Adobe is celebrating five years of its digital painting and drawing app, Adobe Fresco, with the announcement of powerful updates ahead of Lightbox Expo, which kicks off today in Pasadena, California. The event brings together artists in animation, gaming, illustration, and live-action and runs October 25-27 at the Pasadena Convention Center. Get more LBX information
From the Eiffel Tower to the Pilar square. If the rain allows it, everything is ready for Zaragoza to host the Spanish premiere of Monumental Tour, a European event that combines electronic music with digital art to highlight the cultural heritage of the host city. For three hours, Pilar square is set to be transformed
Feral File, an online platform for digital art founded in 2020, is striving to beam curated digital art through smart TVs and mobile devices in people’s homes via a new membership program. “We’re hoping to foster art appreciation habits that enable a cultural shift where art becomes ubiquitous in people’s lives – not as a luxury
For people not so familiar with the art market, normally most people expect to buy physical art paintings in galleries, through auction markets (like Sotheby’s or Christie’s) or the artist directly. Typically when there is a painting, only one buyer gets to own it. Although group ownership is possible, and ownership by companies and funds
This December, Cape Town will once again play host to one of Africa’s most unique celebrations of gaming and digital artistry: PLAYTOPIA. Returning for its fourth edition, the unique expo promises an exciting blend of indie games, immersive art, and interactive experiences at the Homecoming Centre. From 6 to 7 December, PLAYTOPIA 2024 will bring
While collectors arrived at Art Basel last week dressed to the nines and ready to splash millions on everything from a Joan Mitchell diptych ($18 million at David Zwirner) to an Ed Ruscha painting ($2.8 at Gagosian), a more understated affair took place a short walk away along the Rhine River. There, George Bak, the
A rare digital portrait of Blondie’s Debbie Harry by Andy Warhol has resurfaced and is now available for sale, carrying a hefty $26 million price tag. This distinctive piece of digital art, created in 1985 on an Amiga 1000 home computer, includes a Warhol-signed floppy disk containing ten further original images. Warhol, known for his
A work by Banksy sold for $382 despite smoke coming out of it, while a cat cartoon fetched double that amount. All this thanks to NFT – a new form of cryptocurrency. But is it a bubble? Parts of the writing of the critic Stuart Jeffries, published in the “Guardian” newspaper, Telegrafi brings below. Last
The University of Toledo fired up its foundry to assist an artist collective in dropping digital medallions into the smartphones of visitors to the Toledo Museum of Art. The Queen’s Medallion, a bronze work emblazoned with the stately profile of an imagined Ethiopian Queen, is on display in “House of Yatreda” through Sunday, Nov. 10.
The world of NFTs continues to evolve, bringing together creative minds and digital assets in exciting new ways. One project that has been making waves is TokenGators by SuperPaperThings—a collection of 7,777 unique cartoon gators on the Ethereum blockchain. TokenGators takes collectors on an adventure through a magical swamp where prehistoric creatures reclaim their dominion.