Art


Policy

US Treasury Department Warns of NFT Risk in Art-Related Money Laundering

High-value art is particularly vulnerable to money laundering. The rapid growth of the NFT market presents new issues, according to a new study.

(Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

A Struggling South Korean Museum Is Auctioning National Treasures; Meet the 2 DAOs Trying to Buy Them

The Gansong Art Museum will be auctioning the sculptures, which the DAOs hope to keep on public display.

Seoul, South Korea (Getty Images)

Finance

NFT Platform TRLab Raises $4.2M to Diversify Its Artwork Collection

The Hong Kong-based platform is co-founded by the non-executive deputy chairman at Christie's, Xin Li-Cohen.

Hong Kong skyline (Ruslan Bardash/Unsplash)

Finance

Damien Hirst Launches Chainlink Price Index for NFT Project

Hirst’s NFT collection, “The Currency,” gets its own dedicated price index.

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

Layer 2

Channel Wants Content Creators to ‘Squad Up’ via Web 3

Three crypto-oriented content creators are merging businesses for a self-funded “decentralized media organization.”

(Channel/CoinDesk)

Videos

Wikipedia Editors Vote Against Classifying NFTs as Art

"The Hash" team reacts to a group of editors on Wikipedia, the free user-generated encyclopedia, voting against classifying NFTs as a form of art. The debate has since been shelved until a later date. Can non-fungible tokens (NFTs) be classified as art?

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Opinion

NFTs Are Finance as an Aesthetic Medium

The fusion of fractionalized art and DeFi opens up new opportunities for art and creative money-making.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Videos

How the Original ‘Most Influential’ Portraits Were Made

CoinDesk's Most Influential 2021 presented the 50 people who defined the year in crypto. It commissioned 10 artists to create portraits of the top 10 winners. Two of those artists, Federico Solmi and Pindar Van Arman, discuss the process, challenges, and direction behind creating digital portraits of Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried, respectively. Plus, CoinDesk's Adam Levine shares insights into how his start-up was able to create AI-generated artwork of 40 people who won honorable mentions.

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