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News
- NFT.NYC 2026Sep 1–3, 2026 · Times Square
Art on the Times Square screens, collectible onchain from anywhere via collect.nft.nyc.
- A–Z of Digital Art 2026Right Click Save · 2026
The year in art and technology, letter by letter.
- Art on the Blockchain: An Entwined MarketValerie C. Whitacre · Lund Humphries / Sotheby’s Institute
The first book-length market history of blockchain art, reviewed.
- The Digital Fade: NFTs and the Future of Blockchain ArtCenter for Art Law
What Christie’s closing its digital art department in September 2025 means for the field.
- What Is the Future of NFTs and Digital Art?Art & Object
Where the market and the museums have landed.
Canon
Landmarks — Sotheby's first two NFT sales
- The Fungible Collection by PakSotheby’s × Nifty Gateway · April 12–14, 2021
Sotheby’s first NFT sale. 19,737 open-edition cubes sold in fifteen minutes; c. $17 million over three days.
- Natively Digital: A Curated NFT SaleSotheby’s · June 3–10, 2021 · co-curated with Robert Alice
Sotheby’s second NFT sale: 28 lots, all sold, $17.1 million — including CryptoPunk #7523 and Kevin McCoy’s Quantum.
Provenance
- Public Key / Private KeyJennifer & Kevin McCoy · 2019 · Whitney Museum of American Art
A three-minute 16mm film donated to the Whitney on behalf of fifty members of the public, each holding a blockchain certificate that makes them a donor of record. Ownership of a physical film, put onchain.
- QuantumKevin McCoy · 2014
The first artwork minted as a token, on Namecoin. Sold at Natively Digital in 2021.
Reading
- NFTs Canona16z Crypto
- NFTs and A Thousand True FansChris Dixon
- The Value Chain of the Open MetaverseNot Boring
- A New Financial Model for App Tokensa16z Crypto
- Hierarchy Is Not the ProblemThe Hum
- This Social Club Runs on Crypto Tokens and VibesThe New York Times
- Learn to Build Smart ContractsBase Docs
- AI-2027
- How to Ship FastVarun Srinivasan
- Potter & Potter Auctions
- On the Concept of HistoryWalter Benjamin · 1940
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