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Bored Apes, Beeple and Takashi Murakami among the winners at second annual NFT Awards in New York
The awards were given out during the fourth edition of the NFT.NYC conference, which is unfolding amid a major downturn in cryptocurrency markets
NFT apostle Noah Davis leaves Christie’s for CryptoPunks
Davis helped usher NFTs into the mainstream as Christie’s head of digital sales, and has vowed to keep the Punks pure
British Museum presses on minting NFTs despite crypto crash—when will UK museums stop seeing artworks as assets?
This Diary's predictions about NFTs, Brexit and Boris Johnson have all come true. But Britain removing image restrictions on art would be the ultimate victory
'Soho Scammer' Anna Sorokin to sell NFTs
Sorokin joins the many celebrities, from Grimes to Paris Hilton, who are cashing in on the NFT trend
'It shouldn’t be a surprise that easily traded JPEGs are not "safe" assets': artist Sarah Meyohas on the NFT market
The French-US artist is showing a hologram sculpture with Marianne Boesky at Art Basel
Congolese artists mint NFTs to challenge US museum's ownership of indigenous sculpture
The pair have created NFTs of a sculpture made in the Congo but owned by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, in response to a disagreement over its loan
Uffizi gallery makes only €70,000 from Michelangelo NFT that sold for €240,000
Deal with Cinello company fuels debate about ownership of Old Master masterpieces in the metaverse age
Crypto crash: what now for NFTs and the art world?
Plus, Norway’s mega-museum and a Spanish-American screen in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Verse, NFT platform with a former Tate curator in its corner, hopes to bring order to the digital art market
The site's first selling exhibition, a collaboration with 12 leading artists and curators, hopes to bring trusted sources to the mad world of Web3 collecting
Has the NFT art bubble finally burst? Not yet, new data suggests
NFT sales have dropped by 92% since last September, but analysts detect subtle evolutions in the blockchain market
NFTs are accelerating the pace of art crime—here's how digital sleuths are sharpening their tools to fight wrongdoers online
Lawmakers must now contend with a new era of discord channels, smart contracts and open-source intelligence to combat cyber criminals
NFTs ruled as digital assets after Singapore court freezes blockchain sale of Bored Ape
Collector has won a court injunction to stop the sale of an NFT that was used as collateral against a loan
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
Material girl in the metaverse: Madonna and Beeple team up on an NFT triptych
Sale profits will go towards three non-profits supporting women and children worldwide
From NFT pets to a dystopian video game, digital art stands out at Nada New York 2022
The New Art Dealers Alliance's fair returns to New York with a massive line-up of 120 exhibitors taking over Pier 36
Major court battle looms over NFT launch of August Sander photographs
Bold move by German photographer’s descendant to put archive on the blockchain sparks copyright row
Rediscovered Schiele painting is turned into an NFT
The work, depicting the artist's uncle at a piano, will also go on long-term loan to Leopold Museum in Vienna
NFTs recognised as ‘legal property’ in landmark case
Victims of NFT thefts are now likely to have greater protection in the UK—though other jurisdictions are lagging behind
Cube sculpture made of 24-karat gold and worth €10m pops up in Venice after first appearing in New York
Passersby are invited to touch the work—but it is only in town for one day
Miami Herald launches NFT collection, with sales supporting local artists and journalists
The collection, a partnership with sister publication El Nuevo Herald and local nonprofit Oolite Arts, will spotlight works by South Florida artists
The British Museum's NFT project has sent its carbon footprint soaring
Since the London museum began selling digital versions of works from its collection last September, it has emitted enough carbon to power an average US home for at least 57 years
Wanted: Instagram, but for the cryptoverse
The photo app is keen on muscling in on the NFT world, but crypto creatives aren't convinced that it is the right platform
Counterfeit NFTs are creating major problems for digital platforms—but new tools to spot fakes are on the rise
Image recognition and data scraping technology are increasingly being used by the NFT community to protect intellectual property online
Ukrainian government sells NFTs combining art and tweets to fund army
The drop comes from the Meta History Museum of War, the official collection of Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation
One giant leap for Jeff Koons: artist to send his sculptures to the moon
Corresponding digital renderings of the lunar-bound works will be sold as NFTs, obviously
Art Basel/UBS report: Global art market bounces back to above pre-pandemic levels—but recovery is uneven
Asian spending continues to grow, particularly at auction, while the UK’s market share shrinks to historic lows as Brexit woes linger
Crypto collectors beware: why online wallets are increasingly vulnerable to theft
NFTs are a major new economy and with every major new economy, there is a big new scam
Digital art company claims it is owed millions from NFT sales in lawsuit against artist
DigiArt is suing artist Danny Casale, also known as Coolman Coffeedan, for allegedly producing more than 10,000 NFTs in breach of their contract
What can the arts do to help Ukrainian refugees?
Plus, NFTs and more at Art Dubai, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s golden curtain in Toronto
Biggest-ever Art Dubai fair offers smoke machines, escapism and, of course, NFTs: here’s what sold so far
The event's 15th edition dedicated a whole building to the "rapidly expanding digital arts space"