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Artists Have Been Attempting to Secure Royalties on Their Work for More Than a Century. Blockchain Finally Offers Them a Breakthrough There's a through line from attempts to reform the art market in the '60s to artists like Simon de la Rouviere's work today. The Artwork Is Always on Sale V2 (2020). Amid all the recent backlash against NFTs, the real and exciting possibilities that blockchain technology offers for solving longstanding flaws in the art market could be lost. The great promise of blockchain is something more than just letting people buy and sell digital art. This new technology h...

Toni Morrison died on 5 August at the age of 88 as a result of pneumonia-related complications. In 1993, she became the first African-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature and she won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her classic work Beloved. Morrison was a towering literary figure. New Frame asked writers who were influenced by Morrison to share what her work meant for them.  Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison recieved an honorary doctor of letters from the UofT Tuesday afternoon at Convocation Hall. (Photo by Lucas Oleniuk/Toronto Star via Getty Images) She lives on ...

Keith Haring, September 1986, in New York City. Photo by Joe McNally/Getty Images. It’s hard to believe it’s been over 30 years since Keith Haring left us. Yet the impact of his career continues to reverberate beyond the art world. Witness Disney and Swatch’s recent collaboration with the artist’s estate to produce a new series of Mickey Mouse timepieces, and Dr. Martens’s release of a new collection of shoes embellished with Haring icons. As for Haring’s art, most dealers and collectors would agree that it remains undervalued, especially when compared to his friends and colleagu...

Harlem in the 1920s. Bettmann / Getty Harlem, New York, experienced a renaissance of culture during the 1920s, introducing some of the most famous Black writers and performers. But history often forgets about Gladys Bentley, a woman who performed as a man in a popular Harlem Prohibition bar. Slowly, Bentley became so popular that she was the best known Black performer in the country and considered "Harlem's most famous lesbian figure," according to The New York Times. Bentley would sing, dance, and play the piano during her performances while wearing a tuxedo and a hat. Although her music ne...

Malibu Painter Sets 'Bitcoin Only' Policy for Art Sales On 2/1/21 at 5:02 PM EST Malibu artist Tyler "Enso" Barnett plans to price his work in Bitcoin and accept only the crypto-currency as payment. He believes Bitcoin's block chain, an unalterable record of each transaction, will create a transparent way to price art and, with luck, will break the dominance of major auction houses that he believes routinely shut out new talent and intentionally obscure a painting's value. "I think using Bitcoin is the best way to ensure that my collectors receive the most value," Barnett told Newsweek. "Als...