Art


Finance

Miami Art Festival Sells VIP Tickets as NFTs

SCOPE, one of Miami’s largest art fairs, claims to be the first festival to sell tickets as NFTs. Can form meet function?

Attendees peruse the lounge area of the SCOPE Art Fair as part of 2018 Art Basel Miami Beach. (Sean Drakes/Getty Images)

Finance

Do NFTs’ Crazy Valuations Make Them Art? A Leading Collector Says No

The cultural cachet that makes fine art such a good investment will take years to build up around NFTs.

LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 20: Highlights from Sotheby's auctions of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern and African Art at Sotheby's, featuring The Visitor by South African artist Gerard Sekoto on March 20, 2020 in London, England. (Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images for Sotheby's)

Tech

The Value of NFTs Is Belonging

Art has always played a role in satisfying humanity’s need for community. What happens when you bring money into the picture?

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Markets

Christie's Exec’s NFT Platform TR Lab Plans Artwork Drop by Cai Guo-Qiang

TR Lab’s second NFT sale will take place in September.

TR Lab is based in Hong Kong.

Markets

Why Did Visa Buy a $150K NFT? Why Does Anyone?

There are some very good reasons, it turns out, rooted in our deep, totally irrational animal brains.

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Markets

Russia’s Hermitage to Sell Digital Copies of Art as NFTs

The museum will sell digital copies of works by da Vinci, Giorgione, Kandinsky, van Gogh and Monet on Binance NFT.

The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia

Markets

NFTs Are Coming to India's Flourishing Art Market

Auction houses are struggling to cater to India’s growing appetite for art. With 624 million internet users in India, NFTs could be the perfect disruptor.

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Finance

Damien Hirst's NFT Experiment Explores Burning Question

Buyers of Hirst’s “The Currency” have a year to decide whether to keep the physical artwork or the digital version. One will be burnt.

Damien Hirst with some of the works in his "The Currency" collection.

Markets

Why Surrealist Philip Colbert Is Tapping '80s Band Devo to Bring Lobsters to the Metaverse

Devo and Colbert are doing an NFT artwork and musical performance in a new world in Decentraland.

Lobsteropolis City is pop artist Philip Colbert's new creation in Decentraland.

Markets

Binance NFT Marketplace to Launch With Warhol, Dali Collection

Trading will start 10 a.m. local Singapore time on Thursday.

Andy Warhol's "Three Self-Portraits"