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Women-led NFT gallery Vellum LA is transforming how we experience art

LA Art Show, which typically takes place in January, pulled off a summer 2021 comeback as one of the first live events to take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in the COVID-19 era. Art fans who expected the show to skip a year had yet another major surprise in store when they were greeted […]

Ron English enters NFT space with some of his iconic characters

Ron English is an iconic pop surrealist with a street art edge. Whatever term you prefer—rebel, agitator, deviant, disruptor—the Texas-raised New Yorker embodies them all, so it’s only natural that he entered the NFT art space with a bang.  On March 28, English debuted the 10-piece Essential Collection on Nifty Gateway. The digital drop included […]

Scott Campbell creates new NFT marketplace for tattoo artists

Digital art and tattoo art share something in common: Both have been underappreciated by gatekeepers of the traditional art market. Crypto-art pioneers already helped elevate digital works by decentralizing curation and fueling the emergence of NFTs. Famed ink artist Scott Campbell is about to make a similar breakthrough with a new approach to tattoos. He […]

Here’s everything you need to know about buying cryptocurrency

Earlier this year, Kings Of Leon released an NFT version of their latest album and held a special auction on OpenSea. Understanding non-fungible tokens (NFTs) might’ve been a challenge for their less-tech savvy fans, but trying to bid on an NFT album with cryptocurrency must’ve felt like a hit to the head. These music fans […]

These 12 platforms are the best places to buy and sell NFT art pieces

Crypto art now accounts for roughly 10% of global art market sales. This shocking figure, from a new report by Ethereum software company ConsenSys, comes with its fair share of caveats (e.g., NFTs enjoyed a media-hyped frenzy at a time when most physical galleries had to close). Still, the emerging digital art market is now […]

NFT artist Indivisibility shares a brief history of Bitcoin crypto

As society slowly emerges from its yearlong shutdown, people must feel like Rip Van Winkle waking up to a strange new world of NFTs and cryptocurrencies. That was certainly the case in April when Coinbase went public on NASDAQ. Think about it: an exchange where people trade cryptocurrencies debuted on an exchange where people trade […]

Video remix pioneer Eclectic Method is finding new success in crypto art

“Our first NFT was Mecha Tunnel on Rarible,” Eclectic Method explains. “We made 20 copies and priced them at 0.15 ETH each, or about 80 bucks at the time. To be honest, when we paid the $15 minting cost, I thought, ‘This is a total waste of money. This will not sell.’ It sold out […]

NFTs are igniting a digital art explosion– here's how

Grimes sold nearly $6 million worth of digital art as NFTs. Kings Of Leon became the first major rock band to release an album in the form of an NFT. Steve Aoki collaborated with illustrator Antoni Tudisco for an art and music NFT release. Wu-Tang Clan announced plans to release 36 copies of a coffee […]