At the top of the Tate Modern’s extension, the Blavatnik Building, is a viewing deck were the museum’s attendees can take in the views of London. The view includes a spate of luxury apartments of the Neo Bankside building that lies directly across from the museum. The building is situated very close to the museum—so much so that the museum’s patrons are able to ...
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Tuesday, November 1. NEED-TO-READ Freud Museum Audience Grows – The London institution is the subject of renewed interest in light of increased awareness surrounding mental illness and mental health. The museum is located in the ...
Christie’s has launched a new NFT platform called Christie’s 3.0, where buyers will be able to directly connect their wallets and bid on NFTs. In that way, it will function like NFT marketplaces such as OpenSea. Sotheby’s, a competitor to Christie’s, also has an NFT marketplace, but it so far has largely delivered mixed results. “We don’t see Christie’s 3.0 replacing out placement of ...
On the heels of Ethereum—the NFT (non-fungible token) set’s favourite blockchain—going green with a software update that will drastically reduce both its carbon emissions and electricity use, Christie’s is launching a platform that will allow for NFT sales to take place entirely on Ethereum’s blockchain. The name of this new venture? Christie’s 3.0.According to Christie's, all transactions on the new platform, including after an ...
For 375 of us, the week of the Art Basel fair started in Zurich at NFT Art Day, an almost heroic attempt to progress beyond novelty and sensationalism in the art world’s general understanding of digital art. At Art Basel, NFTs were present but not fervent—possibly matured or subdued. Crypto value was crashing and we were in Switzerland, not Miami, after all.NFT platforms—where non-fungible ...
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Wednesday, June 8. NEED-TO-READ $360,000 Stolen in Yuga Labs’s Latest Server Breach – The NFT company Yuga Labs’s server was compromised in yet another a phishing attack on Saturday, which resulted in the theft of ...
The crypto slump isn’t slowing down Pace’s Web3 ambitions. The blue-chip gallery announced a partnership with leading generative art NFT platform Art Blocks on Tuesday in an effort that promises to give each organization access to each other’s very different collector bases. “Our priority is to connect our artists to new collecting communities, and this is one of them,” Marc Glimcher, President ...
If the mention of NFTs elicits eye rolls in the contemporary art world, it’s almost always for one particular reason: substance. Even if it’s a generalization or a stereotype, crypto-art has a reputation for lacking rigor and depth. Signing onto the chat is Artwrld, a new NFT platform that aims to bridge the gap between these two fields by bringing established contemporary artists into ...
The French writer and curator Nicolas Bourriaud, who co-founded the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, is launching a new roving exhibition and sales platform during the Venice Biennale. Radicants, as the platform is called, will work with some three-dozen curators to conceive and produce a broad range of projects, including selling exhibitions, touring shows, collaborations with foundations and museums, and book publishing. It will focus in ...
Many art platforms set out with ambitions to democratize the art world, but Artscapy is convincing many art-world insiders that it’s the one to actually do it. The platform recently received £1 million in pre-seed funding and is slated to launch later this year. Founded by Alessandro De Stasio and Emilia De Stasio, two experienced collectors, Artscapy is focusing on collectors and their specific ...
