NFTs A Crypto Spring? Sotheby’s $11 Million NFT Sale Renews Hope for the Battered Market—But There Are Caveats A single work from Dmitri Cherniak made up half the sale's total. By Richard Whiddington, Jun 16, 2023
Wet Paint Wet Paint Goes to Basel, Where We Were Tattooed by David Mugrabi, Fleeced for Drinks, and Appalled by the Beds at Les Trois Rois Our columnist reports live from Basel's most exclusive and mythologized hotel. By Annie Armstrong, Jun 15, 2023
Art & Tech See Inside the World’s First A.I. Art Hackathon, Where Artists Trevor Jones and Hackatao Sparked a Human-Machine Alliance The event, which took place at NFC Lisbon, has been followed by a series of NFT drops. By Artnet News, Jun 15, 2023
Market At a Post-Crypto-Crash Art Basel, Tech-Based Art Is Trying Hard to Blend in and Look Like… Painting? Buyers are more cautious, even as buzz about A.I. and blockchain continue in the background. By Kate Brown, Jun 14, 2023
NFTs How This NFT Collection of Anthropomorphic Deer Made Its Welsh Creator $600,000 in Mere Hours Ashley Crossland picked the wild animal to reflect the 'unpredictable nature of the NFT space.' By Richard Whiddington, Jun 12, 2023
NFTs Generative Artist Emily Xie Has Created a Series of 100 NFTs Based on a 100-Year-Old Quilt in LACMA’s Collection The project is the latest to emerge from the museum's blockchain initiative. By Richard Whiddington, Jun 8, 2023
Art World Art Industry News: Curator Manuel Segade Has Been Chosen to Helm the Reina Sofia in Madrid + Other Stories Plus, Louis Vuitton launches an NFT collection and the names in the running to lead the Guggenheim. By Artnet News, Jun 7, 2023
Museums & Institutions The Met Returns $550,000 in Donations From Sam Bankman-Fried’s Bankrupt Crypto Exchange The company is scrambling to recover $93 million worth of donations to repay creditors. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jun 5, 2023
The Back Room The Back Room: The Fineberg Flop This week, a postmortem of spring's most pivotal (and disappointing) sale, a buzzy new project space on Henry Street, and much more. By Artnet News, Jun 2, 2023
On View ‘It’s the Snake Eating Its Own Tail’: Artist Jesse Draxler on His New Solo Show That Feeds Off His Dark and Enigmatic Inner World 'U&I' encompasses Draxler's transformation from Tumblr star to cult fave. By Min Chen, Jun 2, 2023
Art Fairs How Is the Art World Responding to the Tech Revolution? Here’s Our Pick of A.I. and Tech-Centered Art Shows, Talks, and Events at Zurich Art Weekend While interest in NFTs is lagging, a whole host of artists are moving forward the conversation around A.I. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jun 2, 2023
Auctions Sotheby’s Is Selling a Mother Lode of 37 More NFTs From the Collection of Bankrupt Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital This auction follows Sotheby's first sale of 3AC NFTs, which fetched $2.4 million. By Richard Whiddington, May 31, 2023
Art World Damien Hirst’s Colorful Spin Painting of Leonardo DiCaprio Just Raised $1.3 Million for Charity Collector Christian Levett donated the work to be sold at the amfAR gala in Cannes. By Richard Whiddington, May 30, 2023
People 30 Years After Jeff Koons Was Skewered on ’60 Minutes,’ He Returned to the Show for a Far More Flattering Interview With Anderson Cooper Hosted by Anderson Cooper, the report paints the millionaire as a populist artist. By Artnet News, May 26, 2023
Art & Exhibitions In Pictures: See Artist David Popa Paint Prehistoric Creatures on Natural Landscapes Around the World for Apple TV’s Dinosaur Documentary Despite taking up to 15 hours to complete, the works were quickly washed away by the rain. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 26, 2023