Dubai has announced plans for a new Museum of Digital Art (MODA), a major institution dedicated to tech-driven art forms such as immersive and interactive experiences. MODA is part of Dubai’s $27...
Robert Dunlap, 55, a Houston man, was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for a cryptocurrency fraud scheme that claimed to be backed by masterpieces by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Vincent van...
ARTnews profiled digital-art pioneer Nancy Burson, 78, focusing on her “Quantum Entanglement” paintings—black canvases covered with white dots that appear to jitter and reveal color and depth when...
An Artnet News article by Jo Lawson-Tancred reports that galleries and auction houses are cautiously experimenting with A.I. after the 2022 NFT bust, with most art-market use cases still limited and...
Foundation, a curated Ethereum-based NFT marketplace launched in February 2021 by Kayvon Tehranian and Matthew Vernon, is shutting down after a planned sale to digital art display company Blackdove...
Beowolff Capital has combined Artsy and Artnet under the same ownership, consolidating two major online art platforms spanning data, media, auctions, and e-commerce, while keeping them as separate...
ARTnews reported that Yuga Labs and artist Ryder Ripps, along with Ripps’s business partner Jeremy Cahen, reached a confidential settlement on Tuesday ending their legal dispute over the Bored Ape...
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Italian Arte Povera artist Michelangelo Pistoletto launched Three Mirrors, a global digital-billboard project organized by the UK-based platform Circa, centered on his concept of “preventive peace.”...
The Barclays Center in downtown Brooklyn is launching “Brooklyn Art Encounters,” a multi-year program expanding public art at the arena and introducing an artist-in-residence initiative led first by...
Tad Smith, former Sotheby’s CEO and current chairman of Doodles, has agreed to buy most assets of the digital collectibles platform Candy Digital and said on X that he will become CEO when the...
OpenAI has shut down Sora, its A.I. video application, according to an Artnet News article published March 25, 2026. The report characterizes Sora as controversial and notes that the company has...
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Conceptual artist Trevor Paglen has been named the recipient of the 2026 LG Guggenheim Award, an honor that includes a $100,000 prize from LG and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Based...
ARTnews highlighted six recommended works available on CIFRA, a digital art streaming platform presenting time-based and screen-based artworks. The article positions CIFRA as a curated venue for...
In ARTnews.com’s feature “What Does Censorship Look Like in the Age of AI?”, the publication examines how generative AI and automated moderation systems are changing the mechanisms and visibility of...
ARTnews published a Q&A with Paul Slocum, an early advocate for digital art, about efforts to build a sustainable ecosystem for digital work. Slocum discusses how artists, collectors, and...
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At Sotheby’s “Origins II” auction in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, held on 31 January 2026, Saudi painter Safeya Binzagr set a $2.1 million record when her 1968 work Coffee Shop in Madina Road sold,...
Artnet News reported that the British Museum faced online backlash after publishing a social-media post containing A.I.-generated images. Commenters criticized the use of generative A.I., prompting...
Hyperallergic reports that another NFT platform is shutting down, reflecting continued contraction in the market for non-fungible tokens. The article frames the closure as part of a broader pattern...