From ordinals to ownership: Christie's explores new frontiers of blockchain-based provenance
The auction house runs two auctions that place web3 increasingly at the heart of the traditional art market
Polish bank works with blockchain company and an Arctic vault to safeguard country's artistic heritage
Bank Pekao and the Aleph Zero platform collaborate to keep secure data by tokenising the digitised records of important works of art
Right-wing director of Warsaw contemporary art centre ousted by culture minister
Piotr Bernatowicz was selected by Poland's former Law and Justice government
New show in Tbilisi revisits Georgia's Soviet-era as protests against 'foreign agent' law rage across the country
The proposed bill has also been referred to as the 'Russia law'
Ahead of Argentina’s runoff election, the country’s art sector faces economic crisis and political upheaval
With far-right candidate Javier Milei slightly ahead in polls before the 19 November election, Argentina’s resilient cultural sector braces for turmoil
Art world moves in on the laid-back Balearic islands
With Hauser & Wirth's outpost on Menorca, new Ibiza gallery Can Garita and CAN Art Ibiza fair, the bohemian location is attracting art buyers
Twelve institutions join Web 3.0 fellowship—including Musée d'Orsay and Vienna's Belvedere Museum—to harness the power of blockchain
Programme is designed to mentor museums in the ways of the decentralised third generation of the Web that is home to blockchain, cryptocurrencies and NFTs
Paris's Centre Pompidou breaks new ground by acquiring 18 NFTs
The acquisition, the first of its kind by a major French public museum, includes works by Jonas Lund, Robness, Agnieszka Kurant and Sarah Meyohas
The smoocher’s guide to repatriation: a Mexican artist is using his tongue to draw attention to looting of his country’s heritage
Following a string of auction sales of ancient artefacts from Mexico, artist Pepx Romero is taking measures into his own lips
Counterfeit NFTs are creating major problems for digital platforms—but new tools to spot fakes are on the rise
Image recognition and data scraping technology are increasingly being used by the NFT community to protect intellectual property online
‘Many in Russia stand with Ukraine’: Russian art scene fears further ostracisation as West set to impose sanctions
President Putin’s decision to send troops into Luhansk and Donetsk will severely punish an already beleaguered Russian culture sector
Into the ether: How a German museum accidentally lost access to two highly valuable NFTs
Copy-and-paste fail or meta commentary on crypto art?
From artist residency to fully-fledged museum: Ghana's new space for contemporary African art prepares to open in March
Just a year after launching a studio programme in Accra, its ambitious young founder is turning it into a museum
Right-wing takeover of Poland's museums continues as Museum of Art in Łodz is latest cultural institution facing change of leadership
Jaroslaw Suchan's contract has not been extended by the country's minister of culture
Bauhaus, Baroque and Marcel Duchamp: Virgil Abloh's life in art
The fashion designer, who died on Sunday at the age of 41, had exhibitions at some of the world's leading art institutions and collaborated with major contemporary artists
Canadian museum closes Indigenous galleries to begin ‘the process of decolonisation’
The Royal British Columbia Museum will overhaul an entire floor of exhibits devoted to Indigenous and First Nations groups
Artist curator claims Art Toronto owes them back wages after unfair dismissal
When the fair went online-only during the pandemic last year, a planned section dedicated to queer and non-binary artists was cancelled
Flash flooding overwhelms Ljubljana’s cultural institutions
In the worst flood in Slovenia in nearly two centuries, the capital's most important theatre and Modern art museum have been damaged
Amid Taliban insurgency, culture sector fears looting as Kabul descends into chaos
British Council in Afghanistan among international heritage organisations that have suspended operations during the conflict
Art in motion: Autrostrada Biennale takes visitors on a journey through Kosovo
Third edition is spread between the cities of Prishtina, Prizren and Peja
Momentum biennial in Norway fires curator weeks before opening, prompting artists to withdraw work in solidarity
Organisers of the exhibition in Moss claim curator Théo-Mario Coppola "irreparably damaged" their relationship with the team
Stitching together a monument to sick kids, one bead at a time
Anishinaabe artist Nico Williams’s testament to the bravery of children facing difficult illnesses has been created using pieces that record every procedure, test or jab of a needle they undergo
Pared down and profit sharing: here are the sales from Art Dubai, this year’s first physical fair
Meanwhile, a crypto-art cruise during the fair indicates which way the wind may be blowing for future editions
'Complete bullshit': conceptual artist Matty Mo calls out Nifty Gateway after NFT platform pulls plug on sale of his works
Nifty Gateway executive says it is unable to keep up with the volume of drops released on its site
'We can use NFTs to support good causes': Pussy Riot mints and sells first NFT to raise money for women's shelters
The video, titled Terrestrial Paradise, was bought for around £128,000 by the Iranian-born art collector and political activist Amir Soleymani
Royal British Columbia Museum CEO Jack Lohman resigns, after internal report finds a ‘dysfunctional and toxic workplace’
An investigation into management was prompted by the departure of the museum’s head of Indigenous collection, who complained of racism and discrimination
Polish region loses €1.65m European heritage grant after declaring itself 'LGBT-free zone'
Norway Grants pulled the award after Podkarpackie councillors voted for a resolution to "resist the promotion of LGBT ideology"
Five Turkish students arrested over LGBTQ-themed work
Exhibition coincided with protests against the government's appointment of Melih Bulu as the new rector of Istanbul’s Bogazici University
Hungarian museum director faces backlash after comparing George Soros to Hitler
In an op-ed published this weekend, Szilard Demeter called the billionaire financier 'the liberal Führer'