
Artists are Burning Their Work for NFTs
The intersection of art and NFTs keeps getting weirder. Painter Damien Hirst has joined other artists and burned 1,000 of his pieces this week, all in the name of non-fungible tokens.
The intersection of art and NFTs keeps getting weirder. Painter Damien Hirst has joined other artists and burned 1,000 of his pieces this week, all in the name of non-fungible tokens.
NFTs have been in steady decline for months, and new data shows just how bad it has gotten: digital collectibles have basically lost all of their luster and trading volume has collapsed by 97% since the beginning of 2022.
LG has followed in the footsteps of Samsung and announced a new non-fungible token (NFT) platform for its televisions that will allow users to buy, sell, and display their digital artwork in their living rooms.
Instagram is expanding its non-fungible token (NFT) features to more than 100 countries as well as launching new integrations with Coinbase and Dapper.
The winners of the fourth annual Minimalist Photography Awards have been announced, and continue to back up the idea that less can sometimes be more.
GameStop has removed an NFT from its marketplace that clearly resembles the "Falling Man" photograph taken during the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
As part of the celebration of its 75th anniversary this year, Magnum Photos is launching its first collection of NFTs. The agency will start with three selections and will slowly release the full 75 image lot through the year.
Canon has announced that several members of its Canon Legends program have partnered with NFT marketplace Immutable Image to create a limited collection of photo NFTs that will be published as the collective "The Legends Mint."
Instagram has started testing NFTs and the company today has shared what that will look like. The feature will connect to a digital wallet, allow users to share digital collectibles, and automatically tag the creator and collector.
In January, Samsung announced that its 2022 televisions would add support for NFTs, including a way to allow its users to browse, buy, sell, and display them. Today, it revealed this process will work in its partnership with NFT auction site Nifty Gateway.
Two photos from a series that was minted as NFTs in 2021 twice set the record for the most expensive photography NFT ever sold. If one of those works sells for its current asking price, it can do so again.
After significant backlash, the Associated Press pulled plans to offer a video of a boat overcrowded with migrants as an NFT. The situation has called into question the ethics of selling photojournalism at all.
Cent, the NFT marketplace most well known for selling an NFT of Jack Dorsey's first tweet for $2.9 million, has halted most transactions due to widespread fraud.
An auction house in New Zealand has paired two historical glass plate photographs taken of artist Charles Goldie with NFTs of the pieces and suggests the buyers make the photos "permanently digital" by destroying originals.
OpenSea, one of the largest marketplaces for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), recently put a cap on the number of NFTs that could be minted for free. It was removed after an outcry, but OpenSea revealed that it was added due to massive amounts of misuse.
A 22-year-old Indonesian college student has become a millionaire overnight after turning his collection of daily selfies into non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as a joke.
Photographer Noam Galai, who works for Getty as a celebrity/entertainment shooter, was born in Israel and moved to New York City in 2006. The same year, he photographed The Scream, which went viral from Italy to Iraq to Indonesia and virtually 30-40 countries around the world.
The Associated Press (AP) has announced that it will soon launch a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace where "collectors" can purchase selections from its modern and historic library of photojournalism.
As part of a series of announcements it made for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Samsung unveiled that it would be adding an NFT marketplace into its smart TV system that would allow users to browse, buy, sell, and display art on Samsung TVs.
Some artists are reporting major issues with OpenSea, one of the largest non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces. They say the company has an overly arduous process to report stolen art and is too slow to act once a complaint is filed.