India’s Museum of Art and Photography Will Confront Biases Bengaluru, India opened a major cultural institution this month, the Museum of Art and Photography (MAP). In addition to the pre-modern and contemporary art and photography within its 60,000-piece collection, the five-story institution showcases textiles, posters and craft in an effort to eschew the industry’s elitism to create wider accessibility. “The entire differentiation between ‘high’ art …
This week in Paris, the hardware wallet company Ledger unveiled Stax at their annual community gathering, Ledger Op3n. Designed by Tony Fadell (known for creating the iPod, iPhone and Nest thermostats) in close collaboration with Ledger CXO Ian Rogers, Stax has the potential to bring a new wave of people into the web3 fold, given its seismic leap in usability and fun over previous versions of …
Digital artist Beeple (aka Mike Winkelmann) has sold his artwork “Everydays — The First 5000 Days”—a collage of the images that he posted daily since 2007—for a record setting $69.3 million. That’s a record (by far) for digital art and is the third highest auction price for a living artist in any medium. Following the sale of Chris Torres’s “Nyan Cat” work for $590,000 just …
