback

While Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies reach new highs, the market for digital art has not experienced the same frenzy of speculation as in 2021. Recent auction results, however, suggest that an appetite is once more growing

Aleksandra Artamonovskaja is appointed head of arts for TriliTech, the entrepreneurship team supporting Tezos blockchain

Artamonovskaja, a leading consultant and moderator in the Web3 world, will oversee development of opportunities for artists across the Tezos ecosystem

Technologyfeature

On process: Refik Anadol seeks to demystify AI art by showing how it is put together

The media artist's "Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive" at Serpentine Galleries, London, goes for radical clarity on its raw data sources and the make-up of Anadol's artificial intelligence Large Nature Model

Technologyanalysis

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

Robert Alice breaks new ground with auction of generative art NFTs on Christie's 3.0

Auction house sees maturing of market since the heady days of 2021 as works by the digital art pioneer are sold in combination with launch of their catalogue raisonné-like historical survey "On NFTs"

Are NFTs dead? Not at Art Dubai

The boom in digital art tokens may have turned to bust, but the Dubai fair is putting them front and centre as the NFT market in the city flourishes

Over the Koons: US artist’s plan to send 125 sculptures to the moon set to finally take off

Works inspired by Leonardo and Cleopatra will blast into orbit on Elon Musk’s rocket as part of a project first announced two years ago

Web3news

US Air Force officer arrested for alleged NFT fraud

An active-duty senior airman was detained for his role in a scheme overhyping the value of NFTs

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

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 location-specific 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"

NFTnews

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

NFTnews

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”