2023 Underground Art Market Report
The idyllic image of a painter, easel bathed in sunlight, is giving way to a new form. Today’s artist hunches over his laptop, frantically clicking his mouse to form perfect lines. Computers drastically changed art in form and function, forcing modern artists to adapt. Many …
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“I was just a guy having fun behind his computer,” Dan Polko told Decrypt. “I never imagined everything that was going to happen.” Polko bought 100 CryptoPunks, worth millions at their peak, back when nobody cared about the iconic NFT collection. The French native discovered …
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The idyllic image of a painter, easel bathed in sunlight, is giving way to a new form. Today’s artist hunches over his laptop, frantically clicking his mouse to form perfect lines. Computers drastically changed art in form and function, forcing modern artists to adapt. Many …
Read MoreArt is a learned skill, and sadly there aren’t enough good apps around that teach you the basics. However, Drawing Desk for iPad, iPhone and Android does just that, it offers easy to follow lessons to teach everyone, of all levels, how to create digital …
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By Emily Gaines Buchler / Published Sept 26, 2023 Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots like ChatGPT can solve math problems, draft computer code, write essays, and create digital art—all in mere seconds. But the knowledge and information spewed by the large language models are not always …
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The Japanese superstar artist and entrepreneur Takashi Murakami has long presumed to do battle with the monstrosities of consumer culture in his pop-art paintings and sculptures. He has also developed himself and his work into a major brand. He even has a logo: a hybrid …
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A Florida judge ruled in favor of the digital artist Danny Casale in a breach of contract suit brought by the web3 collective DigiART, which claimed that the two had a year-long profit-sharing agreement on initial drops of Casale’s NFT projects. The case hinged on …
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When Vancouver-based artist Nicholas Kole first saw his own artwork copied by an AI image generator and posted by someone else, it devastated him. “That really (broke) my heart, seeing that made my heart drop in a big way,” he told BNNBloomberg.ca in an interview. …
Read MoreWhat would you do if you were given a glass bottle, air-drying clay and molds shaped as frogs, dragonflies and the like? If you were John Vandebrooke, you would cover the bottle in the clay and affix little creatures—shaped by the molds—to the bottle. You’d …
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Earlier this month, the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) deemed that an A.I.-generated artwork, which won the top prize at the Colorado State Fair last year, was not eligible for copyright protection. In its decision, the office ruled that Théâtre d’Opéra Spatial, created by artist Jason …
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